Alessandra Stanley in the NYT this morning appears to be much more insightful than usual (and gets off the best line about Snoop Lion I've ever read). http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/arts/television/arsenio-hall-show-returns-with-much-familiarity.html?_r=0
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 10:49 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]>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. >> >> Episode one was a trainwreck, and ten steps backwards from the Arsenio >> I'd grown to like. And since it is at the KTLA studios, I won't go watch it >> in person, knowing the Judge Judy audience will vandalize my car once I'm >> inside. >> > > I detested the original Arsenio show - just hated it. I would rather watch > Leno host a talk show than Hall. If his current show is ten steps backwards > from that, then he is so far in the rear of acceptable television that I > could not see it now with a telescope. > > I watched the original only when I had to (for me that meant when Magic > was on, and when my brother and sister, who loved him and went pretty > regularly to tapings, were potentially going to be on screen for a micro > second). > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
