Re: [TV orNotTV] UK network pulls movie due to Boston tragedy

2013-04-17 Thread Adam Bowie
It's worth noting that FilmFour has shown this film many times in the past. It's just an unfortunate coincidence that it was scheduled again for Monday. And while the time for watching it certainly isn't now, it's a wonderfully funny and dark film. Chris Morris is something of a comic genius.

Re: [TV orNotTV] LA's KTLA studio lot evacuated due to bomb threat

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
Upgrade to HD cameras on LMAD, or we're taking the place out! On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:06 AM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: Bomb threat was received around 6ish. Everybody was allowed back in by 8:30. In addition to KTLA news, some of the courtroom shows tape there, as does Let's

[TV orNotTV] Amazon Deal of the Day (4/17): Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete Series on DVD

2013-04-17 Thread Bob in Jersey
Hey, it's a TV show But not actually complete... part of a season reportedly missing. $31.99 today only. the

[TV orNotTV] Fox pulls 'Family Guy' episode after Boston bombings - latimes.com

2013-04-17 Thread Trevor Tymchuk
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-fox-pulls-family-guy-episode-after-boston-bombings-20130416,0,663754.story Fox Broadcasting on Tuesday yanked a recent episode of Family Guy from websites after edited clips of the animated series appeared to portray a bombing, mayhem

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox pulls 'Family Guy' episode after Boston bombings - latimes.com

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
Thank God no one ever cut letters and words out of a magazine and pasted them together to post a ransom note: then we'd have to remove all the magazines. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Trevor Tymchuk tre...@afewthings.cawrote:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox pulls 'Family Guy' episode after Boston bombings - latimes.com

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Coughlin
Well, to be fair, the actual aired episode of Family Guy portrayed people getting killed at the Boston Marathon...except it was because Peter ran them over while running the marathon in his car. On 4/17/13, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: Thank God no one ever cut letters and words out of

[TV orNotTV] Semi-OT: KCRW ends over-the-air broadcast of Harry Shearer's Le Show

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin M.
The home of the homeless will have to subscribe to the podcast version of the show if they want to listen to it. http://www.scpr.org/blogs/newmedia/2013/04/17/1/interview-harry-shearer-on-le-show-being-taken-off/ -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You

Re: [TV orNotTV] Semi-OT: KCRW ends over-the-air broadcast of Harry Shearer's Le Show

2013-04-17 Thread Jon Delfin
There's always PublicRadioFan.com: http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgibin/program.pl?programid=60 On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: The home of the homeless will have to subscribe to the podcast version of the show if they want to listen to it.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Semi-OT: KCRW ends over-the-air broadcast of Harry Shearer's Le Show

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin M.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote: There's always PublicRadioFan.com: http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgibin/program.pl?programid=60 Shearer doesn't deny all the online options available. He is critical of the decision to remove him from the airwaves in a

[TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
Not only did the New York Yankees play Sweet Caroline after the third in their game against Arizona (as a few Major League Baseball parks did yesterday) in a show of support for the city, and not only did they create and display a nicely-designed icon for last night's game that was shown on the

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin M.
Anybody watching today's live clusterf*ck of coverage? At this point, I fully expect that -- within the hour -- CNN will announce that Martians planted the bombs in Boston. VERIFY FACTS! ATTRIBUTE SOURCES! NO BLIND QUOTES OR ANONYMOUS TIPS! I WANT JOURNALISTS WORKING IN NEWSROOMS AGAIN! OK...

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread David Bruggeman
Perversely, I think having the game against NotBoston made it easier for the Yankees to do this. David Steinbrenner still sucks. From: Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com To: TV Or Not TV tvornottv@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 3:06 PM Subject:

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
The Indians (who played Boston last night in Cleveland) also played it (along with Dirty Water). On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:10 PM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote: Perversely, I think having the game against NotBoston made it easier for the Yankees to do this. David Steinbrenner

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
Yet again, your first mistake was watching television news. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody watching today's live clusterf*ck of coverage? At this point, I fully expect that -- within the hour -- CNN will announce that Martians planted the

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin M.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: Yet again, your first mistake was watching television news. Technically, I had a live feed on my computer and was watching the dark comedy play out on Twitter at the same time. I assume Elvis sightings will be reported next?!

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
As usual, the only appropriate source is The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/articles/update-the-onion-apologizes-for-killing-innocent-b,32088/ On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: Yet

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin M.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody watching today's live clusterf*ck of coverage? At this point, I fully expect that -- within the hour -- CNN will announce that Martians planted the bombs in Boston. VERIFY FACTS! ATTRIBUTE SOURCES! NO BLIND

[TV orNotTV] The English Premier League is coming to NBC

2013-04-17 Thread Tom Wolper
Starting August all 380 games of the EPL season will be broadcast on NBC channels. That breaks down to 20 on NBC, 154 on NBC Sports, 76 on Telemundo or Mun2 (in Spanish), and 22 on other channels. The other games will be part of Premier League Extra Time, a package of overflow channels made

Re: [TV orNotTV] The English Premier League is coming to NBC

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
This was announced in October: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tvornottv/C4W-0xLREjI/discussion On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote: Starting August all 380 games of the EPL season will be broadcast on NBC channels. That breaks down to 20 on NBC, 154 on NBC

Re: [TV orNotTV] The English Premier League is coming to NBC

2013-04-17 Thread Adam Bowie
Although to be fair, the exact details of how the games will be broadcast, and the announcing teams and general presentation has only just been announced. It's worth noting that NBC's special contributor, Gary Lineker, is the main sports presenter on the BBC. He presents Match of the Day the

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
Here, for those scoring at home (or even if you're by yourself) is how everyone netted out: http://jimromenesko.typepad.com/my-blog/2013/04/the-latest-from-chartgirl.html On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Kevin M.

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin M.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: Here, for those scoring at home (or even if you're by yourself) is how everyone netted out: http://jimromenesko.typepad.com/my-blog/2013/04/the-latest-from-chartgirl.html Semi-related question: Does anybody know whether

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
In the current environment, it is perfectly acceptable to report that another outlet is reporting something, provided you identify that outlet. That said, it's spectacularly lazy and I would ask the editors who make that decision if they're willing to accept another editor's opinion without the

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Trevor Tymchuk
Or Andy Borowitz, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/04/no-information-found-on-cnn.htmlhttp://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/04/no-information-found-on-cnn.html?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(108) On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin M.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: In the current environment, it is perfectly acceptable to report that another outlet is reporting something, provided you identify that outlet. That said, it's spectacularly lazy and I would ask the editors who make that

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread PGage
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: Not only did the New York Yankees play Sweet Caroline after the third in their game against Arizona (as a few Major League Baseball parks did yesterday) in a show of support for the city, and not only did they create and

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 5:42 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: I was not a fan of a lot of the made-for-tv sports moments that sprung up after 9-11, but the playing of Caroline, especially at Yankee Stadium, really was cool, and sent a little tingle up my spine. And kudos to whomever was

[TV orNotTV] Re: The English Premier League is coming to NBC

2013-04-17 Thread Bob in Jersey
Tom Wolper, in part: The other games will be part of Premier League Extra Time, a package of overflow channels made available to cable systems who carry NBC Sports. They might be available, but that won't mean they'll be carried. (See BTN's extra football channels, and NBC's extra Olympics

[TV orNotTV] NotTV: For our NY viewers...

2013-04-17 Thread Bob in Jersey
IYC, go down to the Village and see if you can still scam records off the now-closed Bleecker Bob's. Billboard.bizhttp://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/retail/1558301/bleecker-bobs-new-yorks-iconic-record-store-closes -- BOB -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread Bob in Jersey
PGage, to Joe Hass, in part: I was not a fan of a lot of the made-for-tv sports moments that sprung up after 9-11, but the playing of Caroline, especially at Yankee Stadium, really was cool, and sent a little tingle up my spine. I still have not forgiven the Yanks for the inane 2009

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread David Bruggeman
I tend to think of the mass incorporation of GBA into most sporting events as evidence that the terrorists won.  Then I remember I don't have to sing. David From: Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 17,

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Apr 17, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote: I still have not forgiven the Yanks for the inane 2009 policy of forcing respect of God Bless America, which famously led to a local's legal action. The incident that I believe you're referring to occurred in 2008 at the now-demolished

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread Joe Hass
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tvwrote: On Apr 17, 2013, at 6:54 PM, David Bruggeman wrote: I tend to think of the mass incorporation of GBA into most sporting events as evidence that the terrorists won. Then I remember I don't have to sing. You don't

Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: The Apocalypse Is Nigh

2013-04-17 Thread Jim Ellwanger
On Apr 17, 2013, at 7:20 PM, Joe Hass wrote: Most clubs play it in the seventh-inning stretch, but the Cubs play it before the anthem on those days to keep Take Me Out To The Ballgame. Or, rather, their particular method of presenting Take Me Out to the Ballgame -- other ballparks will

Re: [TV orNotTV] LiveTV: Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish

2013-04-17 Thread Bob in Jersey
Kevin M, to Joe Hass, in part: Semi-related question: Does anybody know whether Matthew Keys (the Reuters social media guy, basically their online spokesperson) is still on suspension after his alleged ties to Anonymous? Because he still lists himself as working for Reuters on his

[TV orNotTV] Fox no longer hot for Cleveland?

2013-04-17 Thread Brad Beam
Given lead times for animation production, an immediate fifth season is unlikely -- although the possibility of a Family Guy-like resurrection is always possible. http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/04/17/is-cleveland-show-cancelled/ _ _ |_|_ Brad Beam- Belle WV |_|_ http://www.facebook.com/74bmw

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox no longer hot for Cleveland?

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin M.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Brad Beam b.b...@suddenlink.net wrote: Given lead times for animation production, an immediate fifth season is unlikely -- although the possibility of a Family Guy-like resurrection is always possible.

[TV orNotTV] CBS unclear on definition of Breaking News?

2013-04-17 Thread David Bruggeman
So the network breaks in near the end of Craig tonight to report on the Texas explosion.  The report gave just the basics (including some video of the blast), including the time of the explosion - sometime in the 8 pm hour (Eastern). So, did someone decide to repeat the Special Report -

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBS unclear on definition of Breaking News?

2013-04-17 Thread Kevin M.
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:37 PM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote: So the network breaks in near the end of Craig tonight to report on the Texas explosion. The report gave just the basics (including some video of the blast), including the time of the explosion - sometime in the 8 pm