Re: [TV orNotTV] "Kate and Allie" reboot pilot to NBC

Funny thing, I kinda felt DC's "Harley Quinn" was a reboot of Kate and Allie, but in brighter colors. On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 8:10 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Developed by Erica Oyama, cohort of Nahnatchka Khan at "Fresh Off The > Boat" and "Young

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NFL trying to discover the dumbest possible deal they can convince the networks to accept...

Almost as good, a PR article from NFL.com which confirms the nets keep it for consecutive weeks; CBS first then NBC. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap300630862/article/nfl-expands-thursday-night-football-package On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Bob Jersey wrote: > >

[TV orNotTV] NFL trying to discover the dumbest possible deal they can convince the networks to accept...

If it's Thursday night, it must be football. So according to the WSJ, the NFL is close to a deal with CBS and NBC so that they both can carry NFL games on Thursday nights. The deal would be that NBC and CBS each get 5 games (cumulatively more games on broadcast, but less for each individual

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: GOP parks relationship with NBC after debate debacle

And thanks to the anti-Trump issue of National Review (on newsstands now), they are now out as the sponsor of that debate as well. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/430166/houston-we-have-problem On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Bob Jersey wrote: > > > Moi, October

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC affil to go cable?

Well, NBC went and announced that come 2017, they will be taking NBC from WHDH and put it on its own station (tentatively called NBC Boston). They'll figure out how to make it work as the Telemundo Station it will probably move NBC to doesn't have the over the air coverage WHDH does. Ed Ansin has

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC affil to go cable?

The rumors that WHDH will lose NBC have started to heat up recently, with the story now that NBC may take the Telemundo station and turn it into the NBC outpost for Boston with the just poached WHDH weatherman being part of the NBC 60(?) team. Telemundo gets downgraded a subchannel or two.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Showtime welcomes you to "The Circus"

Yes, but it doesn't make it any less true. On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:36 AM, Kevin M. <drunkbastar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Politics as entertainment. > > Is it cliche to invoke the "this is why they hate us" line at this point? > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015

Re: [TV orNotTV] Showtime welcomes you to "The Circus"

I don't know how I feel about Mark Halperin and John Heilemann becoming the hardest working men in political show business. Along with this, the Bloomberg (soon to be Bloomberg/MSNBC) show and practically cohosting Morning Joe, when will they have time to write that after-the-fact campaign book?

Re: [TV orNotTV] Donald Trump to Leave Apprentice -- Now Free to Con America Full Time.

Well, he's a cheap con-artist http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-campaign-offered-actors-803161 (Trump Campaign Offered Actors $50 to Cheer Him at Presidential Announcement). Well, I think the bigger worry for the GOP if Trump can generate a boost to make it into the debate, and

Re: [TV orNotTV] Donald Trump to Leave Apprentice -- Now Free to Con America Full Time.

Oh dear God!​ -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TV or Not TV group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[TV orNotTV] Donald Trump to Leave Apprentice -- Now Free to Con America Full Time.

Two articles in the news about The Don. 1. He's going to leave The Apprentice. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/03/donald-trump-exits-apprentice.html 2. He's Starting a Presidential Exploratory Committee. http://www.vox.com/2015/3/17/8239221/donald-trump-president I've already expressed

Re: [TV orNotTV] Cosby back on NBC

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Karen Owen ko...@frontiernet.net wrote: More importantly what will be the title of the new show? Bill Cosby has used Cosby, Cos, Cosby Show, The Bill Cosby Show and The New Bill Cosby Show for titles. All that he hasn't used is by William. -- Wesley McGee

[TV orNotTV] Winter Storm [Large Graphic]anus

Let this be a lesson to you TWC about naming winter storms. OK, it's really a lesson about sloppy graphic design. http://www.geekosystem.com/winter-storm-janus/ -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://sterlingnorth.vox.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com Twitter: @westwit G+:

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBS Back Nines Remaining Sitcoms

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.comwrote: ...CBS must be hoping for good things from the return of Mike and Molly, which they're calling in promos The New Mike and Molly, as if it's the revival of a game show--hell, why not the star-studded, big money 'Mike

[TV orNotTV] Does Disney want out of the local TV business?

Since the article is from the NYPost, you can't be completely sure the answer is yes, but they are reporting that ABC could be talking to an investment firm in order to unload those stations. http://nypost.com/2013/10/17/disney-once-again-considering-sale-of-local-tv-stations/ Months back, back

[TV orNotTV] NBC Primetime now losing to basic and specialty cable.

It's the best of times for NBC. It's the worst of times for NBC. NBC is doing extremely well on Mondays, Tuesdays, Sundays... well any day where they show The Voice or NFL Football. But Thursday Yesterday, they got beat by The NFL Network (I think they air The Voice on Thursdays) and TBS in

[TV orNotTV] (Oct 10, 2013) Amazon Deal of the Day Deadwood: The Complete Series

http://amzn.to/1eaiYdw (DVD $48.49) http://amzn.to/1620qH2 (Blu Ray $58.99) Deadwood is that highly acclaimed western that aired on HBO. I have not seen it. -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://sterlingnorth.vox.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com Twitter: @westwit G+:

[TV orNotTV] With the Fed Gov't Closed and the NWS at Reduced Staff, The Weather Channel Steps in to Name the 2013-14 Winter Storms.

I guess this is the second year of TWC's experiment to annoy meteorologists my giving storms cutesy names. Check the footnote at the end. http://www.weather.com/news/weather-winter/winter-storm-names-2013-2014-20131001 *Atlas (AT-lus)*: From Greek mythology; on the losing side in the

[TV orNotTV] Will That Birthday Song Forever Require Royalties?

Warner/Chappell Music doesn't mind if you sing Happy Birthday on TV or film. Just pay them money first. The only way any company could have been luckier in establishing a toll booth in the commons is if they could have somehow patented, trademarked or copyrighted the letter 'E'. A group of

[TV orNotTV] WWOR cares about New Jersey he yelled, in hopes the FCC heard...

As previously noted by folks who read this list more often than I've gotten a chance to, Fox TV Stations replaced the evening news on WWOR with something called Chasing Jersey or some such. Around that time, they also replaced their old site with something at http://www.my9NJ.com, with the

Re: [TV orNotTV] CNN to revive Crossfire with foursome

Van Jones: subject of many of a conservative conspiracy theory of how Barack Obama is a Communist in secret. He was a czar even! That's Russian! Stephanie Cutter, former Obama spokesperson, I do not recall making much of any big waves in the conservative blogosphere (i.e. confirming that Obama is

Re: [TV orNotTV] List of World Wide Web Sites About Local Television and Radio Markets

DCRTV in Washington DC -- DCRTV.com On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Mario500 mario...@gmail.com wrote: I will start the list with these sites: Mobile (Alabama) TV Examiner http://www.examiner.com/tv-in-mobile Mobile (Alabama) Radio Examinerhttp://www.examiner.com/local-radio-in-mobile

[TV orNotTV] Lisa de Moraes at Deadline Hollywood

Last month, Lisa de Moraes took a buyout from the Washington Post, having grown tired of commuting back and forth from LA to DC after the Post closed its LA bureau. Anyway, she is now working for Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood.

[TV orNotTV] CBS now owns all of TVGuide.com, but NOT of the TVGuide Network.

And I read that wrong. CBS only bought Lionsgate's half of TVGuide.com. TVGN is still a 50/50 joint venture between the two. On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote: Wesley (wherever he is) wrote: A few months ago, CBS bought into the TVGN and TVGuide.com,

[TV orNotTV] CBS now owns all of the TVGuide Network and TVGuide.com

A few months ago, CBS bought into the TVGN and TVGuide.com, buying 50% from whomever owned half of it. (Lionsgate owned 50%, but I don't know if they owned all of it, or if they had private equity firms as partners... a la NBC Universal with The Weather Channel). Anyway, CBS bought the rest of

[TV orNotTV] Former child actor Mara Wilson on why child actors sometimes wind up screwed up.

Former film actress Mara Wilson (notable role: Matilda) wrote a interesting little listicle for Cracked.com about how sometimes child-labor screws up a child, especially when that job introduces you to fame, adoration, adulation,, explotation, perverts and idiots.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Men renewed, but A. Jones' role still reduced

Well, this show has lasted far longer than I'm sure anyone expected since the ... departure ... of Charlie Sheen. It'll keep going until CBS has a mega-successful comedy to replace it, even if until then, they're down to just Jon Cryer's character wandering Malibu homeless. -- -- TV or Not TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] I don't understand (NBC News coverage of Boston)

OK, this is a topic I can irresponsibly speculate on safely without facts or evidence, so I shall. It might be an artifact of corporate structure when MSNBC was a separate division from NBC News, itself an artifact from when Microsoft owned a percentage of it. (It's still a sister-division today.)

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Whedon's ABC show can't decide on title

to TBS.) Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Wesley (in Colorado) wesley.mc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:25 PM, M-D November mdnovem...@gmail.comwrote: The way ABC promos its shows has always annoyed me (ABC's 'Grays

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Whedon's ABC show can't decide on title

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:25 PM, M-D November mdnovem...@gmail.com wrote: The way ABC promos its shows has always annoyed me (ABC's 'Grays Anatomy', tonight at 9, only on ABC) - and it worries me that the show will end up being promoed as ABC's 'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D'. This is

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, TVTattle.com

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Ann Becker annelizbec...@gmail.com wrote: saw this on Twitter, I think: http://72.10.51.28/2013/04/18/tv-tattle-calls-its-quits-after-13-years/ from JimRomenesko.com That TVTattle was Norman Weiss' full-time job was what surprised me. OK, that it was

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: CBS spikes award consideration for Dish by the tech website it owns.

And to continue, CBS has banned another product from CNet review. http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/25/3915406/cnet-forbidden-reviewing-aereo-cbs-dish-controversy CBS will no longer allow its technology websites to review anything that can infringe on its right to show commercials to you -- which

[TV orNotTV] CBS may have ruined media-consolidation for everyone.

Thanks to CBS exercising editorial control over CNet by telling them not to promote tech CBS wants banned forever, groups like Public Knowledge now have arguments to take to the FCC to argue that big corporations can't be trusted when they control most sources of information.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Trump trying to distract us from the real news again

I was entirely unaware that you could buy a newspaper with Trump Casino coupons. On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Bob in Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.comwrote: *New York* mag's Joe Hagan was told that ol' Bigmouth Badhair wants to buy the

Re: [TV orNotTV] The state of kids cartoons today

I believe Sturgeon's Law applies to cartoons as they do anything else. There has always been bad cartoons. In the 80s, there were plenty that were so bad that even I -- being ages 0-9 during that decade -- recognized they were bad. There were many more that, thanks to the passage of time and gain

[TV orNotTV] Re: CBS spikes award consideration for Dish by the tech website it owns.

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 3:24 AM, I, Wesley (in Colorado), wrote: http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/10/3862558/cnet-parent-cbs-bans-coverage During the Consumer Electronics Show, CNet -- a technology website -- had announced that Dish's Hopper was a finalist in its Best of CES awards. Shortly

[TV orNotTV] CBS spikes award consideration for Dish by the tech website it owns.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/10/3862558/cnet-parent-cbs-bans-coverage During the Consumer Electronics Show, CNet -- a technology website -- had announced that Dish's Hopper was a finalist in its Best of CES awards. Shortly thereafter, CBS -- who had bought CNet back in 2008 -- told them to pull

Re: [TV orNotTV] Al Jazeera Is Said to Be Acquiring Current TV

It has been sold. Though without the consent of Time Warner Cable (are they an investor?), thus Current is being removed from TWC immediately. http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/al-jazeera-to-acquire-current-tv-ny-times/ -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message

[TV orNotTV] Neil Patrick Harris' Adventures in Puppetland

NPH and spouse David Burtka are writing and producing a little webseries where NPH is tormented by demented puppets in his dreams.They look to be cute little malicious bastards. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3bSbnAXrM4feature=plcp -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com