Re: [TV orNotTV] Britney Turns Down $10M to Host 'X Factor'

2012-03-09 Thread PGage
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > Since that matches NBC's paycheck to Christina Aguilera to panel Season 3 > of "The Voice," our Ms. Spears is holding out for--*$20M!* (I would hope > that Simon Cowell, Cecile Frou-Coutaz of Fremantle and Mike Darnell and > Kevin Reilly of F

[TV orNotTV] Re: Conservative Be Crazy

2012-03-09 Thread Michael
On Mar 8, 1:19 pm, Steve Timko wrote: > > Peter Gabriel is starting to look like Ed Asner, by the way. I've been thinking he looks more like Rod Steiger for a while now. -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV

Re: [TV orNotTV] Headlining the "Culture War Digest": Louis CK not headlining WH Correspondents Dinner

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Wolper
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Wesley McGee wrote: > CNN announced on Twitter that Louis CK has dropped out of the White House > Correspondent Dinner. He says that he "just didn’t want to do it anymore." > He had become a target of criticism and boycott by Greta van Susteren, which > itself was f

Re: [TV orNotTV] Headlining the "Culture War Digest": Louis CK not headlining WH Correspondents Dinner

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
And don't forget--Greta's supposed to be the house liberal on FNC--although it would be hard to tell when she starts kissing Sarah Palin's ass. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Wesley McGee wrote: > CNN announced on Twitter that Louis CK has dropped out of the White House > Correspondent Dinner.

[TV orNotTV] Britney Turns Down $10M to Host 'X Factor'

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Since that matches NBC's paycheck to Christina Aguilera to panel Season 3 of "The Voice," our Ms. Spears is holding out for--*$20M!* (I would hope that Simon Cowell, Cecile Frou-Coutaz of Fremantle and Mike Darnell and Kevin Reilly of Fox would collectively say "no way, [four-letter word that o

[TV orNotTV] Headlining the "Culture War Digest": Louis CK not headlining WH Correspondents Dinner

2012-03-09 Thread Wesley McGee
CNN announced on Twitter that Louis CK has dropped out of the White House Correspondent Dinner. He says that he "just didn’t want to do it anymore." He had become a target of criticism and boycott by Greta van Susteren, which itself was fallout, spurred on my Rush Limbaugh's various attacks on Sara

Re: [TV orNotTV] Two other nets launch singing competitions

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Wolper
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > The problem is that the talent comps are the only mass appeal shows left on > television, if "mass appeal" means "15M+ viewers."  Everything else has > become so balkanized that it's totally understandable why the nets are > trying to clone "I

[TV orNotTV] Re: Country Music People Not Rooting for ABC 'Nashville' Pilot

2012-03-09 Thread K.M. Richards
Funny you should say that, Kevin. Not knowing WTH "GCB" was when I saw ads for it plastered on the side of Metro buses here in L.A., I did some Googling ... and came to the conclusion, sight unseen, that it was a "Desperate Housewives" clone. Since I am not a fan of "Desperate Housewives" I there

Re: [TV orNotTV] Two other nets launch singing competitions

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
The problem is that the talent comps are the only mass appeal shows left on television, if "mass appeal" means "15M+ viewers." Everything else has become so balkanized that it's totally understandable why the nets are trying to clone "Idol" a decade after the fact. (That's the other thing--"Idol"