Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Another Hollywood catfight

2024-04-19 Thread Adam Bowie
Sydney Sweeney is very much up and coming at the moment. Her role on Euphoria was fine, although there are problems throughout that show that the young cast aren't responsible for. And it must be said that most of the leads are now seeing their careers on the rise. She was great as a petulant

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Suits' Comes to OTA Years After the Fact

2024-04-16 Thread Adam Bowie
In the UK, Suits was also sold to the BBC a few weeks ago, going onto iPlayer alongside a couple of other NBCUniversal things that I hadn't heard of (St Denis Medical and the Best Man series of films). Originally Suits aired on "Dave" for six seasons before Netflix picked up UK rights from season

Re: [TV orNotTV] Mulaney Does One-Time-Only LIve Star-Studded Mini for Netflix

2024-04-09 Thread Adam Bowie
I mean, amiable as he is, I won't be getting up at 3am to watch Mulaney's, or anybody's, comedy specials. That said, I'm not altogether sure that the show won't be available to watch again after the live stream. I can't see reference to that in any of the promotional information surrounding it.

Re: [TV orNotTV] NoTV: BBC Podcasts Exclusively on Amazon

2024-03-19 Thread Adam Bowie
Doug, I can't claim to be the most frequent listener to Radio 1 these days - it's a little outside my age demo these days. Radio 1's target audience is 15-29 year olds. I'm more a 6 Music/late night Radio 3 listener these days. But a couple of thoughts: - Songs are pretty short these days anyway.

Re: [TV orNotTV] NoTV: BBC Podcasts Exclusively on Amazon

2024-03-19 Thread Adam Bowie
On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 3:22 PM Jon Delfin wrote: > badly written article at best > > Not as badly written as a Deadline piece the other day that somehow conjured up a brand new BBC news TV channel specially made for going onto FAST platforms like Pluto, Vizio and the rest. In reality, it's the

Re: [TV orNotTV] NoTV: BBC Podcasts Exclusively on Amazon

2024-03-19 Thread Adam Bowie
This is where work and this group intersect for me... These titles are all on Apple Podcasts/Spotify/wherever-you-get-your podcasts, and will remain so. They just come with ads in those places. This deal means that *ad-free* versions are on Amazon outlets for a select group of titles. I don't

Re: [TV orNotTV] Oscars 2024 Ratings Up 4%

2024-03-12 Thread Adam Bowie
I watched the Oscars for the first time in years this year, with the carriage moving from Sky to ITV meaning that it's now free to air (Also, ITV *stream* it live on their ITV Hub app!). Jonathan Ross hosted a pre-show bit in a London studio with a seemingly random selection of people, and this

Re: [TV orNotTV] TNG episode with "current" reference remains banned in UK and Ireland

2024-03-04 Thread Adam Bowie
The BBC's airings - or lack of airings - of the episode are pretty clear, and I think well known amongst British Trek fans. If you search old usenet posts, you'll see plenty of discussion about it from the time. The BBC's Genome site is easily searchable to find all episode airings. TNG first

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox, WBD, Disney to Team Up for Possible Game-Changing Sports Streaming App

2024-03-04 Thread Adam Bowie
or the Sports Blob is preferable to something like > YT-TV, Max and Disney Bundle (which would be around what, $100/month?). Is > that segment large enough to make a lot of profit? I suspect that is also > one of the things they really don’t know. > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Any fans of William Gibson's "Neuromancer" here?

2024-02-28 Thread Adam Bowie
Loved the Sprawl Trilogy and this book in particular. Fingers crossed that it has a better run than The Peripheral got at Amazon. Apple TV+ really has a niche in generally really good SF. And I'll keep handing over my cash while they continue to do so, regardless of how few overall viewers the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Apple launches free sports app in US/CA/UK

2024-02-21 Thread Adam Bowie
I've just been playing with this and it's insanely basic. They've launched it in the UK but only have the EPL in there. No EFL for fans of the other 72 football clubs. And no Scottish football at all. And there's no Champions' League in there either. And there is zero consideration for any other

Re: [TV orNotTV] What Was Once IMDbTV is Now Amazon Freevee

2024-02-21 Thread Adam Bowie
assume that it'll just transfer back to the mothership. Adam On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:33 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Weigel (parent of howbeit-mostly-OTA MeTV) might b!tch... B > > Kevin M, to M-D November, Adam Bowie, and mark Jeffr

Re: [TV orNotTV] John Oliver offers Clarence Thomas $1 million a year to resign

2024-02-21 Thread Adam Bowie
I found it amusing this morning to read in close succession about how well Jon Stewart's segments are doing on YouTube following his return to TDS immediately followed by reporting that John Oliver's segments are being delayed. From CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter: [image: image.png] The delay

Re: [TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Dakota Johnson Didn't Say That

2024-02-19 Thread Adam Bowie
I wholeheartedly agree with the piece and the overblown reaction to Johnson. What I can't tell is to what extent that really impacted on the film's opening. Poor reviews and particularly, poor word of mouth are likely to have been bigger issues surely? I'm not saying TikTok memes can't make or

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl Ratings

2024-02-13 Thread Adam Bowie
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 3:34 AM Kevin M. wrote: > What verifiable data is being supplied to or by Nielsen to support these > numbers? I feel like the networks and streamers distrust ratings unless the > numbers serve them. And I’ve not seen evidence that streaming services are > sharing user

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Jon Stewart to return to "The Daily Show" as EP and part-time host through 2024 election

2024-02-12 Thread Adam Bowie
Correcting myself. Comedy Central UK is showing all weekly episodes. The Monday Stewart episode airs at 11pm Tuesday. The Tues-Thurs episodes will air around 3.45am a day or so later. So Tuesday's episode actually airs Thursday at 3.45am. On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 8:13 PM Adam Bowie wrote

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Jon Stewart to return to "The Daily Show" as EP and part-time host through 2024 election

2024-02-11 Thread Adam Bowie
Looking at UK TV schedules, it seems that we're getting the Jon Stewart episodes of The Daily Show, but *only* the Stewart episodes. Comedy Central UK had dropped episodes sometime last year, even though they only aired on Comedy Xtra (their second channel here) at around 3.00am in the morning,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Streaming's BIggest Shows Are Just TV (Big Deal)

2024-02-09 Thread Adam Bowie
I agree that this slightly muddled thinking. First off, although there are lots of serialized dramas on streaming, there are also episodic shows. Poker Face and even the new Mr & Mrs Smith are largely episodic. The aforementioned The Lincoln Lawyer is in fact a serialized drama, as is, AFAIK,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox, WBD, Disney to Team Up for Possible Game-Changing Sports Streaming App

2024-02-07 Thread Adam Bowie
ans dreamt of ( plus they still get about half the > Sunday NFL games if they want). > > As a sports fan, I’ll take my cake and eat it too for $25 more per month. > > > > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 at 3:31 PM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> The interestin

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox, WBD, Disney to Team Up for Possible Game-Changing Sports Streaming App

2024-02-06 Thread Adam Bowie
The interesting thing here will be to see how much all this costs. Because I suspect it'll be fairly pricey. I can't see it being much less than $50 a month, considering the numbers floating around for ESPN on its own were around $30-35. I believe that Bleacher Report is going to be a $9.99

Re: [TV orNotTV] Super Bowl ratings

2024-01-29 Thread Adam Bowie
I saw in Matt Belloni's latest email that last week's divisional game got a record 50.4m viewers. So I assume that yesterday's will top that. Belloni predicts record breaking Super Bowl ratings - although I wonder if that is Swift fans, and not just the fact that, in the US, NFL is the monoculture

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Masters of the Air

2024-01-27 Thread Adam Bowie
I guess since it was based on an original book, the characters really did have nearly the same name? It's the sort of thing that a TV drama would never do, but might regularly happen in a random workplace. In fact, I found it harder to tell anyone apart when they're all wearing face masks over

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 'After Midnight' Finally Premiering--POINTS!

2024-01-25 Thread Adam Bowie
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 3:11 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > The follow up question is not, “why isn’t this show doing better?” It’s > “what could CBS possibly put on in this time slot that would do better?” > They could probably just schedule reruns of "NCIS: Anywhere-on-the-planet", and they'd

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Netflix Grabs 'WWE Raw' from USA

2024-01-23 Thread Adam Bowie
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 5:54 PM M-D November wrote: > Would I be right in interpreting this to mean that the Netflix deal > effectively shutters the WWE Network standalone service internationally, > much as the Peacock migration did in the US? They haven't said as much, but I think it will do

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 'After Midnight' Finally Premiering--POINTS!

2024-01-20 Thread Adam Bowie
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 8:06 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > The charm of the past and current generation of late night hosts is their > acknowledgment of when a joke or bit doesn’t work. Dave was a master of it, > bringing the audience into his own discomfort. Seth gleefully throws a > writer under the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: 'After Midnight' Finally Premiering--POINTS!

2024-01-17 Thread Adam Bowie
I've watched a few minutes of this, but I'm not sure I can stomach the entire thing. What I would point out about the various British comedy panel shows - and we have a lot of them - is that there are a few things in making them good: - They're mostly 30 mins, and not 60 mins. They record for

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Sopranos' Creator: Tee Vee Sux

2024-01-15 Thread Adam Bowie
Whatever you think of The Sopranos, I think Chase is right. Yes, there's still Succession, Fargo, The Bear, White Lotus and so on being made. But I'm not going to kid myself that this is what Netflix et al will be producing for the most part in the future. The most popular drama on the recent

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jeopardy! UK - the Stephen Fry Edition

2024-01-08 Thread Adam Bowie
here was an edit while the contestants formulated their > wagers.) > > On Jan 8, 2024, at 10:22 AM, Adam Bowie wrote: > > ITV has been airing their new Stephen Fry-hosted episodes of Jeopardy! > They only placed an initial order of 20 episodes which are airing at 4pm > weekday

[TV orNotTV] Jeopardy! UK - the Stephen Fry Edition

2024-01-08 Thread Adam Bowie
ITV has been airing their new Stephen Fry-hosted episodes of Jeopardy! They only placed an initial order of 20 episodes which are airing at 4pm weekdays just ahead of The Chase. But the first episode did get a slightly later airing on New Year's Day. But that timeslot is probably going to limit

Re: [TV orNotTV] Lythgoe Out on 'SYTYCD'

2024-01-08 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm pretty sure that even though she lives in the UK these days (her husband, Patrick Kielty, presents Irelands long-running, and highly prestigious, Late Late Show), Cat Deeley is still hosting SYTYCD. Looking around the internet, it started shooting in Atlanta last month. Adam On Mon, Jan 8,

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: Owner of most major market radio stations files for bankruptcy

2024-01-07 Thread Adam Bowie
On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 7:50 PM PGage wrote: > “Washes its face”? Is that a Britishism I have not run into yet on Britbox > or Acorn? > > I hadn't thought of it as colloquial British, but checking references, it seems they're mostly UK. Basically it means that it covers its costs but not much

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: Owner of most major market radio stations files for bankruptcy

2024-01-07 Thread Adam Bowie
US radio is still insanely profitable, turning over around $13bn in revenues in 2023. For context, US podcast revenues were forecast to be about $2bn. The main problem in recent years has been insane debt levels caused by all the consolidation that just couldn't be serviced. Everyone biting off

Re: [TV orNotTV] Amazon Prime Starting Ads on Jan. 29

2023-12-28 Thread Adam Bowie
It's starting in the UK from 5 February and it'll cost us £2.99 a month to avoid. From the BBC report on it: "Customers in the US and Canada will see ads earlier from 29 January, and Amazon plans to expand them to France, Italy, Spain, Mexico and Australia later in 2024." So I'm not sure

Re: [TV orNotTV] Peacock Leaving UK

2023-12-21 Thread Adam Bowie
To be clear, Peacock was basically a nothing-brand in the UK. It didn't even try. I don't think I saw a single ad for it, and it was just a slightly odd tile in Sky's system. I'm not even sure you could subscribe to it outside of Sky. Show's like "Poker Face" weren't even within that tile - just

Re: [TV orNotTV] Group member Brad Beam has passed away

2023-12-15 Thread Adam Bowie
So sorry to hear this, and yes, desperately young. My thoughts to his loved ones. Adam On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 6:47 AM Steve Timko wrote: > Definitely sad news. He taped some Sopranos episodes for me when my > regular source dried up. A very nice guy. > > I just recently found out a prominent

Re: [TV orNotTV] Andre Braugher, Emmy-winning actor who starred in 'Homicide' and 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' dies at 61

2023-12-12 Thread Adam Bowie
Such a fine actor. Versatile and totally compelling in everything I saw him in. Just remembering some of those "box" interrogation scenes in Homicide... On Wed, 13 Dec 2023, 04:34 PGage, wrote: > This one really hurt. The integrity, honesty, humanity, talent. He lifted > us all up. > > Sent

Re: [TV orNotTV] FX, Murphy Play the 'Feud' with Truman Capote

2023-12-05 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm looking forward to this. It's based on a book by Laurence Leamer called Capote's Women which I have yet to read. But I did read Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott which came out in 2019 and is a fictional telling of the same story, and what a remarkable story it is. On Tue, Dec 5, 2023

Re: [TV orNotTV] BBC Late Night News Show Wounded

2023-11-30 Thread Adam Bowie
On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:34 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > > Of course, "NewsNight"'s most famous moment was years ago when anchor > Jeremy Paxman attempted to get a straight answer from a politician by > repeating his question again and again for over 10 minutes and failed > miserably. > Of note

Re: [TV orNotTV] Help needed identify comedy show I saw on YouTube

2023-11-19 Thread Adam Bowie
I'd also point out that nobody in the UK would have a clue that Brie Larson is a spokesperson for Nissan, because her ads for the carmaker don't air here. On Sun, Nov 19, 2023 at 8:30 PM Jon Delfin wrote: > it does sound like the 8 Out of 10 set and setup, but they haven't put out > a new

[TV orNotTV] Also Off Topic: Sky Sports picks up NCAA Football

2023-11-18 Thread Adam Bowie
I hadn't really been paying attention, but a month or so ago, flicking around the sports channels I have access to in the UK, I realised that all the NCAA football here had disappeared. While I'd never say I was a massive fan, it was something to watch on a Saturday evening. BT Sports used to

[TV orNotTV] Semi Off Topic: GCN+ Closing Down

2023-11-18 Thread Adam Bowie
There are one or two fans of watching cycling on TV in this group, so this is perhaps relevant. GCN+ is a streaming service that supplied global coverage of a multitude of cycling races, many of which would never have been covered by any other network. There were some regional restrictions. So

Re: [TV orNotTV] WB Says 'Beep Beep' to 'Coyote v. Acme' Movie

2023-11-13 Thread Adam Bowie
The $60m is purely international figures. I don't think the "sneak preview" box office numbers get reported until the actual opening weekend when they get added together and create a suspiciously large number to ensure they go high in the top 10. So basically that's $60m before the US has taken a

Re: [TV orNotTV] WB Says 'Beep Beep' to 'Coyote v. Acme' Movie

2023-11-13 Thread Adam Bowie
According to Matt Belamy at Puck, the film is now going to get shopped around, so not necessarily locked into the vault. Aside from anything else, I guess there are some relationships to maintain. He also has a bit of a discussion about exactly how much you really save by taking a tax write off

Re: [TV orNotTV] NFL Sunday Ticket Multi-View Technical Questions

2023-10-22 Thread Adam Bowie
Without seeing exactly what they're doing, I suspect that the reason that you have to select from some pre-selected multiviews is simply technical streaming. They're combining the feeds centrally and then encoding a group of four games as a single video feed. While there may be some interactivity

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: There’s a new Douglas Adams book

2023-10-21 Thread Adam Bowie
It was funded via crowdfunding, and I was fortunate enough to get along to a launch event at the British Library a few weeks ago. It is indeed a lovely book, with lots of previously unpublished writing. And a familiar name can be found on page 304 amidst the thousands of funders who paid for

Re: [TV orNotTV] Netflix' first live sports event

2023-10-18 Thread Adam Bowie
; still have it, nor recall which Doctor... > > Adam Bowie, to moi, Oct 17th: > > In the mid-eighties BBC2 used to show "International Pro-Celebrity Golf" > with various pros taking on BBC stars and various other sportsmen. > > Here's a listing for a 1983 F1 themed e

Re: [TV orNotTV] Netflix' first live sports event

2023-10-17 Thread Adam Bowie
In the mid-eighties BBC2 used to show "International Pro-Celebrity Golf" with various pros taking on BBC stars and various other sportsmen. Here's a listing for a 1983 F1 themed edition featuring Seve Ballesteros and James Hunt taking on Lee Trevino and Nigel Mansell!

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Quickie Review: Frasier reboot

2023-10-16 Thread Adam Bowie
I think it's going to take some time for this revival to hit the ground a bit. The first couple of episodes seem to be trying too hard to create proxies of missing characters from the past, which seems like a creative failure to me. Niles might have been an amazing character, but I don't need a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox Sez Get Lost 'Flatch'

2023-10-07 Thread Adam Bowie
On Sat, Oct 7, 2023 at 8:05 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > > "Flatch" was a one-camera show, but I have the feeling that with a reality > show hack programming Fox now, their next multi-cam show will have the > studio audience giving standing ovations when every star first enters and > lots of staged

Re: [TV orNotTV] DirecTV Wrist Slaps WBD for CNN Channel on Max

2023-10-05 Thread Adam Bowie
I've seen it separately reported that CNN's defence here is that CNN Max is essentially "CNN International" which is a different channel to CNN. Of course, CNN International simulcasts many of the key CNN shows including This Morning and their Blitzer/Cooper block... On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 4:57 

Re: [TV orNotTV] Are You Ready for Some 'Toy Story' Football?

2023-10-01 Thread Adam Bowie
I noticed on Disney+ (in the UK) a couple of hours ago as they were featuring it. So I spun to a random section to see how it sounded and was left unimpressed. I'm sure the tech that allowed them to capture the players' locations on the field in realtime, as well as identify the ball's location

Re: [TV orNotTV] "This is the craziest s--t I EVER watched on tv"

2023-09-28 Thread Adam Bowie
d or if Oliver will be. > > On Thursday, September 28, 2023 at 9:18:48 AM UTC-5 Adam Bowie wrote: > >> I see that the first part of my prediction has already come true. THR >> notes that it's sitting atop Max's "Most Popular" list: >> https://www.hollywoodrep

Re: [TV orNotTV] "This is the craziest s--t I EVER watched on tv"

2023-09-28 Thread Adam Bowie
fended by naked bodies, but I am offended by vapid inanity, and that is > pretty much all I got from it. There are so many easier and less inane ways > to look at naked people these days. I won’t be watching anymore. > > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 at 7:18 AM

Re: [TV orNotTV] "This is the craziest s--t I EVER watched on tv"

2023-09-28 Thread Adam Bowie
I see that the first part of my prediction has already come true. THR notes that it's sitting atop Max's "Most Popular" list: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/naked-attraction-max-most-popular-1235602099/ On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 4:16 PM Adam Bowie wrote: > Yup - Nak

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here’s Why Bruce Willis’ ‘Moonlighting’ Isn’t Streaming Anywhere

2023-09-26 Thread Adam Bowie
eared. > > https://www.vulture.com/2023/09/moonlighting-bruce-willis-hulu-release-date.html > > On Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 4:41:12 AM UTC-4 Adam Bowie wrote: > >> And... I wouldn't hold my breath... >> >> https://twitter.com/GlennGCaron/status/157776386877165568

Re: [TV orNotTV] RIP Man from UNCLE/Duck from NCIS

2023-09-26 Thread Adam Bowie
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 4:53 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > From the Wiki, only two are left: John Leyton, an instant hit on itv in > 1960 as a co-star of "Biggles," and then briefly an admired pop singer > (only to get flattened by the juggernaut that was

Re: [TV orNotTV] "This is the craziest s--t I EVER watched on tv"

2023-09-25 Thread Adam Bowie
ot; the 10-season veteran of UK > Channel Four's late-night lineup once referenced by our own Adam Bowie > <https://groups.google.com/g/tvornottv/c/Xf6eLzLS6wM/m/YUU7JP-dAwAJ> > (link) inside a thread about the "Great British Bake-Off/Baking Show" > moving to Four back i

Re: [TV orNotTV] Brand Special off Par+

2023-09-22 Thread Adam Bowie
>From what I understand, various people have been trying to get this story "across the line" for years now, but they needed cast-iron proof and some victims to cooperate with whatever proof they could provide. To misquote they Ben Bradlee line that came up here recently, they did not have it. I'm

Re: [TV orNotTV] It ain’t Rupert’s Fox no more

2023-09-21 Thread Adam Bowie
I think it's news because Murdoch said he'd never retire. And of course, it *is* a story. It's a handy time to be Michael Woolf who's new book on Fox and Murdoch, "The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire," comes out on Tuesday. I imagine he'll be invited onto even more shows than he might have

Re: [TV orNotTV] Polish Comp Has Contestants in Blackface, Dropping N Bombs (Hoo Boy)

2023-09-14 Thread Adam Bowie
Maybe once upon a time - not even that long ago - it might have been "accepted". And I say that being from the country that had "The Black and White Minstrel Show" on primetime television until as recently as 1978. But I'm not sure any country has any excuses today. That said, there are still

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Jimmys, Seth, Stephen and Jon started a podcast

2023-09-14 Thread Adam Bowie
I see there's a live Vegas show on 23rd September featuring three of the five, *including *Fallon. Oliver and Meyers can't make it because they seemingly have other live show commitments: https://deadline.com/2023/09/stephen-colbert-jimmy-fallon-jimmy-kimmel-live-las-vegas-show-1235545741/ On

Re: [TV orNotTV] Why a Rita Ora guest shot on original Love Island disappeared from Hulu

2023-07-27 Thread Adam Bowie
Yep - that was a perfect example of the Google-likes-articles-that-are-over-500-words for search optimisation way of writing. Tantamount to those "What time is the Super Bowl?" articles that start by explaining what the NFL is and going from there... On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 3:34 PM Jim Ellwanger

Re: [TV orNotTV] John Cleese wants investigation of colleague-to-be

2023-07-19 Thread Adam Bowie
On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 8:09 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I *voonder* if this has any connexion to Huw Edwards (q.v.) ? > No - this happened years ago. And Wootton has nothing to do with Huw Edwards. But I can see how the connection could be drawn.

Re: [TV orNotTV] BT Sport begins its new life as TNT Sports

2023-07-19 Thread Adam Bowie
It's worth reiterating that the name TNT Sports has zero resonance in the UK. It's simply not a brand here. So they're starting from scratch a bit. I've yet to really see much in the way of marketing explaining it all, and even as a BT Sport subscriber, they've not made things that clear (and I

Re: [TV orNotTV] Our condolences to Kevin...

2023-07-17 Thread Adam Bowie
g >> which allow increases in performance, which without saying as much I take >> it are attempts to allay suspicions of people like me that part of the >> explanation for the amazing performances we are seeing is doping. It is >> only kind of working. >> >&g

Re: [TV orNotTV] Corruption in Irish television

2023-07-10 Thread Adam Bowie
It's worth noting that basically every public service TV broadcaster across Europe apart from the BBC takes at least some advertising these days. I've just spent the week in France and France TV (their BBC equivalent) has advertising between programmes, but fewer mid-programme interruptions than

Re: [TV orNotTV] Our condolences to Kevin...

2023-07-08 Thread Adam Bowie
Kevin is not the only person in this group gutted by the Cavendish news. Still, the overall race is going so strongly that it's almost as though it was being scripted for the next series of the Tour de France Netflix documentary! My side hustle is being one of the producers on this podcast:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Spacey facing more charges in the UK

2023-06-28 Thread Adam Bowie
Sequestering juries is pretty rare in the UK. Probably in part because there are much tighter reporting restrictions on UK court cases - which includes *everyone*. The only reporting allowed is what factually took place in court - no commenting, theorising or anything else. Even random TikTok-ers

Re: [TV orNotTV] John Goodman still misses Roseanne

2023-06-26 Thread Adam Bowie
Separately, Goodman was leading the crowd at the London Stadium during the seventh-inning stretch at the Cardinals-Cubs game yesterday. Tweet from game 1 - https://twitter.com/mlblife/status/1672994460492341249?s=61=OlE1qv8VSwKj2F7fPPCo8Q Although Bill Murray was causing more chaos with the BT

Re: [TV orNotTV] TCM Going Off in UK

2023-06-24 Thread Adam Bowie
The UK TCM has for a long time been a pale imitation of the US version. The range of films shown is pretty limited, usually being 70s or later. There are few B films, and some years back they stopped broadcasting in HD altogether. So the picture quality is just awful. I've never known it to have

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Zaslav selling licensing from WB film/tv music

2023-06-22 Thread Adam Bowie
Wouldn't the rights to much of, say, the Casablanca music be out of copyright by now - or very close to? The writer of "As Time Goes By" died in 1951, and the recording is from 1942. The entire film is already public domain in some territories. Of course Warners will [potentially] have the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Hits Save Ryan Murphy at Netflix

2023-06-21 Thread Adam Bowie
The odd thing about Ryan Murphy's deals is that he's managed to have a hand in both Disney and Netflix camps all the way through. Anything he'd already got going seemed to be fair game for extension. So more seasons of "American Horror Story", "American Crime Story" and indeed "American [INSERT

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Only" fans of quiz shows

2023-06-15 Thread Adam Bowie
On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 3:14 PM Ben Scripps wrote: > Nitpicky, but the connecting wall is actually the penultimate round; th y > ndw th th m ssn gvwls rnd. > > Qt rght! I'd always wondered what an American version of OC would be like. Today's puzzle took me all of two minutes to solve with no

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Only" fans of quiz shows

2023-06-15 Thread Adam Bowie
The NY Times has just launched a "new" puzzle called "Connections". Nothing to do with the old James Burke series of yesteryear (which I loved), but others have noted that it seems to be extraordinarily similar to the final round of the UK quiz show "Only Connect" The "new" game:

Re: [TV orNotTV] SHO Cans 'Vice' Ep on DeSantis Allegedly Viewing Torture at Gitmo

2023-06-06 Thread Adam Bowie
To be honest, journalistic outfits pulling or delaying publishing stories is pretty par for the course. They might be going through a legal check when something comes up that needs more work doing, or some other aspect of a story isn't quite ready. We definitely see it in the UK, where an episode

Re: [TV orNotTV] ABC cancels three dramas

2023-05-13 Thread Adam Bowie
I enjoyed Alaska Daily (on Disney+ over here) which, aside from Abbott Elementary and the odd episode of Will Trent (both also on Disney+ here), I think are now the only US Network TV shows I still watch. And while the main storyline was wrapped up, there was plenty lined up for a second season,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Statement: UK's TalkTV, GB News limited from using other feeds of coronation

2023-05-05 Thread Adam Bowie
More recent accounts suggest that an agreement has been reached. The BBC leads on this operation with Sky and ITV contributing, and from what I can tell it's a multi-million production including the UK's largest ever 4K outside broadcast. The fees that were being asked were in the six figure

Re: [TV orNotTV] Foxx Still Laid Up, Cannon to Fill In for Him on 'Beat Shazam'

2023-05-04 Thread Adam Bowie
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 4:18 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > > And as to why Ireland, it's either because facilities in the U.S. are > still being taken up by Peak TV or they're trying to save money (even if > they have to fly contestants from the U.S. and put them up in a hotel, > since there aren't

[TV orNotTV] Comisar Collection Auction

2023-05-04 Thread Adam Bowie
I don't know if anyone here has found some spare cash down the back of the sofa recently, but there's an extraordinary auction of TV memorabilia happening including things like Letterman and Carson desk sets as well as the Cheers bar! And much much more...

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tucker's Gone At FNC

2023-04-25 Thread Adam Bowie
Which at first appearance does make it a bit odd that both feel they need to hire someone to specially negotiate their exit payments. You'd have thought their regular agents would have just waved their respective contracts at FNC and CNN and said, "Pay up." But I guess FNC will point to some

Re: [TV orNotTV] Brian Cox Hosts (!) James Bond Reality Comp (!!) for Amazon

2023-04-24 Thread Adam Bowie
Considering Bond is essentially going to need a complete reboot at this stage, I can't see them wanting to use Cleese any more than they'd use a CGI Desmond Llewelyn... On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 8:31 PM Kevin M. wrote: > Cleese hasn’t been part of the Bond franchise in over 20 years, and >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tucker's Gone At FNC

2023-04-24 Thread Adam Bowie
I am FASCINATED by this move. On the one hand, coming just a few days after the massive Fox News settlement, and with more settlements probably to come, something had to happen at FNC. On the other hand, other shows seem to have had a bigger impact on that particular case. Unless he's just the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Len Goodman gone

2023-04-24 Thread Adam Bowie
The obituary on Goodman is really interesting and worth a read too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58929590 On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 1:37 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Bone cancer claims the "Strictly"/"DWTS" judge. 78. >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Tha God, Wolf, Desus Future 'TDS' Guest Hosts

2023-04-21 Thread Adam Bowie
I can easily see them sticking to the permanent guest-host format. They can be so flexible with it, and as others have already said, it allows for all kinds of Paramount stunt-hosting for big new Paramount+ launches, major movies or whatever. And while I'm sure there's a steep learning curve for

Re: [TV orNotTV] Max greenlights "Potter" series

2023-04-13 Thread Adam Bowie
On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 4:53 PM Kevin M. wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 8:08 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> I'm pretty sure that JK Rowling used "JK" rather than "Joanne" simply >> because her publisher thought it was expedient for sales. Boys aren'

Re: [TV orNotTV] Max greenlights "Potter" series

2023-04-13 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm pretty sure that JK Rowling used "JK" rather than "Joanne" simply because her publisher thought it was expedient for sales. Boys aren't (or weren't) as likely to buy a fantasy book written by a female as written by a male. I'm sure that as a largely unpublished author, she relied heavily on

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tyra Paso Dobles Off 'DWTS'

2023-03-18 Thread Adam Bowie
On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 3:13 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > > "DWTS" has been going through some cast changes recently--Cranky Brit > judge Len Goodman announced last fall that he was retiring from the US > version (with no hint if he will continue on the UK parent "Strictly Come > Dancing") ... >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Mini review: Miami Vice

2023-03-15 Thread Adam Bowie
I picked up a Blu Ray set of the complete Miami Vice a few months ago, but stalled in my planned re-watch. While the lighting might be a bit basic, and the scripts not always amazing, the location still looks wonderful. I guess it made such a difference actually having a series not being shot in

Re: [TV orNotTV] Stephen Fry to present UK version of Jeopardy

2023-02-27 Thread Adam Bowie
paced version of "QI" without the joke > answers. (I'm only sort of kidding.) > > On Feb 27, 2023, at 2:18 AM, Adam Bowie wrote: > > There have been a couple of attempts in the past to bring Jeopardy to UK > audiences, although I confess that they have all com

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Regional Sports Networks are in deep trouble

2023-02-27 Thread Adam Bowie
The Feb 23rd episode of The Town podcast with Matt Belloni is worth a listen for a deep dive into this. I come away wondering how on earth Disney managed to get as much as it did when it was forced to sell the Fox regional sports networks as part of their deal to take over other Fox assets. The

[TV orNotTV] Stephen Fry to present UK version of Jeopardy

2023-02-27 Thread Adam Bowie
There have been a couple of attempts in the past to bring Jeopardy to UK audiences, although I confess that they have all completely passed me by. This feels like a significantly bigger play with Fry taking on hosting duties. Beyond the odd presenting stint on Have I Got News For You, I can't

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

2023-02-24 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm going support Phil Davis on this one. I didn't watch all the BAFTAs but watched enough to know that even though they shook it up this year, and finally, well into an age of socal media, presented at least some of the awards live on TV, the awards were another mess this year. Davis didn't

Re: [TV orNotTV] Reusing stock footage stunt sequences.

2023-02-19 Thread Adam Bowie
In the UK, ITC who made loads of action adventure series in the 1960s did the same sort of thing. Here's a compilation of clips of two cars going over cliffs that we use repeatedly. The shows they're from are in the YouTube description. https://youtu.be/V4S7WDhMlDI On Mon, 20 Feb 2023, 00:05

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quick review: Poker Face

2023-02-10 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm getting very jealous about this show which I'm keen to see. Sadly, the Comcast-owned Sky seems to have lost interest in the Comcast-owned Peacock here in the UK. Peacock has only ever been a tile in the Sky service and not a stand-alone streamer. But if I go in today, they seem to have a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Netflix... Location sharing rules hits Canada.

2023-02-09 Thread Adam Bowie
, like a >> liquor store that puts up a broken video camera in an attempt to deter >> shoplifting. I’m not convinced, but would like to start reading stories >> about how many subscribers in Peru (or wherever they have piloted this >> already) have been kicked off. >&

Re: [TV orNotTV] Netflix... Location sharing rules hits Canada.

2023-02-09 Thread Adam Bowie
I agree that it might be complicated to legislate. On the one hand, you might just use an IP address and allow hotel/rental/remote watching for finite amounts of time (say 30 days), before you assume that the viewer was actually "resident" at this non-"primary" address. But I easily think of

Re: [TV orNotTV] It’s Not HBO (It’s Max)

2023-02-08 Thread Adam Bowie
g out of retirement and use him >>>> as a brand ambassador? (Although maybe make him a little less of a >>>> stereotype than the WB did back in the day...) >>>> On Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 12:00:29 PM UTC-5 Adam Bowie wrote: >>>> >>&g

Re: [TV orNotTV] HBO Max Up a Buck

2023-02-07 Thread Adam Bowie
I think that this was announced back on 12 January. '“This price increase of one dollar will allow us to continue to invest in providing even more culture-defining programming and improving our customer experience for all users,” the company said in a statement.' I guess that a $1 increase is

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

2023-02-03 Thread Adam Bowie
For what it's worth, the BBC showed the Peacock version of Traitors in the UK too. So both parties are getting everything... Adam On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 3:39 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > The first reality comp in some time to get any sort of traction (as can be > figured out since the streamers

Re: [TV orNotTV] IYC: Oscar nominations

2023-01-24 Thread Adam Bowie
I suspect that I've read the same Puck pieces on Andrea Riseborough and "To Leslie" that PGage has. I believe the film got a very limited UK release back in October, but it completely passed me by at the time. But Riseborough isn't an unknown in any way, at least in the UK. For instance, she has a

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