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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: SFGuy on November 18, 2006, 12:14:58 AM
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Best use of DVD players are old TV shows released by season. I own a few.
One that may have some interest for some of you is the upcoming release of the entire first season of Saturday Night Live which will include the musical numbers uncut. $45.49 on Amazon.
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Best use of DVD players are old TV shows released by season. I own a few.
One that may have some interest for some of you is the upcoming release of the entire first season of Saturday Night Live which will include the musical numbers uncut. $45.49 on Amazon.
woohoo! thanks for the update!!
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Best use of DVD players are old TV shows released by season. I own a few.
One that may have some interest for some of you is the upcoming release of the entire first season of Saturday Night Live which will include the musical numbers uncut. $45.49 on Amazon.
woohoo! thanks for the update!!
That is great.
Hey poc, where exactly are you staying these days? Madrid?
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Best use of DVD players are old TV shows released by season. I own a few.
One that may have some interest for some of you is the upcoming release of the entire first season of Saturday Night Live which will include the musical numbers uncut. $45.49 on Amazon.
woohoo! thanks for the update!!
That is great.
Hey poc, where exactly are you staying these days? Madrid?
yup, i'm in madrid. i wrote both you and carl.
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Best use of DVD players are old TV shows released by season. I own a few.
One that may have some interest for some of you is the upcoming release of the entire first season of Saturday Night Live which will include the musical numbers uncut. $45.49 on Amazon.
yes, now I own all 4 seasons of Due South!
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I want Love American Style.
Only TV show DVDs I have are, Mork and Mindy, Partridge Family and all episodes of Brady Bunch.
Weeds has beed recommended to me but I've never seen it.
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News Radio: The Complete Series is out -- I may have to get this one. Nice article about it on Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2204924
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News Radio: The Complete Series is out -- I may have to get this one. Nice article about it on Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2204924
I hadn't thought much about it, but yes, now after reading this article, I feel the need too!
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News Radio: The Complete Series is out -- I may have to get this one. Nice article about it on Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2204924
I hadn't thought much about it, but yes, now after reading this article, I feel the need too!
I received a gift cert from Amazon from my boss -- it's on the way!
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I've rejiggered this thread -- we didn't have a strictly TV thread, oddly.
Anyone else watch Mad Men? It's as wonderful as ever in this 3rd season, and this week's ep was (IMHO) stellar. ""I'm Peggy Olson and I want to smoke some marijuana." -- Quotable Line of the Month!
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I've rejiggered this thread -- we didn't have a strictly TV thread, oddly.
Anyone else watch Mad Men? It's as wonderful as ever in this 3rd season, and this week's ep was (IMHO) stellar. ""I'm Peggy Olson and I want to smoke some marijuana." -- Quotable Line of the Month!
I finished Season Two just the other night, and I hope to catch up tonight on S3 at my friend's Tivo-enabled house.
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I've rejiggered this thread -- we didn't have a strictly TV thread, oddly.
Anyone else watch Mad Men? It's as wonderful as ever in this 3rd season, and this week's ep was (IMHO) stellar. ""I'm Peggy Olson and I want to smoke some marijuana." -- Quotable Line of the Month!
That was the first Man Men ep I ever saw - the hype (including from Time's James Poniewozik) got to me. I really appreciate the number of blanks they let the audience fill in - these are really well thought out characters, and the audience is not insulted in the slightest.
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I've rejiggered this thread -- we didn't have a strictly TV thread, oddly.
Anyone else watch Mad Men? It's as wonderful as ever in this 3rd season, and this week's ep was (IMHO) stellar. ""I'm Peggy Olson and I want to smoke some marijuana." -- Quotable Line of the Month!
That was the first Man Men ep I ever saw - the hype (including from Time's James Poniewozik) got to me. I really appreciate the number of blanks they let the audience fill in - these are really well thought out characters, and the audience is not insulted in the slightest.
you need to get seasons 1 & 2 immediately. Amazing stuff.
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you need to get seasons 1 & 2 immediately. Amazing stuff.
I watched all of season one courtesy of Blockbuster a couple months ago, but season two wasn't out yet.
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So I wanted to rant about Comedy Central's rejiggering of their evening lineup: they've moved the Daily Show and Colbert replays from 8pm to 7pm, which means they compete with the 7:00 feed of Olbermann. Which, for me, sucks. I can watch DS/C at 7 and wait to see KO at 10, but that means bypassing the 10@10 replay. Decisions, decisions.
And hey Comedy Central: enuf with Scrubs already! It's available on 17 other local stations and cable channels (WGN, TBS, KICU, KFTY -- even MTV and VH1 run the show on weekends). If ComCentral had exclusivity, I could understand them running it endlessly, but jeez. I've seen every ep 10 times.
OTOH, this new sked means I'm seeing more of Rachel Maddow.
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Geoff might be interested to see that Paul Gross, who was in one of his favorite shows, Due South,
(http://images.art.com/images/-/Paul-Gross--C10045862.jpeg)
and then turned up in Slings & Arrows, is now playing the Jack Nicholson "Devil" role in a TV-reworking of Witches of Eastwick, called simply Eastwick, which premieres tonite on ABC. Tim Goodman gave it a "meh" review today.
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Geoff might be interested to see that Paul Gross, who was in one of his favorite shows, Due South,
(http://images.art.com/images/-/Paul-Gross--C10045862.jpeg)
and then turned up in Slings & Arrows, is now playing the Jack Nicholson "Devil" role in a TV-reworking of Witches of Eastwick, called simply Eastwick, which premieres tonite on ABC. Tim Goodman gave it a "meh" review today.
thanks for the tip! Sounds like something I'd never watch, but if Paul is going to be in it...
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thanks for the tip! Sounds like something I'd never watch, but if Paul is going to be in it...
I meant to mention he was also Brian in Tales of the City.
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thanks for the tip! Sounds like something I'd never watch, but if Paul is going to be in it...
I meant to mention he was also Brian in Tales of the City.
Well, "Tales" was pre-DS, so it doesn't really count for me!
;)
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If any of you don't have IFC on your cable menu --- demand it ASAP. I discovered last nite that they're showing all the old episodes of The Prisoner -- 3 eps back-to-back every Friday. (Of course, this serves as a promo for the remake coming in November on AMC.) But IFC also has a 6-hour documentary this month, an all-new "definitive history" of Monty Python. AND they're going to be running Arrested Development reruns on Sunday nites.
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anyone else with cable notice that the Weather Channel's picture froze in the middle of a forecast at 2:09am Friday and has remained frozen ever since? It's going on 48 hours at this point... I called Comcast around noon today and was connected to someone (who clearly was not speaking to me from inside the US) and they said it would be fixed "shortly". Hah!
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anyone else with cable notice that the Weather Channel's picture froze in the middle of a forecast at 2:09am Friday and has remained frozen ever since? It's going on 48 hours at this point... I called Comcast around noon today and was connected to someone (who clearly was not speaking to me from inside the US) and they said it would be fixed "shortly". Hah!
mine's working at this hour.
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anyone else with cable notice that the Weather Channel's picture froze in the middle of a forecast at 2:09am Friday and has remained frozen ever since? It's going on 48 hours at this point... I called Comcast around noon today and was connected to someone (who clearly was not speaking to me from inside the US) and they said it would be fixed "shortly". Hah!
mine's working at this hour.
It was restored late Sunday afternoon -- only took 2-1/2 DAYS to fix it!
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anyone else watch "Lie To Me"? It's on Mondays on Fox, and if you don't know, I highly recommend it. It was a mid-season replacement last spring & arguably the best of the lot, but what interests me here is the types of 'ripped from the headlines' topics that they are adressing. The season premier made a reference to "running of to Argentina with your girlfriend" and generally they are tackling issues in a very non-Fox way. Which is great, but I just wonder when someone is going to tell Rupert about it.
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From a duplicate TV Thread that has now been deleted:
In case you weren't keeping up with the late night shenangingans at NBC, here is a really funny summary in animated style from a Taiwan news broadcast. You don't need to speak chinese to find it hysterical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9m1an-pQ8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9m1an-pQ8)
similar to the Tiger Woods stuff they did last month that got extensive play on Olbermann's show.
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recently watched the entire series of "Spaced (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced)" (only 14 eps of 24 min each, two DVDs from Netflix). Highly recommended!
Simon Pegg co-stars and co-wrote this series. Lots of great editing, sharp & funny writing, many MANY pop culture and sci-fi references and allusions. (I would recommend watching the DVD with the second subtitle feature on, which tells you what the references are.)
The protagonists include an aspiring writer, and aspiring comic book artist (Pegg), and aspiring artist (played by mark Heap) it's got somewhat of a cult following -- I found it by just searching for highly rated British comedies on Netflix. well worth it!
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recently watched the entire series of "Spaced (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced)" (only 14 eps of 24 min each, two DVDs from Netflix). Highly recommended!
Simon Pegg co-stars and co-wrote this series. Lots of great editing, sharp & funny writing, many MANY pop culture and sci-fi references and allusions. (I would recommend watching the DVD with the second subtitle feature on, which tells you what the references are.)
The protagonists include an aspiring writer, and aspiring comic book artist (Pegg), and aspiring artist (played by mark Heap) it's got somewhat of a cult following -- I found it by just searching for highly rated British comedies on Netflix. well worth it!
Was Pegg the guy who played the title role in Shaun of the Dead? He's good--I've run across him in a few other things since then. I'll add that to our (ever lengthening) Netflix queue.
We just got Moon, the scifi flic directed by Duncan (Zowie Bowie) Jones. Looking forward to seeing it.
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recently watched the entire series of "Spaced (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced)" (only 14 eps of 24 min each, two DVDs from Netflix). Highly recommended!
Simon Pegg co-stars and co-wrote this series. Lots of great editing, sharp & funny writing, many MANY pop culture and sci-fi references and allusions. (I would recommend watching the DVD with the second subtitle feature on, which tells you what the references are.)
The protagonists include an aspiring writer, and aspiring comic book artist (Pegg), and aspiring artist (played by mark Heap) it's got somewhat of a cult following -- I found it by just searching for highly rated British comedies on Netflix. well worth it!
Was Pegg the guy who played the title role in Shaun of the Dead? He's good--I've run across him in a few other things since then. I'll add that to our (ever lengthening) Netflix queue.
We just got Moon, the scifi flic directed by Duncan (Zowie Bowie) Jones. Looking forward to seeing it.
yes, and Pegg was also Scotty in the Star Trek reboot.
Moon is one of my fave underseen flicks of 2009. Hope ya like it. And as long as you're adding to the NetFlix list:
Sugar
District 9
Summer Hours
The Hurt Locker
In the Loop
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TBS: Very Funny. And now even funnier, as Conan bypasses FOX to sign with Mr Turner's channel:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/conan-obrien-will-do-a-late-night-show-on-tbs/?hp
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TBS: Very Funny. And now even funnier, as Conan bypasses FOX to sign with Mr Turner's channel:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/conan-obrien-will-do-a-late-night-show-on-tbs/?hp
I was kinda baffled by that. It's like if Matt Holliday had signed with the Pirates.
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TBS: Very Funny. And now even funnier, as Conan bypasses FOX to sign with Mr Turner's channel:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/conan-obrien-will-do-a-late-night-show-on-tbs/?hp
I was kinda baffled by that. It's like if Matt Holliday had signed with the Pirates.
Speculation is, although they haven't disclosed terms yet, Ted T. busted out the checkbook and gave him approximately as much as he was getting from his old NBC contract. Frankly, I'd much rather he be on TBS than on Fox. It's a smart move for them, too. He'll be on at 11, so getting a half-hour jump on Leno & Letterman. I found it ironic though, that George Lopez is doing for TBS exactly what Conan refused to do for NBC--move his show back to accomodate somebody else.
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Anyone else here been watching Treme on HBO? last nite was the next-to-last ep of the season (it's been renewed) and the was a semi-gobsmacking plot turn that I'm sure threw some viewers for a loop.
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Anyone else here been watching Treme on HBO? last nite was the next-to-last ep of the season (it's been renewed) and the was a semi-gobsmacking plot turn that I'm sure threw some viewers for a loop.
I am watching (thanks to On Demand, because I go to bed early on Sundays). I like it a lot, and have a deeper appreciation of NO music than I've had before. Lot's of The Wire alumni make it fun too. I saw the plot turn you mention coming, but was hoping they would find a way not to go there...
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Anyone else here been watching Treme on HBO? last nite was the next-to-last ep of the season (it's been renewed) and the was a semi-gobsmacking plot turn that I'm sure threw some viewers for a loop.
I am watching (thanks to On Demand, because I go to bed early on Sundays). I like it a lot, and have a deeper appreciation of NO music than I've had before. Lot's of The Wire alumni make it fun too. I saw the plot turn you mention coming, but was hoping they would find a way not to go there...
**SPOILER AHEAD**
Well, they did enuf "foreshadowing" that it wasn't a shock. But I wondered all season why his name wasn't in the opening credits (his part was as big as Steve Zahn's. or Melissa Leo's, or any of 'em). So a couple weeks ago I guessed that something was gonna happen to that character before the season ended, tho' I was thinking more "heart attack". And I didn't know that the real-life person he was based on also died after Katrina. the Treme blog on the NO Times-Picayune website has been very helpful:
http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/
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Anyone else here been watching Treme on HBO? last nite was the next-to-last ep of the season (it's been renewed) and the was a semi-gobsmacking plot turn that I'm sure threw some viewers for a loop.
I am watching (thanks to On Demand, because I go to bed early on Sundays). I like it a lot, and have a deeper appreciation of NO music than I've had before. Lot's of The Wire alumni make it fun too. I saw the plot turn you mention coming, but was hoping they would find a way not to go there...
**SPOILER AHEAD**
Well, they did enuf "foreshadowing" that it wasn't a shock. But I wondered all season why his name wasn't in the opening credits (his part was as big as Steve Zahn's. or Melissa Leo's, or any of 'em). So a couple weeks ago I guessed that something was gonna happen to that character before the season ended, tho' I was thinking more "heart attack". And I didn't know that the real-life person he was based on also died after Katrina. the Treme blog on the NO Times-Picayune website has been very helpful:
http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/
He was first on the after credits, and all on his own, where the rest of the cast (or maybe just guests?) are in bunches moving really quick. His rants were great -- he'd go into full The Big Lebowski mode. I think I'll change my sig quote....
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I continue to be surprised and pleased at how funny Hot in Cleveland, the new sitcom on TVLand has turned out to be. (And not just because eveybody loves Betty White.) An old-school set-up, yes, but sharp writing, delivered by pros. Last nite Miss White dated Carl Reiner; next week Huey Lewis guest stars as a RnRHoF bad-boy (well, it *is* Cleveland) who once had a steamy affair with the Wendie Malick character (who's a former soap star). Wonder if they'll mention Huey's infamous, er, you know.
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IFC has resurrected the much-beloved but ratings-challenged Judd Apatow series Freaks & Geeks. James Franco! Seth Rogen! Jason Segel!
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IFC has resurrected the much-beloved but ratings-challenged Judd Apatow series Freaks & Geeks. James Franco! Seth Rogen! Jason Segel!
I've been meaning to catch up on that. The IFC network often surprises me.
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IFC has resurrected the much-beloved but ratings-challenged Judd Apatow series Freaks & Geeks. James Franco! Seth Rogen! Jason Segel!
which comcast channel? I probably don't have it.
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IFC has resurrected the much-beloved but ratings-challenged Judd Apatow series Freaks & Geeks. James Franco! Seth Rogen! Jason Segel!
which comcast channel? I probably don't have it.
IFC is ch. 503 on Comcast Digital.
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IFC has resurrected the much-beloved but ratings-challenged Judd Apatow series Freaks & Geeks. James Franco! Seth Rogen! Jason Segel!
which comcast channel? I probably don't have it.
IFC is ch. 503 on Comcast Digital.
Alas, our package doesn't include that. I hate to sound like an old fogey (hard to help at times!) but jeez, it seems like Comcast charges a shitload of money to run a wire into your house!
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Holy crap! KOFY TV20 is now showing The Flying Nun in the 11am slot. I think I need to get outta the house.
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Line of the week: a character on Futurama just gave someone the Vulcan Death Grip, and after the victim fell to the floor, Death Grip Guy said: "Mama said Spock you out!"
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Line of the week: a character on Futurama just gave someone the Vulcan Death Grip, and after the victim fell to the floor, Death Grip Guy said: "Mama said Spock you out!"
;D
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Mad Men season premiere Sunday nite! 3 seasons of Sterling-Cooper pickup lines in a convenient montage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjhvtNs48SE&feature=player_embedded
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Article on Jim Gabbert and the the new/old KOFY-TV20:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/17/DDOO1ET999.DTL&type=entertainment
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Looks like it's official: Steven Tyler makes a deal with Idol...
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38753952/ns/today-entertainment/
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Looks like it's official: Steven Tyler makes a deal with Idol...
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38753952/ns/today-entertainment/
IF he can survive the current tour!
Joe Perry knocks Steven Tyler offstage in Canada
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=70414
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Looks like it's official: Steven Tyler makes a deal with Idol...
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38753952/ns/today-entertainment/
IF he can survive the current tour!
Joe Perry knocks Steven Tyler offstage in Canada
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=70414
HAHA! oh well. a little friction is good. but at their age, friction might lead to traction! ;)
Tyler is a wispy dude, ratherr slight, a nine year old might be able to knock him off that stage if she hit him correctly and he was off balance.
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Great opening number on the Emmys just now: Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey and Co. doing "Born to Run", managing to both celebrate and make fun of Glee at the same time.
And Jon Hamm gets to team up with Betty White. Or vice-versa.
ETA: another inspired musical number, Fallon doing "farewell songs" to shows that ended for good this season (Lost, etc) in the styles of EJ, Boyz2Men, Green Day.
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KRON-4 hires "rapping weatherman"
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/09/rapping_weatherman_nick_kosir_kron.php
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Just wanted to say the opening ep of HBO's Boardwalk Empire last nite was pretty great. Steve Buscemi, gangsters, prohibition, hookers -- what's not to love?
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I don't often laugh at The Cleveland Show but they just did a great Tyler Perry joke: "Tyler Perry wine: it's rich & super fruity and not complex at all". Oh, snap!
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Just watched this week's ep of Mad Men -- damn, it has really been extraordinary this year. What an episode, and the closing-credit music was a clever choice. Anyone else watching?
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Just finished watching Ken Burns' two part series, The Tenth Inning on KQED. It's about the steroid era in baseball and was so fabulous, that even my football lovin', baseball hatin' hubby got into it.
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Just finished watching Ken Burns' two part series, The Tenth Inning on KQED. It's about the steroid era in baseball and was so fabulous, that even my football lovin', baseball hatin' hubby got into it.
Ken Burns was at a Giants game recently. His large boyish head panned and slowly zoomed across the horizon with a steady curiosity in what is popularly called the Ken Burns effect.
(I was at that game, too. At first I was back at the right field fence, and some nice guy came by and gave a me a club level seat ticket for free... Sweet! except they lost 2-1. It was also a crappy game.)
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Just finished watching Ken Burns' two part series, The Tenth Inning on KQED. It's about the steroid era in baseball and was so fabulous, that even my football lovin', baseball hatin' hubby got into it.
Ken Burns was at a Giants game recently. His large boyish head panned and slowly zoomed across the horizon with a steady curiosity in what is popularly called the Ken Burns effect.
Tee hee
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Tonite's ep of How I Met Your Mother had all the characters competing with each other to see who was "a real New Yorker". Which is hilarious because "HIMYM" is filmed in LA on the FAKEST-LOOKING BACK-LOT PRETEND-NYC STREETS in the history of television.
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Discovery Kids has re-branded itself as "HUB", a sort of less tween-centric version of Nickelodeon with lots of reruns (from '60s Batman to '80s Family Ties) and a spate of new cartoons. But the big news is: they're showing Fraggle Rock!
http://sundaygazettemail.com/Entertainment/201010131339
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Just in time for Xmas: PEE-WEE’S PLAYHOUSE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION! All 45 episodes plus the Christmas Special!
http://www.amazon.com/Pee-Wees-Playhouse-Complete-Collection-Reubens/dp/B003X3BY6A
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South Park is doing a parody of Inception tonite -- in 15 minutes, in fact. Can't wait.
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Keith Richards interview from 10/24 CBS Sunday Morning show:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/24/sunday/main6987306.shtml
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Fun clips from the South Park "It's a Jersey Thing" episode from 10/13/10: Everything east of the Rockies is now part of New Jersey! South Park is in danger of becoming West Jersey within the week. As the Jerseyans spill into Colorado and approach South Park, Randy and the boys stand strong against the onslaught:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/359087/no-i-wont-live-in-jersey
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/360399/jersey-party-at-sizzler
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/360405/join-us-in-this-fight
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/360408/we-need-your-help
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/359107/out-of-ammo
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Fun clips from the South Park "It's a Jersey Thing" episode from 10/13/10
a brilliant episode. last week's Inception parody... notsomuch.
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Especially for Gaz:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=76358
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Opening sketch last night on Conan O'Brien's new show on TBS (w/a few digs at NBC):
http://tv.yahoo.com/conan/show/46354/videos/22934179
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Especially for Gaz:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=76358
Brought back some great memories - thanks.
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KTVU's Randy Shandobil retires:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=77395
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Tim Goodman finally writes his "introductory" column for the H'wood Reporter. Only a month late.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tim-goodman-hollywood-reporter-s-55697
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I caught a bit of The Cleveland Show on Fox just now. Cleveland briefly fantasizes that he leads a secret and fabulous mysterious life in Brazil, where he's famous and has a hot mistress. The sequence lasted maybe 20 seconds, but in it a stadium announcer's voice speaks in Spanish and his mistress has a Spanish accent. idiots.
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I caught a bit of The Cleveland Show on Fox just now. Cleveland briefly fantasizes that he leads a secret and fabulous mysterious life in Brazil, where he's famous and has a hot mistress. The sequence lasted maybe 20 seconds, but in it a stadium announcer's voice speaks in Spanish and his mistress has a Spanish accent. idiots.
I'm no Seth Mcfarlane fan, but the point may have been that Cleveland is an idiot, because in his fantasy he'd imagine Brazilians speaking Spanish.
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I caught a bit of The Cleveland Show on Fox just now. Cleveland briefly fantasizes that he leads a secret and fabulous mysterious life in Brazil, where he's famous and has a hot mistress. The sequence lasted maybe 20 seconds, but in it a stadium announcer's voice speaks in Spanish and his mistress has a Spanish accent. idiots.
I'm no Seth Mcfarlane fan, but the point may have been that Cleveland is an idiot, because in his fantasy he'd imagine Brazilians speaking Spanish.
aha... never thought of that. thanks.
Ay! Quien es el idiota ahora?
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Heat Miser/Snow Miser Alert! Year Without a Santa Claus is on ABC Family in 10 minutes.
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Heat Miser/Snow Miser Alert! Year Without a Santa Claus is on ABC Family in 10 minutes.
I watched it - doesn't hold up so well in retrospect. Especially when Mrs. Claus does a song and dance about taking Santa's role, only to dismiss it with a moment's glance. But still fun to hear Mr. 101.
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Heat Miser/Snow Miser Alert! Year Without a Santa Claus is on ABC Family in 10 minutes.
I watched it - doesn't hold up so well in retrospect. Especially when Mrs. Claus does a song and dance about taking Santa's role, only to dismiss it with a moment's glance. But still fun to hear Mr. 101.
I've actually never liked it much. Even the best song, the "Snow/Heat" duo, seems cribbed from the King Herod number in JC Superstar. But of course the "best Xmas Special evah" is the one you saw when you were small -- I was 9 when Rudolph premiered, 10 for Charlie Brown... and 19 when Year Without a Santa Claus first aired!
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Comedy Central doing a marathon of all the South Park Xmas episodes as we speak. Mrs Broflofsky RULES!
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The origin of the TV Yule Log -- I noticed we had Dueling Logs in SF this year (on Ch. 36 and TV-20).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_Log_(TV_program)
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Well, no "Scrooge's R'n'R Xmas" om Channel 32 this year... but they *are* showing Santa Claus Conquers the Martians tonite at 8, and it's nearly as awful.
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Well, no "Scrooge's R'n'R Xmas" om Channel 32 this year... but they *are* showing Santa Claus Conquers the Martians tonite at 8, and it's nearly as awful.
Meanwhile, they re-ran the recent Simpsons Xmas ep which was genius. "It's like Christmas with a childless gay couple!" And IO can't believe the Katy Perry "that's not my bellybutton" line made it past the censors.
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Tuesday's Mega Millions winning numbers were eerily similar to Hurley's "cursed" lottery numbers from LOST. Dude! Way!
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-lotto-lost-20110106,0,885404.story
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End of an era? KOFY TV-20 has dumped (at least temporarily) their Sun nite old-TV-shows-you-vote-for block in favor of new version of Dance Party (8 to 9) and a new local game show called "Carpool Showdown" -- a trivia contest that appears to be a ripoff of "Cash Cab" (9 to 10).
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Tonite the SyFy channel is showing a marathon of the orig Green Hornet TV show that ran on ABC in the '60s. With Bruce Lee as Kato, and, er, some other guy as the Green Hornet.
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Watching a How I Met Your Mother rerun and playing Ted's boss was William Schallert (known as Patty Duke's TV dad many moons ago) -- and I was like "damn, I thought he was dead". Nope. Very much alive.
THEN:
(http://www.cinefania.com/pics/personas/9/9162.jpg)
NOW:
(http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/s/sag_breakfast_261007/sag_breakfast_30_wenn1636129.jpg)
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"Smithers, you are the... campiest of my aides-de-camp"
Smithers gives Moe's a makeover and it becomes a gay bar called (wait for it) Mo's. Genius.
And Moe buys a chihuahua named Neil Patrick Hairless!
Best. Gay. Simpsons. EVAH!
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Oh. My. F---ing. GAWD. The new improved version of the KOFY TV-20 Dance Party is on -- they seem to have gone out of their way to find fat unattractive people. They're all dancing to AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Nite Long". Good lord.
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Oh. My. F---ing. GAWD. The new improved version of the KOFY TV-20 Dance Party is on -- they seem to have gone out of their way to find fat unattractive people. They're all dancing to AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Nite Long". Good lord.
I miss the old ladies in poodle skirts!
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And Moe buys a chihuahua named Neil Patrick Hairless!
I was flippin' around and saw that bit - hilarious.
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Keith Olbermann out: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2011-01-21-olbermann_N.htm
Also see this for video for his sign off: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/41201922#41201922
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Keith Olbermann out: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2011-01-21-olbermann_N.htm
Also see this for video for his sign off: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/41201922#41201922
Holy Flaming Mother of Edward R Murrow!
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Keith Olbermann out: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2011-01-21-olbermann_N.htm
Also see this for video for his sign off: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/41201922#41201922
Holy Flaming Mother of Edward R Murrow!
Tim Goodman wasted no time in writing a lengthy analysis of what KO should do now:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/bastard-machine/10-keith-olbermann-74564
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Add the last 2 digits of your birthyear to the age you will be THIS year and you will get 111. Weird!
I saw this on TMZ, of all places.
I was born in '71 and will turn 40 (gasp) this year. 71+40=111!
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Add the last 2 digits of your birthyear to the age you will be THIS year and you will get 111. Weird!
I saw this on TMZ, of all places.
I was born in '71 and will turn 40 (gasp) this year. 71+40=111!
'55 + 56 = OMFG!
ETA: apparently it changes every year: next year the number will be 112, in 2013 it will be 113, and so on.
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Add the last 2 digits of your birthyear to the age you will be THIS year and you will get 111. Weird!
I saw this on TMZ, of all places.
I was born in '71 and will turn 40 (gasp) this year. 71+40=111!
'55 + 56 = OMFG!
ETA: apparently it changes every year: next year the number will be 112, in 2013 it will be 113, and so on.
well seeing as (the year you were born) + (the years you lived in the 20th century) = 100, it would be totally logical.
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PBS Masterpiece theater has been showing Dowtnon Abbey lo these past three Sunday eves. Last ep is next Sunday. It's pretty fun, a period soap opera modeled after Upstairs Downstairs: a noble English family and their goings-on and the servants who serve them and their goings-on.
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PBS Masterpice theater has been showing Downton Abbey lo these past three Sunday eves. Last ep is next Sunday. It's pretty fun, a period soap opera modeled after Upstairs Downstairs: a noble English family and their goings-on and the servants who serve them and their goings-on.
Been watching that here too. Very enjoyable, a well written story with a broad variety of likable and dislikeable characters. Maggie Smith is particularly great as the Dowager Countess of Grantham.
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PBS Masterpice theater has been showing Downton Abbey lo these past three Sunday eves. Last ep is next Sunday. It's pretty fun, a period soap opera modeled after Upstairs Downstairs: a noble English family and their goings-on and the servants who serve them and their goings-on.
Been watching that here too. Very enjoyable, a well written story with a broad variety of likable and dislikeable characters. Maggie Smith is particularly great as the Dowager Countess of Grantham.
We enjoy it too. I think the characters are finely shaded, with detailed foibles, and we look like we're in for a train-wreck smashup of a finale, wrapping up the entail and Mary's loss of virtue to the dead Turk in her bed!
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PBS Masterpice theater has been showing Downton Abbey lo these past three Sunday eves. Last ep is next Sunday. It's pretty fun, a period soap opera modeled after Upstairs Downstairs: a noble English family and their goings-on and the servants who serve them and their goings-on.
Been watching that here too. Very enjoyable, a well written story with a broad variety of likable and dislikeable characters. Maggie Smith is particularly great as the Dowager Countess of Grantham.
We enjoy it too. I think the characters are finely shaded, with detailed foibles, and we look like we're in for a train-wreck smashup of a finale, wrapping up the entail and Mary's loss of virtue to the dead Turk in her bed!
here's a good blog post on the details of the entail. It's rather confusing, but it's essential to the story, of course:
http://www.promantica.com/2011/01/downton-abbey-fans-welcome-to-most.html
The Daily Mail reported back in early January that the miniseries was cut by two hours (from 8 to 6) for American audiences, b/c their attention spans couldn't handle the details:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1343388/Downton-Abbey-cut-2-hours-TV-executives-fearing-plot-baffle-US-viewers.html
...but the American Masterpiece Theater producer said that was just plain wrong
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Set yer TiVo to Fear the Beard: Brian Wilson on Lopez Tonite.
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Keith Olbermann out: http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2011-01-21-olbermann_N.htm
Also see this for video for his sign off: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/41201922#41201922
Holy Flaming Mother of Edward R Murrow!
Tim Goodman wasted no time in writing a lengthy analysis of what KO should do now:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/bastard-machine/10-keith-olbermann-74564
Speculation is that KO (who is announcing his "next move" tomorrow) is going to Current TV:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/SF-Based-Current-TV-to-Nab-Olbermann-115532354.html
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Speculation is that KO (who is announcing his "next move" tomorrow) is going to Current TV:
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local-beat/SF-Based-Current-TV-to-Nab-Olbermann-115532354.html
and indeed it's official:
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/keith-olbermann-to-host-show-and-have-executive-role-at-current-tv/?hp
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Move over, Groupon: HomeAway is apologizing for "TEST BABY" from their SuperBowl ad...
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/02/08/as-groupon-defends-its-super-bowl-ad-homeaway-apologizes/
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Move over, Groupon: HomeAway is apologizing for "TEST BABY" from their SuperBowl ad...
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/02/08/as-groupon-defends-its-super-bowl-ad-homeaway-apologizes/
I loved the Groupon Tibet ad, and even my wife liked the Test Baby.
But my favorite was the VW-Darth Vader one.
nice avatar!
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Move over, Groupon: HomeAway is apologizing for "TEST BABY" from their SuperBowl ad...
http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/02/08/as-groupon-defends-its-super-bowl-ad-homeaway-apologizes/
I loved the Groupon Tibet ad, and even my wife liked the Test Baby.
But my favorite was the VW-Darth Vader one.
nice avatar!
Test Baby creeped me out. I don't remember the product of service, but the image of smooshed baby face was too much for me.
But I loved SNL's classic skit that employed the "Stunt Baby" (1977 ep w Buck Henry as host, I couldn't find a vic clip, though).
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I'm not complaining exactly, but why are there always hot shirtless guys on iCarly? Is Dan Schneider gay? (yes, I watch too much Nickelodeon)
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CBS News' Lara Logan recovering after 'brutal and sustained assault and beating' in Cairo:
http://www.businessinsider.com/lara-logan-sexual-assault-egypt-2011-2
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Best. PBS. Pledge Month. Special. EVAH; "The Best of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in"! Now on KRCB and KQED will be running it at 9:30.
OMG! the Farkle Family!
(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/135/l_a8519b9e8e30428f899336663cf248ae.jpg)
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DUUUUDE! Cheech & Chong guest-starring on The Simpsons Sunday!
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Julianne Moore to play Palin in HBO's docudrama about the 2008 election.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/09/julianne-moore-to-play-sarah-palin-in-hbos-game-change/
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DUUUUDE! Cheech & Chong guest-starring on The Simpsons Sunday!
(http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/cheech-and-chong-on-the-simpsons_363x401.jpg)
Awesome episode that included part of "Basketball Jones" with trippy animated visuals!
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Best. PBS. Pledge Month. Special. EVAH; "The Best of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in"! Now on KRCB and KQED will be running it at 9:30.
OMG! the Farkle Family!
(http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/135/l_a8519b9e8e30428f899336663cf248ae.jpg)
I actually wanted to dress as Ferd Berfle for Halloween once, but realized that no one would get it.
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As I've said before, when Tim Goodman reviews TV shows -- particularly when he overpraises stuff -- I disagree with him about 75% of the time. But when he writes about the TV business, he's the best in the, er, business. Case in point his piece today about the negotiations to bring Mad Men back for a 5th season:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bastard-machine/dont-blame-matthew-weiner-mad-172341
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I mentioned this on FB: The Simpsons are saluting Liz Taylor tonite by re-running the ep where she voiced Maggie's first word.
But at the same hour, our local KMPT (ch. 32) is showing the animated version of "Gulliver's Travels" from 1939 -- a staple of my childhood (it was on TV all the time back in the day) that hasn't been seen in decades.
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But at the same hour, our local KMPT (ch. 32) is showing the animated version of "Gulliver's Travels" from 1939 -- a staple of my childhood (it was on TV all the time back in the day) that hasn't been seen in decades.
Damn, I just turned this on and it's the usual KMPT shoddiness -- a print so old and faded of color it looks like it's in black & white! Shame because it's a piece of film history; only the 2nd full-length animated feature (after Disney's Snow White) and unlike the Disney stuff which is reissued endlessly, "GT" is forgotten.
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3-min clip of Schwarzenegger's new animated series
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6J9OGSXpg
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Big news, end-of-an-era, yadda-yadda... ABC cancels All My Children and One Life To Live
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/04/14/abc-cancels-all-my-children/
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If anyone has channel 38 in the Bay Area, they are now showing really old TV shows like Rockford Files, Adam 12, Dragnet, Emergency!, I Spy and on weekends Peter Gunn, It Takes a Thief.
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If anyone has channel 38 in the Bay Area, they are now showing really old TV shows like Rockford Files, Adam 12, Dragnet, Emergency!, I Spy and on weekends Peter Gunn, It Takes a Thief.
what did they used to be? All-Asian? Spanish?
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This Sunday HBO premieres the highly anticipated new series, Game of Thrones. For anyone with even a passing fondness for high fantasy, I would recommend you give it a try. The novel (the first in the series) is one of the best of the genre I have ever had the pleasure of reading (three times -- mainly because GRR Martin isn't very quick about getting the next installments written and I need to refresh my memory. Book five is slated to come out in July, five years after book four).
Here is Tim Goodman's glowing review (the most positive I've seen, which means Mike should beware):
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/goodman/
Other reviews have mentioned that the early episodes are burdened with too much expository dialogue, which is probably likely. But be patient. It will all be worth it once it really gets going.
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Damn, I didn't even know this film was being made: a movie about the Loud family, of the infamous PBS "real-life" docu An American Family. Reality TV some 30 years before the term was invented. James Gandolfini plays the guy who filmed the show; Diane Lane is Mrs Loud. Sat nite on HBO.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/cinema-verite-tv-review-179016
OOOPS: that's NEXT Sat nite (4/23)
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Damn, I didn't even know this film was being made: a movie about the Loud family, of the infamous PBS "real-life" docu An American Family. Reality TV some 30 years before the term was invented. James Gandolfini plays the guy who filmed the show; Diane Lane is Mrs Loud. Sat nite on HBO.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/cinema-verite-tv-review-179016
whenever I see "The Loud Family" in print I always think back to that SNL skit:
(http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/pics/78floud2.jpg)
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78floud.phtml
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Who's playing Lance? Saw a documentary on his later years. Funny and sad. Quite the character.
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If anyone has channel 38 in the Bay Area, they are now showing really old TV shows like Rockford Files, Adam 12, Dragnet, Emergency!, I Spy and on weekends Peter Gunn, It Takes a Thief.
what did they used to be? All-Asian? Spanish?
I think it used to be Chinese programming.
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If anyone has channel 38 in the Bay Area, they are now showing really old TV shows like Rockford Files, Adam 12, Dragnet, Emergency!, I Spy and on weekends Peter Gunn, It Takes a Thief.
what did they used to be? All-Asian? Spanish?
I think it used to be Chinese programming.
Ah, figured out they are Ch. 21 on Comcast. They're showing the orig Battlestar Galactica right now; followed by "Wolfman Mac's Chiller Drive-in", a syndicated knockoff of Elvira's similar show (and "KOFY Creepy Movietime"). Then they've got the orig Night of the Living Dead -- hope it's a better print than the oine KMTP shows.
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Holy crap (and this could've gone in the "I Didn't Know That!" thread) -- H. Jon Benjamin, the voice of Bob on Bob's Burgers, a show I love, is also the voice of Archer on Archer, the animated spy spoof on F/X that I've heard good things about but have never gotten around to watching.
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Who's playing Lance?
Too typecasty to suggest Chris Colfer?
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Who's playing Lance?
Too typecasty to suggest Chris Colfer?
Per the Chron's review, it's Thomas Dekker.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/19/DD3J1J2VPK.DTL
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Who's playing Lance?
Too typecasty to suggest Chris Colfer?
Lance was hippie/Radical Faeries nelly, not Gay Men's Chorus/show-tune nelly.
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Who's playing Lance?
Too typecasty to suggest Chris Colfer?
Per the Chron's review, it's Thomas Dekker.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/19/DD3J1J2VPK.DTL
and here's Mr Dekker, who is... open to anything, apparently:
http://perezhilton.com/2011-04-20-thomas-dekker-opens-up-about-his-open-sexuality?relate=
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Retro alert: KFTY, Channel 50 in Sac'to, avail on Comcast at Ch 31, is showing Mary Tyler Moore, The Dick Van Dyke Show and the first Bob Newhart Show in a 90-minute block from 8-9:30 weeknites.
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KO finally announces date for his new show:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/26/olbermann-current-countdown-june-20_n_853777.html
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Appropriately, KOFY's retro-hour is showing the little-seen Clifton Davis sitcom That's My Mama! tonite at 10.
(http://valdefierro.com/tmama02.jpg)
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Appropriately, KOFY's retro-hour is showing the little-seen Clifton Davis sitcom That's My Mama! tonite at 10.
(http://valdefierro.com/tmama02.jpg)
Randy Watson was touted in Coming to America as having appeared in an episode of That's My Mama! (I thought the show was made up for the movie's sake!)
(http://www.imperfectenjoyment.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/randy-watson.jpg)
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Randy Watson was touted in Coming to America as having appeared in an episode of That's My Mama! (I thought the show was made up for the movie's sake!)
Bwahahaha! There have been numerous That's My ___________! jokes since the show aired and of course there was the short-lived Stone/Parker parody of Dubya called That's My Bush!
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They're showing classic early Simpsons eps all month -- just saw the Ramones sing Happy Birthday to Mr Burns. "Have the Rolling Stones killed." Timeless.
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They're showing classic early Simpsons eps all month -- just saw the Ramones sing Happy Birthday to Mr Burns. "Have the Rolling Stones killed." Timeless.
and speaking of The Simpsons: are you ready for...Nedna?
Will they or won’t they? SIMPSONS fans will have the opportunity to decide the future of Springfield’s newest “it” couple, “Nedna” – NED FLANDERS (Harry Shearer) and EDNA KRABAPPEL (guest voice Marcia Wallace) – who have found love.
Following the all-new “The Ned-liest Catch” season finale episode of THE SIMPSONS, airing Sunday, May 22 (8:00-8:30 PM ET/PT) on FOX, fans can decide the future of “Nedna” at www.thesimpsons.com by voting “Pro Nedna” or “No Nedna.” All summer long, “I’m Pro Nedna” and “I’m No Nedna” wallpaper, videos, Twitter badges and Facebook icons will be available for fans to download and post. After the fan voting ends in August, results will be revealed during the Season 23 premiere airing this fall on FOX.
In “The Ned-liest Catch,” feeling guilty for getting Ms. Krabappel suspended after one of his school pranks, BART (Nancy Cartwright) helps her escape detention, and Ned Flanders winds up saving her life in the process. When Edna and Ned start dating, he is surprised to learn she’s been with many of Springfield’s men, including HOMER (Dan Castellaneta) and Aerosmith drummer JOEY KRAMER (guest-voicing as himself).
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KOFY TV-20 now has "Retro Night" on Saturday, hosted by... Fernando & Greg. Yeesh.
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was I hearing things, or did they really let the word "clusterfuck" go out unbleeped on the Cleveland Show tonite?
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TiVo alert: Jane Lynch and Bill Maher are going to read the Anthony Weiner FB exchanges verbatim - and, you know, dramatically - on Friday's "Real Time" on HBO.
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I've mentioned many times that while I hate Family Guy, I love American Dad! -- go figure. And tonite at 10 Cartoon Network (ch 54 on Comcast) is showing the AD episode that made me realize what a clever, well-written show it is: "Lincoln Lover", in which Stan Smith meets the Log Cabin Republicans. Easily the best "gay" episode of any sitcom, ever.
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Tonite's KOFY TV-20 retro hour at 10:00 is "Rocky & his Friends". I may have to stay up past my bedtime.
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Tonite at 8:30, TVLand (ch 74 on Comcast) is showing the episode of All in the Family that introduced Bea Arthur as Edith's cousin Maude. A true TV classic.
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Tonite at 8:30, TVLand (ch 74 on Comcast) is showing the episode of All in the Family that introduced Bea Arthur as Edith's cousin Maude. A true TV classic.
I didn't remember that. Just had a MTM, Rhoda and Cloris (Phyllis) Leachman flashback. Wow. WTH kind of name is Cloris?
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Tonite at 8:30, TVLand (ch 74 on Comcast) is showing the episode of All in the Family that introduced Bea Arthur as Edith's cousin Maude. A true TV classic.
I didn't remember that. Just had a MTM, Rhoda and Cloris (Phyllis) Leachman flashback. Wow. WTH kind of name is Cloris?
No worse than... Frau Blucher! (Cue horses.)
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Tonite at 8:30, TVLand (ch 74 on Comcast) is showing the episode of All in the Family that introduced Bea Arthur as Edith's cousin Maude. A true TV classic.
I didn't remember that. Just had a MTM, Rhoda and Cloris (Phyllis) Leachman flashback. Wow. WTH kind of name is Cloris?
I think it's short for something else ...
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thanks Dave Coyle for the tip: HBO to show the Scorsese docu about George:
http://www.georgeharrison.com/#/news
"and the Pope owns 51% of Home Box Office..."
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thanks Dave Coyle for the tip: HBO to show the Scorsese docu about George:
http://www.georgeharrison.com/#/news
"and the Pope owns 51% of Home Box Office..."
And the only thing he's qualified to tell us is ancillary profits.
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sadly,this is not a put-on:
http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2011/08/california-dmv-setting-for-new-reality-tv.html
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sadly,this is not a put-on:
http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2011/08/california-dmv-setting-for-new-reality-tv.html
Anything to put a few extra bucks in the state coffers.
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sadly,this is not a put-on:
http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2011/08/california-dmv-setting-for-new-reality-tv.html
Anything to put a few extra bucks in the state coffers.
well, they do work very hard at keeping their brand well-defined. (And by that I mean they do NOT work very hard. nyuk nyuk...)
But seriously, last time I was at the DMV, everyone seemed competent, efficient and friendly. (Patty and Selma must have been on break.)
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KTEH is now called "KQED+" ?? When did that happen?
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So I've been watching the Mary Tyler Moore reruns on MeTV (Comcast Ch 31) and every nite in the credits I see
Camera Coordinator...................Don Bustany
Gee, couldn't possibly be the same Don Bustany who co-created and produced AT40 with Casey Kasem, could it?
Yup!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Bustany
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Attention! Tonight 10pm to 11pm on KOFY-TV20 Retro Night its Rocky, Bullwinkle & Friends!
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Now I've seen everything: They're now selling digitally inserted product-placement in reruns of old shows. I'm sitting here watching an old "How I Met Your Mother", and on the wall behind them in McClaren's Bar is a poster for "Our Idiot Brother", the Paul Rudd movie that opens this week! And sure enuf, in the closing credits they inserted a "promotion consideration: the Weinstein Co" acknowledgement. Un-fucking-believable.
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Hard to believe there are THREE (count 'em) cheezy horror movie fests on, all at the same time, each worse than the other: "Wolfman Mac" on Retro-TV is showing Horror of Party Beach, "Svengoolie" on MeTV is unspooling Tarantula, and our own local "Creepy KOFY MovieTime" has Wolfman vs. the Vampire Woman.
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Granted, last year's Emmys was the best show in years, thanks to Jimmy Fallon, but what a woefully mixed bag so far tonite. Some funny bits mixed in but that snarky announcer making, er, snarky comments (a bit stolen from John Hodgman who did it far better last year) is just horrid. "My favorite Marx Brother is Richard"? Oy.
Oh, and Anna Paquin is taller than Scott Caan? Holy fuck.
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It's good to see that Peter Dinklage won for his role as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones. On the other hand, it goes to show that if you have the best role, it's easier to win. Tyrion is easily the most interesting character in the story. Dinklage does well to, uh, measure up to the role.
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It's good to see that Peter Dinklage won for his role as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones. On the other hand, it goes to show that if you have the best role, it's easier to win. Tyrion is easily the most interesting character in the story. Dinklage does well to, uh, measure up to the role.
And he's the only guy on H'wood that Scott Caan is taller than.
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the new Fall Schedule at Comedy Central: adding 30 Rock reruns... good. Moving the Daily Show/Colbert Report replay to 6pm (from 7)... bad idea.
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the new Fall Schedule at Comedy Central: adding 30 Rock reruns... good. Moving the Daily Show/Colbert Report replay to 6pm (from 7)... bad idea.
are they going to change the HD broadcast time? It's been great to be able to see it at 8PM
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If you were thinking of watching the Charlie's Angels reboot tonite... Tim Goodman says Don't. Even. Go. There.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/charlies-angels-tv-review-238843
I especially love his comments about Minka Kelly -- so much for Derek Jeter's taste in women! (tho' I guess he didn't date her for her, um, acting ability.)
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If you were thinking of watching the Charlie's Angels reboot tonite... Tim Goodman says Don't. Even. Go. There.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/charlies-angels-tv-review-238843
I especially love his comments about Minka Kelly -- so much for Derek Jeter's taste in women! (tho' I guess he didn't date her for her, um, acting ability.)
Goodman certainly didn't mince words. On the other hand, did anyone think that piece was a tad brief? I'm sure Tim could have easily dissected it even further (and would have joyfully done so) had he been allowed a bit more length. Are all reviews in the Reporter that succinct?
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If you were thinking of watching the Charlie's Angels reboot tonite... Tim Goodman says Don't. Even. Go. There.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/charlies-angels-tv-review-238843
I especially love his comments about Minka Kelly -- so much for Derek Jeter's taste in women! (tho' I guess he didn't date her for her, um, acting ability.)
Goodman certainly didn't mince words. On the other hand, did anyone think that piece was a tad brief? I'm sure Tim could have easily dissected it even further (and would have joyfully done so) had he been allowed a bit more length. Are all reviews in the Reporter that succinct?
A lot of them *are* that short because he posts multiple pieces each day, esp at this time of year when there are dozens of new shows -- he's trying to hit them all, unlike in his Chron days when he had to be selective. OTOH, the HR is ALL ABOUT H'wood. As often as I disagree with him, he's really nailed some stuff lately -- I totally agreed with his assessment of the mediocre Emmy Show, which I was shocked to see a lot of critics were quite kind to.
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So I've been watching the Mary Tyler Moore reruns on MeTV (Comcast Ch 31) ...
God-DAMMITT! Channel 31 (actually channel 50 from Santa Rosa, KFTY) has been sold and they just switched to AztecaAmerica today. No more MTM, Newhart, etc. And the "Chuckles Bites the Dust" ep of MTM was coming up this week. I'm majorly pissed right now.
ETA: rumor has it that Channel 42 (KTNC, currently Spanish) and Channel 38 (KCNS, currently running RTV, which is similar but inferior to Me-TV) are both "possibly interested" in picking up Me-TV.
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If you were thinking of watching the Charlie's Angels reboot tonite... Tim Goodman says Don't. Even. Go. There.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/charlies-angels-tv-review-238843
I especially love his comments about Minka Kelly -- so much for Derek Jeter's taste in women! (tho' I guess he didn't date her for her, um, acting ability.)
Goodman certainly didn't mince words. On the other hand, did anyone think that piece was a tad brief? I'm sure Tim could have easily dissected it even further (and would have joyfully done so) had he been allowed a bit more length. Are all reviews in the Reporter that succinct?
A lot of them *are* that short because he posts multiple pieces each day, esp at this time of year when there are dozens of new shows -- he's trying to hit them all, unlike in his Chron days when he had to be selective. OTOH, the HR is ALL ABOUT H'wood. As often as I disagree with him, he's really nailed some stuff lately -- I totally agreed with his assessment of the mediocre Emmy Show, which I was shocked to see a lot of critics were quite kind to.
and so as soon as I think Tim Goodman's taste is improving... I'm watching Suburgatory, about which he raved... and it is PAINFUL. And the promos for that new Tim Allen sitcom... OY.
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I didn't realize that Wilfred, the F/X sitcom with a guy in a dog suit, was based on a British show, but IFC is showing the orig UK version.
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A very young Lisa Vanderpump (from RHOBH) starred in the video for ABC's "Poison Arrow". ABC rules!
http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/the-dish/vintage-vanderpump-vixenism?CID=RHOBH_DISH
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A very young Lisa Vanderpump (from RHOBH) starred in the video for ABC's "Poison Arrow". ABC rules!
http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/the-dish/vintage-vanderpump-vixenism?CID=RHOBH_DISH
RHOBH? Translation, pls.
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A very young Lisa Vanderpump (from RHOBH) starred in the video for ABC's "Poison Arrow". ABC rules!
http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/the-dish/vintage-vanderpump-vixenism?CID=RHOBH_DISH
RHOBH? Translation, pls.
Red Hot Old Bitchy 'Hos ;)
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A very young Lisa Vanderpump (from RHOBH) starred in the video for ABC's "Poison Arrow". ABC rules!
http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/the-dish/vintage-vanderpump-vixenism?CID=RHOBH_DISH
RHOBH? Translation, pls.
Real Housewives of Beaver Hills ;)
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TANC: after losing Me-TV last week, it so happens TVLand has brought back The Dick Van Dyke Show -- Today is the 50th anniv of its premiere on CBS. Don't trip over that ottoman...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPsofhzu9f0&NR=1
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And if you had Playboy Club in the first-new-show-to-get-cancelled pool... you're a winner!
http://www.mercurynews.com/celebrities/ci_19037727
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Meant to post about last nite's brilliant South Park ep, the sequel to the mid-season cliffhanger from a few months back. Absolutely tremendous, not to mention quite profound, and i believe it's being repeated tonite. They're geniuses, truly.
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OMFG: the new American Dad with Cee-Lo Green as the voice of a singing hot tub (don't ask) is freaking brilliant.
Bubbles in the tub
Bubbles in the glass
a fig in yo' mouth
and mah fingah in yo' ass!
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Netflix backpedals yet again. Qwikster is dead.
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2011/10/10/netflix-hears-consumers-kills-dvd-spin-off/
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Netflix backpedals yet again. Qwikster is dead.
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2011/10/10/netflix-hears-consumers-kills-dvd-spin-off/
Well, you can't accuse them of not listening to their consumers. The name Qwikster was beyond lame.
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Netflix backpedals yet again. Qwikster is dead.
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2011/10/10/netflix-hears-consumers-kills-dvd-spin-off/
Well, you can't accuse them of not listening to their consumers. The name Qwikster was beyond lame.
No kidding. It sounded like something they came up with in about 10 minutes while sitting on the can.
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Netflix backpedals yet again. Qwikster is dead.
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchron/2011/10/10/netflix-hears-consumers-kills-dvd-spin-off/
Well, you can't accuse them of not listening to their consumers. The name Qwikster was beyond lame.
No kidding. It sounded like something they came up with in about 10 minutes while sitting on the can.
Actually, they prob found all the good names were taken... except Qwikster (and Clownpenis.fart). And maybe this guy wanted too much $ for the 'qwikster' twitter name:
http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/19/the-guy-behind-the-qwikster-twitter-account-realizes-what-he-has-wants-a-mountain-of-cash/
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Add ABC's Charlie's Angels reboot to the list of cancelled new fall shows. Also: Playboy Club and Free Agents (NBC); How to be a Gentleman (CBS) and a reality show on the CW called H8R (yeah, "hater", heh).
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So I've been watching the Mary Tyler Moore reruns on MeTV (Comcast Ch 31) ...
God-DAMMITT! Channel 31 (actually channel 50 from Santa Rosa, KFTY) has been sold and they just switched to AztecaAmerica today. No more MTM, Newhart, etc. And the "Chuckles Bites the Dust" ep of MTM was coming up this week. I'm majorly pissed right now.
ETA: rumor has it that Channel 42 (KTNC, currently Spanish) and Channel 38 (KCNS, currently running RTV, which is similar but inferior to Me-TV) are both "possibly interested" in picking up Me-TV.
well, it took a few weeks, but KOFY TV-20 has picked up Me-TV and will be running it on one of their digital subchannels (20.2) very soon. Still up-in-the-air is whether Comcast will find room to carry it (I *think* they're legally required to carry anything that's over-the-air but I could be wrong).
http://www.metvnetwork.com/files/KOFYMe-TVLaunch10.17.11V2.pdf
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So I've been watching the Mary Tyler Moore reruns on MeTV (Comcast Ch 31) ...
God-DAMMITT! Channel 31 (actually channel 50 from Santa Rosa, KFTY) has been sold and they just switched to AztecaAmerica today. No more MTM, Newhart, etc. And the "Chuckles Bites the Dust" ep of MTM was coming up this week. I'm majorly pissed right now.
ETA: rumor has it that Channel 42 (KTNC, currently Spanish) and Channel 38 (KCNS, currently running RTV, which is similar but inferior to Me-TV) are both "possibly interested" in picking up Me-TV.
well, it took a few weeks, but KOFY TV-20 has picked up Me-TV and will be running it on one of their digital subchannels (20.2) very soon. Still up-in-the-air is whether Comcast will find room to carry it (I *think* they're legally required to carry anything that's over-the-air but I could be wrong).
http://www.metvnetwork.com/files/KOFYMe-TVLaunch10.17.11V2.pdf
the latest from KOFY: Me-TV will be on the air by Nov 14th and carried by Comcast shortly thereafter...
http://www.kofytv.com/about/programming-changes/
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Watching a couple of Frasier reruns as a warm-up for this new Kelsey Grammer drama series on STARZ (Boss), which Tim Goodman raved about.
But: sheesh, watching Frasier on the Hallmark Channel, where they censor words like "ass" and "bastard" -- words that NBC ran unfettered when the show first aired 17 years ago (!)
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Watching a couple of Frasier reruns as a warm-up for this new Kelsey Grammer drama series on STARZ (Boss), which Tim Goodman raved about.
But: sheesh, watching Frasier on the Hallmark Channel, where they censor words like "ass" and "bastard" -- words that NBC ran unfettered when the show first aired 17 years ago (!)
"Boss" is available on Demand... if there weren't so many other things to do this weekend, I'd watch it.
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Watching a couple of Frasier reruns as a warm-up for this new Kelsey Grammer drama series on STARZ (Boss), which Tim Goodman raved about.
But: sheesh, watching Frasier on the Hallmark Channel, where they censor words like "ass" and "bastard" -- words that NBC ran unfettered when the show first aired 17 years ago (!)
"Boss" is available on Demand... if there weren't so many other things to do this weekend, I'd watch it.
I also just discovered that Margin Call, the financial-crisis thriller that is playing in theaters (it's at Metreon as we speak) is available On Demand for half the price.
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OMFG: a Halloween episode of Bewitched with Paul Lynde as Uncle Arthur. (KOFY is doing a marathon). And Willie Mays (!) makes a cameo appearance!
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It isn't quite "Scrooge's Rock'n'Roll Xmas" but KMTP just showed a *dreadful* Halloween special starring John Astin. OMG was it bad.
Seriously, who owns this station? what a waste of a signal.
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Last nite's South Park was, of course, genius. Parker & Stone's Book of Mormon collaborator Robert Lopez co-wrote the ep, which was all about how B'way musicals are a giant conspiracy to... get women to give blow jobs. Seriously. "It's all about subtext!"
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6-hour Rocky & his Friends marathon on KOFY-TV20 starts on 3 minutes! Woo hoo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRW7pITY5Cg&feature=related
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6-hour Rocky & his Friends marathon on KOFY-TV20 starts on 3 minutes! Woo hoo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRW7pITY5Cg&feature=related
"You never heard of Jim Nasium?"
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Lisa Simpson just dissed the Stanford marching band! LOL!
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Just watched something pretty cool on PBS Masterpiece Theatre called "The Song of Lunch" starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson as former flames who get together for lunch 15 years after the fact. Yep, been there, done that.......
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/songoflunch/index.html
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Just watched something pretty cool on PBS Masterpiece Theatre called "The Song of Lunch" starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson as former flames who get together for lunch 15 years after the fact. Yep, been there, done that.......
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/songoflunch/index.html
odd, but interesting. I knew he was headed for trouble drinking all that wine!
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Just watched something pretty cool on PBS Masterpiece Theatre called "The Song of Lunch" starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson as former flames who get together for lunch 15 years after the fact. Yep, been there, done that.......
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/songoflunch/index.html
odd, but interesting. I knew he was headed for trouble drinking all that wine!
I'm a big BBC Mystery/Masterpiece Theatre fan, but I passed on this one. David Wiegand at the Chronicle reviewed it and said it was ok, but nothing super-awesome. "At least it's only an hour long," he wrote (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/12/DDUG1LLL3C.DTL).
I love Alan Rickman as Snape in the Harry Potter series -- he has such a great voice.
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Just watched something pretty cool on PBS Masterpiece Theatre called "The Song of Lunch" starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson as former flames who get together for lunch 15 years after the fact. Yep, been there, done that.......
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/songoflunch/index.html
odd, but interesting. I knew he was headed for trouble drinking all that wine!
I'm a big BBC Mystery/Masterpiece Theatre fan, but I passed on this one. David Wiegand at the Chronicle reviewed it and said it was ok, but nothing super-awesome. "At least it's only an hour long," he wrote (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/12/DDUG1LLL3C.DTL).
I love Alan Rickman as Snape in the Harry Potter series -- he has such a great voice.
For some reason, I really think of Galaxy Quest when I think of Rickman!
(http://movieactors.com/photos-stars/alan-rickman-galaxy08.jpg)
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I love Alan Rickman as Snape in the Harry Potter series -- he has such a great voice.
Agreed, Rickman is one of my favorite British actors; has been for several years. I always thought he and Richard Thompson had nearly identical accents. They're from adjacent areas in London so that might explain it: Rickman is from Hammersmith while Thompson hails from Notting Hill. I'd guess Thompson is the better guitarist, but Rickman probably has the advantage with Shakespeare.
And yes, Rickman was great in Galaxy Quest.
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I love Alan Rickman as Snape in the Harry Potter series -- he has such a great voice.
Agreed, Rickman is one of my favorite British actors; has been for several years. I always thought he and Richard Thompson had nearly identical accents. They're from adjacent areas in London so that might explain it: Rickman is from Hammersmith while Thompson hails from Notting Hill. I'd guess Thompson is the better guitarist, but Rickman probably has the advantage with Shakespeare.
And yes, Rickman was great in Galaxy Quest.
He was great in GQ, and so many other things. But when I think of Rickman, it's as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.
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Watch at your own risk.
http://politichicks.tv/
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Watch at your own risk.
http://politichicks.tv/
Wow. I'm still trying to decide if this was satire or they were serious.
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Watch at your own risk.
http://politichicks.tv/
Wow. I'm still trying to decide if this was satire or they were serious.
Sadly, they're quite serious. Victoria Jackson has become a complete right-wing nincompoop since her SNL days.
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Watch at your own risk.
http://politichicks.tv/
Wow. I'm still trying to decide if this was satire or they were serious.
Sadly, they're quite serious. Victoria Jackson has become a complete right-wing nincompoop since her SNL days.
well, intentional or not, it IS a joke.
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Watching Rudolph and man, the soundtrack sounds... warped, at least during the musical numbers. I realize it's nearly 50 years old but I thought they did a digital restoration a few years back...
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A Charlie Brown Christmas was shown tonight on ABC, but apparently they cut 4 minutes from it, including Schroeder's Fur Elise and his snarky rendition of Jingle Bells aimed at the armorous and hot-to-trot Lucy. I read about the cuts on imdb, and opted not to watch it tonight as a sort of protest.
Seems they used this cut version as a lead into a new entry in the Prep & Landing series. The Prep & Landing specials are the Pixar-made animated christmas shows that started airing a couple years ago, featuring Dave Foley's voice as one of the elves.
Looks like Charlie Brown airs again on 12/15 from 8-9 pm, and presumably it will be uncut. That hour time slot includes the seven-minute Prep & Landing short from a year or two ago.
Sometimes network tv makes me sore afraid.
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A Charlie Brown Christmas was shown tonight on ABC, but apparently they cut 4 minutes from it, including Schroeder's Fur Elise and his snarky rendition of Jingle Bells aimed at the armorous and hot-to-trot Lucy. I read about the cuts on imdb, and opted not to watch it tonight as a sort of protest.
Seems they used this cut version as a lead into a new entry in the Prep & Landing series. The Prep & Landing specials are the Pixar-made animated christmas shows that started airing a couple years ago, featuring Dave Foley's voice as one of the elves.
Looks like Charlie Brown airs again on 12/15 from 8-9 pm, and presumably it will be uncut. That hour time slot includes the seven-minute Prep & Landing short from a year or two ago.
Sometimes network tv makes me sore afraid.
indeed, there were less commercials on network TV in 1965.
If you like the "Prep & Landing" 'toons, you'd love Arthur Christmas
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Comcast announced today that Me-TV will be returning to their line-up: KOFY 20.2, which carries Me-TV will be on Comcast digital channel 196 starting "on or after" Dec 22nd. Just in time for Xmas episodes of MTM, Bob Newhart, etc.
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Er...so, I'm watching this here 60s Pop, Rock & Soul thing on KQED and see ? and the Mysterians do "96 Tears". I've never seen the guy in action before, but he looks like a cross between Prince and Snooki. WTF!(?)
Ooo! Eddie Holman singing "Haaaay There Lonely Girl". He's still hitting those falsetto notes!
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Er...so, I'm watching this here 60s Pop, Rock & Soul thing on KQED and see ? and the Mysterians do "96 Tears". I've never seen the guy in action before, but he looks like a cross between Prince and Snooki.
Dude was (is?) Latino: from Wikipedia:
The band's frontman and primary songwriter was ?. Though the singer has never confirmed it, Library of Congress copyright registrations indicate that his birth name is Rudy Martinez.
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Er...so, I'm watching this here 60s Pop, Rock & Soul thing on KQED and see ? and the Mysterians do "96 Tears". I've never seen the guy in action before, but he looks like a cross between Prince and Snooki.
Dude was (is?) Latino: from Wikipedia:
The band's frontman and primary songwriter was ?. Though the singer has never confirmed it, Library of Congress copyright registrations indicate that his birth name is Rudy Martinez.
But which one's Ronnie Spector? ;)
(http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS5vpQctYYPrqaBuRUZoeIcQ4_jfA3jXO004IwwPqwCCBwpAtE8)
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Just watched the 2003 Peanuts Christmas special "I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown."
Pretty funny. apparently pieced together from individual strips that Schulz created, so its narrative structure is loose. There's also not the same horrible nastiness you find in a "Charlie Brown Christmas." (Yes, It's a classic, but god the Peanuts gang are a**h***s.)
Good review here:
http://www.justpressplay.net/reviews/6247-i-want-a-dog-for-christmas-charlie-brown.html
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It's official: Howard Stern will become a judge on America's Got Talent. He announced it on his radio show this morning. Like he needs more millions. ::)
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As promised: Me-TV is back on cable! Comcast ch. 196 beginning today.
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As promised: Me-TV is back on cable! Comcast ch. 196 beginning today.
Thanks for the heads up Mike. Watching "The Rifleman" right now, with Sammy Davis Jr as a "fast draw artist" with a secret. Awesome. ;)
ETA: It was really cool. They pretty much ignore Sammy is black in the late 1800s. They just treat him as another gunfighter, as if the color of his skin did not matter. It's like he was playing Hamlet -- just an actor, playing a character. Not a black actor playing a black character.
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As promised: Me-TV is back on cable! Comcast ch. 196 beginning today.
Thanks for the heads up Mike. Watching "The Rifleman" right now, with Sammy Davis Jr as a "fast draw artist" with a secret. Awesome. ;)
ETA: It was really cool. They pretty much ignore Sammy is black in the late 1800s. They just treat him as another gunfighter, as if the color of his skin did not matter. It's like he was playing Hamlet -- just an actor, playing a character. Not a black actor playing a black character.
That was his "secret" -- nobody knew he was black!
Just in time for Christmas -- Me-TV is showing (among other things) on Saturday the "He-Man and She-Ra Xmas Special" (!), "The Fat Albert Xmas Special" (!!) and my all-time fave "Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol". Ho Ho Holy crap!
(http://assets.paleycenter.org/assets/blogs/rpaller/mr-magoo-scrooge.jpg)
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It's not quite "Scrooge's Rock'n'Roll Xmas" but Me-TV is showing a 1995 animated version of The Snow Queen --really cheap, crappy-looking animation and voices by the likes of Helen Mirren and Hugh Laurie. When I was 5 or 6, there was a beautiful Russian version of "Snow Queen" that got released in US theaters -- it was very Disney-ish and they got Americans like Sandra Dee and Tommy Kirk to dub the voices. I don't think it's been seen anywhere in decades.
ETA: and now it's the 1968 Rankin/Bass "Little Drummer Boy" -- I haven't seen it since then, probably. It's no "Rudolph". And unlike the other Rankin/Bass classics... which have consistently been rerun on network TV and digitally spruced-up... this one looks like it needs a good cleaning.
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KMTP's schedules shows "Christmas Special" from 6-to-9 tonite, with no description. Not sure if it involves "Scrooge's Rock'n'Roll Xmas" but my fingers are crossed.
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Cee-Lo singing "Imagine" on CNN. Not bad. But jeezus Kathy Griffin Will. Not. Shut. UP! It's one thing to be Anderson Cooper's foil on these annual shows, but let the guy get a word in edgewise. Sheesh.
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Sy-Fy's Twilight Zone marathon climaxes tonite with "To Serve Man" at 10:30 and the Shatner classic "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" at 11:30.
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Versus officially becomes NBC Sports Network today. And they'll celebrate with a Sharks game at 5:00.
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Cee-Lo singing "Imagine" on CNN. Not bad. But jeezus Kathy Griffin Will. Not. Shut. UP! It's one thing to be Anderson Cooper's foil on these annual shows, but let the guy get a word in edgewise. Sheesh.
Even tho' I was watching on NYE, I missed the Cee-Lo lyric switch. So "Fuck You" Mr Green...
http://www.billboard.com/news/cee-lo-green-adds-religion-to-imagine-fueling-1005775352.story#/news/cee-lo-green-adds-religion-to-imagine-fueling-1005775352.story
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Jeez, this is an exceptionally bad Simpsons episode tonite -- parodying Glenn Beck about 3 years too late. WTF?
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OMFG: a 6-hour "Dudley Do-Right" marathon starts at 5 on KOFY TV-20.
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This one could be interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/bill-clinton-struggled-deal-lewinsky-affair-film-says-190417178--abc-news.html
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This one could be interesting.
http://news.yahoo.com/bill-clinton-struggled-deal-lewinsky-affair-film-says-190417178--abc-news.html
I can't believe anyone would use what that perv-weasel Dick Morris would say.
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My wife and I are watching Season 1 of Damages, and it is way over the top, like all TV dramas, but I appreciate how it shows that it actually takes time to build a case. Like a whole season's worth of episodes. Most legal dramas skip through all of the pre-trial stuff because it's assumed to be boring and go from incident to trial within the same episode. Damages is able to create drama from the pre-trial process, which can be interesting at times, even in real life. Of course, liberally sprinkling that process with crime and evil helps the drama along.
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If you've not watched Key & Peele, Comedy Central's new sketch show starring a black duo (formerly of MadTV), it's quite funny. They just did a rap-video parody called "Shot in the Dick" that was hilarious.
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If you've not watched Key & Peele, Comedy Central's new sketch show starring a black duo (formerly of MadTV), it's quite funny. They just did a rap-video parody called "Shot in the Dick" that was hilarious.
lat nite Key & peele did a bit called "Bobby Mcferrin vs Michael Winslow" that was (IMHO) genius:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFfia3Zs3lE
and in other news, Seth McFarlane is rebooting The Flintstones. Yabba dabba Giggity? Oy.
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2012/03/12/flintstones-show-reboot-seth-macfarlane?hpt=hp_bn13
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hearing spots on CKRU indicating that ABC Family is re-branding itself as "ABC Spark" in Canada. Guess the Canucks finally got sick of Pat Robertson.
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Centric is doing another "Soul Train" marathon today. HAAAAY!
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Me-TV has resurrected The Mothers-in-Law, which I surely haven't seen since it aired in the late '60s. They're showing the pilot episode -- even preceded it with the NBC peacock!
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More Me-TV summer hi-jinx: They're showing the first 2 episodes of Batman at 8:00, and at 9 the very first Get Smart!
OMG: the first Batman was partially filmed at the New York, er I mean Gotham City World's Fair of 1965! (well OK it's stock footage but still, it brought back childhood memories.)
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Magic Johnson's new "Aspire" cable channel, aimed at black families, premiered yesterday, and it's available here on Comcast ch. 480 -- most interesting are the old shows, like the first Bill Cosby sitcom (the gym teacher one) which also airs on RetroTV, and reruns of Flip Wilson (yay!) and Diahann Carroll's Julia which I haven't seen in decades.
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in addition to the Andy Griffith marathon on TVLand, I noticed that Retro-TV (Comcast ch. 21) is showing old Soupy Sales shows at 2pm on Saturdays.
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2009/0910/soupy_sales_1023.jpg)
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Me-TV has been running some VERY old "Svengoolie" episodes on Sat nites. Tonite they're showing one with Jean Vander Pyl (voice of Wilma Flintstone) and Janet Waldo (Judy Jetson) and Miss Vander Pyl died in 1999!
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Mike --are you watching Newsroom on HBO? I like it quite a bit though it has problems (mainly, for me, believability -- lots of coincendences in the 1st episode), but I really dig the characters. The writing is crisp if self-serving, and the message resonates. I have absolutely no hope that it will open anyone's eyes. In our bi-polar political world, the best we can hope for is preaching to the choir.
"I don't know ... Yosemite!?!"
Such a great answer.
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Mike --are you watching Newsroom on HBO? I like it quite a bit though it has problems (mainly, for me, believability -- lots of coincendences in the 1st episode), but I really dig the characters. The writing is crisp if self-serving, and the message resonates. I have absolutely no hope that it will open anyone's eyes. In our bi-polar political world, the best we can hope for is preaching to the choir.
"I don't know ... Yosemite!?!"
Such a great answer.
Yes -- I'm watching and enjoying. It's typical Sorkin, which is what I was expecting. You either like and agree with him or you don't. The plotlines involving the younger characters' love lives are less interesting to me than the political stuff.
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"Newsroom" has been very good through three episodes, if not exactly at warp speed. As RGMike relates, I could go without the romantics involving Allison Pill (although she is pleasant to look at).
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"Newsroom" has been very good through three episodes, if not exactly at warp speed. As RGMike relates, I could go without the romantics involving Allison Pill (although she is pleasant to look at).
as I wasn't home last nite and won't be tonite, I won't catch up with Ep 3 until later in the week. One of the young actors, John Gallagher Jr is a guy I've now seen 3 times on stage: in Spring Awakening on B'way in 2007; in American Idiot at Berkeley Rep 2 years ago and last year on B'way in Jerusalem. He's talented (and clearly has a good agent).
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FYI, KCNS ch. 38 in San Francisco (21 on Comcast cable) has dropped Retro TV (RTV) in favor of Mundo Fox, the new Spanish language service of Fox Television. So, no more Naked City or Soupy Sales. But if you wanna see American Dad dubbed en espanol... now you can!
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Attn: Cheers fans! This oral history is a great read.....
http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201210/cheers-oral-history-extended?currentPage=all
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Magical Mystery Tour -- whcih I've never seen -- will be on PBS tonite. Check local listings.
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wait... WHAT??
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/01/02/how-will-al-jazeera%e2%80%99s-acquistion-of-sf-based-current-tv-affect-stars-granholm-and-newsom-video/
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wait... WHAT??
http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/01/02/how-will-al-jazeera%e2%80%99s-acquistion-of-sf-based-current-tv-affect-stars-granholm-and-newsom-video/
I never got around to paying extra to get Current TV, so I could watch Stephanie Miller, and now she'll be gone I assume.
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Jon Stewart to take 3-month leave from the Daily Show to direct a film...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/mar/06/jon-stewart-daily-show-directing-debut
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Recently in another thread, someone wished for Magnum PI. It's being
broadcast at some point during the week (I don't know the exact
schedule) on COZI-TV, another one of those "retro" channels. Over the
air it's 11.2, a subchannel of KNTV. Dunno if it's being carried by
the local cable monopolies.
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Recently in another thread, someone wished for Magnum PI. It's being
broadcast at some point during the week (I don't know the exact
schedule) on COZI-TV, another one of those "retro" channels. Over the
air it's 11.2, a subchannel of KNTV. Dunno if it's being carried by
the local cable monopolies.
I have Comcast digital and it's on Ch. 186 in SF. It's owned by Comcast/NBC/Universal and it's their attempt at a Me-TV type thang. Some of the stuff they show is positively ancient, like "Tales of Wells Fargo" and "Sherlock Holmes", but there's also "Magnum", "The Bold Ones" and such.
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I have Comcast digital and it's on Ch. 186 in SF. It's owned by Comcast/NBC/Universal and it's their attempt at a Me-TV type thang. Some of the stuff they show is positively ancient, like "Tales of Wells Fargo" and "Sherlock Holmes", but there's also "Magnum", "The Bold Ones" and such.
And Lassie!
Other '70s stalwarts include The Bionic Bobbsey Twins (Steve & Jaime), Charlie's
Bimbos, and my personal fave, Banacek. Also the occasional movie, like Legends
of the Fall and Out Of Africa, as well as some of the Hope and Crosby "Road" pictures.
There's another nostalgia channel, Retro TV, which used to be at 38.5
and moved to 42.4, which I can't get.
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Recently in another thread, someone wished for Magnum PI. It's being
broadcast at some point during the week (I don't know the exact
schedule) on COZI-TV, another one of those "retro" channels. Over the
air it's 11.2, a subchannel of KNTV. Dunno if it's being carried by
the local cable monopolies.
That was me. Thanks, I will look for it.
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That was me. Thanks, I will look for it.
Happened to catch the promo spot tonight. It's on Thursdays starting at 8pm.
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Coming Soon to F/X: Fargo: The Series Oh, yah.
http://www.awardsdaily.com/blog/coen-brothers-bring-10-hours-of-fargo-to-fx/
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That was me. Thanks, I will look for it.
Happened to catch the promo spot tonight. It's on Thursdays starting at 8pm.
Thanks again Diskhead, and welcome to the club.
I recorded all four episodes, and actually watched the 10 o'clock ep in real time. It was AWFUL!!! It was the "Simon and Simon" cross-over episode (remember Simon and Simon?), and had a cursed tiki doll. Just terrible writing. But I remember that episode as being bad originally, so I'm not turned off by that bad experience. And, on the positive side, Morgan Fairchild was the bad "guy". Evil Morgan Fairchild is rocks!
ETA: I speelled Disckhead wrung. Soo me.
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ETA: I speelled Disckhead wrung. Soo me.
Oh, Blinding Light!
Oh, Light that Blinds!
I cannot see...
Look out for me!
(sfx: man stumbling & falling down)
-- DCTD, HMTP
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ETA: I speelled Disckhead wrung. Soo me.
Oh, Blinding Light!
Oh, Light that Blinds!
I cannot see...
Look out for me!
(sfx: man stumbling & falling down)
-- DCTD, HMTP
I googled that. Well played, my friend.
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ETA: I speelled Disckhead wrung. Soo me.
Oh, Blinding Light!
Oh, Light that Blinds!
I cannot see...
Look out for me!
(sfx: man stumbling & falling down)
-- DCTD, HMTP
I googled that. Well played, my friend.
Is that not the origin of your handle?
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ETA: I speelled Disckhead wrung. Soo me.
Oh, Blinding Light!
Oh, Light that Blinds!
I cannot see...
Look out for me!
(sfx: man stumbling & falling down)
-- DCTD, HMTP
I googled that. Well played, my friend.
Is that not the origin of your handle?
I didn't need to google to know it was FS, but needed a little help on which record. Is 'dischead' from them? If so, which record?
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If you have BBCAmerica on your cable/sat menu, I highly recommend the great documentary by Vikram Jayanti, The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector, which they're showing tonite. It was clearly the inspiration for the recent David Mamet HBO drama with Pacino and Mirren. I remember seeing the docu at the Roxie 3 years ago and thinking, as I watched the interviews with Spector, "damn, Al Pacino should play him in the TV movie"... and less than 6 months later HBO announced the Mamet/Pacino/Mirren project.
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If you have BBCAmerica on your cable/sat menu, I highly recommend the great documentary by Vikram Jayanti, The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector, which they're showing tonite. It was clearly the inspiration for the recent David Mamet HBO drama with Pacino and Mirren. I remember seeing the docu at the Roxie 3 years ago and thinking, as I watched the interviews with Spector, "damn, Al Pacino should play him in the TV movie"... and less than 6 months later HBO announced the Mamet/Pacino/Mirren project.
We had free HBO this past weekend, and I recorded the Spector thing with Pacino et al. Will have to remember to grab this one as well.
Btw, BBC-America is becoming one of my fave channels, although I could do without them Americanizing their content so much. Except Star Trek: TNG. They can show that one as much as they want.
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If you have BBCAmerica on your cable/sat menu, I highly recommend the great documentary by Vikram Jayanti, The Agony and Ecstasy of Phil Spector, which they're showing tonite. It was clearly the inspiration for the recent David Mamet HBO drama with Pacino and Mirren. I remember seeing the docu at the Roxie 3 years ago and thinking, as I watched the interviews with Spector, "damn, Al Pacino should play him in the TV movie"... and less than 6 months later HBO announced the Mamet/Pacino/Mirren project.
We had free HBO this past weekend, and I recorded the Spector thing with Pacino et al. Will have to remember to grab this one as well.
Btw, BBC-America is becoming one of my fave channels, although I could do without them Americanizing their content so much. Except Star Trek: TNG. They can show that one as much as they want.
I agree. I always thought TNG was pretty Shakespeareian, so it fits in a certain way!
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Recently in another thread, someone wished for Magnum PI. It's being
broadcast at some point during the week (I don't know the exact
schedule) on COZI-TV, another one of those "retro" channels. Over the
air it's 11.2, a subchannel of KNTV. Dunno if it's being carried by
the local cable monopolies.
That was me. Thanks, I will look for it.
More Magnum: next Monday the channel currently known as G4 becomes The Esquire Network, and will be airing Magnum PI as well. They'll also have The A-Team and Airwolf.
http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2013/04/esquire-network-launch-schedule-tvgn.html
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So Dave Letterman is retiring next year. That makes me REALLY feel old. I was a big fan when he first came on the air, so long, long ago...
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So Dave Letterman is retiring next year. That makes me REALLY feel old. I was a big fan when he first came on the air, so long, long ago...
So was I, when I was 13 in the summer of 1982 and staying up late for the first time. Barefoot guitar maestro Hiram Bullock was in his band then.
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On Jeopardy! the other day, the easiest final Jeopardy ever! The category was Album Covers, and the clue, "This band's eponymous first album featured a depiction of the Hindenburg disaster."
Even Alex mentioned it was easy. Nobody got it wrong.
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Sunday nite, John Oliver coined a phrase. By Monday it was in the Urban Dictionary.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=calling%20dingo&defid=7870679
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apparently "Okie From Muskogee" made an appearance on Mad Men last nite. Cannot WAIT to watch that episode.
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apparently "Okie From Muskogee" made an appearance on Mad Men last nite. Cannot WAIT to watch that episode.
Well worth it.
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KTVU Morning News has a new feature on Friday Mornings -- Friday Traffic Jams. Basically, they come up with a theme, and have viewers request tunes via social media. Last week was 1975 (for the 1975 Dubs championship) and, in the segment I saw, they were playing "Why Can't We Be Friends" behind Sal's traffic report. This week it's "songs that bring out the Warrior in you."
As lame as the song selections are likely to be, it's not a bad idea...
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KTVU Morning News has a new feature on Friday Mornings -- Friday Traffic Jams. Basically, they come up with a theme, and have viewers request tunes via social media. Last week was 1975 (for the 1975 Dubs championship) and, in the segment I saw, they were playing "Why Can't We Be Friends" behind Sal's traffic report. This week it's "songs that bring out the Warrior in you."
As lame as the song selections are likely to be, it's not a bad idea...
It's like 10@10 with pictures!
Songs that bring out the Warrior... paging Scandal...
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KTVU Morning News has a new feature on Friday Mornings -- Friday Traffic Jams. Basically, they come up with a theme, and have viewers request tunes via social media. Last week was 1975 (for the 1975 Dubs championship) and, in the segment I saw, they were playing "Why Can't We Be Friends" behind Sal's traffic report. This week it's "songs that bring out the Warrior in you."
As lame as the song selections are likely to be, it's not a bad idea...
It's like 10@10 with pictures!
Songs that bring out the Warrior... paging Scandal...
A little Kool & The Gang this morning, doing some celebrating... Not sure about the inner Warrior thing, but understandable. Sal is such a dork.
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"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" airs again tonight on ABC, 8 PM.
A bonus cartoon called " "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown," will be shown as well.
and look! you can watch it today only online! (link expires today!) >>
http://abc.go.com/shows/movies-and-specials/listings/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown
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"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" airs again tonight on ABC, 8 PM.
A bonus cartoon called " "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown," will be shown as well.
and look! you can watch it today only online! (link expires today!) >>
http://abc.go.com/shows/movies-and-specials/listings/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown
"I got a rock..."
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"It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" airs again tonight on ABC, 8 PM.
A bonus cartoon called " "You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown," will be shown as well.
and look! you can watch it today only online! (link expires today!) >>
http://abc.go.com/shows/movies-and-specials/listings/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown
"I got a rock..."
Somebody forgot to flip the switch to take it offline, I just watched it! Woot!
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On Thanksgiving, they had a Tom Petty "takeover" on Palladium. I so wanted to recommend it to RGMike, but not so much that I wanted to turn on my computer.
I watched the entire four hour documentary. I like them even more now.
runnin' down a dream
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On Thanksgiving, they had a Tom Petty "takeover" on Palladium. I so wanted to recommend it to RGMike, but not so much that I wanted to turn on my computer.
I watched the entire four hour documentary. I like them even more now.
runnin' down a dream
Have you (or anyone for that matter) had a chance to check out Warren Zanes' new "unauthorized" Petty bio? It sounds pretty good.
Quite the sizable crop of rock bios out this holiday season. The Costello one is on my list, and I'm giving a hard look at the ones from Chrissie Hynde, Kim Gordon, and Patti Smith's follow-up to Just Kids. And that's just what I can recall off the top of my head.
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HBO's new series "Vinyl," a collaboration between Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, is a fictional
look at the record business in New York City during the mid-1970s. My initial impression after
watching last night's two-hour pilot is that it might be good to very good, although much will
depend on how it spools out.
My reservation stems from the adage "truth is stranger than fiction." I suspect if they tried to
tell stories that accurately depicted the excesses of the period, it wouldn't seem believeable.
Still, there's plenty of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, although that order is reversed for this
episode. Also we have all the expected tropes: the hard-working, hard-partying, stressed-out
executive. His path to the top and who he stepped on to get there. The troubled marriage and
the neglected wife at home with the children. The pending big deal. The pending big contract
signing. The ambitious employee who wants to get ahead. The payola and corruption of
back-room business deals. With Scosese at the helm the craft is excellent, but the material
is well-trod.
Part of the hype surrounding the show is its historical accuracy, so a couple of references didn't
fit for me. One was a throw-away mention to a non-musical item that wouldn't have received
wide-spread publicity until the late '80s, the other was a musical performance that seemed
unlikely even for New York City in 1973. I suspect the latter will be continue to be an issue, as
the series compresses a few years in the mid-'70s into its ten-episode opening season. We
do get plenty of big ties, big lapels, and big hair -- on both men and women. Absent was any
sight of eight-track tapes, which were still widespread in 1973.
There are many good tunes on the soundtrack. Of course there's lots of early '70s rock and
roll. But retrospective vignettes for the backstory provide the opportunity to feature blues, pop,
R&B, and rock from the '50s and '60s. And the previews indicate we'll hear more glam, funk, punk,
disco, and even hip-hop in the coming episodes.
In sum, while Vinyl is not (yet) a must-see show, I'd say do check it out if you can.
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Some weird shit going on on KOFY-TV Sat nites. Having cancelled Creepy KOFY Movie Time (they'd been showing reruns for a couple of years), they are now running the following:
11pm "Circus of Chaos" - a half-hour show hosted by a "horror clown" (I'm not making this up) and featuring some of the cast members of ...Movie Time (but not No Name or Balrok).
1130 "Bamboo Dreams" a serialized-drama web series filmed in a bar in Oakland (!)
12 midnite "Creature Feature" -- a revival of the classic old KTVU horror-movie show. This also started out on the web.
Based on the comments on these shows' respective FB pages, the audience is not pleased.
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Ron Howard's 2016 documentary on the early years of the Beatles, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week --
The Touring Years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles:_Eight_Days_a_Week) is being shown about twenty times this week on PBS stations (with the usual
pledge breaks) as part of their fundraising programming. Schedule on the KQED web site. (http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/index.jsp?pgmid=24671)
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Some weird shit going on on KOFY-TV Sat nites. Having cancelled Creepy KOFY Movie Time (they'd been showing reruns for a couple of years), they are now running the following:
11pm "Circus of Chaos" - a half-hour show hosted by a "horror clown" (I'm not making this up) and featuring some of the cast members of ...Movie Time (but not No Name or Balrok).
1130 "Bamboo Dreams" a serialized-drama web series filmed in a bar in Oakland (!)
12 midnite "Creature Feature" -- a revival of the classic old KTVU horror-movie show. This also started out on the web.
Based on the comments on these shows' respective FB pages, the audience is not pleased.
Saw this post from April -- that "Bamboo Dreams" show got the ax pretty quickly. And "Creature Feature" got moved up to 11:00.
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I just noticed that KCSM is no longer on our cable system. Upon investigation, I discovered
the TV station has been sold to Santa Rosa public broadcaster KRCB. The new call letters
will be KPJK, honoring the station's founder, Professor John Kramer. The article referenced
below says that KCSM dropped PBS in 2009, which I find confusing, as I have been checking
their schedule somewhat regularly for PBS music programs like Austin City Limits, Infinity Hall
Live, and The Artist's Den. The new station couldn't get PBS membership because PBS doesn't
want more duplicate stations in the same market.
http://padailypost.com/2018/08/01/kcsm-tv-getting-a-new-owner-new-name/
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I just noticed that KCSM is no longer on our cable system. Upon investigation, I discovered
the TV station has been sold to Santa Rosa public broadcaster KRCB. The new call letters
will be KPJK, honoring the station's founder, Professor John Kramer. The article referenced
below says that KCSM dropped PBS in 2009, which I find confusing, as I have been checking
their schedule somewhat regularly for PBS music programs like Austin City Limits, Infinity Hall
Live, and The Artist's Den. The new station couldn't get PBS membership because PBS doesn't
want more duplicate stations in the same market.
http://padailypost.com/2018/08/01/kcsm-tv-getting-a-new-owner-new-name/
It's a weird lineup of foreign (but subtitled) dramatic series and other oddities. It's also caused problems for folks who listen to KCSM-FM via cable because their cable channel (which was 199 on Comcast SF) is now also featuring KPJK, which means the new TV station has 2 channel positions, 199 and 17. Meanwhile the KCSM-FM channel in the radio station section, 962, is having audio problems so some folks are pissed.
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Having lost Me-TV in the Bay Area about 9 months ago (and still awaiting its promised resurrection on another channel), last week we also lost Decades, which its owner (Weigand, which also owns Me-TV) decided to replace with their newest venture, StartTV. StartTV is a channel featuring female-centric procedurals. Which someone thinks is a demographic goldmine, I suppose, but at the moment, the channel has only 8 or 9 series (The Closer, Cold Case, Medium, Profiler, Family Law and a couple others) which they show endlessly, 2 episodes at a time.
The story is that Weigand is "looking" for another outlet for Decades in all the markets where it's been replaced by StartTV. As it happens, Weigand is in the process of acquiring KTLN-TV in Palo Alto, currently a religious station, and the rumor was that when the takeover is complete it will become a Me-TV affiliate. (Perhaps with Decades on a subchannel?).
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I just noticed that KCSM is no longer on our cable system. Upon investigation, I discovered
the TV station has been sold to Santa Rosa public broadcaster KRCB. The new call letters
will be KPJK, honoring the station's founder, Professor John Kramer. The article referenced
below says that KCSM dropped PBS in 2009, which I find confusing, as I have been checking
their schedule somewhat regularly for PBS music programs like Austin City Limits, Infinity Hall
Live, and The Artist's Den. The new station couldn't get PBS membership because PBS doesn't
want more duplicate stations in the same market.
http://padailypost.com/2018/08/01/kcsm-tv-getting-a-new-owner-new-name/
It's a weird lineup of foreign (but subtitled) dramatic series and other oddities. It's also caused problems for folks who listen to KCSM-FM via cable because their cable channel (which was 199 on Comcast SF) is now also featuring KPJK, which means the new TV station has 2 channel positions, 199 and 17. Meanwhile the KCSM-FM channel in the radio station section, 962, is having audio problems so some folks are pissed.
We're among the pissed off. How long does it take for Comcast to pump a decent signal through the system?