Re: [TV orNotTV] Minhaj Does Inside Rips in Spirit Awards Monologue

2023-03-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
DAH da dah!). Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 7:31 AM Jon Delfin wrote: > [regrettable point of order: "Baroness Von Sketch Show" is in the > rear-view mirror after five seasons] > > On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 8:27 AM Mark Jeffries > wrote: &g

[TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Right Wing News Sources: Nothing to See Here...

2023-03-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
Only four of the most visited conservative news websites--the National Review, Salem Media's Townhall, the Federalist and Breitbart--have posted stories from their own staffers regarding various Fox News people calling the election conspiracy theorists "crazy"--only four others (including FNC

[TV orNotTV] Harmon Cartoon Renewed for 3rd Season on Fox Despite Not Aired Yet

2023-03-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
"Krapopolis," Dan Harmon's animated comedy set in ancient Greece, will premiere on Fox sometime during the 2023-24 season--but it's been renewed for a THIRD season, proving that the farce over in the news department over those Dominion recordings isn't the only craziness at Rupert's joint:

[TV orNotTV] Lilith is Back with 'Frasier' Reboot

2023-03-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
Bebe Neuwirth becomes the first "Cheers" or "Frasier" cast member outside of Kelsey Grammer to commit to the reboot of "Frasier" for Paramount+, and of course she'll be playing Frasier's icy ex Lilith Sternin Crane:

[TV orNotTV] SortaNoTV: Eat Nicole Kidman's Favorite Popcorn at Home

2023-02-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
AMC Theatres' long-threatened scheme to sell its "Perfectly Popcorn" at retail becomes real at Walmart Mar. 11, just in time for Oscar parties--$3.98 for a big ready-to-eat bag, $4.98 for a six-pack of microwave popcorn, both in lightly-salted, "Classic Butter" or extra butter:

[TV orNotTV] The Show That Should've Been a Hit

2023-02-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
In 2009, NBC tried to bring Prestige TV to OTA network television, in "KIngs," a big, sprawling, complicated, expensive, challenging drama with BIblical themes set in modern times. It was a longshot, but it may've made it--if not for Jeff Zucker. This is its oral history:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Corden's farewell to include Tom Cruise

2023-02-27 Thread Mark Jeffries
Did CBS give Letterman or Craigy Ferg prime time sendoffs? Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 11:42 AM M-D November wrote: > Re: Corden - How can we not miss him if he won't go the f**k away? > > On Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 9:17:08 AM UTC-5 Bob Jer

Re: [TV orNotTV] Obscure Aged Brit Actor Quits BAFTA Over Awards

2023-02-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
I plead ignorance, sir. Thank you for setting things straight, especially since I didn't see the telecast because I don't subscribe to BritBox. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 12:55 PM Adam Bowie wrote: > I'm going support Phil Davis on this one. > >

[TV orNotTV] 'Y' Writers Bloodbath

2023-02-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
As a cost-cutting move and a possible workaround if there is a WGA strike, "The Young and the Restless" showrunner Josh Griffith has fired the entire "breakdown" staff of writers, who take the general storyline directions from Griffith and his assistants and set up the structure of the daily

[TV orNotTV] Obscure Aged Brit Actor Quits BAFTA Over Awards

2023-02-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
While most of the controversy over this year's BAFTA awards (seen in the U.S. on BritBox) was another instance of #BAFTASoWhite when it came to the winners, 69-year-old Phil Davis, an actor with several notable credits but nothing that stands out, sent an angry tweet stating that because of

[TV orNotTV] Ted Lasso's Boss Co-Hosting Eurovision

2023-02-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
Hannah Waddingham, the West End musical star who is now known internationally thanks to "Ted Lasso," will be hosting the annual song contest live from Liverpool on May 9, 11 and 13, joined by Brit singer Alesha Dixon and Ukrainian singer Julia Sanina (the Ukraine won last year and would be the

[TV orNotTV] HBO Max Leaves 'South Side'

2023-02-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
The sitcom about two fledgling Black entrepreneurs on Chicago's south side was one of three Comedy Central live action series that then-Viacom sold to HBO Max after their first seasons as part of cutting down the original programming slate to animated series shared with Paramount+, "TDS" and

[TV orNotTV] Re: It's far from May, but CBS renews nine series

2023-02-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
And one of them is "Lingo," which has wasted the numbers of the lead-in of "The Price is Right at Night" every week that it had that lead-in. Seems to me that RuPaul owes Drew Carey a steak dinner at Morton's and that CBS and Fremantle should be talking about making the "Price" prime time

Re: [TV orNotTV] Coming soon to the CW? Live sports

2023-02-21 Thread Mark Jeffries
And WGN in Chicago is one of them (Weigel's WCIU is the affil). I'll be curious if this is the signal that the full CW affiliation will move back in the fall to Chicago's Very Own, a Nexstar station. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 6:51 PM Brad Beam wrote

[TV orNotTV] NoTV: 'Takeaway' Being Taken Away

2023-02-21 Thread Mark Jeffries
Begun in 2008 as part of a major effort to make public radio audiences younger (along with NPR's flop "The Bryant Park Project"), the daily news program from NY's WNYC, Boston's WGBH and Public Radio International (now the Public Radio Exchange) started out as a slicker-sounding,

[TV orNotTV] Netflix Kicks Out the Bluths

2023-02-14 Thread Mark Jeffries
"Arrested Development" will be off the Service as of Mar. 15--and that includes the two seasons made for Netflix--they say that the license agreement with Disney (what was originally 20th-Century Fox) runs out then and that they aren't renewing:

[TV orNotTV] Super de Dooper! Barney's Back

2023-02-14 Thread Mark Jeffries
The costumed purple dinosaur who at his height on PBS in the 90s was considered, probably depending on your politics, either a positive influence on children or a fascist dictator of his on-camera little buddies (which included a young Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez), or in a calmer sense, not

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox SB-pregame chat with Biden up in the air

2023-02-11 Thread Mark Jeffries
Price is Right" and "Deal or No Deal" model (and, to be honest, a former Real Housewife--and that would be Claudia Jordan). Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 10:31 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > This i

Re: [TV orNotTV] late late night news

2023-02-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
And Funny or Die produced that pickleball special with Colbert. It all comes around eventually. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 1:17 PM M-D November wrote: > Hardwick sold Nerdist Industries to Legendary Entertainment about a decade > ago, and he stepped dow

[TV orNotTV] HBO Avoids Big Game, Drops 'Last of Us' on Fri.

2023-02-07 Thread Mark Jeffries
Episode 5 of the highly-viewed series will still air on linear HBO on Sunday night, but those planning to watch the Super Bowl instead will be able to watch the episode starting Friday morning on HBO's VOD and HBO Max:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Chappelle Wins Grammy for Trans-Bashing Show

2023-02-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
And I forgot to mention that there are some who might be relieved that Chappelle beat Louis C.K. in the category. On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 9:33 AM Mark Jeffries wrote: > Dave Chappelle won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album last night for the > soundtrack to his 2021 Netflix show "

[TV orNotTV] Chappelle Wins Grammy for Trans-Bashing Show

2023-02-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
Dave Chappelle won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album last night for the soundtrack to his 2021 Netflix show "The Closer," which contained a lot of what was considered attacks on transgendered people, caused picketing and trans Netflix employees quitting their jobs--and gave Chappelle a contract

Re: [TV orNotTV] Nexstar Sends CDub Scripted Execs Packing

2023-02-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
r one hour of daytime programming, they may not be that interested in the net now. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 1:19 PM Brad Beam wrote: > Yeah, I meant to qualify it as an ownership group the size of Nexstar. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Feb 3, 2

[TV orNotTV] 'Traitors' Gets Second Season at Peacock

2023-02-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
The first reality comp in some time to get any sort of traction (as can be figured out since the streamers won't give out numbers) will have its second season of antics in a Scottish castle with your Scottish ham host Alan Cumming. In addition, Peacock will drop a reunion show of the first

[TV orNotTV] Nexstar Sends CDub Scripted Execs Packing

2023-02-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
As further proof that the "Dare to Defy" era is over at the CW, along with the new head of DC Films saying that the Arrowverse of Greg Berlanti is kaput in his presentation of Phase 1 of the new DCCU and the net hiring an unscripted programming chief for the first time from NBC's cable division

[TV orNotTV] Germans Like Netflix 'All Quiet' Remake? Nein

2023-02-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
A typically contrarian Slate article says that German critics have not joined their film industry in their love for Netflix's much-Oscar-nominated remake of "All Quiet on the Western Front," one critic saying that it is the "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" of war films:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Next season on........................................ Survivor...

2023-01-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
A month from manana (it's still "Price is Right at Night," "Lingo" and "Tough as Nails" tomorrow). Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 1:54 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Here's the 18 folks t

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Colbert’s long IP nightmare over?

2023-01-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
character (the topic was the police murder in Tennessee, something that cutesy animation would not jibe with)--and do they cue the audience to boo whenever a picture of a MAGAt appears? Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:02 AM Paul Murray wrote: > I seem to recal

[TV orNotTV] Original Wednesday Addams Dead at 64

2023-01-30 Thread Mark Jeffries
Lisa Loring played the Addams' daughter in the original 60s series at the age of 5 1/2 (memorizing lines before she could read) and then appeared with most of the original cast in the 1977 made-for "Halloween With the New Addams Family"--after the original show ended its run, she went on to the

[TV orNotTV] Colbert Attacked for 'Toxic Masculinity' Jokes in Proud Boys Bit

2023-01-29 Thread Mark Jeffries
On Tuesday night's show, Colbert talked about the trial several members of the neo-fascist group are involved in and the fact that their adopted anthem is "Proud to Be Your Boy" from the stage version of Disney's "Aladdin" and snickered at a clip from the show featuring cast member Adam Jacobs

[TV orNotTV] DirecTV Squashes Rightwing Bitching Over Newsmax with New Right Channel

2023-01-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
After many of the right including Trump whined over the satellite service dumping Newsmax when they demanded that the channel pay a carriage fee, they've announced that they're picking up The First, the channel that started a few years ago on Pluto TV that features gun nut Dana Loesch

[TV orNotTV] Animation Domination OG Set for Two More Years at Fox

2023-01-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
Despite dropping ratings, fan contempt for what some of the shows have become and the network not owning the shows anymore that have made a combined 1,400 episodes, Fox is signing on the dotted line for two more years of "The Simpsons," "Family Guy" and "Bob's Burgers" from Disney's 20th for

Re: [TV orNotTV] IYC: Oscar nominations

2023-01-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
Well, here's where you can see the Best Picture nominees in the US right now: ALL QUIET--Netfilx AVATAR 2--theaters, IMAX preferred--coming to both HBO Max and Disney+ BANSHEES--HBO Max ELVIS--HBO Max EVERYTHING--Showtime, which does stream for cord-cutters FABELMANS--Theaters and PPV, will

Re: [TV orNotTV] IYC: Oscar nominations

2023-01-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
from Pixar--had their initial wide release on streaming. You can look up the short subject nominees yourself. And yeah--Bitch Slapper Willie didn't get nominated. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 8:09 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com

Re: [TV orNotTV] Coming soon to the CW? Live sports

2023-01-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
and reruns of "Seventh Heaven." Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:30 AM M-D November wrote: > I'm going to assume it's a clearance issue, or that Nexstar assumes that > the normal syndicated daytime programming will still score better ratings > than

Re: [TV orNotTV] Coming soon to the CW? Live sports

2023-01-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
And as Lesley Goldberg indicated in the link, the "Dare to Defy" era is over at the C-Dub and they're going after the older audiences on the smaller network stations that watch the talk shows and reruns. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:34 AM Adam Bo

Re: [TV orNotTV] They'll really like her again

2023-01-18 Thread Mark Jeffries
Oh yeah. It still seems like Netflix wants the Rock show to be their first livestream, which it would not be if the SAG awards this year are streamed there. Mark Jeffries On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 8:35 PM Jim Ellwanger wrote: > They must have come to SOME terms, since they're specifica

Re: [TV orNotTV] They'll really like her again

2023-01-18 Thread Mark Jeffries
Next year, they'll be on Netflix. The Service and SAG-AFTRA couldn't come to terms in time--and besides, I believe Netflix wants the Chris Rock concert in March to be their first livestream. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 4:11 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV

Re: [TV orNotTV] CNN may turn to comedy during 9 to midnight period

2023-01-18 Thread Mark Jeffries
on CNN in prime time than a standup comic. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 3:56 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Guess straight news ain't workin' out that well for Licht... > > > https://www.semafor.com/article/0

[TV orNotTV] NoTV: Hackers Hit Jesus Music Radio Net FB Page

2023-01-12 Thread Mark Jeffries
The Facebook pages of Educational Media Foundation, owners of "positive, encouraging" contemporary Christian music radio network K-Love, have seemingly been taken over since Dec. 26 by hackers who have posted what can be described as less than Christian---EMF says that it's trying to regain

[TV orNotTV] CW's New Owners Renew 'All-American'

2023-01-12 Thread Mark Jeffries
The high school football drama will be back for its sixth season on the network transitioning to its new owners Nexstar, probably because the Greg Berlanti-produced show doesn't need the special effects that his Arrowverse shows require, but it is still interesting that the first renewal order

Re: [TV orNotTV] golden globes 2023

2023-01-12 Thread Mark Jeffries
UTC-6 Tom Wolper wrote: > It’s available for replay on the app. If someone gives me a time mark I’d > watch a few minutes to see. I have no interest in watching any more of it. > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 2:33 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > >> And makes me wonder what Peacock'

Re: [TV orNotTV] golden globes 2023

2023-01-12 Thread Mark Jeffries
And makes me wonder what Peacock's feed sounded like. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 10:44 PM Doug Eastick wrote: > I'm not sure what the USA feed was like, but the Canadian feed (on > City-TV) was not bleeped or muted for any of the curses. > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] IsThisStillOnTV? "Romeo and Juliet" from '68 flick sue Paramount for >$100M

2023-01-07 Thread Mark Jeffries
It's on several VOD platforms. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 9:51 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, teens during filming, now both in their > 70s, claim Franco Zeffirelli ordere

Re: [TV orNotTV] How ESPN Covered MNF Medical Emergency

2023-01-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
in the fourth quarter. He did come to and is currently in the hospital, but the game continued, even though LSU was leading 56-7, a blowout: https://saturdaytradition.com/purdue-football/deion-burks-purdue-wr-carted-off-the-field-following-scary-citrus-bowl-injury/ Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com

Re: [TV orNotTV] Mini review: The Wheel

2022-12-30 Thread Mark Jeffries
he old days this was a "dark week" where ratings weren't taken and the networks dumped all of their news documentaries and cultural shows like, uh, the Kennedy Center Honors on the week's schedule.) The overnights aren't out yet, so for now we can't check this. Mark Jeffries spotligh..

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Maggie Thrett

2022-12-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
After listening to "Soupy," I think it does have something to do with Mr. Sales (as Wally Bruner called him on "What's My Line?" when he was in his John Daly mode). At that time, he had a daily show on what was WNEW in New York (and was syndicated) and had a hit record called "The Mouse," another

Re: [TV orNotTV] SortaNoTV: Sausage Roll Boy Beats Beatles for Most UK Xmas No. 1s

2022-12-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
t; in 1996, "Too Much" in 1997 and the aptly-named last hit "Goodbye" in 1998). All of which left in the dust now by Sausage Rolls Boy. On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 3:34 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > For the fifth consecutive year, "LadBaby," the nom de YouTube for Mark a

[TV orNotTV] SortaNoTV: Sausage Roll Boy Beats Beatles for Most UK Xmas No. 1s

2022-12-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
For the fifth consecutive year, "LadBaby," the nom de YouTube for Mark and Roxanne Hoyle, have won the coveted Christmas No. 1 single in the UK for another parody song for charity about sausage rolls. "Food Aid," a parody of the original charity Christmas record "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

[TV orNotTV] NFL Sunday Ticket to YouTube

2022-12-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
The Google division is shelling out $8B for the rights to the out-of-market games package to the Internet's most-watched streamer--it'll be available starting next season as an add-on to the faux cable package YouTube TV or from the recently-introduced YouTube Primetime Channels, from which you

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Jim Gardner is retiring

2022-12-21 Thread Mark Jeffries
ardner may be on this one as well to represent Action News. As long as they play the theme song. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 8:25 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Not sure about availability outside the Philly DMA,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Mini review: The Wheel

2022-12-21 Thread Mark Jeffries
rom my iPad > > On Dec 20, 2022, at 1:21 PM, M-D November wrote: > > Nikki's fine until she opens her mouth and you remember that one of her > major weaknesses in WWE was her total inability to cut a promo worth half a > damn. You'd think the time she'd have picked SOMETHING up f

[TV orNotTV] Emmys Try to Avoid Gang Nominations for Series, Redefine Variety Categories

2022-12-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
The Television Academy has changed the policy allowing members to make unlimited nominations for a program in each category, making them limited to the number of nominations per categ(usually five), in an attempt to keep one show from dominating the acting categories as "White Lotus" and

Re: [TV orNotTV] Mini review: The Wheel

2022-12-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
It's stupid in a harmless way. And if you like mammary glands there's Nikki Bella. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 10:35 PM 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Kornacki also appears on "Football Night in America&quo

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jeremy Clarkson "horrified" at pushback to his Meghan Markle tirade

2022-12-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
And nothing, I guess, from Sony or ITV, for which he does the reboot of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 4:01 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > In a Friday column in Britai

[TV orNotTV] 'Mr. Cooper' Star Gets Bum Rush from Hotel He's Staying In

2022-12-15 Thread Mark Jeffries
Mark Curry, still best-known for the sitcom "Hanging with Mr. Cooper," was doing a standup gig in the conservative community Colorado Springs, Colo. (I should know--my parents lived out the rest of their lives in that town) and staying at the Wyndham Hotel there, was hanging out in the hotel

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: THR "TV's Top 5" podcast: "Minx" creator Ellen Rapoport on feminism, comedy...

2022-12-15 Thread Mark Jeffries
I would guess that "Curb" would be safe. In the case of "Larry Sanders," Sony owns the show and if WBD ever lets the license run out, they'll sell it to another pay streamer. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 12:51 AM PGage wrote: &g

[TV orNotTV] Ellen's Sidekick 'tWitch' Dies at 40

2022-12-14 Thread Mark Jeffries
Stephen "tWitch" Boss (whose nickname came from his hyperactivity as a baby) first gained notoriety as a contestant on "So You Think You Can Dance," later appearing on the show as an "All-Star," choreographer and panelist. Where most people know him is from the eight years he spent as Ellen

Re: [TV orNotTV] Next Tony Awards trying a different (but still NY) theater

2022-12-14 Thread Mark Jeffries
For quite a few years the United Palace was the home base of the flamboyant "prosperity gospel" evangelist Rev. Ike ("You can't lose with the stuff I use!"). On Wed, Dec 14, 2022, 9:33 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > No, not the Ed... the multi-purpose United

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: THR "TV's Top 5" podcast: "Minx" creator Ellen Rapoport on feminism, comedy...

2022-12-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
The way things are going, I'm wondering that if Sky and the ABC Australia make a third season of "Frayed," it'll end up on HBO Max. For me, this is in hopes that a third season will give a substantive plot line to Kerry Armstrong's character, because she deserves it. Mark Jeffrie

[TV orNotTV] Daddy Zaslav Sends Two of His Own Packing

2022-12-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Nancy Daniels and Jane Latman, veterans of Discovery (and in Latman's case, former HGTV and Food Network owner Scripps) who had been in charge at various Discovery channels and had picked up other channels this past spring (in Daniels' case, the Turner channels, which would be TBS, TNT and

[TV orNotTV] Backstreet's Back? Uh-Huh, Sez ABC

2022-12-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Due to an accusation that Backstreet Boy Nick Carter allegedly raped a 17-year-old back in 2002 when the boy band was riding high on the charts, ABC has dropped a Christmas special starring the group that was scheduled for this Wednesday and has replaced it with "Conners" and "Goldbergs"

[TV orNotTV] Fox Cans 'Monarch'

2022-12-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
The country music drama with Susan Sarandon and Trace Atkins had a great premiere in the ratings coming out of a Sunday night NFL doubleheader but languished on Tuesday nights with seemingly no traction on Hulu and bad reviews:

[TV orNotTV] Lucas Leaves 'Bake Off' (Show Fans Rejoice)

2022-12-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
Matt Lucas, the comedian who helped create the once-acclaimed, now attacked for racist, sexist and general "punching down" humor UK series "Little Britain," is stepping down as co-host of "The Great British Bake Off" ("Baking Show" in North America--it screens in the U.S. on Netflix) after

Re: [TV orNotTV] CNN Leaves Its Longtime LA Home

2022-12-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
El screwo-uppo on the link, obviously--apologies: https://www.thewrap.com/cnn-to-move-out-of-hollywood-offices-that-were-home-to-larry-king-live/?utm_source=newsletter_medium=email_campaign=breaking_news_7184645 Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 9:40 AM Mark Jeffries

[TV orNotTV] CNN Leaves Its Longtime LA Home

2022-12-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
Thanks to Daddy Zaslav and Chris Licht, or as Keith Olbermann calls him, "the paste eater," the cable channel is moving out of its longtime West Coast home in the office tower at 6430 Sunset Blvd. (an address familiar to game show fans, since Goodson-Todman Productions was also in that building

[TV orNotTV] Guest Hosts Replacing Noah on 'TDS'

2022-12-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
Trevor leaves Thursday night, with new shows starting up again on Jan. 17--announced as guest hosts so far are Al Franken, Kal Penn, Sarah Silverman, Hasan Minhaj, Chelsea Handler, D.L. Hughley, Leslie Jones, John Leguizamo, Wanda Sykes and Marlon Wayans (no exact dates announced):

Re: [TV orNotTV] Kirstie Alley dead at 71

2022-12-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
Didn't take long for Peacock to put "Cheers" on their home screen with an "in memoriam" flag, although not saying what season you have to go to isyou want to see Ms. Alley's first season on the show. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 7:47 PM

[TV orNotTV] NBC Back Nines 'Lopez v. Lopez'

2022-12-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
The George Lopez and daughter Mayan multi-cam, which has been paired on Friday nights with Dwayne Johnson's one-camera sitcom "Young Rock," seems to be given a back nine ticket due to heavy watching on Peacock and a huge Latino audience (no surprise there):

Re: [TV orNotTV] Daddy Zas derails HLN’s “Morning Express”

2022-12-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
Around the world in 30 minutes--this was Headline News. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 10:45 AM Brad Beam wrote: > HLN will simulcast CNN’s morning show, while the true crime programming > will fall under ID. > https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/cnn-layoffs-

[TV orNotTV] 'Knives Out 2' Coulda Been Big BO if Netflix Had Let It

2022-11-30 Thread Mark Jeffries
"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" ended its one-week "sneak preview" run in 600 theaters yesterday--Netflix, more concerned about the home viewers who will watch it starting Dec. 23, did not report box office receipts but many experts believe that it will come in third for Thanksgiving

[TV orNotTV] Chinese TV Covers Up World Cup Crowd Shots to Calm COVID Lockdown Protests

2022-11-30 Thread Mark Jeffries
As many Chinese people protest over the belief that the government is being too strict on pandemic prevention while the rest of the world seems to have moved on, CCTV has been replacing world feed shots of maskless FIFA World Cup fans in Qatar with closeups of players and officials in an

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: J-TOC

2022-11-30 Thread Mark Jeffries
However, "Jeopardy!" has always used the King James Version as their Bible source unless otherwise stated--and this probably goes back to the Art Fleming days. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 5:07 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > I also enjoyed the tou

[TV orNotTV] FTC, 7 States Ding Google and iHeart for Pixel 4 Phony Endorsement Ads

2022-11-29 Thread Mark Jeffries
The dominant radio group aired 29,000 ads where their personalities endorsed Google's new smartphone--unfortunately for them, none of those jocks ever got the phone--Google and IHR are paying $9.4M in penalties:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Mark Burnett leaving MGM

2022-11-29 Thread Mark Jeffries
to Byron Allen--it's now Grio, competing with Scripps' Bounce for Black audiences. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 9:47 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Expected given two other high-ranking execs have already left... >

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Irene Cara

2022-11-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
n: https://youtu.be/nUnqhj5LnOw Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 10:21 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > New Yorker, one of the legitimate actress-singers (*Fame, Sparkle, *singing > but not appearing in *Flashdance*) &g

[TV orNotTV] Welcome Back Bob--Disney Hit with Antitrust Class Action Suit

2022-11-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
Just as Bob Iger has returned to Disney, the company's been hit with a class action lawsuit accusing them of using their controlling interest of Hulu and its Hulu + LIve TV tier (after they bought out most of 20th-Century Fox from Rupert Murdoch) forcing skyrocketing subscription fees for live

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Last Surviving 'Hogan's Heroes' Cast Member Dies at 96

2022-11-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
This book is probably the closest you are going to get to a definitive history of the series: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hogan_s_Heroes/LbJ_AQAAQBAJ?hl=en=X=2ahUKEwiE68aUucL7AhWNkYkEHb4SD8oQiqUDegQIDxAC Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:05 AM M-D November

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox World Cup Coverage Brought to You by Human Rights Abusers

2022-11-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
Yesterday the anthems were heard on Fox before the US-Wales match, although that could've been because it was the USA. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 7:57 AM PGage wrote: > I respect your decision very much Adam. I think this is the third WC I > have w

Re: [TV orNotTV] DJT's name turns up in Elton's song lyrics during Disney+ concert special

2022-11-21 Thread Mark Jeffries
--but they should've left it alone). This show didn't need to be sweetened, as if the process of sweetening needs to be done at all, since no one-camera sitcom or cartoon uses laugh tracks anymore except as a gag. So why? Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 7:09 PM Jim Ellwanger wrote

[TV orNotTV] Fox World Cup Coverage Brought to You by Human Rights Abusers

2022-11-21 Thread Mark Jeffries
When asked at a press conference whether they would report on the horrible track record regarding human rights of Qatar as part of their FIFA World Cup coverage, Fox Sports said something like "the fans want to see the World Cup" (NBCU's Telemundo, which has the Spanish language rights to the

[TV orNotTV] Last Surviving 'Hogan's Heroes' Cast Member Dies at 96

2022-11-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
Robert Clary was actually interned in a Nazi concentration camp as a child before he played Cpl. LeBeau on the long-running sitcom--he later pointed out that the camp in the show was a stalag, not a concentration camp, and that the soldiers had it easy compared to those interned in the

[TV orNotTV] Re: Mariah C denied "Queen of Christmas" trademark

2022-11-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
And shouldn't we petition Colbert to have Darlene Love on Christmas week to sing "Merry Christmas (Please Come Home)" just like the good old days? On Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 9:34:46 AM UTC-6 Bob Jersey wrote: > Govt says Elizabeth Chan, among others, allowed use of the phrase... >

[TV orNotTV] Brit Comic to Beckham: Don't Go to World Cup or 10,000 GBP Gets Torn Up

2022-11-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
Joe Lycett, the Brit comic and TV presenter (and panelist on seemingly every comedy panel show), says that if David Beckham changes his mind and turns down the $11.7M the country of Qatar is offering him to be goodwill ambassador at the upcoming FIFA World Cup by the opening ceremonies Sunday,

[TV orNotTV] 'The More You Know' Expands to Peacock Discussions

2022-11-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
The long-running NBCUniversal public service announcement series, often made fun of as more platitudes than information (but you know the logo and that jingle), will become a series of short discussions on Peacock and the campaign's website--signed so far are "The Voice"'s John Legend, NBA star

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Britain's Got Talent" judge accused of obscene comments about contestants

2022-11-10 Thread Mark Jeffries
en's books as "'Little Britain' for kids...horrific racism and classism and bodyshaming in a veneer of privileged deniability." Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 7:55 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > David Walliams (th

[TV orNotTV] Hits Save Ryan Murphy at Netflix

2022-11-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
When Murphy was cranking out one bomb after another at the Service, conventional wisdom was that his $300M deal was numbered and that he'd be only at Disney's 20th and FX soon enough--well, hits change everything and Netflix has handed out a two-season renewal to his true crime anthology

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here's your midseason premiere listing

2022-11-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
and after another two weeks will be sent to Hulu purgatory. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 5:43 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > For three of the bigs, not CBS. > > https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/midseason-premiere-

[TV orNotTV] Kimmel Back on Oscars

2022-11-07 Thread Mark Jeffries
As the Academy seems to hint that all of the awards will be given out live again this year and that there will be no Twitter "fan favorite" poll (which Musk would probably rig to have a Dinesh D'Souza "documentary" win):

[TV orNotTV] Kelly C. Gets Two-Year Pickup--Phew Phew!

2022-11-07 Thread Mark Jeffries
In its fourth season and taking over Ellen DeGeneres' time slot on NBC, Tegna and Hearst-owned stations (technically, the programming hole was taken over on NBC-owned stations by "Dateline" reruns), Clarkson's talk show is pulling a more-than-respectable-by-today's-standards 1.4M viewers and

[TV orNotTV] Dave's People Supposedly Edit Anti-Semitic Remarks from Kanye Interview

2022-11-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
Some people who attended a January 2019 taping of Letterman's Netflix interview series claim that West, along with his now-typical attacks on Jews and the left, also said the sexual abuse of Rhianna was her fault, along with what seemed like an indirect reference to R. Kelly being

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Whose Line' headed to final season

2022-11-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
And the one we thought would stick around, along with Penn & Teller and "Masters of Illusion." Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 2:45 PM Diner wrote: > Another CW show bites the dust. > And when it dies, so dies any reason for me to wat

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Visiting the Ed this week

2022-11-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
Was the keyboard player who has popped up this week identified? And when are they going to give the keyboard players a real piano and/or a Hammond instead of a Nord Stage? Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 12:20 PM M-D November wrote: > Dave - I'd rather

Re: [TV orNotTV] Corden Apologizes For Stealing Gervais Twitter Joke

2022-11-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
e a good thing for him that he is ending his run on "The Late Late Show" and can figure out some new paths to go in his career. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 8:40 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > I always tend to give writers the benefit of the doubt in these t

[TV orNotTV] Amazon Prime to Start Live Sports Talk Tomorrow

2022-10-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
Twelve hours daily from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET, with seven shows planned, all produced by "Jeopardy!" showrunner Michael Davies' shingle Embassy Row at Sony--Former ESPNer Cari Champion is probably the most familiar name of the hosts--a greater emphasis on international sports (considering how

[TV orNotTV] When You Care Enough to Stream the Very Tackiest: Hallmark Channel Shows on Peacock

2022-10-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
Starting Wednesday, all three of Hallmark's channels will stream 24/7 on NBCU's streamer, along with current and library programming available for on-demand streaming (including those formula Christmas movies), the first major cable channel to put the mainline channel on a streamer that isn't a

[TV orNotTV] 'SNL' Location Sketch Editors Unionized

2022-10-30 Thread Mark Jeffries
It only took 48 years, but the post-production teams that work on "SNL"'s location sketches like the commercial parodies and "Digital Shorts" are now members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, with no protest from Lorne or NBC--depending on how many are being worked

[TV orNotTV] 'Girls5Eva' Moves from Peacock to Netflix

2022-10-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
The sitcom co-created by Tina Fey in which Sara Barellies, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Paula Prell and Busy Phillips play a turn of the millennium girl group trying to reform had its first two seasons seen on Peacock, but the ailing streamer has decided to focus on dramas for originals, so the

[TV orNotTV] 'Sausage Party' Becomes Amazon Prime Series

2022-10-27 Thread Mark Jeffries
The filthy dirty animated feature involving talking encased meats will become an eight-episode series under producers Seth Rogen and partner Evan Goldberg (who also produce the Bezos TV hit superhero satire "The Boys" and live-action and animated spinoffs)--Rogen and other voices from the film

[TV orNotTV] 'Chad' Moves to Roku Channel

2022-10-27 Thread Mark Jeffries
The TBS cringe-com starring very much female Nasim Pedrad as the teenage boy title character was on the eve of starting its second season when the WarnerMedia/Discovery merger went through and Daddy Zaslav started making the many cuts he has made, including ending original scripted programming

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