For the record, Apple TV+ is only $5/mo, and there's almost always a free trial. The catalog is more limited than other services at similar price points (Hulu at $7/mo, Disney+ at $7/mo by virtue of a pre-launch multi-year offer), but Apple has been aggressively adding originals and buying films to fill out the library.
I watched a few episodes of "Keenan" S1; I really like Keenan, and was willing to give the show a shot, but it never landed for me - possibly because it's too sitcom-formulaic, possibly because it's just not very well written, possibly because putting Keenan in the lead role of a modern sitcom doesn't give him opportunity for those "[KEENAN REACTS]" moments he's famous for from SNL. Either way, we didn't stick with it, but I was happy to see Keenan getting recognized. Cedric was a bad host. There's no need to sugarcoat it. His jokes didn't land, he kept calling Reggie Watts by the wrong name, and the majority of his pre-tapes weren't funny (although I did like the No-Emmy support group...at least until Dr. Fraud walked in.) I get that he's a pillar CBS's comedy lineup, but they've also got WAYNE FRICKING BRADY on the network - how do you not recruit him for this? On Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 8:59:24 PM UTC-4 PGage wrote: > I think you are letting Cedrick off too easy; he is just not good (at > least when he aims for mainstream audiences). I know who Fred Savage is, > and 2 of Cedrick’s three TV wives, and those sketches were still extremely > unfunny. The Pence sketch was unfunny when SNL did it back when it was > topical (but seriously, who let him go that far back for such a hack idea?). > > I don’t think TV is too fragmented for a good Emmy’s show, and in fact > aside from Cedrick I thought this was a good show. The nominee list (which > I guess was expanded) were almost all of very high quality. I consume a lot > of TV but still had not heard of some shows (e.g. Pose) or had heard of but > not yet seen others (Hacks, which I started watching yesterday). I did see > a lot of irritated Tweeters grousing “Who’s Ted Lasso?”, but if they don’t > care enough to spend $10 to get Apple TV for one month to watch both > seasons (easily done) then I’m not taking the irritation too seriously. A > glance through the nominee list for the televised categories only left me > stink eyed over a few (I have not seen it, but hard to believe “Keenan” > really represents the best of American TV this year). > > By the end of the show I thought the Emmys had reclaimed their position > ahead of the Golden Globes, which may now be an ex-thing on broadcast TV > anyway. It’s not clear if any of these Award shows will survive another two > years (though I would bet they will), but if the Emmys don’t, I think it > will more be that a fragmented audience no longer watches TV events like > this, not that television programming is too fragmented to generate > interest in recognizing the best content. > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 at 3:01 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I think the problem with all of the skits was the problem with the >> broadcast in general* (even if the ratings were up this year): that the >> audience has become so fragmented that there's just too many things that >> too many people aren't familiar with. >> >> I mean, I guess to anyone who's watched all of Cedric's shows, that thing >> with his TV wives amusing (I can't imagine anyone did, but go with me ...), >> but to anyone like me who's managed to avoid his TV work, it was three >> actresses chewing scenery badly. Same with the Ken Jeong thing. If you >> haven't seen him, you don't know what's going on. (And I kind of like him, >> but his act is getting so thin, one can read a newspaper through it.) >> >> The thing with Pence and the fly was about as topical as Mort Sahl's >> material about the Eisenhower administration. >> >> Even the "I never won an Emmy sketch" (which went on too long) suffered >> from "Who are these people?" syndrome. (Poor Fred Savage.) >> >> >> I'm not a fan of award shows, but this one did nothing to help the cause. >> It was badly written, poorly paced, and utterly unnecessary. >> >> --Dave Sikula >> >> (*Other than the tacit acknowledgment that the medium has become so >> infested with British actors playing Americans that they had to set up a >> middle-of-the-night soiree in London.) >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, September 21, 2021, 02:15:11 PM PDT, PGage <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> He really was quite bad. I have seen his stand up, which is better than >> his horrid tv shows, but still not really great IMO. I am not sure what CBS >> was expecting because as bad as he was, it was just about what I would have >> predicted. >> >> On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 at 3:11 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> They'll probably drag Samberg, Fallon, or Meyers into the swamp, >> especially if Lorne is producing. >> >> Cedric was embarrassingly bad Sunday, so anyone -- even Wiig -- would be >> an improvement. >> >> -- Dave Sikula >> >> On Monday, September 20, 2021 at 8:54:58 AM UTC-7 Brad Beam wrote: >> >> If the current rotation holds, NBC airs the ceremony next year. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Sep 20, 2021, at 11:07, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Personally, I would love to see Oliver crapping on everyone as Emmy >> host, but that won't happen unless HBO televises it. If it's Fox next year, >> who's going to host? Nick Cannon? Dr. Ken? 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