On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:49 PM, PGage wrote:
> I am a hard core SS fan, so I guess my response won't help you very
> much, but I do love this show. I think the shows continue to vary
> between vulgar and innovative (well, I think the vulgar ones are
> innovative too, but I think I know what you
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Thomas Heald, Esquire
wrote:
>
> Mark J. wrote:
> > Rev. Steven DiGiovanni is not happy to hear that the studio where NBCU
> > intends to move Springer, Steve Wilkos and Maury Povich to is next to
> > his Stamford, CT church and intends to do something about it:
>
http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/sm_3239759.html
TV presenter Chris Tarrant has been arrested after a woman claimed she
was assaulted at his Surrey home.
Tarrant - who hosts hit quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - was
held in the early hours at his luxury gated apartment block
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Steve Timko wrote:
>
> I got the first disc of the first season of the Sarah Silverman Show
> through Netflix. I was put off by the vulgarity of it until I hit the
> fifth show or thereabouts, the one about the beauty pageant. That show
> as excellent and innovati
Klaatu wrote:
> TRANSLATION: We want to put whatever we want, on whatever cable
> channel we want, whenever we want, without
> worrying about genre or brand-loyalty. (Remember when Bravo was the
> "fine arts network?")
>
> This is also the network that cancelled Star Trek in the 1960's.
I miss s
Kevin M. wrote:
> A fryend of myne suggested we use thys new form of spellyng for all
> words. Y thynk yt myght make me seem stupyd, but what do Y know?
I was cautioned strongly after taking the Numb3rs joke too far not to
replace all the es with 3s hs with 4s, ss with 5s, os with 0s bs with
8s
Kevin M. wrote:
> Well, to be accurate, Imus has P-Cancer, but since he prefaced
> everything with the letter I long before Apple...
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_en_ot/people_imus_cancer_5
Pain in the ass receives diagnosis of ... pro
Mark J. wrote:
> Rev. Steven DiGiovanni is not happy to hear that the studio where NBCU
> intends to move Springer, Steve Wilkos and Maury Povich to is next to
> his Stamford, CT church and intends to do something about it:
To which I say: Maury Povich still has a show?
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> Personally, I still don't get why CNBC needs to have
> the stock ticker when it is on a delay, which renders the numbers
> useless for most investors.
Because it's pretend news. Anyone who could affect the realtime numbers
would actually have the realtime numbers on their screen.
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ugh ugh. Can they focus test NBC next so that can get rebranded into An
Bee Cee?
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Thomas Heald, Esquire wrote:
>
> Wrecks wrote:
> > Back when I was active in Fandom, we had a saying: "It's not sigh
> > fye. It's skee fee."
>
> The Remote Patrol has referred to
Wrecks wrote:
> Back when I was active in Fandom, we had a saying: "It's not sigh
> fye. It's skee fee."
The Remote Patrol has referred to it as "Skiffy" the spaceship genre
that choosy mothers choose.
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On Mar 16, 1:48�pm, "Mark J." wrote:
> In case you missed it last night on "TAR" and until somebody posts
> that "Breakfast Time" underwater remote where his trunks fell down on
> live television:
>
> http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/16/the-amazing-races-phil-as-youve...
And most of the racers
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:15 PM, wrote:
>
> On Mar 16, 4:03 pm, Maybe wrote:
>> On Mar 16, 9:55 am, "Kevin M." wrote:
>>
>> > I want to say that an in-office Clinton appeared with either Leno or
>> > Letterman, but I may be mistaken.
>>
>> Clinton's first appearance on Dave was 9/11/2002 after
I got the first disc of the first season of the Sarah Silverman Show
through Netflix. I was put off by the vulgarity of it until I hit the
fifth show or thereabouts, the one about the beauty pageant. That show
as excellent and innovative. So was the next one.
I'm wondering how good the the rest ar
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Mark J. wrote:
>
> Rev. Steven DiGiovanni is not happy to hear that the studio where NBCU
> intends to move Springer, Steve Wilkos and Maury Povich to is next to
> his Stamford, CT church and intends to do something about it:
>
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/feat
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Klaatu wrote:
>
> If that's the reason, then why are the bugs turned off during the
> commercials? Since the same commercials are
> shown on all the channels, wouldn't it make even more sense to have
> the "bugs" on during the commercials?
Because, with the possi
Last week the public broadcaster (that takes advertising on its
television networks) responded to falling ad revenues by cancelling
two domestic series (one of which, the long-running "Fashion File,"
aired for many years on E! and sister channel Style Network here)--the
federal "heritage minister"
Rev. Steven DiGiovanni is not happy to hear that the studio where NBCU
intends to move Springer, Steve Wilkos and Maury Povich to is next to
his Stamford, CT church and intends to do something about it:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0316-ft-jerry-springermar16,0,2218231.sto
In case you missed it last night on "TAR" and until somebody posts
that "Breakfast Time" underwater remote where his trunks fell down on
live television:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/03/16/the-amazing-races-phil-as-youve-always-wanted-to-see-him-before/
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On Mar 16, 4:15 pm, Klaatu wrote:
> TRANSLATION: We want to put whatever we want, on whatever cable
> channel we want, whenever we want, without
> worrying about genre or brand-loyalty. (Remember when Bravo was the
> "fine arts network?")
>
> This is also the network that cancelled Star Trek in
If that's the reason, then why are the bugs turned off during the
commercials? Since the same commercials are
shown on all the channels, wouldn't it make even more sense to have
the "bugs" on during the commercials?
> It seems to me it is done for the same reason the networks introduced
> "bugs"
Joe Coughlin wrote:
> I'm just trying to decide if I'm partial to Siffy or SeeFee as a
> pronunciation.
Siffy, as in syphilis, the disease ravaging the brains of its executives.
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TRANSLATION: We want to put whatever we want, on whatever cable
channel we want, whenever we want, without
worrying about genre or brand-loyalty. (Remember when Bravo was the
"fine arts network?")
This is also the network that cancelled Star Trek in the 1960's.
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On Mar 16, 4:03 pm, Maybe wrote:
> On Mar 16, 9:55 am, "Kevin M." wrote:
>
> > I want to say that an in-office Clinton appeared with either Leno or
> > Letterman, but I may be mistaken.
>
> Clinton's first appearance on Dave was 9/11/2002 after he left office.
And I don't think Bill Clinton ha
Michael Hinman officially dealt with the attorneys for a company
calling itself "New Fizz Corp." in selling the name to his web site
(now known as Airlock Alpha) to NBCU for them to rename SciFi as SyFy--
he's not saying how much they paid him, except that he was pleased
with the amount:
http://w
On Mar 16, 9:55�am, "Kevin M." wrote:
> I want to say that an in-office Clinton appeared with either Leno or
> Letterman, but I may be mistaken.
Clinton's first appearance on Dave was 9/11/2002 after he left office.
And, on Thursday when Obama is on Leno, Dave will be a rerun due to
the March M
I'm just trying to decide if I'm partial to Siffy or SeeFee as a
pronunciation.
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kevin M. wrote:
>
> A fryend of myne suggested we use thys new form of spellyng for all
> words. Y thynk yt myght make me seem stupyd, but what do Y know?
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at
A fryend of myne suggested we use thys new form of spellyng for all
words. Y thynk yt myght make me seem stupyd, but what do Y know?
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Michael wrote:
>
> On Mar 16, 12:39 am, "Thomas Heald, Esquire"
> wrote:
>> > I'd watch the Mxyzptlk channel, but my new digital
On Mar 16, 12:39 am, "Thomas Heald, Esquire"
wrote:
> > I'd watch the Mxyzptlk channel, but my new digital antenna doesn't
> > pick up signals from the 5th Dimension.
>
> How about the Marilyn McCoo channel?
Like most analog feeds, it's gone up, up and away.
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ABC finding success in online TV shows
http://www.arcamax.com/entertainmenttoday/s-512908-644739
NEW YORK (UPI) -- ABC is dominating its U.S. TV network peers when it
comes to online offerings, having nine of the top 10 most-streamed
series, the Nielsen ratings group says.
Nielsen said in its
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Paul Murray wrote:
>
> Not officially announced yet, but reported by CNBC (gee, how'd they
> find out?) and Bloomberg News (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
> pid=20601070&sid=awhO3a3ouvfw&refer=politics).
>
> Which leads to a question:
>
> Candidates and ex-p
Not officially announced yet, but reported by CNBC (gee, how'd they
find out?) and Bloomberg News (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid=20601070&sid=awhO3a3ouvfw&refer=politics).
Which leads to a question:
Candidates and ex-presidents do this a lot, of course ... but will
this make him the fi
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:07 AM, wrote:
> The palace guards (and by the way, why are there two Shakespearean clowns in
> a biblical story?) clearly have many talents.
Really, there were archetypes from many different eras represented in
the first installment. Eamonn Walker (a favorite of min
Actually, if you go back and re-watch some DVR'd commercials, they never actually did say "What if America had a king?" It was always "What if the greatest country on earth had a king?" as they rolled footage of some less-familiar New York architecture. When I first saw the promos, I thought we
"Kevin M." wrote:
=
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM, wrote:
> I liked it more than I didn't. McShane's still doing Swearingen, but that's
> not automatically a bad thing.
It would have been a very different show if McShane was doing Lovejoy.
> Personal annoyance: Who put
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM, wrote:
> I liked it more than I didn't. McShane's still doing Swearingen, but that's
> not automatically a bad thing.
It would have been a very different show if McShane was doing Lovejoy.
> Personal annoyance: Who puts a grand piano lid up on the stick but le
I liked it more than I didn't. McShane's still doing Swearingen, but that's not
automatically a bad thing.
Personal annoyance: Who puts a grand piano lid up on the stick but leaves the
front flap down? Just ridiculous.
"Kevin M." wrote:
=
Did anyone else watch the new NBC
Well, to be accurate, Imus has P-Cancer, but since he prefaced
everything with the letter I long before Apple...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_en_ot/people_imus_cancer_5
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Did anyone else watch the new NBC/Ian McShane series last night? It
was certainly not as advertised. The promos I caught for the show
included the tagline "What if America had a king?" Yet the series has
nothing to do with America at all. It wasn't until DAVID Shepherd
defeated the tanks, which we
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Mark J. wrote:
> I've been noticing that movie ads lately have been
> putting the title and "Opens Friday" or "Now Only in Theaters" at the
> top of the screen in the black stripe over the letterboxed picture all
> through the spot. Seems to me that that is a spe
Since they seem to have decided that the Yanks do bleak crimebusting
procedurals better than they can (not to mention the times we're
living in, etc.), cops and grimy lower-class dramas are out, and
upbeat family shows are in for next season:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2009/
Not that I ever cared for 'em to begin with, but for the time being
live shots are oot:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03162009/tv/get_the_picture__159819.htm
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On Mar 16, 10:01 am, Bob in Jersey wrote:
> The advertisers can't have it both ways (fewer spots + better rates),
> a source tells MediaPost...
>
> http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_ai...
>
> No comment from the network's folk...
The article mentions a "Lie to
The CBS video hung when I tried to watch it, so I'm not posting it.
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Michael wrote:
>> I'd watch the Mxyzptlk channel, but my new digital antenna doesn't
>> pick up signals from the 5th Dimension.
Is Kebert Xela a popular figure on the Mxyzptlk channel?
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Should I be asking if they're going to pronounce the name differently?
Not doing so only lends to more confusion, JMHO.
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On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Michael wrote:
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> I'd watch the Mxyzptlk channel, but my new digital antenna doesn't
> pick up signals from the 5th Dimension.
>
> On Mar 15, 10:16 pm, "Thomas Heald, Esquire"
> wrote:
> > http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/03/sci_fi_channel
Back when I was active in Fandom, we had a saying: "It's not sigh
fye. It's skee fee."
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> I'd watch the Mxyzptlk channel, but my new digital antenna doesn't
> pick up signals from the 5th Dimension.
How about the Marilyn McCoo channel?
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I'd watch the Mxyzptlk channel, but my new digital antenna doesn't
pick up signals from the 5th Dimension.
On Mar 15, 10:16 pm, "Thomas Heald, Esquire"
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> The Sci Fi Channel, The 16-year-old network—owned by N
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