On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:48 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I caught the highlights over on Deadspin, and I think the writer there >> nailed it: "Tonight's Ron Burgundy newscast felt like a painful SNL >> sketch-turned-movie, and that's never good." >> > > I don't know - for that depends. If they hyped it all day then it does > feel like the bad SNL movie, but if they kept it quiet, and people just > turned in for their regular newscast and got Burgundy, then I think it is > pretty awesome. There are a lot of painfully awkward moments, but that is > part of it, isn't it? >
Okay - I would like to request unanimous request to revise and extend my remarks from December 1 on this. I thought the idea of a low-key, hit and run Burgundy doing a weekend evening local newscast in out of the way North Dakota was a pretty cool viral marketing campaign. After ten days of all Ron Burgundy, all the time on every media space imaginable, I conceded that prescience of the Deadspin writer. I was always going to see Part Deux, but now I will be going with a bad attitude... -- -- 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.
