Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:02 PM, donz5 wrote: > On 360 tonight, Carter said that there didn't seem to be any > restriction for Keith to appear on radio during this extended period. Radio: The medium of the future or Because liberal loudmouths always do well on radio -- Kevin M. (RPCV) --

[TV orNotTV] Re: Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread donz5
On Jan 22, 1:07 am, PGage wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:33 PM, M-D November wrote: > > (SNIP) As to "would NBC let him have a farewell", I'll point you to almost > > exactly 1 year ago and a certain red-headed late-night host. > > I don't seem much comparison there. NBC did not "let" Conan h

Re: [TV orNotTV] Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread PGage
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:33 PM, M-D November wrote: > (SNIP) As to "would NBC let him have a farewell", I'll point you to almost > exactly 1 year ago and a certain red-headed late-night host. > I don't seem much comparison there. NBC did not "let" Conan have a farewell - they milked the situati

Re: [TV orNotTV] Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread M-D November
Olbermann has been tweeting a preview of the Countdown segments for a while - if you look at the timing of tonight's tweets, you'll see that he notes a 'slight change' to the Thurber segment sometime in the hour following the show preview. (It's hard to get an exact time, since Twitter's timesta

Re: [TV orNotTV] Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread Kevin M.
I'd like to believe this will humble him, and he will emerge from the experience with some humility, but I know better. I'd like to believe this is the start of a change in tide, and that soon all the opinionated jagoffs will vacate the airwaves, but I know better. What I do know is that Larry Kin

[TV orNotTV] Re: Quickie Review: Perfect Couples

2011-01-21 Thread Ron Casalotti
I'd say Jessica Biel's raw and guttural performance in 'Powder Blue' (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032819/), a decidedly un-Bullock/ Roberts role, fits that bill. Ron Casalotti Wayne, NJ On Jan 21, 6:03 pm, "Kevin M." wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:53 PM, PGage wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 21, 20

Re: [TV orNotTV] Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread David Lynch
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 20:22, Joe Coughlin wrote: > If he was fired...would they have let him have a farewell show? Apparently, they did. His signoff speech makes it pretty clear that it isn't his decision. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/41201922#41201922 -- David J. Lynch djly...@gmai

Re: [TV orNotTV] Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread PGage
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:08 PM, David Lynch wrote: > Brian Stelter's Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/brianstelter/) quotes > a MSNBC statement that "MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their > contract." Effective Monday, Lawrence O'Donnell moves into that > timeslot and Ed Schultz gets 10 PM.

Re: [TV orNotTV] Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread Joe Coughlin
If he was fired...would they have let him have a farewell show? On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:00 PM, stannc wrote: > I haven't seen anything on the interwebs yet, but before the last break KO > dropped the bomb that this would be the last edition of "Countdown". > > Who did he piss off now? Kabletow

Re: [TV orNotTV] Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread David Lynch
Brian Stelter's Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/brianstelter/) quotes a MSNBC statement that "MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract." Effective Monday, Lawrence O'Donnell moves into that timeslot and Ed Schultz gets 10 PM. I'm surprised that they didn't put Maddow up against O'Reilly

[TV orNotTV] Keith Olbermann really fired this time?

2011-01-21 Thread stannc
I haven't seen anything on the interwebs yet, but before the last break KO dropped the bomb that this would be the last edition of "Countdown". Who did he piss off now? Kabletown? -Stan -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to t

[TV orNotTV] Re: Quickie Review: Perfect Couples

2011-01-21 Thread Dave Sikula
Munn may well be game for anything and geek-friendly, but in her appearances on TDS and Late Show, she's come off as hopelessly out of her depth in anything either scripted or spontaneous. I wish her well, but she doesn't bring much to the table. --Dave Sikula On Jan 20, 11:35 pm, Trevor Trevor

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Perfect Couples

2011-01-21 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:12 PM, PGage wrote: > See, it works out great. I will take Roberts and Fey, and you can have Biel > and Munn, and everybody will be happy. done and done the women in question might want to weigh in on this at some point -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV The Sm

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Perfect Couples

2011-01-21 Thread PGage
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > In the case of Biel, I think she keeps choosing roles that are beneath > her. She seems to be striving to be the next Sandra Bullock, who > always seemed to be striving to be the next Julia Roberts. I can't > stand Sandra or Julia, and can't figu

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Perfect Couples

2011-01-21 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:53 PM, PGage wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Kevin M. wrote: >> >> OK, I don't get this at all. Justin Timberlake is apparently juggling >> Jessica Biel AND Olivia Munn, two women who are on my wish list. The >> little pop twerp needs a spanking. >> >> >> http:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Joan Rivers trying to be relevant again

2011-01-21 Thread Jon Delfin
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:51 PM, PGage wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Jon Delfin wrote: >> >> She lost me at "lie-detector test." Fox isn't saying she's lying, but >> that she's wrong. Unfortunate timing -- I just saw the documentary >> about Rivers the other day, and was feeling much

Re: [TV orNotTV] Joan Rivers trying to be relevant again

2011-01-21 Thread Kevin M.
I concede Rivers was a groundbreaker and overcame amazing odds. It still doesn't change the fact she isn't funny. And she isn't nice. And she is devoid of talent. And she was a royal bitch to me on live national television a decade ago so f*ck her. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV The

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Perfect Couples

2011-01-21 Thread PGage
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Kevin M. wrote: > OK, I don't get this at all. Justin Timberlake is apparently juggling > Jessica Biel AND Olivia Munn, two women who are on my wish list. The > little pop twerp needs a spanking. > > > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/19/justin-timberlake-tex

Re: [TV orNotTV] Joan Rivers trying to be relevant again

2011-01-21 Thread PGage
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Jon Delfin wrote: > She lost me at "lie-detector test." Fox isn't saying she's lying, but > that she's wrong. Unfortunate timing -- I just saw the documentary > about Rivers the other day, and was feeling much more disposed to like > her again. > > I watched the R

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jace: MTV's "Skins" NOT child pr0n

2011-01-21 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Joe Coughlin wrote: > The "Stacy's Mom" video is not a Mrs. Robinson scenario. It's about a boy > who fantasizes about his girlfriend's mother. Different than Lolita. True, but it is an example of the older woman/teenage boy. A few months ago one of the pop girls

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jace: MTV's "Skins" NOT child pr0n

2011-01-21 Thread Joe Coughlin
The "Stacy's Mom" video is not a Mrs. Robinson scenario. It's about a boy who fantasizes about his girlfriend's mother. Different than Lolita. And let's not overuse the word "porn". Porn is porn. While many of the things you mentioned may be gratuitous and exploitive, they're not porn. On Fri, Ja

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jace: MTV's "Skins" NOT child pr0n

2011-01-21 Thread Kevin M.
Nobody expects them to admit it, but MTV got into the child porn business a long time ago. Britney was either 16 or 17 when she started skanking around in music videos on the network, and that is just an obvious example. For that matter, I have friends with kids who maintain the sitcoms produced o

[TV orNotTV] Jace: MTV's "Skins" NOT child pr0n

2011-01-21 Thread Bob in Jersey
The nekkid scene in an upcoming episode, he writes at Daily Beast, is of a character being openly humiliated after his mother had been run out of their house by an addicted squatter... and whatever sexually- tinged stuff does appear in the series, is handled with a little more restraint than, say,

[TV orNotTV] Re: NotTV: SF Radio Shakeup, Bach Goes Rock, Punk Goes Bach

2011-01-21 Thread Bob in Jersey
In the mid-70s, FM 104.3 in NY went from classical to rock, while no less than William F. Buckley was its owner. The classical fans eventually got Bill to sell and got their music back, but it went back to rock in 1993. -- BOB -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this m

[TV orNotTV] Beck still contends he's a humorist

2011-01-21 Thread Bob in Jersey
Like Jon Stewart, he told Meredith on the Today show... Stew says, "Why couldn't you ask me directly if you want to be on my show?" LAT ShowTracker: http://goo.gl/O11Yy -- BOB -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: Perfect Couples

2011-01-21 Thread Kevin M.
OK, I don't get this at all. Justin Timberlake is apparently juggling Jessica Biel AND Olivia Munn, two women who are on my wish list. The little pop twerp needs a spanking. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/19/justin-timberlake-texting_n_810899.html? On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:34 PM, PGage

[TV orNotTV] Re: Joan Rivers trying to be relevant again

2011-01-21 Thread Michael
Although I'm not a big fan and YMMV, I thought she was spot-on with Dave on "The Late Show" last week: sharp, raunchy, relevant, funny. On Jan 21, 6:17 am, Jon Delfin wrote: > She lost me at "lie-detector test." Fox isn't saying she's lying, but > that she's wrong. Unfortunate timing -- I just sa

[TV orNotTV] Re: Larry King on CFerg

2011-01-21 Thread Michael
Good late-night TV, fer sure. That old guy in the suspenders actually asked the Scottish puppeteer some interesting questions. On Jan 20, 7:42 pm, David Bruggeman wrote: > My general thought was that a month off did Larry a lot of good. > > David > > > From: Doug

[TV orNotTV] Ron Moore back to work

2011-01-21 Thread Bob in Jersey
With a pilot picked up by NBC, '17th Precinct,' cop drama with supernatural elements. http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/nbc-picks-up-ron-moore-drama-pilot/ -- BOB -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not

[TV orNotTV] FoodNet, HGTV need to freshen up

2011-01-21 Thread Bob in Jersey
The Scripps-owned channels suffered first-in-a-while drops in female viewers, long considered their core... I ddn't know they beat, f'rinstance, Guy Fieri's diner show to death that much... Mother J never thinks House Hunters gets old, but dammit, that show's one-third of HGTV's day! NYPost: http:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Joan Rivers trying to be relevant again

2011-01-21 Thread Jon Delfin
She lost me at "lie-detector test." Fox isn't saying she's lying, but that she's wrong. Unfortunate timing -- I just saw the documentary about Rivers the other day, and was feeling much more disposed to like her again. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Bob in Jersey wrote: > After an idle comment

Re: [TV orNotTV] How's Ebert looking?

2011-01-21 Thread Wesley McGee
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 8:55 AM, stannc wrote: > > On Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:06:36 PM UTC-5, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: > >> Fooling anyone or not, he'd look better with the beard. >> >> .google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPC

[TV orNotTV] Re: 2011 American Idol

2011-01-21 Thread JW
> The first time I heard the latest Britney Spears single, I thought the > radio station was experiencing technical difficulties. It sounds like > a record that keeps skipping back to the sound of someone being > smacked in the face with a giant fish. *That* would be a great video. -- TV or Not