Re: [TV orNotTV] Oh Sweet Jesus - Allen Bids for Paramount Global

[PGage]

William Cohan of Puck News has made the perhaps obvious but devastating
case against the Byron Allen offer for PG being serious, for multiple
reasons, amounting to Allen does. To have the money himself to make it
happen, and is suspiciously cryptic about who would be insane enough to
lend him that much money to buy a troubled and debt ridden company when he
himself is floating in debt already, and his creditors estimate a 50%
probability he will default on that.

Some think Allen is banking on liberal regulators at the FCC wanting to
promote Black ownership in Big Media; Cohan does not speculate, but I doubt
even Allen is silly enough to be making that bet. More likely he is using
the splashy offer to generate buzz for himself, and perhaps enough marginal
increase in credibility to pull off some other deal that might allow him at
save his company.

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On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 at 9:51 PM M-D November  wrote:

> Media Poochie strikes again. $30 Billion.
>
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> https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/byron-allen-paramount-global-allen-media-group-1235892590/
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[TV orNotTV] "Lopez v Lopez" not waiting for summer

['Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV]

George and daughter to return April 2nd with *bahck-to-bahck* laughs... 
announced guest stars include usually-animal-wielding comic Gabriel 
Iglesias and recently retired NFL star Marshawn Lynch...
https://deadline.com/2024/02/nbc-lopez-vs-lopez-season-2-premiere-1235812845/
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Guy Fired From 'SNL' to Guest Host 'SNL'--Wha?

[Kevin M.]

Lorne Michaels … not the worst aspect of what remains of NBC, but so close
to the worst that it really doesn’t matter who is the worst

Kevin M. (RPCV)


On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 1:16 PM Mark Jeffries  wrote:

> I meant 2019.  Of course he didn't replace Akroyd.
>
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> On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 12:05 PM Mark Jeffries 
> wrote:
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>> Shane Gillis was hired by "SNL" in 1979 to join the cast--a week later,
>> discovery of episodes of his podcast where he made racist and homophobic
>> remarks caused him to be fired before he got on the air--he will host the
>> next live episode on Feb. 24--WTF, Lorne?:
>>
>> https://www.thewrap.com/shane-gillis-hosting-snl/
>>
>> I'm not going to mention the angry tweets also mentioning Nikki Haley's
>> cameo last night (and supposedly Dave Chapelle appearing during the
>> goodbyes last week), since "SNL" has always done that sort of thing (there
>> are some who still blame Lorne giving Trump a guest host gig for making him
>> president, although full blame should be to Mark Burnett for hiring him for
>> "The Apprentice" and making him a thing again long after Spy magazine went
>> out of business).
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Guy Fired From 'SNL' to Guest Host 'SNL'--Wha?

[Mark Jeffries]

I meant 2019.  Of course he didn't replace Akroyd.

Mark Jeffries
Saints Spotlight Editor
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On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 12:05 PM Mark Jeffries  wrote:

> Shane Gillis was hired by "SNL" in 1979 to join the cast--a week later,
> discovery of episodes of his podcast where he made racist and homophobic
> remarks caused him to be fired before he got on the air--he will host the
> next live episode on Feb. 24--WTF, Lorne?:
>
> https://www.thewrap.com/shane-gillis-hosting-snl/
>
> I'm not going to mention the angry tweets also mentioning Nikki Haley's
> cameo last night (and supposedly Dave Chapelle appearing during the
> goodbyes last week), since "SNL" has always done that sort of thing (there
> are some who still blame Lorne giving Trump a guest host gig for making him
> president, although full blame should be to Mark Burnett for hiring him for
> "The Apprentice" and making him a thing again long after Spy magazine went
> out of business).
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Re: [TV orNotTV] Amazon Prime Starting Ads on Jan. 29

[Marti Lawrence]

We have been streaming some older programs on Prime, and sadly, they have 
the ads roughly halfway through.  Sometimes it was only 30 seconds, but 
then it got to where it said, "Ad 1 of 2" and there was a countdown clock 
showing how many seconds were left of the minute or so of commercials. 
We found it distracting enough to grudgingly pay the extra money for 
ad-free. 

~Marti

On Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 12:49:00 AM UTC-6 PGage wrote:

> That’s good to know. If I start running into in-episode ads I will go 
> ad-free.
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> On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 at 5:45 PM Jim Ellwanger  wrote:
>
>> “Hazbin Hotel” actually had no preroll ads, but did have one 15-second ad 
>> in the middle of each episode (at a natural-ish break point). I wonder if 
>> Amazon is doing some A/B testing on ad placement.
>>
>>
>> On Feb 3, 2024, at 3:33 PM, PGage  wrote:
>>
>> As promised, ads started this week on Amazon. I started and finished “Mr 
>> and Mrs Smith over last few days (2 thumbs up, so much better than the 
>> movie) and found the ads to be just this side of tolerable. They do not 
>> interrupt the program, and there is only 1 or 2 of them at the start of 
>> each episode, mostly (not only) for Amazon stuff, nothing too obnoxious. 
>>
>> It may get worse, as I am prepared for them to try to slowly increase the 
>> number of ad minutes, but for now will probably continue to save the 
>> $4/month. 
>>
>> It does rob the viewer of one of the main pleasures of streaming, for me 
>> anyway, which is to go directly into the next episode without interruption. 
>> I wonder if there is less marathoning with ad supported streaming?
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[TV orNotTV] Guy Fired From 'SNL' to Guest Host 'SNL'--Wha?

[Mark Jeffries]

Shane Gillis was hired by "SNL" in 1979 to join the cast--a week later, 
discovery of episodes of his podcast where he made racist and homophobic 
remarks caused him to be fired before he got on the air--he will host the 
next live episode on Feb. 24--WTF, Lorne?:

https://www.thewrap.com/shane-gillis-hosting-snl/

I'm not going to mention the angry tweets also mentioning Nikki Haley's 
cameo last night (and supposedly Dave Chapelle appearing during the 
goodbyes last week), since "SNL" has always done that sort of thing (there 
are some who still blame Lorne giving Trump a guest host gig for making him 
president, although full blame should be to Mark Burnett for hiring him for 
"The Apprentice" and making him a thing again long after Spy magazine went 
out of business).

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