Re: [TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
I had no friends when I was twelve, so pretty much anything now is a marked improvement On Thu, Nov 13, 2014, 22:49 PGage pga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:21 PM, K.M. Richards richard...@gmail.com wrote: PTV is where I discovered Monty Python, My first Python encounter was also on PBS... I recall it vividly... during a night of insomnia as a pre-teen I was channel surfing and happened upon And Now For Something Completely Different. I'd never seen anything like it. It was followed by a John Byner sketch comedy show that was also bizarre. I will share my 1st encounter with Python, in part because I am not sure if kids do these two things any more. We could not get a decent UHF signal where I grew up in the northeast San Fernando Valley. In junior high school I stumbled upon a snowy image of Flying Circus, and asked some friends about it the next day at school. First Encounter 1A: One of my friends had (it turned out) an uncanny ability to memorize and mimic Python, and began a new career as a popular kid (he was otherwise painfully shy, and could not use his memory to do well in school) regaling us with what seemed (and later pretty much proved to be) extended verbatim performances of Python. I first heard I'm a Lumberjack and Norwegian Blue and Spanish Inquisition in this way, and they lent catch phrases to our group long before most of us had every heard the original. First Encounter 2A: At some point during that period, one of my friends got a hold of Another Monty Python Record, and I spent many nights at his house listening over and over to it (do kids listen to comedy albums anymore? Mine do not - they watch internet clips of comedy bits, but not albums. A couple of years ago I was so pleased to get DVD's of Firesign Theater (Nick Danger) and Steve Martin's Lets Get Small. On a long car trip I proudly played them for my kids, knowing they would love it and think I was cool - but it bombed, as the idea of listening to comedy rather than watching it on the internet seemed quaintly absurd to them. Sometime in high school we were finally able to watch all of Python, TV and films, which I loved of course, but maybe not quite as much as hearing my friend perform it during lunch, or listening to it late at night during those sleepovers. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?... -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote: It's not a return of production (that is probably an impossibility for many reasons), And yet Joel spoke of bringing the show back earlier this year in Wired. Fingers crossed Turkey Day brings an announcement. -- +++ Joe Coughlin http://www.twitter.com/inturnaround -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
(Tried posting this last night, but GG appears to have eaten my post...) Public television (specifically, WHYY/12 in Philadelphia) is where I discovered Red Dwarf. That is all. On Thursday, November 13, 2014 3:21:18 PM UTC-5, K.M. Richards wrote: PTV is where I discovered Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and Are You Being Served? It is also where I got to see the remaining episodes of Last of the Summer Wine after being introduced to it by the original AE back in the 1980s, and where I found the sequel to Yes Minister (another AE introduction), Yes Prime Minister. The other Britcom I recall getting widespread PTV airing is Keeping Up Appearances even though I never got into that one. And speaking of comedies I don't get, The Red Green Show is a Canadian production which is reasonably popular on PTV stations. I think people only complain about comedy on PTV if it originates in the U.S. On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 11:41:27 AM UTC-8, Tom Wolper wrote: As to people complaining about comedy on PTV, that's where we discovered Monty Python. And my local PBS station runs a Britcom bloc on Saturday evenings. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
M-D November mdnovem...@gmail.com wrote: (Tried posting this last night, but GG appears to have eaten my post...) Public television (specifically, WHYY/12 in Philadelphia) is where I discovered Red Dwarf. That is all. Samesies, only with UNC-TV. And Robot Wars. :) ~D -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
PTV is where I discovered Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and Are You Being Served? It is also where I got to see the remaining episodes of Last of the Summer Wine after being introduced to it by the original AE back in the 1980s, and where I found the sequel to Yes Minister (another AE introduction), Yes Prime Minister. The other Britcom I recall getting widespread PTV airing is Keeping Up Appearances even though I never got into that one. And speaking of comedies I don't get, The Red Green Show is a Canadian production which is reasonably popular on PTV stations. I think people only complain about comedy on PTV if it originates in the U.S. On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 11:41:27 AM UTC-8, Tom Wolper wrote: As to people complaining about comedy on PTV, that's where we discovered Monty Python. And my local PBS station runs a Britcom bloc on Saturday evenings. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:21 PM, K.M. Richards richard...@gmail.com wrote: PTV is where I discovered Monty Python, My first Python encounter was also on PBS... I recall it vividly... during a night of insomnia as a pre-teen I was channel surfing and happened upon And Now For Something Completely Different. I'd never seen anything like it. It was followed by a John Byner sketch comedy show that was also bizarre. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
And called Bizarre. Aired in the early dates of Showtime, but produced by CTV in Canada (I don't know if Canada got the censored U.S. syndicated version). Where Bob Einstein first did Super Dave Osborne. Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:21 PM, K.M. Richards richard...@gmail.com wrote: PTV is where I discovered Monty Python, My first Python encounter was also on PBS... I recall it vividly... during a night of insomnia as a pre-teen I was channel surfing and happened upon And Now For Something Completely Different. I'd never seen anything like it. It was followed by a John Byner sketch comedy show that was also bizarre. -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:21 PM, K.M. Richards richard...@gmail.com wrote: PTV is where I discovered Monty Python, My first Python encounter was also on PBS... I recall it vividly... during a night of insomnia as a pre-teen I was channel surfing and happened upon And Now For Something Completely Different. I'd never seen anything like it. It was followed by a John Byner sketch comedy show that was also bizarre. I will share my 1st encounter with Python, in part because I am not sure if kids do these two things any more. We could not get a decent UHF signal where I grew up in the northeast San Fernando Valley. In junior high school I stumbled upon a snowy image of Flying Circus, and asked some friends about it the next day at school. First Encounter 1A: One of my friends had (it turned out) an uncanny ability to memorize and mimic Python, and began a new career as a popular kid (he was otherwise painfully shy, and could not use his memory to do well in school) regaling us with what seemed (and later pretty much proved to be) extended verbatim performances of Python. I first heard I'm a Lumberjack and Norwegian Blue and Spanish Inquisition in this way, and they lent catch phrases to our group long before most of us had every heard the original. First Encounter 2A: At some point during that period, one of my friends got a hold of Another Monty Python Record, and I spent many nights at his house listening over and over to it (do kids listen to comedy albums anymore? Mine do not - they watch internet clips of comedy bits, but not albums. A couple of years ago I was so pleased to get DVD's of Firesign Theater (Nick Danger) and Steve Martin's Lets Get Small. On a long car trip I proudly played them for my kids, knowing they would love it and think I was cool - but it bombed, as the idea of listening to comedy rather than watching it on the internet seemed quaintly absurd to them. Sometime in high school we were finally able to watch all of Python, TV and films, which I loved of course, but maybe not quite as much as hearing my friend perform it during lunch, or listening to it late at night during those sleepovers. I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?... -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:07 AM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote: It's not a return of production (that is probably an impossibility for many reasons), but American Public Television is offering a test package of four episodes of the cult classic with Joel Hodgson (including Manos: The Hands of Fate) and if enough stations are interested will be put into syndication for next year, with a regular series of MST3K reruns perhaps following--the shows will be trimmed from their 94 minute running time (2 hours with commercials on COM and SCI) to 88 minutes to fit a 90-minute time slot (I would assume that the host segments would get trimmed): http://www.current.org/2014/11/apt-offers-mst3k-episodes-to-public-tv-stations/ Unfortunately, I can just see the angry letters (not E-mails or tweets, letters) from pompous ass highbrows seeing this as yet another example of the dumbing down of public television. They're wrong, but there is that strong segment of the PTV audience that is hostile to any kind of comedy on PTV. Retro TV has also been showing MST3K in a two hour time slot. I rarely saw the show during its original airing so I was looking forward to it. My problem is that there's no way I would sit through one of these bad movies today so I don't make it a point to watch even if the cast comments are funny. As to people complaining about comedy on PTV, that's where we discovered Monty Python. And my local PBS station runs a Britcom bloc on Saturday evenings. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[TV orNotTV] 'MST3K' on PTV?
It's not a return of production (that is probably an impossibility for many reasons), but American Public Television is offering a test package of four episodes of the cult classic with Joel Hodgson (including Manos: The Hands of Fate) and if enough stations are interested will be put into syndication for next year, with a regular series of MST3K reruns perhaps following--the shows will be trimmed from their 94 minute running time (2 hours with commercials on COM and SCI) to 88 minutes to fit a 90-minute time slot (I would assume that the host segments would get trimmed): http://www.current.org/2014/11/apt-offers-mst3k-episodes-to-public-tv-stations/ Unfortunately, I can just see the angry letters (not E-mails or tweets, letters) from pompous ass highbrows seeing this as yet another example of the dumbing down of public television. They're wrong, but there is that strong segment of the PTV audience that is hostile to any kind of comedy on PTV. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TVorNotTV group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
