[TV orNotTV] Re: CNN -- Not the Place for Politics
Since Group W has been mentioned, we should pay homage to the all-too- short lived Satellite News Channel from nearly 30 years ago (has it really been that long?!?), a joint venture of Group W and ABC which used its own variation on the you give us 22 minutes ... imaging liner that Group W made so famous in all-news radio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_News_Channel Mark, of course, got HLN's tagline right. On Mar 23, 1:05 pm, Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com wrote: Amazingly, the comments came up with a good idea--turn HLN back into the old news-wheel format (although the commenter was using a variation of the Group W radio You give us 22 minutes... slogan instead of the correct slogan: Around the world in 30 minutes, this is CNN Headline News). -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: CNN -- Not the Place for Politics
On Mar 24, 7:29 am, K.M. Richards richard...@gmail.com wrote: Since Group W has been mentioned, we should pay homage to the all-too- short lived Satellite News Channel from nearly 30 years ago (has it really been that long?!?), a joint venture of Group W and ABC which used its own variation on the you give us 22 minutes ... imaging liner that Group W made so famous in all-news radio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_News_Channel Mark, of course, got HLN's tagline right. And one vestige of SNC lives on--when ABC took over ESPN, they give the net the SNC music package, since the channel had such a short life with little carriage. They immediately used one of the cuts on the package as the theme for SportsCenter (which contained the dah-da- dah-da-da-DAHHH... line that I assume was SNC's primary theme) and then a few years later switched to another cut from the package which featured a certain three-note repeated signature--and I don't think I need to describe that to you any more. Unfortunately, co-composer Annie Roboff doesn't see a penny of royalties, since she and her partner sold off the package to ABC for a flat fee (but considering she co-wrote the Faith Hill song This Kiss, among other things, she's not doing bad). -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Harris to Play McCain in HBO 2008 Election Film
He joins the already-cast Julianne Moore as Caribou Barbie in the adaptation of John Hellerman and Mark Halperin's book Game Change, which has the same writer and director as the HBO made-for about the 2000 election Recount: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/23/ed-harris-john-mccain/ No indication who's playing President Obama, but it seems to me that they missing a bet if they don't cast Harry Lennix of 24 and Dollhouse, who not only looks like Obama but grew up in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood where Obama grew up (he also played a black president in a sketch on HBO's Little Britain USA, which may not help things). -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Quickie Obit [Was: Quickie Review: Detroit 187]
On Mar 23, 9:20 pm, Joe Hass hassgoc...@gmail.com wrote: People in the Detroit area, showing a total lack of perspective I've come to know and despise, can't imagine why the show wouldn't come back:http://goo.gl/ODr51 I admire the author's restraint--these sort of rants usually contain a kneejerk attack on reality shows at some point. She doesn't mention them once. -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] NoTV: NPR Anchor: Some of My Best Friends are Conservatives
Steve Inskeep, who certain NPR diehards will never forgive for replacing the sainted Bob Edwards on Morning Edition (some of the critics, who also like to claim that NPR has dumbed down, refer to ME sarcastically as Inskeep Co.), proclaims in Rupert's WSJ that his net is (ahem) fair and balanced, while around 500 comments to the article testify that he's not changing anyone's minds: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576218543378702266.html?mod=djkeyword Of course, I believe that as what Paul said yesterday about MSNBC outside of Rachel and Ed, what NPR more reflects is Beltway thinking or official Washington more than any particular political view--and that's been true ever since Frank Mankewicz (the man who said that Prairie Home Companion would not be understood by anyone outside of Minnesota) was net president during the financial crisis of the early 80s. For the far right, that's too center for their taste (and they don't like the fact that to them NPR voices are all female, effeminate- sounding men or people with accents, not like those real men who sound like everyday Americans Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage). And to the far left, like the Urbana, IL librarian who writes the NPR-sucks blog NPR Check while he worships St. Amy Goodman, Beltway thinking is another way of saying conservatism, pro-government (or, to put it more truthfully, pro- Pentagon) and corporatist--meanwhile, they never suggest an alternative to corporatism, which makes it sound like they want Soviet-style Communism. -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] And the next series to feature a gay storyline is...
... Like sands through the hourglass, so are the Days of our Live. Yes, the late Tom Heald didn't live to see the day his beloved soap introduces openly gay characters (longtime fans of the series know there have ben several closeted characters on the show). http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/23/days.lives.gay.storyline.ew/index.html?hpt=Sbin -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Bite My Shiny Metal Ass, Adult Swim!
Comedy Central renews Futurama for two years and 26 more episodes: http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/03/24/futurama-renewed/ -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Ricky Gervais to do another Office cameo
Maybe Brent IS out of work after all...(or maybe he's perpetually seeking the executive job he thinks he deserves)...in any event... http://www.tvsquad.com/2011/03/24/ricky-gervais-to-interview-for-steve-carells-office-job/ *The Mail quotes an NBC spokesperson as saying, Ricky is back as David Brent for the last episode of the series where he will be vying for the manager's job ... But in typical David Brent style he won't make it easy for them to hire him.* -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] NoTV: NPR Anchor: Some of My Best Friends are Conservatives
- Original Message - From: Mark J. mjeffr...@marcrealty.com Steve Inskeep, who certain NPR diehards will never forgive for replacing the sainted Bob Edwards on Morning Edition (some of the critics, who also like to claim that NPR has dumbed down, refer to ME sarcastically as Inskeep Co.), proclaims in Rupert's WSJ that his net is (ahem) fair and balanced, while around 500 comments to the article testify that he's not changing anyone's minds: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704050204576218543378702266.html?mod=djkeyword If you have free time and are up for a good laugh (or groan), the Newsweek article currently has 216 comments. http://www.newsweek.com/2011/03/20/what-s-killing-npr.html _ _ |_|_ Brad Beam- Belle WV |_|_ http://www.facebook.com/74bmw -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Olby's Back with the Worst Persons--in the Wooorrrllldddd...
No graphics, no Tocatta and Fugue, but Keith Olbermann taking shots at Lonesome Rhodes Beck and others on his FOK News web site (that's Friends of Keith, you see): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/24/keith-olbermann-releases-_n_840055.html?ref=tw -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
Re: [TV orNotTV] Olby's Back with the Worst Persons--in the Wooorrrllldddd...
Let the bloviations resume -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: Bite My Shiny Metal Ass, Adult Swim!
As much as I'd rather see Futurama on Adult Swim, I'll take whatever I can get. So KUDOS to Comedy Central for the 2-season re-up. M-D WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
[TV orNotTV] Re: CNN -- Not the Place for Politics
On Mar 23, 6:40 pm, David Lynch djly...@gmail.com wrote: The problem I have with CNN is that they have bought into the idea that the way to have a view from nowhere approach is to bring in guests to express their point of view without any challenge from the anchor/reporter/host, no matter how inflammatory or factually inaccurate those statements are. Anderson Cooper has gone against that particular grain by frequently challenging his satellite guests with facts and figures that contradict whatever cockamamie bs they've made elsewhere. -- 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 tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
