[TV orNotTV] Oh crumbs! Danger Mouse to return as CGI 3D show
Britain's *Guardian* http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/04/danger-mouse-remake-characters-male-female (link), back on 17 June: FremantleMedia, current owner of the property, and BBC will unveil new adventures of the secret agent and daffy assistant Penfold on CBBC next year... original co-creator Brian Cosgrove is a consultant... Same paper, http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/04/danger-mouse-remake-characters-male-female (link) Friday: As part of a larger effort to incorporate female participants into kids' shows, the channel's leader suggested that at least some of DM's enemies would be distaff in the new series... B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] The HIMYM Finale (Spoiler-free)
I would argue that they could've pulled off the ending (Mom dead, Ted to Robin) to far less scorn had they structured that final season differently. By making it all about Barney and Robin's wedding, they minimized Milioti and focused on that as a red herring. The show has never had a problem dealing with surprise death. But by spending so much of season nine on something that was so irrelevant to the ending they planned on, fans felt this was a bridge too far. On Jul 8, 2014 3:48 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: I get what you're saying. The show that *immediately* popped into my head after you mentioned the difference between binge watching and traditional watching was Friends. I wonder how a binge viewer would react to the final three seasons of that show (everything after Rachel is pregnant and Chandler and Monica's wedding), which to me was borderline unwatchable. Rereading the thread, I saw I didn't add either of Alan Sepinwall's reviews: http://m.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/series-finale-review-how-i-met-your-mother-last-forever-how-they-conned-us-all http://m.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/the-how-i-met-your-mother-finale-revisited-how-i-regret-the-mother I think those two items are the definitive takes from the disapprove camp. Interesting. I pretty much absolutely and totally disagree with everything the Sepinwall writes in the first linked review (have not read the second one) - except that of course I agree about how great and perfect Milioti was in that role. One way in which I seem to differ from most of what I have read from fans and critics of this show over the last 12 hours or so is that so many people seem to have really loved the Robin character. I found her by far to be the least interesting and compelling of the 5 main characters, and at no time did I really want Ted to wind up with her. I liked her best when she was with Barney, and one of my two main disappointments was the ending was that they did not stay together - either in or some kind of modern post-marriage relationship. [And now comes the most explicit of spoilers, just in case] Of course I respect the views of those who loved the show and hated the ending, but I can't help suspecting that this is a function of hating the fact that people we love often (make that always) die. This is perfectly captured in this quote from the Sepinwall article above: the two of them (Thomas and Bays) had actually gone through with this horrible, horrible plan for the Mother to be dead in 2030 If you fall in love with someone when you are 35, and they die 16 years later, when you are 51, that would be horrible (horrible), but it would hardly be unusual or implausible. I don't understand how a show about love and relationships can be accused of giving the middle finger to its fans because it is revealed that the character who most wanted to be in love with The One, did fall in love, and lived happily for 16 years with her, until she died - unless what is really meant is that fans (human beings) are accusing God (not the writers of the sitcom) of giving all of us a fuck you for ending the tragic and comic stories of all of our lives in death. That I understand. I wonder if people would have been as pissed if mother had died in the same way, but Ted had not gotten back together with Robin? Is part of the anger that it feels like Ted is betraying Mother, who we were led to believe was the love of his life? But then, it seems like a lot of what I have read is that fans wanted Ted and Robin to get together all along (I did not). I found this ending satisfying thematically - it resolves the opposing positions of Barney's cynical hedonism on the one hand and Ted's romantic idealism on the other. No, there is not just a single The One that we are destined to love and grow old with - there is an array of possible Ones, some of which are actualized by come combination of our choice and blind luck. Ted's kids know this, and give him permission to find another One; the fans of the show were less able than Ted to listen to those kids. For me the main miss in that finale was the call back to the blue horn, which was too pat and too predictable for the show. I was expecting some kind of twist on that - some kind of wry or knowing comment on how the love of mature old friends who have been through so much is likely (if they are lucky) to be much different than the love of callow youth. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message
[TV orNotTV] So long, Dick(ie) Jones
Before and after the one role he's best known for but was of course never seen in, voicing Disney's original *Pinocchio*, he racked up a stack of kid and young man roles in Western, wartime, and other action-packed movies and TV series, e.g. the leader of the other, tougher group that antagonized the *Our Gang* kids (after Tommy Bond started getting better jobs), a teenage pre-Mark-Twain-books Sam Clemens, Buffalo Bill, jnr., and Dick West, the Range Rider. From a fall in his home in The Valley; 87. People http://www.people.com/article/dick-jones-voice-pinocchio-dies-walt-disney?xid=rss-fullcontent (link) B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[TV orNotTV] Re: Comic-Con TV lineup
This TheWrap page http://www.thewrap.com/comic-con-2014-the-tv-schedule-so-far/?utm_source=newsletterutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=contactology also promises updates. (link) B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[TV orNotTV] Letterman's taking more of a fancy to his musical guests
Esquire has this piece referencing examples from the last few months. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/david-letteman-bands I'm sure Donz could provide earlier examples, but Dave taking a shine to the band seemed to be a noticeable thing since at least 2010, with The Heavy and their soon-to-be-ubiquitous tune How You Like Me Now? David -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] NoTV: SXM Breaks Up Opie Anthony
I started listening to OA a few weeks ago during my one hour commute. I don't listen for the full hour, as with most sxm incessant rambling, I can't handle it that long.I've been away from sxm all week, but I'm not sad to see one of these guys go. The third guy Jim is more entertaining than the other two. I've read the guys tweets and I would have fired him too , given his role and job. On July 4, 2014 11:42:48 AM EDT, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote: Sirius XM has fired Anthony Cumia of the shock jock team with their own SXM channel after some seemingly-racist remarks made on Twitter after an African-American woman objected to him taking her photo in Times Square: http://www.thewrap.com/anthony-cumia-opie-fired-siriusxm/?utm_source=newsletterutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=contactology Cumia says that he will discuss the truth on his Compound streaming video podcast next week in a tweet that included f--k Sirius. Opie Anthony were hired by XM after WNEW-FM in New York fired them in 2002 over a stunt where a couple participating in a contest were having faux sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral with their encouragement. When Sirius and XM merged in 2008, they were given an obvious secondary status behind Howard Stern on the service's personality lineup in the shock jock category, something that they seem to have accepted until now. No indication yet from anyone if Gregg Opie Hughes will continue by himself or with a new partner--The Opie Anthony Channel is still on SXM's listings as channel 206. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] Comic-Con TV lineup
Did a quick check - it doesn't look like any of the former G4 air staff still work for NBCU. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] Comic-Con TV lineup
M-D November, to moi: Did a quick check - it doesn't look like any of the former G4 air staff still work for NBCU. Tragic. They could have taught plenty to those from E!, Bravo, Esquire et al. Still, it's not like they haven't seen anybody involved before. B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] Letterman's taking more of a fancy to his musical guests
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:41 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV tvornottv@googlegroups.com wrote: Esquire has this piece referencing examples from the last few months. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/david-letteman-bands I'm sure Donz could provide earlier examples, but Dave taking a shine to the band seemed to be a noticeable thing since at least 2010, with The Heavy and their soon-to-be-ubiquitous tune How You Like Me Now? I love this article, and I remember several of the examples he cites clearly. I am not above fast forwarding to the end of a song by a group I am not familiar with just to see how Dave reacts - if he is in to it I will go back and listen to the whole thing. Your header implies that this is relatively new for Dave, but I don't think the article suggests that, and I don't think it has been characteristic of him all along. He likes good music, preferably pretty hard rock, though he can be eclectic. We know he always likes performers who leave it all out on the stage. One thing that is rather new with Dave is how he acts around young women. Those Haim babes all wanted full body hugs, and while the lead singer got hers and more, the other two got than hand shake; I think an earlier Dave would have been happy to oblige, but post-extortion Dave has been pretty careful to stop hugging young women, or any women that he does not already know pretty well. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] Letterman's taking more of a fancy to his musical guests
I, to this day, am still pissed I did not rip and save the unedited version of How You Like Me Now (where they showed the entire encore without the break). On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:41 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV tvornottv@googlegroups.com wrote: Esquire has this piece referencing examples from the last few months. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/david-letteman-bands I'm sure Donz could provide earlier examples, but Dave taking a shine to the band seemed to be a noticeable thing since at least 2010, with The Heavy and their soon-to-be-ubiquitous tune How You Like Me Now? David -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] Letterman's taking more of a fancy to his musical guests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RARp3IFJEz4 On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: I, to this day, am still pissed I did not rip and save the unedited version of How You Like Me Now (where they showed the entire encore without the break). On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 8:41 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV tvornottv@googlegroups.com wrote: Esquire has this piece referencing examples from the last few months. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/david-letteman-bands I'm sure Donz could provide earlier examples, but Dave taking a shine to the band seemed to be a noticeable thing since at least 2010, with The Heavy and their soon-to-be-ubiquitous tune How You Like Me Now? David -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
