Re: [TV orNotTV] What Tom Selleck did in the final season of Magnum TOS

2024-05-16 Thread Tom Wolper
Just like in the original show. On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 8:50 AM Doug Eastick wrote: > i just realised that I don't think I watched the last 1-2 seasons of > Magnum PI, as I was out of town in University and doing other important > things. > > On a related note, I have 5 seasons of new Magnum PI

Re: [TV orNotTV] Breaking News: Beauty Pageants harmful to mental health

2024-05-12 Thread Tom Wolper
Miss Teen USA resigned two days later. https://www.salon.com/2024/05/09/scandal-in-the-pageant-world-why-miss-usa-and-miss-teen-usa-both-quit/ On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 6:22 PM Kevin M. wrote: > In other news, water is wet. > > >

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

2024-05-10 Thread Tom Wolper
The article is much deeper than the Kaufman quip and I recommend reading it. The issue of temporal distance is that things change more quickly than we can respond to, let alone satirize. The first major battles involving the US military in Vietnam were in 1965 and the satire we remember comes from

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

2024-05-09 Thread Tom Wolper
This reminds me of why I hate roasts. On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 1:05 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Disney+/Hulu/max bundle to become available this summer

2024-05-08 Thread Tom Wolper
I guess the streamers have entered the “Become Netflix or die” phase of the business. On Wed, May 8, 2024 at 6:31 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > *Die Maus* and the WBD apparently agreed to this today... and will > announce details at their respective

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Stewart Not on 'TDS' Tonight

2024-05-07 Thread Tom Wolper
Stewart also did a pre-taped bit on Jimmy Kimmel’s show. On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 12:45 PM Marti Lawrence wrote: > I enjoy Jon Stewart as host much more than any of the other people who do > that job, so I have been recording only the episodes he hosts. > I appreciate the update, and will adjust

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Unfrosted

2024-05-07 Thread Tom Wolper
>From what I could tell from the promotional materials it is supposed to be a comedy revue rather than a story. On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 12:22 AM Kevin M. wrote: > I do remember laughing at moments, but I just finished it and now I can’t > tell you what I laughed at. If there was a script, it was

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Pimp My Ride" making a comeback

2024-05-04 Thread Tom Wolper
I assume insurance premiums also go sky high when a car gets expensive modifications like that. The car owners probably get rid of them as quickly as possible. On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 10:24 PM Kevin M. wrote: > One of the car-centric YouTube channels I watch from time to time found > one of the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Ozzy Osbourne receives stem cell treatments

2024-05-03 Thread Tom Wolper
At this point a 75 year old who doesn’t have health problems would be news. On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 5:48 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > The 75-year-old rocker, who retired from the road after spinal injuries, > revealed on his SiriusXM talk show that the

[TV orNotTV] Monday Night Football is going back to cable

2024-05-03 Thread Tom Wolper
After putting all of the Monday NFL games on ABC last season, Disney is going back to the prior schedule with some simulcasts. https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2024/05/abc-monday-night-football-simulcasts-reduction-this-season/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Surprise! CBS Fall Annotated

2024-05-02 Thread Tom Wolper
I saw the NCIS: Origins entry and thought that CBS had such a hit with Young Sheldon that they’re trying Young NCIS or NCIS Babies. If FX or HBO was going to make a new Matlock with Kathy Bates in the lead I’d give it a try. She can carry a show like that. At CBS it won’t have any edge or spark.

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

2024-05-02 Thread Tom Wolper
This is failed crisis management. Schneider had to have been approached by the makers of the series and he chose not to participate or defend himself that way, which is his right. When the series came out and made him look bad he just denied it all. Now he filed a lawsuit, which if it goes to

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Wrexham" guys investing in another club in another league

2024-04-29 Thread Tom Wolper
Of course there will be another reality show. I don’t do deep dives into sports business journalism. Still I’d like to know how the revenue from Welcome to Wrexham compares to the operating costs of running the club. The team is moving up levels of English football because the owners were willing

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: New York appeals court torn over reversing Weinstein convictoin

2024-04-25 Thread Tom Wolper
Retrying him will be a DA’s or AG’s call and they’re elected offices. If there’s no blowback to declining to prosecute the case again they might let it go. On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 9:54 PM David Risner wrote: > My big question is, why spend all that money retrying him when he's > already going

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Another Hollywood catfight

2024-04-19 Thread Tom Wolper
What this brings in mind to me is America Ferrara’s speech in Barbie. What did Sydney Sweeney ever do to get called out like this in public? On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 4:37 PM Adam Bowie wrote: > Sydney Sweeney is very much up and coming at the moment. Her role on > Euphoria was fine, although

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

2024-04-16 Thread Tom Wolper
>From what I saw, it’s replacing The Talk. On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 9:27 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > A pee-arr spotted by The Futon Critic announced the pickup, without any > other details... B > > Mark Jeffries, March 8th: > > The publicity has been

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBS Fs Up Billy Joel Concert

2024-04-15 Thread Tom Wolper
CBS will reair the concert in its entirety on Friday at 9PM On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 9:35 AM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > The 'special guests' were known ahead of time, which makes me believe it > was previously recorded. > > Hollywood Reporter says it

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Golden Bachelor, "winner" engaged, to wed Jan 4th 2024

2024-04-14 Thread Tom Wolper
Do you think it would be bad taste for me to ask for my wedding present back? On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 12:50 PM Kevin M. wrote: > Gee, I thought they’d go the distance. > > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 5:19 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: >

Re: [TV orNotTV] True Detective 4 [Was Quickie Review: Monsieur Spade]

2024-04-14 Thread Tom Wolper
I started watching it back in January and gave up after a few episodes. I found that the series is all about creepy vibes and they had no intention of making a tight, satisfying mystery. When I found I didn’t care who done it or whether they would figure it out, I bailed. I spent a number of

Re: [TV orNotTV] OJ Simpson Dead at 76 in Las Vegas

2024-04-11 Thread Tom Wolper
There’s no reason to try and relitigate the case. It stands, and is meaningful, that in the almost 30 years after the case no exonerating evidence or even an alternate theory of how the murders happened. On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:17 PM PGage wrote: > Well, the Civil Jury found him liable for

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Women's NCAA title game outdraws the men's championship with an average of 18.9 million viewers

2024-04-10 Thread Tom Wolper
The women’s game had Caitlin Clark, who’s become a household name after she set a new scoring record, and South Carolina which was undefeated. The men’s game didn’t have anything to draw people who weren’t committed to watch. On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 10:32 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <

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

2024-04-07 Thread Tom Wolper
t; > On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 at 10:01 AM Tom Wolper wrote: > >> In a rapidly shifting media environment 40 years of experience isn’t an >> immediate asset. Williamson thrived when the ESPN economic model was to >> make people who never watched the channel pay for it as part o

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

2024-04-06 Thread Tom Wolper
In a rapidly shifting media environment 40 years of experience isn’t an immediate asset. Williamson thrived when the ESPN economic model was to make people who never watched the channel pay for it as part of their cable subscription. That bucket of money is going away and when meeting the

Re: [TV orNotTV] ESPN Streamer to Be on Disney+

2024-04-05 Thread Tom Wolper
Did Disney decide the problem with streaming is that it’s not confusing enough? On Fri, Apr 5, 2024 at 12:11 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > 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

Re: [TV orNotTV] About a not-exactly-ethnic name

2024-04-03 Thread Tom Wolper
She was different from the rest of the family so she had a different name. Why does anybody have to overthink it? On Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 12:58 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > In a gift article, expiring tentatively April 10th '24, a discussion from > the New

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

2024-03-31 Thread Tom Wolper
The movie is about the lead up to the first episode and the show Berle wasn’t even in the first season. It’s more likely that the Berle character is a straw man for comedians of a previous era. And I await the critical review that says Simmons doesn’t have the penis to play Milton Berle. On Sun,

[TV orNotTV] Jeopardy/Chase crossover

2024-03-26 Thread Tom Wolper
On Friday Victoria Groce, the Queen on The Chase, will be playing Jeopardy in the invitational tournament. She was on Jeopardy 20 years ago. She said The Chase hasn’t been renewed but it hasn’t been canceled either.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Pete Davidson and Colin Jost bought an old Staten Island Ferry boat...

2024-03-26 Thread Tom Wolper
That’s good news for people who go to Staten Island, I guess. On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:52 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Along with Paul Italia, proprietor of NY comedy club The Stand and a > commercial real estate agent/investor, and, reportedly,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Digest for tvornottv@googlegroups.com - 15 updates in 9 topics

2024-03-24 Thread Tom Wolper
Hollywood, and whatever passed for popular culture at the time, tied sexiness to over the top glamour. That led to weird binaries like Ginger/Mary Ann on Gilligans Island and Jennifer/Bailey on WKRP. By any other standard Dawn Wells and Jan Smithers were drop dead gorgeous. But we were told the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Don Lemon to launch new show on X

2024-03-13 Thread Tom Wolper
I don’t care one way or the other about this kerfuffle but I did see that Lemon is still going to do his show and post episodes on YouTube, podcast apps, and Twitter. https://x.com/donlemon/status/1767948372999299549?s=61=OcJUo4kg3KMRa7DAyOZBvg On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 4:17 PM Kevin M. wrote:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Sen. Katie Britt's State of the Union response: Discuss

2024-03-10 Thread Tom Wolper
I didn’t bother with SNL so I can’t comment on that. Regarding the Sen Britt response speech: 1. Doing the response to the SOTU is like hosting the Golden Globes. You’re gonna get roasted no matter how well you do. I’m guessing people aren’t lining up to do it. 2. The SOTU response is a good

Re: [TV orNotTV] TNG episode with "current" reference remains banned in UK and Ireland

2024-03-04 Thread Tom Wolper
To be clear the state of the BBC, Sky, and RTE archives is so bad that nobody can confirm it didn’t eventually air. And there doesn’t seem to be any suppression of streaming the episode in the UK or Ireland. The more egregious statement is saying Mexican independence is an example of successful

[TV orNotTV] Quick Review: Shogun

2024-03-02 Thread Tom Wolper
Streaming on Hulu. Take a 1975 white savior adventure based on the 1603 accession of Tokugawa Iyesu to a unified shogunate, remove the Eurocentrism and mysogyny, get a Japanese cast and crew including advisors to make the characters talk and look like they are from the period, and this is what

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Constellation

2024-02-24 Thread Tom Wolper
Samuel Fuller once said, “If you don’t have the audience by the balls halfway down the first page of the script, go back and rewrite it.” On Sat, Feb 24, 2024 at 12:58 AM Kevin M. wrote: > Opening scene filled with intense drama and gripping suspense, then the > next scene has the words “five

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fwd: TV news for Feb. 10-16, 2024

2024-02-18 Thread Tom Wolper
It’s from the Television Critics Association winter ingathering and that’s why all of these stories are breaking. On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 10:30 PM Doug Eastick wrote: > Saw this post on rec.arts.tv, and it was so massive with some others that > we had not seen here, I thought I'd share it. > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] George Santos sues Jimmy Kimmel over use of Cameos

2024-02-17 Thread Tom Wolper
Kimmel has new shows this week so he’ll have lots of fun with this. On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 8:52 PM Kevin M. wrote: > I don’t believe using a fake name on social media (even for-profit social > media) is a crime. It might violate Cameo’s TOS, but I doubt that could > even be the basis of a

Re: [TV orNotTV] The Dukes of Hazzard was racist…

2024-02-17 Thread Tom Wolper
Do we really believe John Schneider says anything worth paying attention to? The people who need to jump on this are the country music companies. The US is currently 41% non-white and the only demographic group that is overwhelmingly white is old people. If they don’t want to speak out for

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

2024-02-09 Thread Tom Wolper
I long for the days when random outrage wouldn’t go viral and we would not be expected to have opinions about these things. On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 12:20 PM Joe Hass wrote: > M-D: It wound up being debunked. >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Carano Suing Disney, Lucasfilm Over 'Mandalorian' Firing--Musk's Her Sugar Daddy

2024-02-07 Thread Tom Wolper
Steve Timko wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 7, 2024, 3:29 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > >> And what’s Elon’s track record in these matters? He’s got a dozen other >> things to keep him distracted. Disney Legal can stay focused. >> > > > > I think Musk is trying to help

Re: [TV orNotTV] Carano Suing Disney, Lucasfilm Over 'Mandalorian' Firing--Musk's Her Sugar Daddy

2024-02-07 Thread Tom Wolper
... still, when CNBC > asked Bob Iger what his thoughts were about it, and he just said "None," > and moved on to another topic... > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bob-iger-gina-carano-mandalorian-lawsuit-1235818809/ > (link) > B > > Tom Wolper, to

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox, WBD, Disney to Team Up for Possible Game-Changing Sports Streaming App

2024-02-07 Thread Tom Wolper
I think the only way you can get sports fans to pay that level of monthly prices is to have home games available. I get ESPN+ as part of the Hulu bundle and I can watch NHL games with every team except my home team. My friend, who just got rid of his $230 a month cable subscription, was happy to

Re: [TV orNotTV] Carano Suing Disney, Lucasfilm Over 'Mandalorian' Firing--Musk's Her Sugar Daddy

2024-02-06 Thread Tom Wolper
I wouldn’t bet against Disney’s legal department. And if they think Carano’s case has any merit they’ll settle and make it go away. On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 5:47 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > Former MMA fighter and forever rightwing wack job Gina Carano was fired > from her role as Cara on the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Letterman is Team TayTay

2024-02-01 Thread Tom Wolper
When Dave was looking for the name of someone to officiate Mary should have said Billy Crystal. On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 7:40 PM Steve Timko wrote: > Letterman now says Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce will marry at the Super > Bowl halftime. > Usher will officiate. > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] The Midnight Special on YouTube

2024-01-26 Thread Tom Wolper
ing with my kids. >> >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> >> On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 12:44 PM Tom Wolper wrote: >> >>> The Midnight Special is one of those shows from my youth that I remember >>> fondly and over the years I’ve checked in on YouTube to se

[TV orNotTV] The Midnight Special on YouTube

2024-01-25 Thread Tom Wolper
The Midnight Special is one of those shows from my youth that I remember fondly and over the years I’ve checked in on YouTube to see if anyone uploaded videos. I recently checked again and I see there is an official account. They are slowly uploading full episodes from the beginning of the series

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 'After Midnight' Finally Premiering--POINTS!

2024-01-25 Thread Tom Wolper
y down the road and > be cheap at $3 Million. > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 7:11 AM Tom Wolper wrote: > >> The follow up question is not, “why isn’t this show doing better?” It’s >> “what could CBS possibly put on in this time slot that would d

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 'After Midnight' Finally Premiering--POINTS!

2024-01-25 Thread Tom Wolper
ter-midnight-premiere-week-ratings-cbs-1235806088/amp/ > > > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> >> On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 8:06 PM Tom Wolper wrote: >> >>> The charm of the past and current generation of late n

Re: [TV orNotTV] Buzzy Cohen to host J! after all

2024-01-22 Thread Tom Wolper
It’s odd that there is no mention of this at all on Jeopardy.com On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 8:28 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > But only two play-in episodes for the Champions Wildcard tournament, and > they're audio-only on TuneIn, some of whose content is

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

2024-01-21 Thread Tom Wolper
, kids today (oh, how I hate that >>> expression) can spot someone talking down to them and immediately reject >>> them… it might be their only redeeming virtue. As long as SNL persists in >>> pandering, they will fail to capture the attention of kids today. Michaels >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 'After Midnight' Finally Premiering--POINTS!

2024-01-20 Thread Tom Wolper
The charm of the past and current generation of late night hosts is their acknowledgment of when a joke or bit doesn’t work. Dave was a master of it, bringing the audience into his own discomfort. Seth gleefully throws a writer under the bus when a monologue joke falls flat. My big problem with

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

2024-01-20 Thread Tom Wolper
Lorne’s superpower was that nobody at NBC would mess with him. Once he’s out of the picture the new showrunner will have to answer to all of the network’s executives. It’s a wonder the show lasted as long as it did with him and it won’t last long without him. On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 2:08 PM Dave

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Sports Illustrated about to lay off nearly all its editorial staff: report

2024-01-19 Thread Tom Wolper
In an economy with record low unemployment the two sectors going through mass layoffs are media and tech. And that makes the media report about the lousy job market. It’s a shame about SI. ESPN is also going through waves of job cuts and it’s showing on the air and in their online reporting. As

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 'After Midnight' Finally Premiering--POINTS!

2024-01-17 Thread Tom Wolper
As always with new shows it’s going to take time for them to find their rhythm and their sweet spots. That said, I don’t know how much better it can be. It would certainly be better as a half hour show and they have to find panel members who thrive in that format. The show looked to me like a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Your Emmy winners

2024-01-16 Thread Tom Wolper
I watched a bit of the awards show during commercial breaks during the game and I was pleased with what I saw. The show seemed less bombastic than in previous years and nobody was pretending that TV, or the awards, were more important than what they are. On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:52 AM PGage

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Sopranos' Creator: Tee Vee Sux

2024-01-15 Thread Tom Wolper
In a world of 500+ TV series there are going to be only 2 or 3 that are going to be considered classic or brilliant. And if these 2 or 3 brilliant series aren’t recognized by the algorithms to push into people’s feeds they won’t be found by a mass audience. On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 11:56 AM Adam

Re: [TV orNotTV] RIP Tom Shales

2024-01-13 Thread Tom Wolper
I remember reading him in the Washington Post decades ago when I lived in the DC area. He took TV seriously as a cultural force and not just mindless entertainment. On Sat, Jan 13, 2024 at 8:37 PM Kevin M. wrote: > It’s been years since I even heard his name. As I recall, he tried to use >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NFL Post-Season Flex

2024-01-13 Thread Tom Wolper
Buffalo wants to keep the roads clear for snow plows and emergency vehicles. Pittsburgh is a 3 hour drive away who knows how many fans got secondary market tickets and are driving up. I’ve sat through several Steelers games in single digit temperatures. By the second half I just want the game to

Re: [TV orNotTV] The Fresh Prince's Definition of Hollywood Madness

2024-01-12 Thread Tom Wolper
The article is an odd mix of business reporting and celebrity reporting. The decline of Westbrook can easily be explained by a sector-wide drop in streaming revenue. There might have been a blip as a result of The Slap but it only would have been temporary and the company should have bounced back.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Your Globes Host is Jo Koy--Who?

2024-01-09 Thread Tom Wolper
The Golden Globes, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter are all owned by Pennske Media so it’s now a closed circle: The magazines hype the awards and the awards show, and the awards show provides content for the magazines. Whatever anyone thinks about the awards outside of that is irrelevant. On

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: D!sney can't rely on Congress this time

2024-01-02 Thread Tom Wolper
https://www.threads.net/@rubenbolling/post/C1mdTSALAcV On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 11:10 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > And the next day, a trailer appeared for "Mickey's Mouse Trap," > looking for a distributor and platform... > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] RIP Tommy Smothers

2023-12-27 Thread Tom Wolper
This one hits me deeper than most other announcements. Maybe because they were so completely original as an act. On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 1:10 PM Kevin M. wrote: > The last time I counted, I have more albums on vinyl by the Smothers > Brothers than any other artist. Their comedy is timeless.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: ot; google groups ending Usenet support/peering

2023-12-26 Thread Tom Wolper
For those too young to remember, Usenet was an internet service outside of the World Wide Web. It was a regular service offered by ISPs and people accessed it through dedicated apps or email programs like Outlook. In 2008 at the time of the birth of social media and the end of dial up services,

Re: [TV orNotTV] ot; google groups ending Usenet support/peering

2023-12-25 Thread Tom Wolper
This is an email group and not a Usenet group. On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 9:37 PM Kevin M. wrote: > Show of hands: Who uses Usenet to access this group? > > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > > On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 6:28 PM Doug Eastick wrote: > >> >> Google Groups ending support for Usenet - Google Groups

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Peacock gets NFL exclusives

2023-12-23 Thread Tom Wolper
I was watching the Oilers-Rangers NHL game, which was an exclusive ESPN+ broadcast, last night and they mentioned that the third period would be commercial free. They took the usual breaks to dry scrape the ice and the broadcast stayed with the booth announcers. Maybe this is going to be a trend.

Re: [TV orNotTV] The Host of Jeopardy? Ken Jennings

2023-12-20 Thread Tom Wolper
Mayim goes > on strike, Ken steps in, the show stabilizes with the GOAT properly (and > finally) succeeding the GOAT, and (again, to that large segment of the > audience) all is right with the world. > > On Monday, December 18, 2023 at 1:54:29 PM UTC-5 Tom Wolper wrote: > >>

Re: [TV orNotTV] The Host of Jeopardy? Ken Jennings

2023-12-18 Thread Tom Wolper
jennings-1235701725/ >> >> >> Sent from Gmail Mobile >> >> >> On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 at 1:37 PM Jeff Metzner wrote: >> >>> Unless they come up with another primetime show -- always a possibility >>> with Michael Davies -- it seems like

Re: [TV orNotTV] Semi-OT: Shannen’s podcast

2023-12-18 Thread Tom Wolper
Podcasts always have a rough beginning unless the host comes from radio. Over time the host learns how to structure episodes and keep an audience in mind. Or else they give it up. Since there are minimal start up costs and no exit costs for a podcast lots of people try getting one established.

Re: [TV orNotTV] The Host of Jeopardy? Ken Jennings

2023-12-16 Thread Tom Wolper
Michael Davies is always talking about expanding the Jeopardy franchise and they might want her available for a new prime time spinoff. The celebrity tournament wasn’t the only prime time show, there was also the masters tournament. There are too many unknowns to be able to speculate about what

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Freeform Out of Scripted Business

2023-12-13 Thread Tom Wolper
I was going to say Byron Allen as a joke. If he’s serious about buying the channel he’ll have to convince whoever is backing him financially that the value is going to go up even as the pace of cord cutting is rising. On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 12:23 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > Well, I believe

Re: [TV orNotTV] Disney Buying Out Comcast's Share in Hulu

2023-12-10 Thread Tom Wolper
I have the Hulu bundle and I got an email from Disney+ saying they were making a selection of Hulu titles available on the Disney+ app. They also said the whole Hulu library is available on the Hulu app. On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 12:44 AM PGage wrote: > Mark wrote, On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 2:08 PM:

Re: [TV orNotTV] NFL clears up Week 15

2023-12-03 Thread Tom Wolper
>From a podcast interview with the NFL’s VP of Broadcast Planning: flexing is done to move playoff relevant games from 1 PM to prime time. So it’s not a simple matter of looking for games that will draw more viewers. The Chiefs and Patriots (Chiefs in, Patriots out) is less relevant than Eagles

Re: [TV orNotTV] J! contestants fail to recognize Led Zeppelin... X reacts

2023-12-02 Thread Tom Wolper
Going back to the original post: 1. Clickbait is driven by anger, outrage, and ginned up controversy. Any lazy journalist can produce a quick article by picking something that happened in pop culture, scrape social media for outraged reactions, and then collect and publish them. I expect to see

[TV orNotTV] Quick Review: American Symphony

2023-11-30 Thread Tom Wolper
New on Netflix, American Symphony is a documentary about Jon Batiste as he goes through the process of composing and rehearsing his work American Symphony while dealing with the illness of his wife Suleika Jaoud. I couldn’t make it through the movie which is rare for me. I really like Batiste as

Re: [TV orNotTV] Golden Bachelor not completely authentic

2023-11-29 Thread Tom Wolper
Now I can never trust the Bachelor franchise again. On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:14 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Gerry (like "Gary" but with a different vowel) told actor Justin Long on > the latter's podcast that, among other things, his fingerprints had to

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox's Mid-Season

2023-11-22 Thread Tom Wolper
I was a bit thrown by no mention of The Simpsons so I went to the Fox press release to see what was going on. The new season will premiere on February 18. https://www.foxflash.com/releases/view/fox-announces-premiere-dates-for-new-and-returning-series-to-launch-winter-2024 On Wed, Nov 22, 2023

Re: [TV orNotTV] Guess Who's Suing 20 Media Outlets...

2023-11-21 Thread Tom Wolper
The purpose of the lawsuit is intimidation and attention seeking. It’s not going to trial and it’s not supposed to go to trial. On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 1:09 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > That's right, it's him--a suit filed in Sarasota County, FL claims that > certain media organizations (only one

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tim Allen hints at "Home Improvement" sequel

2023-11-20 Thread Tom Wolper
Tell him to watch the Murphy Brown reboot. On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 9:26 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > In an interview with The Messenger, accompanied by daughter Elizabeth, > about D!sney+'s *The Santa Clauses*, the ex-Tool Man said he talks with > former

Re: [TV orNotTV] Help needed identify comedy show I saw on YouTube

2023-11-19 Thread Tom Wolper
Québécois do. On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 5:25 PM Doug Eastick wrote: > Canadians don't have accents.  > > > > /Doug > east...@mcd.on.ca > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2023, 14:45 Steve Timko wrote: > >> >> >> I’m trying to find out more about a TV clip I saw on YouTube. When I >> look at my YouTube

Re: [TV orNotTV] Bob Dylan supports Jann Wenner

2023-11-19 Thread Tom Wolper
Dylan has reached the point in his life and his career where he knows he will suffer no consequences for anything he says. If you decide to take him literally that’s on you. I don’t think he cares about Wenner or how his remarks will be received. It’s just provocation for his own amusement. On

Re: [TV orNotTV] Despite Disinterest, Golden Globes Are on CBS

2023-11-19 Thread Tom Wolper
That Sunday night game is a play-in game to the playoffs so it’s guaranteed to draw a huge audience. Putting the Golden Globes on against it is just burying it where only diehards will watch. On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 6:41 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > The who-cares award show will air live on Jan. 7

Re: [TV orNotTV] WB Says 'Beep Beep' to 'Coyote v. Acme' Movie

2023-11-10 Thread Tom Wolper
t;> movie is somehow lacking?! The studio said “yes” to the cinematic flotsam >> and jetsam that was the Arthur remake, Battlefield Earth, and Cop Out, but >> a film about a female caped crusader gets buried in a shallow grave? >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 5:36 AM Tom Wolper

Re: [TV orNotTV] WB Says 'Beep Beep' to 'Coyote v. Acme' Movie

2023-11-10 Thread Tom Wolper
Producers, directors, writers, and some technical people have to take years out of their lives to make movies like this happen. To go through all that and then find out nobody will get a chance to watch them must be heartbreaking. It’s like a Renaissance prince was a patron to a master artist. He

Re: [TV orNotTV] WB Says 'Beep Beep' to 'Coyote v. Acme' Movie

2023-11-09 Thread Tom Wolper
The coyote just can’t catch a break. On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 10:14 PM Jon Delfin wrote: > fortunately, the original New Yorker piece by Ian Frazier is still out > there > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 7:05 PM Kevin M. wrote: > >> It’s a clever premise. Sort of like Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law but

Re: [TV orNotTV] Chicago NBC Station Simulcasting Cable Bulls, Blackhawks Games

2023-11-03 Thread Tom Wolper
The big story seems to be NBC letting WMAQ preempt network programming. Local stations carried live sports in prime time until the networks cut it out and sent the teams to regional sports channels. It’s unfair to compare local teams’ games to the World Series for ratings. Local teams draw well.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-02 Thread Tom Wolper
My hot take is that Taylor Swift needed to date one of the players to bring attention to the series. I watched the games and enjoyed them. The problem this year is an utter lack of star power. MLB has few enough players who are well known outside of their home markets and none of them were in the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Gen-Z youth want less on-screen sex in movies and TV: UCLA study

2023-10-25 Thread Tom Wolper
It’s statistical malpractice to generalize a population based on the preference of 51.5% of its members. On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 4:21 PM Kevin M. wrote: > It’s not that they want less nudity; they have access to it in other > media. Porn is available in many online outlets, and gratuitous

Re: [TV orNotTV] NFL Sunday Ticket Multi-View Technical Questions

2023-10-22 Thread Tom Wolper
Jimmy Traina writes a sports media column for SI and he mentioned this at the beginning of the season. The reason, as best he can tell, is that YouTube didn’t tell its programmers to add that capability. When they get enough feedback telling them that people really want it they’ll figure out how

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: Barry Melrose Unexpectedly Retires

2023-10-11 Thread Tom Wolper
I noticed last hockey season he was going through a cognitive decline. On highlights packages he couldn’t keep up with the action and he frequently got teams and players wrong. The studio hosts were gentle in correcting him and I figured they felt he earned going out on his own terms. On Tue, Oct

[TV orNotTV] Only Murders has been renewed for season 4

2023-10-05 Thread Tom Wolper
It was announced on Tuesday when the last episode of season three dropped. I have a link but there’s not much more to the announcement. https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/only-murders-in-the-building-renewed-season-4-hulu-1235742772/# ! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [TV orNotTV] First "flexing" of NFL games

2023-10-03 Thread Tom Wolper
Won’t be the last flex. On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 5:19 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > In week 6 (Oct 15th), Detroit at Tampa Bay (now both 3-1) will start at > 4.25pm instead of 1... but remain on Fox. > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Are You Ready for Some 'Toy Story' Football?

2023-10-02 Thread Tom Wolper
>> just need to show the real pictures but create alternative commentaries and >> features around the game? >> >> This feels like a solution in search of a problem. >> >> >> Adam >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 9:53 PM Tom Wolper wrote: >>

Re: [TV orNotTV] Are You Ready for Some 'Toy Story' Football?

2023-10-01 Thread Tom Wolper
of showing Andy’s room rather than the stadium didn’t seem to add anything to me. On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 4:52 PM M-D November wrote: > “Big City Greens”. > > On Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 10:01:46 PM UTC-5 Tom Wolper wrote: > >> ESPN+ did this with an NHL game last seas

Re: [TV orNotTV] I listened to a Chevy Chase podcast interview so you don't have to

2023-09-25 Thread Tom Wolper
podcast with Al Franken and it was >>> good. I'd say SNL fans should listen to it. >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2022 at 2:26 PM Tom Wolper wrote: >>> >>>> This sounds sad all around. The hosts need to make guests look good in >>>> this format. I will assume th

Re: [TV orNotTV] Golden Globes voters removed for being Golden Globes voters

2023-09-25 Thread Tom Wolper
It actually is news because the HFPA probably would have just ignored any charges. On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 11:51 PM Kevin M. wrote: > In other news, water is wet > > > https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/golden-globe-voters-expelled-violating-code-conduct-1235597889/amp/ > > --

Re: [TV orNotTV] Are the weekly network numbers from Nielsen still available

2023-09-22 Thread Tom Wolper
Use https://www.nielsen.com/top-ten/ and scroll down past the streaming numbers to get to the top TV shows. On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 7:14 PM Greg Schienke wrote: > Hi. I have not posted here in what feels like at least a decade and I > apologize, but I've had car problems. > > I'm 62 and since

Re: [TV orNotTV] It ain’t Rupert’s Fox no more

2023-09-21 Thread Tom Wolper
just finished listening to today's episode of The Town > with Matt Belloni featuring Woolf when this news dropped. > > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 3:18 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > >> Darcy is usually a solid reporter but I don’t know why he thinks it’s >> going to send shockwaves throu

Re: [TV orNotTV] It ain’t Rupert’s Fox no more

2023-09-21 Thread Tom Wolper
Darcy is usually a solid reporter but I don’t know why he thinks it’s going to send shockwaves through the media industry when a 92 year old man announces his retirement. On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 9:36 AM Kevin M. wrote: > A different (yet the same) Murdoch will be running Fox into the ground > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tonight’s Jeopardy was a rerun

2023-09-14 Thread Tom Wolper
e ads >> as on the regular episodes - so it makes sense that there would be a >> Moderna commercial.) >> >> >> On Sep 14, 2023, at 6:29 PM, Brad Beam wrote: >> >> Not national - down 79 here in Charleston, WSAZ showed the first 2nd >> Chance final. &

[TV orNotTV] Tonight’s Jeopardy was a rerun

2023-09-14 Thread Tom Wolper
The show that aired tonight (in Pittsburgh) was a rerun from last season with Mayim hosting. It looks like it was national and not just local. The Moderna ad ran after Double Jeopardy and my DVR labeled the episode as s37 second chance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [TV orNotTV] Guess Who's Coming Back on TV...

2023-09-13 Thread Tom Wolper
I was just about to post the twitter link https://x.com/billmaher/status/1702112410516254893?s=61=OcJUo4kg3KMRa7DAyOZBvg On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 10:53 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > Yeah, him--no date announced and probably no actors on his panels: > >

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