My problem was more of a nit-picking in that although the great theme song from the UK version is used here, it's used in this weird electronic version (although I assume that if they used the same UK theme, they would've had to replace the reference to the ITV "News at Ten" theme in the beginning). Also, I prefer the goofy animation of the UK titles over what they used here, which I found a little austere, as if "we're on CNN."
Otherwise, I enjoyed what I saw for the most part. It's going to take some time and we'll have to find out what kind of guests they're going to get and what politicians will agree to go on . (It does bother me that the UK version seems to have helped Boris Johnson a lot until he was actually prime minister from his many guest host stints, just like "The Apprentice" made you-know-who a thing.) I do hope that for the Missing Words round they will start doing the "guest publications" like the UK version, which are usually journals like the "Poultry Raisers' Gazette." And I guess I'll look up on Max the Anderson Cooper show on misinformation that followed "HIGNFY" but I didn't record. Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 8:17 AM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I was surprised by how much I liked the first show - so much better than > “After Midnight.” It seemed like the point of the show is for the civilian > is to be kind of a straight man, and I thought he was fine, though maybe he > or Wood should have somehow brought in a little bit of who he was in real > life. Wood was funny, but I agree the energy level was a bit off; it’s > almost like they watched the first eek of After Midnight and decided > whatever they did they wanted to avoid that desperate manic vibe. I know > the points don’t matter but they hardly existed at all, o scoreboard or > explanation, so it sounded like a non sequitur when they were mentioned a > few times late in the show. > > Sent from Gmail Mobile > > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 at 11:55 PM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyone else watch it? I have no familiarity with the British version, so >> I can't compare it. >> >> For the most part, it wasn't very good. While I like Roy Wood Jr. a lot, >> and run hot and cold on Amber Ruffin and Robin Thede, it was one of the >> first times I've liked Ian Michael Black. >> >> The two biggest problems I found were 1) the Libertarian panelist. It >> wasn't his politics (which mostly went unexpressed); it was that he was >> basically a smart author forced to compete with four professional >> comedians, and there aren't a lot of civilians who are equipped for that. >> He was game, but out of his depth. (For example, in the closing "What Will >> Be News Next Week?" bit, the other three gave humorous answers while his >> was sober and serious.) >> >> The other, bigger, problem was that it felt like -- despite a live >> audience -- there was a lot of dead air; it was a 30--minute show crammed >> into a 60-minute slot. >> >> To be honest, probably the liveliest and most unexpected thing on the >> show was the two unbleeped "motherfuckers." Guess CNN didn't go with a >> seven-second delay. >> >> Hopefully, they'll solve some of the problems as they go along, but right >> now, there's not a lot there. >> >> --Dave Sikula >> >> -- >> 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]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a5cbcd06-6724-4686-be49-0af9a0fe4014n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/a5cbcd06-6724-4686-be49-0af9a0fe4014n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKq2o50L66KnHFmXZrpPrEUxP%3DZv7ByeKj8-89f-f%2BAJQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKGtkYKq2o50L66KnHFmXZrpPrEUxP%3DZv7ByeKj8-89f-f%2BAJQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi-cu8cB5KKfNOeCyk-Vw-yvHYFDtY3LuL2TBHBDTWinhA%40mail.gmail.com.
