On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
Well, folks, MTV can still sell music: After last night's reunion of
Justin Timberlake with his former buds from 'NSYNC on the Moonmen, it was
not just Timberlake who enjoyed a download spike at Amazon and iTunes (as
I liked it.
I still think he needs that other guy at the table with him to really
shine, because it takes the edge off of his narcissistic megalomania. But
even so the show works. He is smart and funny and fearless - and back in
the sports context the stakes are low enough that it is possible to
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:16 AM, M-D November mdnovem...@gmail.com wrote:
Only repeated once *on The Deuce*. But I spotted two consecutive airings
(at 1am and 2am EDT) on ESPNNews.
Thanks! I was about to send a self-pitying reply that I don't get ESPNNews
Bay Area Comcast), but this
Bruce Dunning, the CBS News correspondent whose 1975 television report on
the last flight from Da Nang vividly captured the frantic end of the
Vietnam War, died Monday in New York at the age of 73.
His John Adams was so great he gets quite a few passes from me still.
(trying a top post)
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
Show will be set in 1980s Miami, because a cop show set in 1980s Miami has
never been done before.
Anybody out there read the
Here is a good summary of one of the larger law suits pending against the
NFL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/sports/football/concussion-case-nears-key-phase-for-nfl.html?partner=rssemc=rss_r=0
Some excerpts:
**
Before the N.F.L. regular season begins next Thursday, the
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:13 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't mean to make light of the sweetness and seriousness of the
commentary, but this was my first look at Keith's new show, and I have to
ask:
When will they bring the ghost of Dick Clark out to start the New
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:18 AM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote:
Albuquerque-area eatery Garduño's reported a *Sopranos*-like spike in
avocado dip orders, particularly at its Winrock Mall location, where the
AMC smash filmed a tense exchange between the Whites and relative/DEA agent
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote:
PGage, to Mark Jeffries:
Here is a good summary of one of the larger law suits pending against the
NFL:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/**08/29/sports/football/**
concussion-case-nears-key-**phase-for-nfl.html?partner
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote:
Fresh Air is running interviews from Freddie de Cordova, Letterman, Leno,
Conan, Kimmel, Fallon, Myers (an excerpt) and Questlove this week. All of
the interviews have run before, though the Letterman interview is from
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:29 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.comwrote:
I routinely watch Al Jazeera, Russia Today, and DW (from Germany). I
can't speak about AJA yet because I doubt it will be made available here in
UmMurKa
One irritation with AJA is the currency of their bottom screen ticker - at
least the part relating to sports.
On Friday Phil Mickelson shot a very low score in the first round of the
Deutsche Bank Championship, which is the second leg of golf's FedEx Cup.
There was a lot of excitement at the time
Why don't they at least show a re-run from the black out period, so it will
be new to them?
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Doug Fields d...@flids.net wrote:
Tonight’s show is a re-run for the holiday, not for the TW dispute. The
show didn’t go dark during the outage, as Dave so eloquently
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
After all this talk about making changes on Idol, Jennifer Lopez is back
on the panel after a year off--joining returnee Keith Urban and JLo is
jazzman Harry Connick, Jr., who has made guest mentor appearances before
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Steve Timko steveti...@gmail.com wrote:
What did others think of Jon Stewart's first night back?
I thought the opening bit went on a little too long. And it wasn't that
funny.
Stewart and John Oliver were okay in their co-anchor bit.
What really raised my
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
There's a suggestion in the US to drop the penny (so all costs would round
to the nearest 5 cents), convert the $1 bill to a coin, and push the $2
bill. It's brilliant, it's logical, it makes sense, and it will never ever
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Melissa P takingupspace...@gmail.comwrote:
I don’t watch the Super Bowl. But I do watch the Halftime show. I’m okay
with Bruno Mars.
** **
Maybe it’s all about the new trend of catering to female football fans.
It is not maybe about that, it is only
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
Just finished watching episode one. I mentioned when the show was
announced that I really enjoyed Arsenio when he cohosted with Tim Conway Jr
on KLSX, as well as a few chats I got to have with him backstage at NBC.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
After the AMC cop drama was saved by a deal with Netflix, the viewers
still felt burnt by that first season and the channel has cancelled it
again:
http://www.thewrap.com/the-killing-canceled-by-amc-once-again/
I
The opening segment of Olbermann's show have quickly become the most
compelling 8 minutes on television not devoted to a fictional chemistry
teacher in Albuquerque. The rest of the show is also for the most part very
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
I caught it for the first time last night, and I agree: this is Keith's
element. It was a great opening segment. If he can't make this work, he
can't make *anything* work.
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:16 AM, PGage pga
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:03 PM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote:
He appears to have most (all?) of his show segments on his YouTube
channel, but their not titled by date. Full episodes available for free
via iTunes (didn't check the other services), but only in audio. Would I
be
AMC has green-lit a Breaking Bad prequel focusing on Saul Goodman:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-breaking-bad-spinoff-better-call-saul-20130911,0,2605492.story
I was trying to think the other day of a comparably great addition to an
already great drama as
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 6:34 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote:
Seacrest didn't work out?
The Today Show addition was actually a question on MSQ tonight; I guess the
format does not allow the contestants to make snarky comments while giving
their answers, but I was rooting for one
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
Pilot a free download on the iTunes store
https://itunes.apple.com/us/tv-season/pilot/id688396860?i=694423064
Is it worth the cost?
It is also available for free on cable On Demand, at least on Comcast. I
will
I feel like that is a punch line from one of Johnny Carson's old monologues
http://news.yahoo.com/actress-pia-zadora-ordered-anger-counseling-191001623.html
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On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:42 AM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote:
It's also ancient, as it dates back to when the show was originally on the
air
Our Poor Beloved Sports Night
There was a time when there was a rule on this list that there had to be at
least one post a month that made
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
According to http://www.nbc.com/million-second-quiz/#/live_from_nyc,
they're at 41st and 11th.
If my acquaintance Andy weren't in the top four, I suspect I'd have given
up on it days ago.
I don't hate it, but, you
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Dave Sikula dsik...@yahoo.com wrote:
Strong’s “Girl-you-wish-you-hadn’t-**started-a-conversation-with” was
the next best recurring character on Weekend Update
This is what we call damning with faint praise. Strong (along with
McKinnon and Moynihan) became
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote:
Despite the fact that its Sunday night lead-in on HBO True Blood, which
has twice the audience on Sunday night (not counting repeats, online or
VOD), is ending its run next year (not counting repeats, online or
VOD)--guess
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Adam Bowie a...@adambowie.co.uk wrote:
Two batches of seven episodes airing a year apart? That'd be two seasons
(well series) where I come from. The average length of a series in the UK
is commonly six episodes - not always, but more often than not.
I know
K-ville
According to the good people at TV By The Numbers (
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/09/17/tv-ratings-monday-huge-premiere-for-sleepy-hollow-under-the-dome-finale-soars-solid-returns-for-bones-dancing-with-the-stars/202879/
)
It was the highest broadcast drama premiere since the
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:41 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
K-ville
According to the good people at TV By The Numbers (
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/09/17/tv-ratings-monday-huge-premiere-for-sleepy-hollow-under-the-dome-finale-soars-solid-returns-for-bones-dancing-with-the-stars
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
Thewrap.com's Jethro Nededog seems to be concerned that Mindy Kaling has
decided that her Dr. Mindy Lahiri character on The Mindy Project only
goes out with white men--should he be, or is he sounding like her mother?:
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote:
Its viewers are in an abusive relationship with the news giant after
Zucker pointed out its ratings wins in the wake of the scrambling Boston
bomber reports, Jon noted in complaints monitored by TheWrap...
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
Not that the Catholic League is influential other than at cable news
channels, but William Donahue hopefully destroyed any attempts at influence
this morning with his homophobic and anti-Semitic (“If I mention that the
WSJ article yesterday on attempts by Comcast and others to make deals to
provide full season episodes On Demand to marginalize Netflix and friends;
Netflix warns it will pay less for series that were previously available
On-Demand for entire seasons. Content providers trying to figure out who it
Adam Klugman, one of Jack Klugman's sons, is irritated that the Academy has
decided to bump his dad from the new highlighted memorial in the broadcast,
in favor of Corey Monteith. The Emmy's decided to lift out 5 of the
recently departed for special attention this year - the other four VIPs,
whose
Ratings for the MSQ Finale: 1.3 in the demo, 4.95M total viewers. This was
good for third place among broadcast programs (behind X-Factor and a Big
Bang rerun), and no doubt behind the NFL game, and maybe also behind
Project Runway?).
That is up from 1.1 the previous Thursday (about an 18%
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
I've seen similar arguments favoring other late celebs over Monteith. I
suspect the decision came down to which tributes would make for better
television. I'm given to understand that the featured five will be heralded
I am trying to get my DVR auto-recordings organized for the new season. I
got this list from a poll on tvbtn, which I think is all new shows
premiering on US Fall broadcast TV. Any nominations for the 5 best of
these? I would also be interested in any new cable or UK shows available on
PBS or BBCA
Almost Human did not make it to my radar - looks like the kind of show I
would like (also looks like I will be hearing a lot about it during the
World Series). I will check that one out.
Do you have reason to really believe Crazy Ones will be worth watching, or
is that just residual Robin
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 8:36 AM, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22 September 2013 07:14, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
Still waiting for an option who's as big a star as Fox, Reiner or
Williams
I'd say Penny Marshall is, but the problem is that defining people as big
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:22 AM, Steve Timko steveti...@gmail.com wrote:
(SNIP) I got through the opening minutes of Trophy Wife and decided that
was enough.
I literally was up at 4:00 in the morning a couple of days ago and could
not fall back asleep. I went to the On Demand screen and
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
Levitan's description of the saddest awards show -- was he talking about
the all-through-the-night obituaries, or something else?
That was my understanding. When I read about the VIP Obits I assumed they
would all be
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
FX's Americanization of the Scandinavian drama series about border cops
(the U.S.-Mexican border in our version) will return next summer with 13
more episodes:
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
NBCU's arthouse arm Focus Features has bought the rights to ESPN: Those
Guys Have All the Fun, the Tom Shales/James Andrew Miller oral history of
the Worldwide Leader (which had been turned down by 20th Century Fox),
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
After Kimmel used children to recreate Ye's typically self-important
interview with BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe, West called him on Twitter a
MANIPULATIVE MEDIA MUTHAF---KA and said that Sarah Silverman, Kimmel's
ex, was
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:26 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
That misses the point of Twitter and Facebook and social media in general.
There is a level of authenticity on these mediums, which is what makes them
appealing and generally successful. Now, is it okay to have a ghost
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
The premiere of CBS' new Robin Williams/Sarah Michelle Gellar sitcom The
Crazy Ones basically rode on the Big Bang/2.5 Men coattails and
decisively trounced NBC's The Michael J. Fox Show Thursday night:
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:57 PM, David Bruggeman bru...@yahoo.com wrote:
Better Off Ted is on the Netflix, and worth (re)visiting.
David
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It worked for Better Off Ted, even if I was one of only several
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n Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote:
Director Charles Ferguson (Inside Job) blogged on HuffPo that he has
called off the documentary on Hillary Clinton that CNN had commissioned,
citing inability to get on the record interviews and hostility from both
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:
Charles Pierce of Esquire expressed my thoughts much better than I could
have.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/hillary-clinton-documentary-093013
I do not agree; I think you could have expressed those thoughts much
I would not want future historians of the internet to review the archives
of this list devoted to TV and see no comment the day after on the final
episode of one of the most well executed series in the history of
television. No need for spoilers here (though good luck to anyone who has
both been
This list contains some of the most internet savvy people I know, so I am
posting this non-TV question here (well, tangential TV connection - I do
use iGoogle to house and organize TV and pop culture RSS feeds).
I have been aware for a year or more that iGoogle was terminating itself,
but I have
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:48 PM, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote:
On 1 October 2013 19:18, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
The Federal courts are not regarded as non-essential operations, *ergo*the
applicable offices/departments can still sue the b*stards at Commiecast.
On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Doug Fields d...@flids.net wrote:
I don’t think anybody expects everybody to watch **anything** “live”
anymore, but if you wait five days before spoiling one of the most popular
shows on TV, I think you’ve got a good point to argue from. If you love a
show
For what its worth, here are TVBTN's predictions of shows that will be
canceled (from:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/10/06/bubble-watch-ironside-we-are-men-sean-saves-the-world-welcome-to-the-family-headed-to-cancellation-the-originals-super-fun-night-start-on-the-bubble/207079/
)
The
Forgot to mention that Dads is also a favorite to disappear soon. In the
voting for the second show of the season to get officially canceled on
their site, Dads is leading, with We Are Men a close second.
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On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/10/07/anna_kooiman_fox_new_co_host_blames_flawed_research_for_obama_muslim_museum.html
http://youtu.be/V-bHEF6goF4
A NationalReport.net piece on a Muslim museum they
As expected, CBS has canceled We Are Men:
http://news.yahoo.com/cbs-cancels-freshman-sitcom-men-234343037.html
2 Broke Girls moves to 8:30p, The Big Bang repeats at 9pm the next couple
of weeks. Mike Molly returns on Monday, November 4 at 9pm.
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I have tried twice and still not been able to get past the first 20 minutes
of the first episode of this show, I think 3 eps are backlogged in my
archives now.
I wonder how the bean counters at Disney have figured the cost/benefit of
keeping this show on all year vs extra tickets and
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote:
The basketball Hall of Famer claims he'll be too busy with other interests
(he's now a partner in baseball's Dodgers) to do game or studio work with
the Woildwide Leadah...
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote:
It's *Mad Libs* applied to a TV series... fans can go to cbs.com/H50voteand
pick from several plot elements that will be combined into a segment...
they already did a you vote for the ending story last season...
I have only seen Katy Perry perform a few times, though of course I have
been aware of her, as she is pretty omnipresent. I saw her this morning on
SNL, and I found her to be the most interesting thing on the show. I don't
mean that I enjoyed her songs or performances - I did not. Her songs both
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:
I will contend that she is not performing as a joke. To do it as a joke
there has to be some payoff, a wink at the audience to let them make sure
that they are in on the joke. Even Andy Kaufman, who treated his audiences
Read this:
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/10/13/network-pr-jedi-mind-tricks-live3-day-live7-day-ratings-and-your-favorite-shows-future-2/207397/
For those who did not read it, I will summarize. The TVBTN guys summarize a
point they harp on constantly, which is that the only ratings that
.
Adam (who has seen neither of them on SNL)
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:11 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Tom Wolper twol...@gmail.com wrote:
I will contend that she is not performing as a joke. To do it as a
joke there has to be some payoff, a wink
, PGage wrote:
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Bob in Jersey bob.in...@juno.comwrote:
The basketball Hall of Famer claims he'll be too busy with other
interests (he's now a partner in baseball's Dodgers) to do game or studio
work with the Woildwide Leadah...
http://espn.go.com/nba/story
On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Adam Bowie a...@adambowie.co.uk wrote:
It feels to me that there are two business models that are being fought
over, both of which have some kind of relevance:
- The commercial impacts model which seems to be currently Comm + 3
- The overall lifeblood of a
I am not really getting the thrust of your commentary here. Are you saying
only people as or more wealthy than Dan Snyder, or as or more powerful than
the Supreme Court, have a right to an opinion about the seemliness of
naming a major franchise in a professional sports league that receives tons
I am teaching a course in Forensic Psychology this term. This is the first
time I have taught it, though I worked in the field for three years. This
is a subject that particularly lends itself to film and television
illustrations, and I and the students (I think) have been having fun with
it.
One
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
In his renegotiated contract with ESPN (after a dalliance with Fox Sports
didn't pan out), Kenny Mayne has to do at least 70 editions of
SportsCenter a year after being away from the anchor desk for five years
and has
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
The idea that MLB would now only allow the World Series to appear OTA
depresses me to my very core. Every other pro sport in the US airs at least
some portion of their playoffs on OTA.
The optimist says there's no way MLB
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013, PGage wrote:
And not even 33% as funny as he seems to think he is...
If I remember correctly, he was Keith Olbermann's replacement on The Big
Show. I remember thinking This guy
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
They call their Sunday afternoon game(s) America's Game Of The Week,
though I think they only break that out on doubleheader weeks.
Really: two fucking Thursday night games a week? I mean, I know you don't
give the
I have always assumed that in the US, making baseball (and by analogy
football and basketball and some others) easily accessible to as much of
the public as possible is part of the public service the networks owe the
people in exchange for their use of the public airwaves to make tons of
money.
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Brad Beam b.b...@suddenlink.net wrote:
NBC drops “Ironside” (effective Wednesday) (SNIP)
I guess that answers my unspoken question - is it worth my trying to catch
up with Ironside?
I think it was Mark who asked if The Blacklist would survive being removed
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
Elle does an annual Women of Hollywood edition which features multiple
covers of various stars. This year one of the stars is Melissa
McCarthy. Unfortunately, the photo is … well, you remember the Kate Upton
cover of the
Netflix passes HBO in total US subscribers.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-netflix-reports-third-quarter-earnings-20131021,0,7582768.story#axzz2iPvP9UkJ
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On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Jim Ellwanger train...@ellwanger.tvwrote:
On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:51 PM, Brad Beam wrote:
I can’t think that NFLN would go head-to-head against a network
broadcast. Perhaps NFLN could take a West Coast game, as they did with the
Raiders’ Sunday late-night
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Dave Sikula dsik...@yahoo.com wrote:
I don't disagree with you about Jay, but I'll just add further how debased
Dave has made his brand. The great moments of his show happened either on
Late Night or in the first years of his stint at CBS. I think anyone
would
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote:
Andrew, cocreator of *Castle*, teams with that show's writer (also his
wife) Terri Edda Miller and Oscar-winning director Michael DeLuca to
Again, I think Dave has had at least as many high points over the last ten
years as Johnny had over the last ten years of his run.
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Dave Sikula dsik...@yahoo.com wrote:
And, needless to say, all of the highlights Kevin cites -- as well as the
Zevon show -- fall
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday, October 25, 2013, Bob in Jersey wrote:
PGage, to moi:
The NFL is probably very close to doing away with kickoffs all together.
They tossed it to their competition committee as the 2012 reg. season
ended
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote:
After Don Yelton made a series of racist remarks to Aasif Mandvi on a
segment aired on Wednesday's Daily Show, he was forced to resign from his
position as a county precinct chair in North Carolina for the Republicans:
NBC has announced that they have given a 13 episode order to Fey and
Carlock for a sitcom about a woman (Ellie Kemper from The Office) who
“escapes from a doomsday cult and starts life over in New York City.”
I got e-bombed on several different channels with this press release this
morning, many
today. I WANT
MY iGOOGLE BACK.
On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 9:25 AM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
This list contains some of the most internet savvy people I know, so I am
posting this non-TV question here (well, tangential TV connection - I do
use iGoogle to house and organize TV and pop culture
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Doug Fields d...@flids.net wrote:
Nope…upon further research, it appears I was on the right track after all.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/01/us-usa-broadcasting-blackout-idUSBRE9A00ZW20131101
Here is another storty that makes the same point, in
n Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:57 AM, JW redbu...@gmail.com wrote:
I think Doug's original question still stands unanswered: How did the
original rule ever serve the public interest? Similarly, how does getting
rid of the rule serve the public interest?
I doubt the original rule had anything to
On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote:
I was rather surprised that Fox Sports 1 got the hype level it did, given
its limited content at launch. Now it turns out they're already doing
make-goods on the mothership, including during the World Series.
I am not sure even how interesting the article is. The author says he
became a full time critic 2 years ago, and his photo at the bottom makes
him look like that was maybe around the time he graduated from high school.
The argument in the article itself screams the callowness of youth.
I wrote a
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
Mild (not strong but mild) shades of EZ Streets, Homicide, and probably The
Wire (if I'd ever watched the Wire, but I've heard stories). Casting
director was either great at his/her job or very bad at it -- too soon to
tell
Aaron Sorkin has been criticized for basing Newsroom in the past so he can
look smart predicting recent history. Now it looks like he was actually
predicting the near-future.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/60-minutes-benghazi-review-_n_4237132.html
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On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:08 PM, PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote:
Aaron Sorkin has been criticized for basing Newsroom in the past so he can
look smart predicting recent history. Now it looks like he was actually
predicting the near-future.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
Right. Because it's all about her.
Well, she is *very* disappointed.
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On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Bob Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote:
*The Voice* didn't try to capitalize... it couldn't.
Blake Shelton's contract says he's allowed to attend awards shows that
involve himself and/or wife Miranda Lambert... Wednesday brought the
Country Music
I have a friend who has been bugging me to get into this show for more than
a year. Last winter I mistook it for White Collar and started watching
that, and told him that while it was likable enough it did not seem to
justify his enthusiasm. He gave me a disgusted response and told me Suits
was a
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Jon Delfin jondel...@gmail.com wrote:
How quickly we forget about Netflix's physical DVD option. (Right, Doug?)
I am a Suits fan, though I skipped much of the first season.
Oh, I have not forgotten about the DVD option, I just long ago rejected it.
I am not
On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Jason Carpio jcar...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually there are 3 seasons of suits on prime instant
Yes - but you have to pay extra for them (in addition to the annual prime
fee). Hence my original question. I suppose I should have premised my
original post by saying
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