The series lost all credibility to me last year when in a "TV's Funniest Women" (or something to that effect), they were all over Joan Rivers and ignored Gertrude Berg, the first Most Powerful Woman in Television. While I've never liked Rivers, I'll stipulate to her importance in stand-up. But TV? No. And surely, licensing clips from "The Goldbergs" wouldn't have been that expensive.
I chalk it up to laziness, ignorance, and incompetence more than lack of wherewithal. --Dave Sikula On Sunday, April 13, 2014 9:26:23 AM UTC-7, Diner wrote: > > > > On Sunday, April 13, 2014 7:58:56 AM UTC-4, Jon Delfin wrote: >> >> Caveat to anyone who hasn't seen the previous entries: These shows are >> the opposite of "in-depth." Apparently, the budget to clear clips is >> minimal, and so they use a limited number of them, often ones that aren't >> representative of the topic but seem to be only what they could afford, and >> then show bits of them repeatedly. They also tend to spend most of their >> time on the people who are willing (and still alive) to sit for interviews, >> at the expense of giving a balanced view. >> >> >> > > I remember their first season episode on variety shows, where one of the > people who was willing to sit for an interview with them was Andy Williams > - so they included a bunch of clips from his show. Not his big-budget, hit > show of the sixties, mind you, but his cheap summer replacement show of > 1958, with Dick Van Dyke as his sidekick. Likely not a show that either one > of them looked back on fondly - more like an example of how they had to pay > their dues before they hit the big time. But hey, the clips were probably > public domain. > > Then there was their episode about game shows where they couldn't afford a > clip from "The Newlywed Game," so they hired two actors to play a married > couple and recreate a "typical" moment from the show. The sort of painful > stuff that makes you wonder "whose idea was this?" > > > -- -- 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/d/optout.
