[TV orNotTV] Re: Jon Stewart to return to "The Daily Show" as EP and part-time host through 2024 election

2024-01-25 Thread 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV
I doubt anyone will be surprised to hear I'm very leery about this. On his Late Show appearances, he seemed to be leaning a little too hard into COVID conspiracies, and (for me) too much of his work on TDS was both-sidesing things for which there were really only one side. I'll watch, but with

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

2024-01-25 Thread Kevin M.
The ratings are… unremarkable https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/after-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

Re: [TV orNotTV] The Midnight Special on YouTube

2024-01-25 Thread PGage
Same; recall it with pleasure, periodically check to see what’s on YT. Thanks so much for this heads up! Looking forward to spending some time on the site and sharing 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

[TV orNotTV] Re: 'Road House' Reboot Director Not Nice About Amazon MGM Steaming Film Instead of Theaters

2024-01-25 Thread M-D November
Road House (2024): Prime Don't Hurt. On Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 12:07:40 PM UTC-5 Mark Jeffries wrote: > Doug Liman ("Bourne Identity," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith") says that he made the > remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze vehicle (with Jake Gyllenhaal in the > Swayze role of the world's greatest

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

2024-01-25 Thread Dave Sikula
The answer is, of course, that it costs (relative) peanuts to produce, gives the network another hour of ad revenue (even if those ads are for snake oil), and does well enough in the ratings. Quality (or lack thereof) is irrelevant; in that regard, it's not much different from the prime-time

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

2024-01-25 Thread Dave Sikula
I've watched three shows: the premiere and the episodes with Tompkins and Vayntrub. I've tuned in late for a couple of others and couldn't stand it or stay withit (the Doug Benson one was particularly disturbing, since I think his constant weed intake may have affected his mental facilities;

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Grabs 'WWE Raw' from USA

2024-01-25 Thread Kevin M.
Speaking of WWE and grabbing… https://www.cbsnews.com/news/wwe-vince-mcmahon-sex-trafficking-lawsuit-janel-grant/ Kevin M. (RPCV) On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 9:07 AM M-D November wrote: > I'm seeing buzz today that when (Monday Night? that's still unclear) Raw > moves to Netflix, it will stream

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

2024-01-25 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Eventually, at least in the US, ION (the current iteration of PAX, remember?) will bitch about that...B Adam Bowie, to Tom Wolper, Jan 25th: 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 do better?”

[TV orNotTV] Re: The Midnight Special on YouTube

2024-01-25 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Not sure of the legality involved, but at least one of my Mixcloud-DJ friends has been known to play clips of theirs during selected sets... the musical performances, at least in the US and their native UK, are reportedly covered by licences... B Tom Wolper, Jan 25th: The Midnight Special is

[TV orNotTV] 'Road House' Reboot Director Not Nice About Amazon MGM Steaming Film Instead of Theaters

2024-01-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
Doug Liman ("Bourne Identity," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith") says that he made the remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze vehicle (with Jake Gyllenhaal in the Swayze role of the world's greatest bouncer who tells his assistants to "be nice" until you can't) to be enjoyed in a theater and is pissed that Amazon

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

2024-01-25 Thread Doug Eastick
i have yet to watch an episode on my TiVo, however I have watched 1-2 clips on youtube. On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 10:11 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 do better?” > >

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

2024-01-25 Thread Tom Wolper
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 do better?” On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 9:56 AM Kevin M. wrote: > The ratings are… unremarkable > > >

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

2024-01-25 Thread Kevin M.
They could bring back “Crimetime After Prinetime”! I’ve told the story before of when “Later with…” stopped production at NBC. Initially they played reruns of the series. Then, as an experiment, they put in decades-old reruns of SCTV, only to discover they did as good and often better than new

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

2024-01-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
Or they could give it back to the affiliates, which would mean either infomercials or late news repeats (only 1:35 after the first run) or reruns of "Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen." Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 9:23 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 25,

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

2024-01-25 Thread Adam Bowie
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 3:11 PM 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 do better?” > They could probably just schedule reruns of "NCIS: Anywhere-on-the-planet", and they'd

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

2024-01-25 Thread PGage
Her ratings are about 66% of Cordon’s in his last year (maybe around 75% when DVR is included. She makes 50% of Cordon’s $6 Million salary, so maybe CBS is doing better on net cost. I am surprised they are paying her that much though, which makes me think they are expecting her to do better in

Re: [TV orNotTV] The Midnight Special on YouTube

2024-01-25 Thread John Edwards
I was more of a fan of the Midnight Express Special, myself. https://youtu.be/6DAB64q_LkY?si=eV9d_9xvevEvEw7q John On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 6:31 PM PGage wrote: > Same; recall it with pleasure, periodically check to see what’s on YT. > Thanks so much for this heads up! Looking forward to

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Road House' Reboot Director Not Nice About Amazon MGM Steaming Film Instead of Theaters

2024-01-25 Thread PGage
That’s like saying Apple is more interested in selling phones than movies. Even those of us who simply pay monthly streaming fees should understand that, so much more those who make movies for them. Sent from Gmail Mobile On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 9:07 AM Mark Jeffries wrote: > Doug Liman

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

2024-01-25 Thread Diner
I've watched three episodes so far: episode 1 (because it was the premiere), episode 2 (for Paul F. Tompkins), and episode 4 (for Milana Vayntrub). And it was a real ordeal. I got tired of the hyped-up energy about 15 minutes into the premiere, and I'm not sure how I made it through 3

[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
Her panels are made up of club comics and podcasters. CBS could be hoping that one or several of her panel members breaks big and keeps coming back to do the show. On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 12:51 PM PGage wrote: > Her ratings are about 66% of Cordon’s in his last year (maybe around 75% > when DVR