Re: [TV orNotTV] Any words on the Cubs' win?

For what it's worth, as we go into the start of Game 4 (airing at gone 1am local time in the UK), we get the international feed which features Buck Martinez and Matt Vasgersian. They seem perfectly fine, but I'm probably not the best qualified person to determine that. I've never quite understood

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Will there be a Trump TV?

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 2:11 PM, JW wrote: > Businessweek on the present and post-election future of the Trump > campaign: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside- > the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go > > Thanks for that - a really fascinating read. Reuters published a fun "mak

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: My photo collection

years that would > pain me to lose, but which I only have backed up on an external drive. I > should move what I can to Google I guess at least. > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Adam Bowie wrote: > >> I've conducted a certain amount of research into the mass scanning o

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: My photo collection

place to keep and share them with family - > appreciate the suggestions from Jay (Imgur, Picasa, Flickr). I am not > familiar with any of these. Aside from the space restrictions, any other > reasons to use one over the other? > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 8:15 AM, Bob Jersey > wro

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: My photo collection

Bob, One of my great projects-I've-not-quite-got-around-to is digitising my old photos. I have a big plastic container of hundreds that I want to digitise but it's so slow. So good luck with all your scanning! (I also have a whole bunch on MiniDV video tapes that I want to digitise too, but that's

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: My dad is gone

My deepest condolences Bob. On 15 Oct 2016 16:58, "Jay Lewis" wrote: > Very sorry to hear, Bob. Best wishes to you & your family. > > On 10/15/2016 12:15 PM, Doug Eastick wrote: > > My condolences Bob. Damn. > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2016, 11:10 AM John Edwards wrote: > >> I'm sorry to hear that, Bob

Re: [TV orNotTV] Will Billy Bush be hurt by Trump's vulgar comments about women?

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Tom Wolper wrote: I always assumed that an employee would be the one to hand over footage. > And it has to be done anonymously, meaning that the news organization > cannot know the source. This came up when the NYT published the Trump state > tax return with the $

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sic or Dick?

A bit of Googling suggests that quite a lot of outlets have used *sic* in their reporting of the quote. But I suspect that's largely because they're using an agency report as the backbone of their stories. >From a good piece I found from 2014, it looks as though AP introduced *sic *into their styl

Re: [TV orNotTV] Will Billy Bush be hurt by Trump's vulgar comments about women?

ing >> footage available where Trump uses the N-word in Apprentice outtakes? >> Apparently Burnett is a big Trump supporter and has vowed to hold everyone >> accountable to the confidentiality clause he made them sign. >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Bob

Re: [TV orNotTV] Will Billy Bush be hurt by Trump's vulgar comments about women?

I just hope that the obnoxious comments on this tape, along with the previous sexism, racism and all around bullying see Trump achieve what is clearly his worst nightmare - to become one of the biggest Presidential losers ever. The Apprentice footage belongs to Mark Burnett right? Shouldn't he rig

Re: [TV orNotTV] BBC player to require registration by 2017

First, I couldn't possibly condone anyone who doesn't pay the Licence Fee watching iPlayer. (And yes, I know some Americans would happily pay it if they could, but international programme rights mean that's no more possible than me subscribing to HBO Go) However, at the moment, or more precisely

Re: [TV orNotTV] Talk of a LeBlexit on "Top Gear"

work. It's what made the now-canceled >> TG US work. TG UK packed a lot of "petrol-heads" into hosting positions >> with its revamp, and as individual presenters, some were good, others not. >> But I don't feel the chemistry among these hosts. >> > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Simpsons mega-mara-wanna? II

I'm sure there are some second run rules, but isn't it really just a PR story? "Nobody" is really going to be sitting up at 4am to watch S05E14 or whatever. I assumed the post Thanksgiving date was to do with nobody running new episodes of anything between then and Christmas. Therefore non-stop S

Re: [TV orNotTV] Simpsons mega-mara-wanna? II

It's in their Most Shared column: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/09/22/simpsons-fxx-600-episodes-marathon On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:13 PM, wrote: > Yeah, I got the same error, so I haven't read the article yet, but am I > the only one who finds it odd that you would start a "celebration" on > T

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'British Bake-Off' Leaving Beeb for C4

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Steve Williams wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 00:43:42 UTC+1, Adam Bowie wrote: >> >> The biggest thing here is that Channel 4 seemed to have bought the format >> without securing the talent. As Mark mentions ab

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'British Bake-Off' Leaving Beeb for C4

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Bob Jersey wrote: > > > On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 10:17:31 PM UTC-4, Tom Wolper wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Bob Jersey >> wrote: >> >>> Given they conduct contests that ostensibly are limited to the UK, that >>> alone is an iro

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'British Bake-Off' Leaving Beeb for C4

This is all front page news in the UK because this is the biggest show on British television. And when I say biggest, I mean bigger than everything, including the Olympics, England football and anything else. A couple of things worth noting here: - BBC One and ITV are the biggest two networks, an

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: WTF With FB News?

I think that this Guardian piece has a very fair summary of what Facebook needs to be doing. And that's probably hiring an editor to avoid these kinds of thing in the future: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/10/facebook-news-media-editor-vietnam-photo-censorship On Sat, Sep 10, 2016

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: WTF With FB News?

Gawker and TMZ were, or are not aimed at everyone. Yes - they want to maximise page views and did all they could to do so. But that was amongst their target audience. For starters both were aimed squarely at Americans, and Americans interested in gossip of one sort or another. I'm not saying non-A

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: WTF With FB News?

FIrst to note is that Facebook has now backed down on the "napalm girl" photo: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/09/facebook-reinstates-napalm-girl-photo On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 6:36 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > Much like the late Gawker, Facebook's goal is to draw the masses to the > webs

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: WTF With FB News?

Basically FB has fired the team that used to put manually put that trending sidebar together. This followed that report that suggested the team were too "liberal" and weren't including right-leaning stories in the trending section. Instead, FB has gone for an algorithmic approach, but so far with

Re: [TV orNotTV] Gretchen Carlson sues Roger Ailes for sexual harassment

I've only just got around to reading Friday's New York magazine piece. It's long and full of colour, and I don't think the link has been directly shared here: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/how-fox-news-women-took-down-roger-ailes.html On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 4:46 PM, Tom Wolper w

Re: [TV orNotTV] Rio 2016 Paralympics: CBC Sports to provide extensive coverage | CBCSports.ca Mobile

In the UK, Channel 4 have the rights to the Paralympics, and like CBC, they go big on them: http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-unveils-rio-paralympics-team One of C4's lead presenters is Clare Balding, who did similar duties for the BBC (in the UK, as there seems to be more sharing

Re: [TV orNotTV] Another New Jerseyan cleared for "Dancing"

Meanwhile this side of the pond, Strictly Come Dancing (as DWTS is known over here) has also signed an Olympian gymnast (Claudia Fragapane), obviously from Team GB. Actually, there's also our champion long jumper in this round although neither of them actually won medals this time around. I assume

Re: [TV orNotTV] Build a Wall!

o Canada?Not even a moat will stop them > drunken Americans! > > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Adam Bowie wrote: > >> In any case, I don't think Trump's thinking big enough. >> >> Never mind a wall, he should build a moat! It would make the Pa

Re: [TV orNotTV] Build a Wall!

lf of us over here have no interest in it either. > > Doug Fields > Tampa, FL > > Original Message > Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Build a Wall! > From: Adam Bowie > Date: Wed, August 24, 2016 11:43 am > To: tvornottv > > I don't think this s

Re: [TV orNotTV] Build a Wall!

I don't think this side of the pond anyone's interested in paying for any walls. Adam (Watching John Oliver and - yes, still - The Daily Show, and generally despairing...) On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Bob Jersey wrote: > > Doug Fields, to moi: >> >> I imagine A dam's gonna have opinion abo

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Quick Amazon pilot reviews: "TheTick," "Jean-Claude Van Johnson," "I Love Dick"

I watched the Van Damme pilot and speak as someone who has never knowingly watched any of his films. I'm more likely to know him from bad beer commercials, and a truck ad. I confess that I only found it moderately amusing, and frankly couldn't see where they could possibly take this were it to go

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 6:42 PM, PGage wrote: > The online feed definitely has a lot of non US commentators. The > gymnastics seem to be American (but not the ones on NBC) though I guess > they could be neutered Canadians. The Rugby and Archery seem British to me. > > A bit like many internationa

Re: [TV orNotTV] CAN swimming - Mark on Penny

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Doug Eastick wrote: > > > (apologies if the links don't work outside Canada. I hope the CBC opens > up these clips for other countries). > > I love how invariably the pre-roll ads always seem to work internationally, but of course the main video doesn't. That said

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

I've been sitting here quietly watching the talk about NBC's coverage, and I thought it might we worth comparing and contrasting NBC with what the BBC is doing in the UK for these Olympics. The main channel - BBC1 - is just about all Olympics all the time. The only exceptions are for the news, and

Re: [TV orNotTV] Gretchen Carlson sues Roger Ailes for sexual harassment

This report suggests that more people are getting in touch with Carlson's lawyers with similar complaints: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/07/gretchen-carlson-roger-ailes-fox-news-lawsuit-other-women As for the seriousness of the internal inquiry, based on what the Murdochs have done i

Re: [TV orNotTV] Talk of a LeBlexit on "Top Gear"

Chris Evans is stepping down from Top Gear (UK): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36707266 On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Adam Bowie wrote: > It sounds like the US version has now been cancelled: > > > http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/28/12049986/top-gear-usa-cance

Re: [TV orNotTV] British Jimmy back on homeland TV

Sky's not an unlikely home for Corden (who has never knowingly been called Jimmy in the UK :-) ), since that's where he still makes episodes of A League of their Own, his comedy sports gameshow. The most recent short run was necessarily shot in California and was a change in format, with less of Co

Re: [TV orNotTV] Talk of a LeBlexit on "Top Gear"

It sounds like the US version has now been cancelled: http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/28/12049986/top-gear-usa-cancelled-history-channel Returning to the dubious story about LeBlanc and Evans having a feud for a moment, I'd want a better source than The Sun. I think the bigger issue is that LeBlan

Re: [TV orNotTV] Brits kept from seeing Oliver's anti-Brexit rant

I saw the Brexit piece by Oliver on Monday morning. HBO tend to publish the major segment on YouTube immediately after broadcast, but they often geo-block viewers in the UK from seeing it - to a large part because Sky Atlantic who have the rights to Oliver (and nearly all HBO programming) broadcast

Re: [TV orNotTV] corden learns about websites

Like an indigenous bird, Conan has been rarely spotted this side of the Atlantic. Occasionally he gets blown across by accident as with a short run on a reality channel about two years ago now (he even came over and did promo work). His NBC show was *perhaps* seen on CNBC which still runs some cur

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK Tory Rags Go After 'Top Gear' Reboot

Worth noting that the question Kevin quoted was from a BBC Worldwide email panel - not the BBC audience ratings arm. The commercial Worldwide is kept at arm's length. The official measure of popularity - Audience Appreciation - is unpublished, but carried out daily and isn't asked in this fashion,

Re: [TV orNotTV] Oliver's apparently record-breaking move

Who Wants to be a Millionaire which was just taking off and so far hadn't given away the million. The radio million was poorly executed, didn't have sponsorship, and delivered outside of a ratings period. So not successful! On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Adam Bowie wrote: > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Oliver's apparently record-breaking move

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Bob Jersey wrote: > > In one fell swoop, he forgave nearly 9,000 peoples' debts... but is it > really better than when Oprah gave away cars? > > WaPo >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Semi-OT: The Bugle podcast goes dark

All change on The Bugle... https://soundcloud.com/the-bugle/vib-very-important-bugle On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 3:58 PM, PGage wrote: > I am the reverse. I love The Bugle, but Last Week has already become one > of the most important programs in contemporary television. > > The monthly Bugle has bee

Re: [TV orNotTV] Top Gear (UK) running time on BBCA

For what it's worth, Extra Gear is 23 mins long. So the two should comfortably sit in a 2 hour slot with advertising. (Actually if the main show was 1hr 2min, that strikes me as sloppy editing.) I reckon it's going to take a good series to settle down and find its feet, which makes all the reactio

Re: [TV orNotTV] TBS having trouble getting Full Frontal

Thanks! It's nice to see that they've neglected to geo-block it! I've had to use "alternative" methods to see this in the past. On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 5:00 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Full episode is on the YouTube, in addition to the usual practic

Re: [TV orNotTV] Eurovision Live on Logo NOW

I didn't really watch this year's contest, although it was clearly the most political yet, with real news stories about Russia's reaction to it coming out of the competition. The thing to know is that different people treat it very differently. In the UK, it's seen as a bit of a joke, albeit one e

Re: [TV orNotTV] Rest in Peace, Ed Dravecky

Dreadful news. My deepest condolences to his family. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Melissa P wrote: > Oh, how terrible. I will really miss him. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Apr 25, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Joe Coughlin wrote: > > I have the unhappy burden of informing everyone that one of our own

RE: [TV orNotTV] AMC would rather just pick up series directly from Britain...

rtainly > doesn't apply to the way I or any of my circle of friends view British > TV/movies. I'm as okay with a British accent as I'm a mild French or > German one, and probably prefer them to the Southern American redneck drawl. > > > > Doug Fields > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] AMC would rather just pick up series directly from Britain...

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:19 PM, Tom Wolper wrote > > > For American viewers English accents are like black and white movies. It > isn't that viewers can't understand what is going on in B&W movies, it's > just that they tune in, see B&W, and tune out. I think it is the same when > they hear regi

Re: [TV orNotTV] AMC would rather just pick up series directly from Britain...

her audio device for clear audio. Even a years old stereo system will be better than the speakers in your new flat TV. But that's a bugbear of mine... You definitely won't struggle with accents in The Night Manager. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Bob Jersey wrote: > > Adam Bowi

Re: [TV orNotTV] AMC would rather just pick up series directly from Britain...

The Night Manager is a really superior drama, and one I thoroughly recommend. It performed massively well in Britain where it aired in the 9pm Sunday slot - probably the most prestigious slot on UK television. Easily one of the best things this year - and in Britain we've been a bit spoilt for loc

Re: [TV orNotTV] Does any TV critic hate Corden more than this guy?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4:29 AM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > As for the panels, I'm frustrated that Corden comes across just as > breathless and rushed in month 13 as in month 1. He's had plenty of > practice but still lacks Graham Norton's relative c

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: ITV on fire

I'm pretty sure ITV has more options, and had it not been Good Friday they might have tried something else. They have their main news studios about half a mile away and could have decamped there. My old radio station used to have a reciprocal arrangement with another station that we could use eac

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Sylvia Anderson...

On 22 Mar 2016 01:27, "Doug Eastick" wrote: > > curious, if I want to torture myself, is Space:1999 available online anywhere (legit)? > The Network Blu Rays are supposed to be fantastic, but they're locked to region B (Europe etc, and not the US). Judging from Amazon, the US ones are outlandishl

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: SportsTV: Fibbing with technology again, and The Goose flies

What strikes me - from afar - as strange here is that ESPN is still producing the pictures. With international football (soccer) fixtures, the per game production costs are lower. Another network provides a world feed and local networks supplement that to a greater or lesser degree. Sending annou

Re: [TV orNotTV] @midnight throws shade at @elevenish

I must confess that publicity for @elevenish on ITV2 had completely passed me by. It's no ITV2 and there's little to nothing aimed at me on that channel. But it really doesn't sound like @midnight apart from having an "@" symbol. I guess that could have been an "inspiration" when naming this show a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: FS1 Congressional coverage

Well with the new guy at FIFA (who reminds me heavily of "The Hood" from cult 60s kids TV puppet show Thunderbirds), is now said to be thinking quite urgently about the 2026 finals because, well, they're only ten years' away! Cynical sports media hacks I follow on Twitter would bet heavily on the U

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: FS1 Congressional coverage

In the UK Murdoch has "Sky Sports News HQ" - a 24 hour sports news channel - which will have covered it extensively. But I doubt even they ran ten hours straight though! In fact many hours were carried live by the domestic BBC News channel - I'm not sure if its sister BBC World News channel carried

Re: [TV orNotTV] Clarkson says sorry to Top Gear producer

12:38 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:29 AM, Adam Bowie wrote: > >> Well Top Gear is too much of a money spinner for the BBC for it to stop >> production. And unless the ratings fall off a cliff, it'll continue to be >> made on a pretty regu

Re: [TV orNotTV] Clarkson says sorry to Top Gear producer

or Who. So Top Gear it is. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:07 AM, Adam Bowie wrote: > >> I struggle to think of any UK TV production that has come under such >> intense scrutiny as the new series of Top Gear. There are endle

Re: [TV orNotTV] Clarkson says sorry to Top Gear producer

I struggle to think of any UK TV production that has come under such intense scrutiny as the new series of Top Gear. There are endless stories about it, it's production and so on. As I've said before, I'd be amazed if it's anything like its predecessor (And it's worth noting that there was a previ

Re: [TV orNotTV] Thunderbirds to be Go again on Amazon Prime Video

The new version of the Barry Gray opening theme is very close to the original, but updated a little. Indeed, a little like they did with Hawaii Five O, the opening credits actually closely mirror those of the original series. It's on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQwgIZ__WrY I'm not sur

Re: [TV orNotTV] Thunderbirds to be Go again on Amazon Prime Video

It's worth mentioning that the New Zealand company actually doing the combination of model work and CGI is Weta Workshop - aka the Peter Jackson company that did SFX work on The Lord of the Rings! It's a decent kids series similar in tone to the original, and excellently made. I think ITV missed

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here's your new Top Gear UK lineup

assaulted. Maybe it also means that LeBlanc can do both Top Gear and a sitcom should it get picked up. Adam On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Adam Bowie wrote: > I believe the upcoming season of Episodes - which is shot mostly in the UK > incidentally - is the last. It begins filming in April a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Little-known Viacom network renames

There's been an MTV Live for quite a few years in the UK. Music channels tend to be all or nothing in the UK, but even though I get it, I can honestly say I've never watched it. I assume much of the UK version could happily find its way to the US version since it's just festival footage, a few spec

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Grease live

Late to this, but ITV2 in the UK showed Fox's Grease over the weekend, and I must admit that I quite enjoyed it, even with a little judicious fast-forwarding. Really good use of a large studio lot, and some very impressive dance routines. ITV did try a live version of The Sound of Music just befor

Re: [TV orNotTV] If Martha Raddatz had just been "LOUD AND PROUD"...

Pretty sure there were at least two people pointing and yelling at the MVPs telling them where to go too! (On top of the person inside who told them...) On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Steve Timko wrote: > As far as candidates not following their cues, today when they introduced > the MVPs at

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here's your new Top Gear UK lineup

nd the US version, it'll come > down to the chemistry of the hosts, but LeBlanc isn't exactly known for > being emotive, so hopefully he's being coached to appear... well... > friendly in person as himself. > > > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:16 AM, Adam Bowie wrote: > &

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here's your new Top Gear UK lineup

US and Aussie versions were good and >> worth watching). But from the press I've seen on the new UK series, it is >> all being handled in the tame, breakfast show style of its new host and >> (departed) director. It does not bode well. >> >> On Wed, Dec 23, 20

Re: [TV orNotTV] The inter-network Superhighway

Munch is the ultimate TV crossover. He was in the final season of The Wire in 2008 - which made sense given the character's origin. And Wiki says he was in Kimmy Schmidt too. On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:17 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I've been trying t

Re: [TV orNotTV] WGN detonates their Manhattan project

A shame that they won't be following it through to a very definite conclusion. I've just started watching this on the UK version of AMC too. Adam On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Jon Delfin wrote: > It was quite good. Disappointed, but not surprised. > On Feb 3, 2016 4:39 PM, "Kevin M." wrote

Re: [TV orNotTV] Full Frontal is coming next Monday

Would that model - on a different night - not be what Last Week Tonight on HBO is? A half-hour weekly show? Adam On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:14 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Full Frontal with Samantha Bee premieres next Monday. Contrary to what I > was

Re: [TV orNotTV] BBC's Terry Wogan dead at 77

It's hard to equate him to an equivalent US figure, but given his primetime chat show that ran from 1982 for about ten years - three times a week in it's heyday - you might start with Johnny Carson. Wogan's show didn't run nearly as long as Carson's but the cumulative length of his reign on radio a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Numbers reportedly crunched on a-la-carte cable nets

On 29 Jan 2016 20:48, "Bob Jersey" wrote: > > > ... ESPN's figure is in the ionosphere... > B > But that looks exactly right. In the UK (and many other territories) sports channels are a premium add-on. Sky Sports is out ESPN equivalent and you don't get it with a basic package. You *have* to pay

Re: [TV orNotTV] THR stuff

Indeed it really seems to be looking at what the other sites are publishing and then rewriting it and publishing it yourself, often with no or minimal credit, as quickly as possible. It's a volume game. Indeed that's precisely the business model of the Daily Mail, which may have actual journalists

Re: [TV orNotTV] Graham Norton show

I tend to watch Norton dependent on the guests, but he's been doing it for many years now, so he's pretty good at it, even if he's never going to make anyone's life uncomfortable. I've mentioned it before, but if you want to hear a discussion about British chat shows, then you can hear Norton expl

Re: [TV orNotTV] X-Files premiere party

I went to the California Science Center about 18 months ago. I went purely to see Endeavour which was fabulous. But to be honest it's really somewhere to take kids to learn about science. Adam On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > I've been there but it has been years. I want to

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK edition of Lip Sync Battle premieres this week

The cast list mentioned does seem a little low-rent for the British version. While it's true that I've had to Google a few names from the US version, there are bona fide stars in it. The Channel 5 version has recognisable names to British audiences but I'd have thought they'd really want to kick of

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here's your new Top Gear UK lineup

David Coulthard has been a presenter on the BBC's Formula One coverage until the end of this season. As of a couple of days ago Channel 4 is taking over the BBC's F1 rights package, meaning that Coulthard would have been out of a job. I don't think the co-presenters' racing pedigree will make much

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Trump ruins rep further in Britain

I hope he realises quite how toxic he's making the Trump brand nationally and internationally. On the other hand, I have enormous doubts about to what extent he's involved in some of these buildings and golf clubs that bear his name. I've long assumed that it's like Richard Branson's Virgin empire

Re: [TV orNotTV] To those who enter the tweetverse...

Sadly, I think the reason they did it is part of a vain attempt to make it easier for new subscribers to understand how Twitter works. New user: "What does Favorite mean?" You: "Well, it could mean "Save for later," or it might mean, "Good point," or it could mean, "I think I'm going to end this

Re: [TV orNotTV] the next time you see Trevor Noah

Is returning to work the day after such surgery usual? That feels very fast! Adam On 4 Nov 2015 20:55, "Jon Delfin" wrote: > ... he'll be down one appendix. It won't be tonight. > > > http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/trevor-noah-appendectomy-daily-show-1201633512/ > > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV ...

Re: [TV orNotTV] Vice Gets 24/7 Channel from A+E

This follows some news last week about how Vice is planning to launch in the UK too. Indeed, the Broadcast magazine article suggested that they're looking at 12 territories around the world. They note that this will follow a US launch first. From the piece, it definitely doesn't sound like a tradit

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: At least 15mil log into NFL's Yahoo-only* game Sunday

uess: because the game was carried by Yahoo (though produced by > CBS), they decided to push an graphics-free international feed? Beats me. > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 10:43 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> For what it's worth, this week's BBC coverage of the Wembley game is the &g

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: At least 15mil log into NFL's Yahoo-only* game Sunday

For what it's worth, this week's BBC coverage of the Wembley game is the full Fox feed. Sky carries the same feed. So I've no idea why the BBC did their own thing last week. On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:29 AM, JW wrote: > > Indeed if the boot was on the other foot, and I was told that this > seaso

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: ESPN Layoffs

I see ESPN is killing Grantland now: http://espnmediazone.com/us/espn-statement-regarding-grantland/ I wonder where this leaves FiveThirtyEight? I assume it gets a stay of execution at least until post-2016. On 29 Oct 2015 20:39, "JW" wrote: > Here's an article about the current economic pressur

Re: [TV orNotTV] At least 15mil log into NFL's Yahoo-only* game Sunday

its on what's allowed. I wonder if that was the issue. * I'm not sure whether the NFL supplies an International Feed as such for anything but the Superbowl. And for the last few years, sponsorship issues notwithstanding, UK broadcasters have taken the full US network feeds - I think on

Re: [TV orNotTV] At least 15mil log into NFL's Yahoo-only* game Sunday

Since they upped the number of games a season to three, then even if you remove Jacksonville from the equation, you're looking at two teams per season as potential Superbowl hosts. If they take a multi-year approach as they seem to be, then it must indeed simply be a case of having to hand over a g

Re: [TV orNotTV] At least 15mil log into NFL's Yahoo-only* game Sunday

gt; > > http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/article-2/Chiefs-Chairman-and-CEO-Clark-Hunt-Clarifies-London-Super-Bowl-Connection/1fa176f5-98a9-4a20-b031-20d25062cfbe > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Adam Bowie wrote: > >> I'm never sure how attachments work on Google Groups, so below

Re: [TV orNotTV] At least 15mil log into NFL's Yahoo-only* game Sunday

ing I'd note is that the NFL is clearly trying to *sell* the game internationally. And if you only give the UK dull fixtures with losing teams that nobody cares about, then they won't do that. But then I'm basically against the whole thing anyway :-) Adam On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 a

Re: [TV orNotTV] At least 15mil log into NFL's Yahoo-only* game Sunday

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 1:51 PM, Joe Hass wrote: > > To pivot this slightly, what the NFL has yet to do is put a game in London > that would (in theory) be a moderately compelling match up. In the 14 games > played as part of the "International Series", this was the first year > where a intradivi

Re: [TV orNotTV] ESPN Layoffs

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Joe Hass wrote: > > > I cannot find a previous occurrence where a network willingly gave up > (even via negotiation) TV rights for an event. > > For what it's worth, this has happened a few times in the UK, particularly with the BBC. The Open golf will no longer b

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

Although in the UK, the ESPN channel actually appears as "BT Sport ESPN" - to drive home the fact that it's part of the relatively new BT Sport TV package. In fact, because I have HD, the bug actually is a really ungainly "BT Sport ESPN HD" which takes up as much real estate as you might imagine,

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV South of the Equator

In the UK we tend to get US sports in their original network form on whichever channel has the rights. So NFL is mostly on Sky Sports where they show three games back to back on Sunday (with Redzone also available), and a lovely mix of Fox, CBS and NBC logos and bugs mixed in with Sky Sports' own o

Re: [TV orNotTV] The new host of Celebrity Apprentice IS...

He is currently to be seen appearing in a cheesy series of commercials in the UK, advertising an insurance price comparison website. I suppose it could be worse. Another insurance business is using Harvey Keitel seemingly in his Reservoir Dogs persona. Actors no longer need to go to Japan for thi

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Full circle

I would imagine that somebody somewhere has done some research and determined that x% of households now watch on widescreen televisions (or at least TV's that are usually switched into widescreen mode), where "x" is a large number that's fairly close to 100. Can you still buy 4:3 TVs? Rear project

Re: [TV orNotTV] Virginia TV crew involved in shooting on live TV - CNN.com

What a cheery sight that will be in hotel receptions and airport lounges. Nothing like running what's essentially a snuff movie for everyone to watch. On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Joe Hass wrote: > Mathew Ingram at Fortune is reporting that CNN has announced they will > only show the video o

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

oughly 12A equivalent) films. That may be where >>> "Sesame Street" is specifically headed. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:10, Adam Bowie wrote: >>> >>> Excuse my ignorance, but does HBO actually do much in the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sesame Street Moves To HBO

Excuse my ignorance, but does HBO actually do much in the way of kids TV at the moment? And is there a chance an inattentive parent might leave the TV tuned into HBO from Sesame Street into a daytime rerun of Game of Thrones or something? On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Joe Coughlin wrote: > I

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: True Detective Season Two

In fact the plot in S2 was pretty straightforward as you say. Yes the way things linked up took time, and you did have to pay attention to it. Unlike 90% of television there mostly weren't great long exposition scenes (there were one or two). Like everyone else, I wouldn't pretend that it was as go

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: True Detective Season Two

I've stayed away from this until I got a chance to see the season finale last night. I came late to True Detective. I watched the first season over a few nights a couple of months ago, just ahead of this season airing. While I knew that it was unlikely any knowledge carried through from one season

Re: [TV orNotTV] TCA gives out awards

I find all this very confusing. I took "Jimmy" to be a diminutive of "James" at first, even though it's longer. Except I've never heard him called anything but "James." Maybe his mum calls him that? But now I see where you're coming from... Except, if it was "Scottish Conan Guy" before then surel

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