Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Jim Brown

2023-05-20 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Actually, it was... https://groups.google.com/g/tvornottv/c/AtmL_T2V9Gw/m/2Xxa02akYmIJ (web archive) B Moi, to Brad Beam, May 20th: I reported on the first time I'd seen JB do Evening News, on a weekend IIRC. That probably wasn't the first time he'd been there either... -- You

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Jim Brown

2023-05-20 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
I reported on the first time I'd seen JB do Evening News, on a weekend IIRC. That probably wasn't the first time he'd been there either... B Brad Beam, to moi, May 20th: In a case of coincidence, Norah O’Donnell was off last night, so it was left up to tontine-winner James Brown (aka JB) to

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Jim Brown

2023-05-20 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
(Warning - sidetrack) In what was easily my most unexpected celebrity encounter while I lived in the DC area, JB came to the gym I went to in Silver Spring.  We exchanged small talk when I went to use a machine near him, and he was a real pleasant fellow. David On Saturday, May 20, 2023

Re: [TV orNotTV] Russia bans US late night talk show hosts

2023-05-20 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Imagine Licht's surprise when he learns that translation won't be available live... B Mark Jeffries, to Tom Wolper, May 19th: "Tonight on CNN: A Town Hall with Vladimir Putin." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe

Re: [TV orNotTV] Artificial intelligence making for new threat to (striking) actors

2023-05-20 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
That's potentially in the offing for at least one writer who is also a member of the Guild's negotiating committee... John August (*Big Fish, Aladdin*), whom also heads something called Quote-Unquote Apps, recently became an "advisor" to (and investor in) Sudowrite, which uses an OpenAI

[TV orNotTV] Re: Artificial intelligence making for new threat to (striking) actors

2023-05-20 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
David Simon (you've heard of him...) weighs in, angrily, on NPR's *Consider This* podcast... “If that’s where this industry is going, it’s going to infantilize itself... We’re all going to be watching stuff we watched before, only worse.”

[TV orNotTV] Cobie Smulders likin' her role in the MCU

2023-05-20 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
The "HIMYM" alum's latest effort as Maria Hill, which she first played in 2012's *The Avengers*, is the coming-to-D!sney+ *Secret Invasion*, where Sam Jackson's Nick Fury leads the battle against infiltrating Skrulls bent on positions of power...

[TV orNotTV] Original "Joe Schmo" host felt "disrespected" when approached for reboot

2023-05-20 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Ralph Garman, replaced as host in tbs' revival by Cat Deeley, lamented that he was only asked to do a cameo at some point in the new series, and that producers apparently just jumped into getting him onto the set without consulting his managers...

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Jim Brown

2023-05-20 Thread Brad Beam
In a case of coincidence, Norah O’Donnell was off last night, so it was left up to tontine-winner James Brown (aka JB) to announce the passing on the CBS Evening News.Sent from my iPhoneOn May 20, 2023, at 09:30, 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV wrote:The football hero, first in college at Syracuse,