[TV orNotTV] TV, Films: We Don't Talk About Gaza (No, No)

2024-05-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
Eight months after Oct. 7, many Jews, Arabs and followers of Islam in the entertainment industry are feeling that they should keep quiet about the conflict rather than risk personal and professional relationships:

[TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Trump Lawyers Send C to Makers of Film on Early Life

2024-05-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
The producers of "The Apprentice," a film that played at the Cannes Film Festival where Sebastian Stan plays the former President learning the ropes from the notorious lawyer Roy Cohn (played by "Succession"'s Jeremy Strong), have been hit with a cease-and-desist from Trump's lawyers--the

[TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Long-Standing Canadian Rightwing Commentator Dies at 77

2024-05-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
Former Newfoundland politician Rex Murphy, known for his multisyllabic turn of phrase, became a Canadian celebrity for his 21-year stint hosting CBC Radio One's live-in-all-time-zones Sunday afternoon talk show "Cross Country Checkup" and commentaries on the TV network's flagship newscast

Re: [TV orNotTV] TNT’s NBA Turnover

2024-05-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
If Daddy Zaslav can't keep the NBA in his company, it's time to get the hell out and give WBD to someone who knows what they're doing. Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 3:52 PM PGage wrote: > From Puck News, a good summary of current sta

[TV orNotTV] Gillis Netflix Sitcom Gets Premature Renewal

2024-05-23 Thread Mark Jeffries
"Tires," the sitcom set in a tire store starring fired-from-"SNL" for alleged racist statements in podcasts Shane Gillis (who was guest host on said show earlier this year) as a rebellious employee, dropped today on the service, but this week before the drop Netflix renewed it for a second

[TV orNotTV] Comcast Streaming Bundle to Be $15 a Month

2024-05-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
For that you get the full Peacock library with ads, Netflix's ad tier (which does not include any "Pay One" window theatrical movie releases licensed by Netflix, including Sony [Columbia/TriStar/Screen Gems/Sony Classics] and Universal animated--"Madame Web," which dropped last week, is the

[TV orNotTV] Re: 'Prank Panel' Writer Sues Knoxville for Tasting and Injuring Him

2024-05-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
The heading should say "Tasing." I know, the other way is more provocative. On Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 10:29:37 AM UTC-5 Mark Jeffries wrote: > The former "Jackass" star has been sued for $3M by one Daniel Curry, > creative partner of Johnny Knoxville's co

[TV orNotTV] 'Prank Panel' Writer Sues Knoxville for Tasting and Injuring Him

2024-05-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
The former "Jackass" star has been sued for $3M by one Daniel Curry, creative partner of Johnny Knoxville's co-host Eric Andre (that guy with the weird show on Adult Swim) and a "creative consultant" and "segment producer" (reality TV for writer) on the ABC show, claiming that Knoxville tased

[TV orNotTV] Fall CW Annotated

2024-05-18 Thread Mark Jeffries
As the Arrowverse fades away, the new, general audience, Nexstar TV Not to Blog/Tweet/Post/Talk About CW to take shape--here we go: Monday 8-9 p.m. – TRIVIAL PURSUIT--This is the third time that the trivia board game has had an attempted television version. Back in 1993 when Freeform was the

[TV orNotTV] TV's First Game Show Model Star Dies at 95

2024-05-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
Long before Vanna, there was Dolores Roxanne Rosedale (who went only by her middle name), who appeared every Saturday night on the original CBS version of "Beat the Clock," snapping a photo of the couples in the aftermath of the more gungy stunts with her camera loaded with the sponsor's

[TV orNotTV] Beloved UK Panel Game Finally Coming to U.S.

2024-05-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
"Have I Got News for You," the long-running UK comedy news panel quiz (66 cycles over 34 years on the BBC), which has been rumored to have an American version coming for years (to give you an idea of how long it's been, at one point Norm MacDonald was being considered for host), will finally

[TV orNotTV] MSNBC's Alleged Progressivism Tearing Apart NBC News?

2024-05-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
On his podcast this morning, Keith Olbermann tore apart this article (he must've received a gift link, since he claims to have cancelled his NYT subscription over the paper's boss PO'd over Biden's refusal to give him an interview and the general "both sidesing" at the NYT) and claimed that it

[TV orNotTV] Conan Must Go Again

2024-05-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
Max is down for six more episodes of "Conan O'Brien Must Go":

[TV orNotTV] ABC Fall Annotated

2024-05-15 Thread Mark Jeffries
Only 5 1/2 hours of scripted and only one sitcom, but no game shows. Strange. Here we go: Monday 8 p.m.: ESPN Monday Night Football (select weeks, simulcast on The Worldwide Leader with the Manningcast on the Deuce--no indication how many games and what will air the other weeks) Tuesday 8

[TV orNotTV] Biden, Trump to Debate on CNN on June 27

2024-05-15 Thread Mark Jeffries
>From the Turner studios in Atlanta with no studio audience, after the President challenged Trump to two debates in an attempt to bypass the Presidential Debate Commission: https://www.thewrap.com/biden-trump-debate-date-channel-cnn/ Hey Donny baby, be sure to mention Al Capone and Hannibal

[TV orNotTV] CNN Veteran Taking Over at God Bless C-SPAN

2024-05-15 Thread Mark Jeffries
After 34 years at CNN, most recently as Washington bureau chief and head of the Spanish-language operation, Sam Feist will become only the third entity to be CEO of the not-for-profit cable public affairs channel as of July, replacing the duo of Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain, who replaced founder

[TV orNotTV] Kimmel Lays Waste to TV Again at Disney Upfronts

2024-05-14 Thread Mark Jeffries
A lot of NSFW material, including "We are building one enormous ad-supported streaming pile of s--t.”: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-disney-upfronts-jokes-1235899131/ And: "Bob Iger should be retired by now, he should be off on a yacht somewhere. Instead he’s here

[TV orNotTV] Judge Judy Suing Tabloid Over...

2024-05-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
Judy Sheindlin, who now does her TV judging for Amazon's Freevee while her previous syndicated series reruns forever, is suing the owner of several tabloids, including the National Enquirer, for a story that appeared in InTouch Weekly claiming that she is seeking a new trial for the Menendez

[TV orNotTV] Meyers Down for Four More Years at NBC

2024-05-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
That, of course, depends on whether Trump returns to office, has Meyers, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel tried and convicted of treason and put before a firing squad: https://www.thewrap.com/seth-meyers-renews-nbcuniversal-deal-late-night/ And don't put it past him. -- You

[TV orNotTV] Fox Fall Annotated

2024-05-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
Two--count 'em--two nights of live-action scripted in the fall schedule, an unusual move for a net that was saying before the strikes that unscripted was the future (unless they owned the show, and I think you can figure out what's coming)--here we go: MONDAY: 8-9 p.m. — “9-1-1: Lone Star"

Re: [TV orNotTV] SNL caster in comedy not from Lorne

2024-05-10 Thread Mark Jeffries
Being filmed in Chicago with a lot of the people who work on the Wolf One Chicago shows the rest of the year. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 9:26 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Ego Nwodim (*cute!*) joins Peacock moc

Re: [TV orNotTV] Israeli Eurovision Contestant Target for Protestors?

2024-05-10 Thread Mark Jeffries
And doesn't the EBU provide shared news and events coverage with its member broadcasters? That's where the "Eurovision" name comes from (and the blast of Charpentier's "Te Deum" that begins and ends Eurovision broadcasts). Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, May

[TV orNotTV] 'Satire is What Closes on a Saturday NIght'

2024-05-10 Thread Mark Jeffries
Back in 1975, a more rebellious Lorne Michaels and the like-minded Boomers who were creating "Saturday Night Live" had to be aware of George S. Kaufman's famous quip as they were preparing for what they were hoping as their new home for satire on television--49 years later, Kaufman may be the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Israeli Eurovision Contestant Target for Protestors?

2024-05-10 Thread Mark Jeffries
, when ABBA basically began their international career at Eurovision, the production on their hit song "Waterloo" was understated compared to the overblown spectacle Eurovision has become--and the fall of the eastern Soviet bloc has made a big difference in what the contest has become. Mar

[TV orNotTV] Israeli Eurovision Contestant Target for Protestors?

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Singer Eden Golan has been told not to leave her hotel in Malmo, Sweden, except for rehearsals and performances, as throngs outside are protesting Israel's presence in the annual song contest--the song was originally entitled "October Rain," but the Eurovision bosses rejected it as too

[TV orNotTV] 'Schmigadoon!' To Go on Stage in DC

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
The AppleTV+ musical theater satire gets a stage treatment of its first season parody of the Rodgers & Hammerstein school of musicals in January at the Kennedy Center in Washington--creator/showrunner Cisco Paul and choreographer Christopher Gattelli are involved, no indication yet how many of

Re: [TV orNotTV] Brady Roast Crowd Boos Kim Kardashian, Netflix Cuts It Out

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
You're right. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 1:01 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I think you mean Nikki Glaser rather than Ilana Glazer. The former is a > frequent roaster and the latter you might remember from

[TV orNotTV] Clark WNBA Debut to Be On--Disney+?

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Caitlin Clark's debut with the Indiana Fever against the Connecticut Sun will also air this Tuesday on ESPN2 and ESPN+, but the decision to livestream it (along with another WNBA game) on Disney+ is interesting, to say the least, and may say something about the shrinking cable audience:

[TV orNotTV] Brady Roast Crowd Boos Kim Kardashian, Netflix Cuts It Out

2024-05-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Last Sunday night on the streamer's live telecast of "The Greatest Roast of All Time: Tom Brady," the reality TV star attempted to stand on the dais and do her part of the roast, but the audience greeted her with a chorus of boos, but she did finish. If you plan to watch the show on the

[TV orNotTV] ESPN+ Joining Disney+

2024-05-07 Thread Mark Jeffries
The big streamer, having more-or-less merged with the key parts of the Hulu library, has now announced that "select" ESPN+ programming, including live coverage, will be available by the end of the year--this is totally separate from the announced full-service streaming version of the Worldwide

[TV orNotTV] Stewart Not on 'TDS' Tonight

2024-05-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
Due to him in LA doing John Mulaney's live Netflix show at 10 p.m. ET, Jordan Klepper will be hosting tonight and Stewart's weekly appearance to "both sides" the election will be on Thursday:

[TV orNotTV] NoTV: Here We Go Again: GOP House Members Calling NPR CEO on Alleged Bias

2024-05-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
Katherine Maher, new CEO of the public radio network (and dear God, please, no relation to Bill), has been called in by the House Energy and Commerce Committee to meet them on Wednesday regarding alleged "bias" in the news department, in the hopes that they can finally take away the

[TV orNotTV] Did Fallon Cheat at 'Password?' No

2024-05-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
There seems to be a furor on social media that on last Tuesday night's episode of NBC's reboot of "Password" Jimmy Fallon, co-producer of the reboot and regular celebrity guest (since his late-night shows have done "Password" as a regular bit), gave an illegal clue by saying "godmother" to get

[TV orNotTV] Shaq, Jane the Virgin Host New ABC Game Show

2024-05-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
Summer is game show time on ABC, and the new show this summer is "Lucky 13," created by *one* of the creators of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" (which is back on ABC this summer), produced by Kevin Bacon and fronted by Shaquille O'Neal and Gina Rodriguez, where contestants try to predict how

[TV orNotTV] Spacey Sounding Like Trump About UK Doc About Him

2024-05-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
"[Kevin] Spacey Unmasked," a two-part doc about the actor's alleged inappropriate conduct with men, airs Monday and Tuesday on the UK's commercial but not-for-profit Channel 4, and Spacey says he's going to fight it all the way, calling the program in a Muskmedia (Twitter/X) post that it is

Re: [TV orNotTV] Surprise! CBS Fall Annotated

2024-05-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
Interesting. If Flower Films is involved with the show, will Drew demand that Ross Matthews host? Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, May 2, 2024 at 5:24 PM Joe Hass wrote: > BuzzerBlog has Drew in the center square, with no identification of who's > hosting. >

[TV orNotTV] Surprise! CBS Fall Annotated

2024-05-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
It seemed to me that I had heard had Paramount was not going to do an upfront presentation this year--and so CBS' fall lineup is out, with shows delayed from last year by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and mostly familiar IP--this is according to The Wrap, all times ET, new shows ALL CAPS:

[TV orNotTV] CDub Back on WGN in Chicago

2024-05-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
After an eight-year hiatus where it was on Fox-owned WPWR for three years and Weigel's WCIU for five years, the now-Nexstar-owned The CW will return to now-Nexstar-owned WGN in Chicago in September (WGN had been carrying CW live sports turned down by WCIU, including the LIV golf tour):

[TV orNotTV] This Beets All: He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and Friend Unmasked on 'Masked Singer'

2024-05-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
Since I realize that none of you watch "The Masked Singer"--or in my case, should not be watching "The Masked Singer"--it is my duty to let you know that on last night's show, the pair of performers eliminated besides the "iconic" (Nick Cannon and two of the Usual Gang of Idiots' word, not

[TV orNotTV] Mulaney Announces Guests for Live Netflix Mini-Series

2024-05-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
Dave and Seinfeld were hinted in the initial promos and will be on the six-part series, along with Jon Stewart, Sarah Silverman and many other A-list comics, Los Lobos, Weezer, Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, filmmaker John Carpenter, O.J. trial attorney Marcia Clark and others--"John

[TV orNotTV] 'Y''s Julia Martin Dies at 75

2024-04-23 Thread Mark Jeffries
Meg Bennett got her first television appearance by lying that she wasn't an actress to be a contestant on the Bill Cullen game show "Three on a Match" (this was when AFTRA was saying that game show producers had to pay losing union members scale instead of giving them American Tourister luggage

[TV orNotTV] Nick Expose Now Max's Biggest Hit Ever

2024-04-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
"Quiet on Set: The Dark SIde of Kids TV," the Investigation Discovery docuseries that presented to the general public how big a creep Dan Schneider was/is, is supposedly the most-watched program in Max's four-year history, beating out the HBO hit "The Last of Us" and number one among

[TV orNotTV] 'Ridiculousness' Writers Get Union Contract, But...

2024-04-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
The writers of the viral video show that dominates the MTV program schedule, who were hidden under credits like "creative consultant" and "segment producer," are now under a WGA contract with better pay and benefits, but considering the current state of cable TV, could it be possible that

[TV orNotTV] Colbert Coming to Chicago For DNC

2024-04-18 Thread Mark Jeffries
Live at 10:35 p.m. CT from Aug. 19 to Aug. 22, his first road trip in eight years--his home will be the 4,000 seat Auditorium Theatre, a beautiful venue but Colbert should talk to Dave about the problems of doing the show from a huge venue when Oprah appeared on his first "Late Night" Chicago

[TV orNotTV] Travis Kelce Asks 'Are You Smarter Than a Celebrity?'

2024-04-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
Amazon MGM is rebooting "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?" as a test of celebrity grade school learning remembering, with a panel of fellow celebs helping the contestant out and and hosted by the Super Bowl champ and BF of Tay-Tay--Amazon Prime has picked the show up for 20 episodes:

[TV orNotTV] S is for Strike at Sesame Workshop

2024-04-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
If the famed producers of "Sesame Street" cannot make a deal with the WGA by tomorrow, there will be picket lines outside the New York headquarters of the producers on Friday: https://www.thewrap.com/sesame-workshop-writers-strike-authorization/ Yeah, it would be cooler if it was SAG-AFTRA and

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Suits' Comes to OTA Years After the Fact

2024-04-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
I assume that the BBC iPlayer listing is crediting Meghan Markle as Meghan the Duchess of Sussex. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 10:41 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > In the UK, Suits was also sold to the BBC a few weeks ago, going onto > iPlayer alongside a

[TV orNotTV] 'Suits' Comes to OTA Years After the Fact

2024-04-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
After Netflix picked up the rerun rights to the former USA Network legal blue sky procedural last summer and found a huge new audience for the show, MyNetworkTV, the Fox service that has quietly chugged along for years on a prime time diet of procedural and true crime reruns, has picked the

[TV orNotTV] CBS Fs Up Billy Joel Concert

2024-04-15 Thread Mark Jeffries
The much -hyped live telecast of Joel's 100th Madison Square Garden gig had been delayed by Masters coverage overrun (CBS has no choice but to show those old white racist fossils who run the Augusta National Golf Club putting the green jacket on the winner) and just as Joel was in the middle

[TV orNotTV] 'Talk' Going, New Soap Replacing It?

2024-04-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
The CBS daytime talk show will end its 15-year run, during which it went far afield from creator Sara Gilbert's original "'View' with working moms" premise, in December--no indication yet if the soap "The Gates," the first new daytime soap in over 25 years, will be replacing it, but I'd bet on

[TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Robert McNeil of McNeil Lehrer Newshour

2024-04-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
Some music in honor of Mr. McNeil, that famous theme song expanded upon by its composer Bernard Hoffer: https://youtu.be/kuQ5OV6uTD8?si=FFmSlX0w1Zwh_t2f On Saturday, April 13, 2024 at 12:23:00 AM UTC-5 Steve Timko wrote: > The current version is a shell of the show's glory years. > > >

[TV orNotTV] Mulaney Does One-Time-Only LIve Star-Studded Mini for Netflix

2024-04-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
If what I hear in the trailer included in the link is correct, "John Mulaney Presents: Everyone's in LA," a six-night live special from various Southland locations with the possible (emphasis on possible) participation of Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman, will stream on May 3 and

[TV orNotTV] Longtime ESPN Exec Leaves After Almost 40 Years

2024-04-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
Norby Williamson, a 39-year veteran of the Worldwide Leader and head of "SportsCenter" and events and news coverage, is leaving, supposedly after a disagreement over long-term strategy with content president Burke Magnus, although some say that he is leaving over an on-air attack on him by Pat

[TV orNotTV] No, Chef! FX Criticizes Illegal 'Bear' Clip on Social Media

2024-04-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
A clip from the upcoming third season of the FX/Hulu series was shown at the Disney shareholders meeting and someone recorded it on their phone and posted it on Muskmedia, with much of the entertainment press clinging on to it--FX has asked for immediate removal of the clip:

[TV orNotTV] ESPN Streamer to Be on Disney+

2024-04-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
Much as Hulu is now part of Disney+ (with those Quinta Brunson "roll call" commercials--"Bear." (Winnie-the-Pooh) "Here." "Not that Bear." (various "The Bear" characters) "YES CHEF!"--when the Worldwide Leader's full-service streamer starts in the summer of 2025, it will be available on

Re: [TV orNotTV] Last night's Late Show end title card

2024-04-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
And on "After Midnight," there was no sound on the title card or on the Funny or Die and Spartina vanity cards (although the "Tonk! Ton ton ton Tonk!" was heard on the CBS Studios vanity card). Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 12:47 AM 'David Brug

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'SNL' Origin Story Movie May Be Coming

2024-03-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
I'm interested in the fact that they're going to deal with the Milton Berle episode--and I wonder if Simmons has the, um, endowment that Berle was famed for. And who's playing Don Pardo? Mark Jeffries On Sat, Mar 30, 2024 at 4:53 PM Jim Ellwanger wrote: > The names I recognized off the

[TV orNotTV] Daddy Zaslav Gives You More 'Quiet on Set'

2024-03-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
An extra episode of the ID docuseries about how big a creep Nickelodeon producer Dan Schneider was will air Sun. Apr. 7 (and stream on Max and Discovery+ the next day) featuring several of the interviewees from the series talking with Soledad O'Brien about the response to the series (which

[TV orNotTV] Oh [Redacted], CBS Signs 5-Year Contract for Golden Globes

2024-03-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
You can't kill the damn thing with a Jo Koy monologue--after better-than-expected ratings, CBS has signed a long-term contract for the highly-problematic awards and also picked up another property from the now-initial capped DIck Clark Productions (owned by Penske, who runs most of the showbiz

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Quickie Review: Palm Royale

2024-03-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
Warm as in burned at the stake? Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 4:43 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > You can probably imagine, given my warm feelings for the star, that I'm > all over this show >

[TV orNotTV] Max Heading for Europe in May

2024-03-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
Just in time for the Paris Olympics, for which WBD's Eurosport has exclusive non-terrestrial rights (and the second season of "House of the Dragon")--it will include WBD-owned linear channels, including Eurosport, and an extra-pay sports hub--it is not launching in countries where Sky is in

[TV orNotTV] Equity Firm Makes $11B Bid for Paramount Film, TV Studio

2024-03-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
The bid by Apollo reportedly doesn't include other Paramount Global divisions, including CBS and the cable channels, and doesn't mention whether the back libraries are included: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-sale-film-tv-studio-apollo-1235856809/ -- You

Re: [TV orNotTV] BBC presenters told to hit back on transphobia accusations

2024-03-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
in chess (they obviously never saw "The Queen's Gambit"). Sounds like the guy was auditioning to replace Piers Morgan on Rupert's TalkTV or one of the Tory politicians that the government regulators say cannot host shows on GBNews anymore. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri,

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Paris Olympics opening ceremony coverage...

2024-03-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
And as Nicole says, "Hahtbreak feels good in a ploice loike this..." Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 8:29 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > ...is already promising to be an eye-popper, being staged along

[TV orNotTV] 'NCIS: Sydney' Renewed--Bonza, Mate!

2024-03-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
The Australian extension of the franchise will be back for a second season on CBS and Paramount+ Australia, which was the opposite of the original plans of P+ in the U.S. and Paramount-owned OTA Network 10 in Oz, but U.S. strikes and all that:

[TV orNotTV] NoTV: BBC Podcasts Exclusively on Amazon

2024-03-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
I had thought that they were on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, but it seems that the Beeb's for-profit arm BBC Studios made a deal with Apple for a subscription service that does not include the U.S., so Amazon Prime and Music Unlimited subscribers can choose amongst over 50

[TV orNotTV] DirecTV: Don't Want Local Stations? Save 12 Bucks

2024-03-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
The satellite service that seems to always have negotiation problems with station groups over carriage fees says that it will knock $12 a month off the bill if the customer decides that they don't need their local stations, which should cover the cost of a digital antenna on top of the TV, but

Re: [TV orNotTV] Dan Schneider denies toxic-workplace claims as docu on Nick situation airs

2024-03-18 Thread Mark Jeffries
And it's streaming on Max. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 11:32 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > "Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV" began Sunday and concludes > tonight on Investigation Discover

Re: [TV orNotTV] Paramount sells half billion in assets

2024-03-15 Thread Mark Jeffries
On the other hand, who wants to buy a cable network today outside of Byron Allen? On Thursday, March 14, 2024 at 9:45:58 PM UTC-5 Kevin M. wrote: > I realize this specific deal only affects international versions, but this > feels like a foot in the door for Disney, and historically when

[TV orNotTV] Maher Down for Two More Years at HBO

2024-03-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
Will take "Real Time" to 24 years on the air:

[TV orNotTV] TruTV Becomes TNT the Deuce in Prime Time

2024-03-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Starting Monday, the Turner/WBD channel, known for its alt-comedy shows but more recently known as the "Impractical Jokers" channel, starts programming in prime time sports, including backup NBA and NHL games, some NCAA men's tournament games and nightly studio shows branded "TNT

[TV orNotTV] CBS Announces First New Daytime Soap in 25 Years

2024-03-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
The publicity has been about the fact that "The Gates" is the first daytime soap centered around Black characters since the 1989 NBC show "Generations," but more importantly, it is the first new daytime soap since NBC premiered the rather gonzo "Passions" in 1999 (it went off in 2008). Even

[TV orNotTV] CBS Signs for 'Young Sheldon' Spinoff

2024-03-07 Thread Mark Jeffries
It's a multi-cam focused on Sheldon's brother (Montana Jordan) and his fiancee (Emily Osment, Haley Joel's sis) as they raise their family in Texas (oh no, cute kids)--it keeps Chuck Lorre's 22-year streak at CBS rolling (which would've ended this season with "Young Sheldon" and "Abishola"

[TV orNotTV] God Bless C-SPAN CEOs Retiring After Decades With Channel

2024-03-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain have been co-CEOs at the beloved cable public affairs channel for the last 12 years following employment at the channel since the 80s (I also remember that Swain has hosted the channel's infamous call-in programs many times)--Kennedy leaves in May and will be

[TV orNotTV] Straight White Male 'SEAL Team' Staffer Sues CBS for Discrimination with Help From Trumper

2024-03-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
A former script coordinator for the CBS series is suing CBS Studios and parent Paramount Global, with the help of attorneys from the America First Legal Foundation, founded by former Trump staffer Stephen Miller, claiming that the bosses denied him a staff writer job and hired minorities and

[TV orNotTV] Take That, Colbert! 'Tracker' Gets Renewed

2024-03-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
The action series that was the post--Super Bowl attraction for CBS and target for several Stephen Colbert jokes (and I believe at least one Taylor Tomlinson joke) about CBS being CBS has been renewed for a second season: https://www.thewrap.com/tracker-season-2-renewed-cbs/ Interestingly

[TV orNotTV] Foxxes Back in the 'Beat Shazam' Henhouse

2024-03-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
After hospitalization that put him out of commission for most of last year, Jamie Foxx and daughter Corrine will be on the flight to Shannon, Ireland airport to front a seventh season of the Fox music game show, which is scheduled to premiere on May 28:

Re: [TV orNotTV] New Amazon quiz show to get second window at Fox

2024-03-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
Cardboard is a game show producer's friend, even if it's not as flashy as computerized graphics. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 10:19 PM Jim Ellwanger wrote: > The “Price Is Right” taping I went to back in September took quite a bit > longer than that,

Re: [TV orNotTV] New Amazon quiz show to get second window at Fox

2024-03-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
And even with the edits they do nowadays, I believe that Fremantle can still finish a "Price is Right" in 90 minutes. Of course, back in the Bob Barker days, Phil and Rog took exactly an hour unless there were really bad screwups. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 4,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Faraway Downs

2024-03-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
lly peeved. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 7:59 PM Kevin M. wrote: > I’ve always wanted to like the directing style of Baz Luhrman, but I never > have. Allowing him to take six episodes to retell the same story he told in > a two hour movie makes me like

Re: [TV orNotTV] New Amazon quiz show to get second window at Fox

2024-03-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
A 6:30 a.m. call time for contestants for a game show. Mark Goodson, Merrill Heatter, Bob Quigley, Stefan Hatos, Monty Hall and Chuck Barris are all doing the Lambada in their graves. Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 4:32 PM Jim Ellwanger

[TV orNotTV] BBC Takes Over BritBox

2024-03-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
The UK programming streamer, now in the U.S., UK, Canada and six other countries, was started as a partnership by the Beeb's for-profit arm BBC Studios and dominant UK commercial network ITV--the latter has sold its 50 percent in the service to the former and signed licensing deals to keep

[TV orNotTV] Fubo in 'Duel to Death' Over Disney/WBD/Fox 'Spulu'

2024-03-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
The sports-oriented streamer CEO David Gandler on the proposed sports streamer dubbed by some "Sports Hulu": "“We’re fighting for our customers. We’re fighting for the tens of billions of dollars that are wasted annually on consumers paying for the same content multiple times. This is a very

[TV orNotTV] 'Y' Gets Ticket to 55 Years

2024-02-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
The long-running CBS soap has been given a four-year renewal that will take the tale of Genoa City to its 55th anniversary: https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/the-young-and-the-restless-renewed-cbs-1235924102/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Constellation

2024-02-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
e of the original stories you are challenged to come up with whodunit. It got replaced by "previously on...", thanks to "Hill Street Blues." Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 9:29 AM Kevin M. wrote: > Over the last 15 or so years, showrunners

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Amazon: Freevee's Not Going Anywhere

2024-02-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
There was and I just forgot it or was distracted. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 8:19 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Was there a link to a story someplace about this? If not, I'll offer > one... TVLine, f'rinstance,

[TV orNotTV] Amazon: Freevee's Not Going Anywhere

2024-02-23 Thread Mark Jeffries
While the press is claiming that the Borg's free streamer is due to be gone soon because of Prime Video starting to take ads, the Borg claims that they have no intention to shut down Freevee: And besides, most people get Prime Video as their little bonus for the advantage of two-day free

[TV orNotTV] NoTV: Right's Favorite Whipping Boy Bailing Out Audacy

2024-02-21 Thread Mark Jeffries
Audacy, the radio station owner and podcast producer in bankruptcy formerly known as Entercom, of which most of its news-talk stations are almost solidly conservative, is about to have one of rightwing talk's favorite targets become Audacy's largest individual shareholder: Soros Fund

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

2024-02-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
Well, officially wouldn't they have to run a "promotional consideration furnished by" credit to the manufacturer or supplier of the coach? Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 11:12 AM Marti Lawrence wrote: > I thought it was an exce

[TV orNotTV] Dougie Zucker Buys Global TV Powerhouse

2024-02-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
RedBird IMI, the company owned in part by the former NBC and CNN exec Jeff Zucker (along with Abu Dhabian interests), has bought from Warner Bros. Discovery and John Malone's Liberty Global for $1.45B All3Media, the UK-based production house whose library ranges from "Fleabag" to "Peaky

[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

[TV orNotTV] 'Evil' Gets Four-Episode Sendoff on Par+

2024-02-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
The Robert and Michelle King creeper that started on CBS and moved to Paramount+ is shooting its short final season now and it will air on Par+ in May: https://www.thewrap.com/evil-ending-season-4-paramount-plus/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[TV orNotTV] NoTV: NPR's 'Col. Bob' Dies at 76

2024-02-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
Bob Edwards, one of the public radio network's charter employees, hosted "Morning Edition" for its first quarter-century after five sometimes-tumultuous years hosting "All Things Considered" with the more casual Susan Stamberg--he quit the net in 2005 after being taken off "ME" and hosted a

[TV orNotTV] NoTV: Miami NPR Station Fires Latino Host for Being Too Latino

2024-02-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
Former Miami Herald restaurant critic Carlos Frias had taken over as host of WLRN's "Sundial" arts program two years ago and was fired along with his staff when the station said they wanted to put more money into their website news coverage--Frias has filed complaints with Florida and federal

[TV orNotTV] Re: The Daily Shooooooooow

2024-02-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
Greatly appreciated. As I read your post I had already fired up "TDS" (which was recorded from Paramount Network, not COM, so I'm assuming Paramount did a zombie channel roadblock of "TDS" last night). I immediately stopped the DVR as the credits for "Titanic" were running at triple speed

[TV orNotTV] 'Bachelor' Producers Go Silent When Confronted With Racial Issues

2024-02-12 Thread Mark Jeffries
At an ABC unscripted panel during the Television Critics Association's winter sessions in LA, NPR's Eric Deggans asked the showrunners why the long-running dating show seems to always have problems whenever the Bachelor(ette) happens to be Black (like the year that host Chris Harrison was

[TV orNotTV] ABC Gives 'Abbott' an HBO-Style Renewal

2024-02-12 Thread Mark Jeffries
Only a few days after "Abbott Elementary"'s strikes-delayed season premiere, the Alphabet has renewed the sitcom for a fourth season, the sort of early renewal (strike or no strike) places like HBO normally do: https://www.thewrap.com/abbott-elementary-renewed-season-4-abc/ -- You received

Re: [TV orNotTV] canada: CTV cuts..... deep

2024-02-11 Thread Mark Jeffries
-LOVE"). Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 9:13 PM 'bobjersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I had to go back and check if a longtime Bell property, AM 580 CKWW ("from > the legendary studios" once used by CKLW in Ouell

[TV orNotTV] Wil Wheaton Attacks David for His 'Today' Show Elmo Assault

2024-02-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
In a long Facebook post, the "Star Trek: TNG" star compared Larry David's attack on the "Sesame Street" Muppet beloved by present-day children but hated by Boomers who grew up with BIg Bird and Bert and Ernie when the character and his father appeared on the "Today" show while he was waiting

[TV orNotTV] Streaming's BIggest Shows Are Just TV (Big Deal)

2024-02-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Chicago Tribune TV critic Nina Metz, a huge supporter of the 22-episode once-a-week season that steamers seemed to be getting away from to be more like HBO (although as an avid ACAB person, she wouldn't mind if there weren't any police procedurals), asked former network exec Preston "The

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