Re: [TV orNotTV] John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas $1 million a year to resign

2024-02-19 Thread Kevin M.
HBO is now delaying posting the show on YouTube until Thursdays, hoping to boost traffic to Max. Oliver hopes they will reconsider. https://deadline.com/2024/02/last-week-tonight-john-oliver-main-story-release-delayed-youtube-hbo-1235831235/amp/ Kevin M. (RPCV) On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 9:39 PM

[TV orNotTV] John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas $1 million a year to resign

2024-02-19 Thread Steve Timko
John Oliver returned from hiatus with a bang. He offered Clarence Thomas $1 million a year and a $2.5 million motor coach if he resigned from the Supreme Court within a month. Normally, I could post a YouTube link to that part of the show. But HBO hasn't posted the show yet. Here's a link to a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: (Semi-TV) Whose Line? live shows - how do the tours differ?

2024-02-19 Thread M-D November
I'm not saying being in a 1000+ seat house would stop EVERYONE from calling out suggestions - I'm saying that it stopped ME because I understand how sound travels in a theater. And yes, the WLIIA? TV set is an order of magnitude smaller, made even smaller still by the fact that the performers

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: (Semi-TV) Whose Line? live shows - how do the tours differ?

2024-02-19 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
To reinforce the points about audience size, the Santa Rosa venue seats at least 1200, and the Sacramento venue seats 900, at least the way they were configured.  I know Whose Live was very close to sold out, and Colin and Brad were at least 75 percent sold.  I haven't been to a show taping,

[TV orNotTV] Re: (Semi-TV) Whose Line? live shows - how do the tours differ?

2024-02-19 Thread M-D November
Minor point of clarification: the Greg/Ryan/Jeff/Joel tour is "Whose LIVE Anyway?". They use the TV's show's name extensively in advertising, but not in the actual title of the show. I haven't seen the Brad/Colin tour, but I saw Whose Live a couple of years back at the Keswick in Glenside

Re: [TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Dakota Johnson Didn't Say That

2024-02-19 Thread Adam Bowie
I wholeheartedly agree with the piece and the overblown reaction to Johnson. What I can't tell is to what extent that really impacted on the film's opening. Poor reviews and particularly, poor word of mouth are likely to have been bigger issues surely? I'm not saying TikTok memes can't make or

[TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Dakota Johnson Didn't Say That

2024-02-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
THR's Richard Newby says that in the rush to amp up the clickbait and play "Kick the Nepo Baby" and "Dogpile on the New Marvel Movie," Johnson's typical press tour deadpan and bluntness while plugging "Madame Web" was blown way out of proportion, making what she said far worse than it really