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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #180 on: October 20, 2011, 08:37:19 AM »
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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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #181 on: October 21, 2011, 09:20:59 PM »
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #182 on: October 22, 2011, 08:56:04 AM »
Quote from: RGMike on October 21, 2011, 09:20:59 PM
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #183 on: October 22, 2011, 11:24:34 AM »
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Quote from: RGMike on October 21, 2011, 09:20:59 PM
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #184 on: October 22, 2011, 06:43:46 PM »
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #185 on: October 23, 2011, 08:49:06 PM »
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #186 on: October 27, 2011, 08:06:32 AM »
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #187 on: November 12, 2011, 04:57:40 PM »
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #188 on: November 12, 2011, 08:00:17 PM »
Quote from: RGMike on November 12, 2011, 04:57:40 PM
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #189 on: November 13, 2011, 08:03:40 PM »
Lisa Simpson just dissed the Stanford marching band! LOL!
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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #190 on: November 13, 2011, 10:21:21 PM »
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #191 on: November 14, 2011, 12:37:13 PM »
Quote from: sundaygal on November 13, 2011, 10:21:21 PM
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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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #192 on: November 14, 2011, 01:11:45 PM »
Quote from: ggould on November 14, 2011, 12:37:13 PM
Quote from: sundaygal on November 13, 2011, 10:21:21 PM
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.
I love Alan Rickman as Snape in the Harry Potter series -- he has such a great voice.
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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #193 on: November 14, 2011, 05:54:31 PM »
Quote from: Tinka Cat on November 14, 2011, 01:11:45 PM
Quote from: ggould on November 14, 2011, 12:37:13 PM
Quote from: sundaygal on November 13, 2011, 10:21:21 PM
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.
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!

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Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« Reply #194 on: November 14, 2011, 11:53:59 PM »
Quote from: Tinka Cat on November 14, 2011, 01:11:45 PM

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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