[TV orNotTV] Re: NBC's Olympic blunders...

Allow me to add the absence of the moment of silence dedicated to the victims of the 7/7 attacks (which, if I remember the BBC commentary correctly, came the day after London won the games). The Peacock decided a softball interview with Michael Phelps was more important. http://deadspin.com/592

[TV orNotTV] Re: OT: Work

My government thinks I'm worthless. It said so. In writing. http://youtu.be/6uNz4UkxsYE On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > Today I speak of distractions while distracting you with a cap from a > bottle of Vitamin Water. > > http://youtu.be/bFV0r7ZE0SU > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at

[TV orNotTV] Modern Family cast, Fox cool again

Suit ostensibly gets dropped. TVLine -- 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" group. To post to this group, send emai

[TV orNotTV] What would Comcast spend $180 million on?

Of course: explaining their pointless decision to rebrand two years ago! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1872396390444840104577551272296910812.html -- 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. T

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC's Olympic blunders...

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > Let us start a thread for all the things NBC will do wrong in its > coverage of London 2012 games. First, right out of the gate, NBC's > online team posted a tweet from the official Olympic Twitter account > containing a link for viewers to watch

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prez debates set

Fair enough. But in my humble opinion, the talk of any candidate amounts to just that... talk. Do they say different things and even have different ideas? Of course, but the change that was promised by Obama throughout his campaign proved to be empty rhetoric... or change for the worse. I have no s

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prez debates set

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:29 PM, David Bruggeman wrote: > For me, at least, it seemed that by the time of the 1992 campaign (and > perhaps by 1988), I knew enough about the respective campaigns to not get > anything new out of the debates. To my mind, that increase in available > information has

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prez debates set

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:40 PM, PGage wrote: > > > > I hear people say stuff like this all the time, and it always amazes me. > I > > think I have seen just about every Presidential Debate since 1976, and > the > > majority reveal substantial d

[TV orNotTV] NBC's Olympic blunders...

Let us start a thread for all the things NBC will do wrong in its coverage of London 2012 games. First, right out of the gate, NBC's online team posted a tweet from the official Olympic Twitter account containing a link for viewers to watch a bootleg live feed of the opening ceremonies. One would t

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prez debates set

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 4:40 PM, PGage wrote: > I hear people say stuff like this all the time, and it always amazes me. I > think I have seen just about every Presidential Debate since 1976, and the > majority reveal substantial differences between the two candidates. > Certainly the Obama-McCa

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prez debates set

For me, at least, it seemed that by the time of the 1992 campaign (and perhaps by 1988), I knew enough about the respective campaigns to not get anything new out of the debates.  To my mind, that increase in available information has increased. At the same time, this Debate Commission has manag

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prez debates set

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 3:55 PM, David Bruggeman wrote: > The dates have been known since October, so I had to stifle a yawn at this. > > Since these events are really more about the political race rather than > any meaningful exploration of policy differences, I'll continue to take a > pass. I'

Re: [TV orNotTV] Is NBC Purposely Planning a DVR-Unfriendly Olympics?

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:05 AM, K.M. Richards wrote: > > (SNIP) And, like my "neighbor" Jim Ellwanger (he lives only about five > miles from me) I don't recall the Olympics being listed differently in the > past, either electronically or in that archaic print magazine TV Guide. > (That last par

Re: [TV orNotTV] Prez debates set

The dates have been known since October, so I had to stifle a yawn at this. Since these events are really more about the political race rather than any meaningful exploration of policy differences, I'll continue to take a pass.   I'd go so far as to steal Carville's line (which he used about the

[TV orNotTV] Jim Walton to Step Down as Chief of CNN

Brian Stelter and Bill Carter cover it for the NY Times: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/jim-walton-to-step-down-as-chief-of-cnn/ -- 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 pos

[TV orNotTV] Prez debates set

Three 90min-long clashes are slated for Bam and Mitt, Oct 3rd in Denver, Oct 16th on Lawn Guyland, and Oct 22nd in Boca. The veep debate is in Kentucky on Oct 11th. TheWrap -- BOB -- TV or Not TV The Smarte

[TV orNotTV] Re: Bob Ross' Happy Little Auto-Tune

The secondary channels of local Peebers WLVT and WHYY maintain his legacy early morning and midday Tuesdays and Thursdays. -- 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" group. To post to this gro

[TV orNotTV] 'The Killing' cancelled by AMC

AMC has cancelled The Killing after two seasons, but the rainy murder mystery could live on at another network. http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/07/27/killing-canceled/ -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not

Re: [TV orNotTV] Bob Ross' Happy Little Auto-Tune

On 7/27/2012 6:27 PM, Melissa Neal wrote: On Jul 27, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: After the viral video success of the Mister Rogers Auto-Tune, PBS has had the same treatment done to the host of "The Joy of Painting," who has been in his grave for over 15 years (and for all we kno

Re: [TV orNotTV] Bob Ross' Happy Little Auto-Tune

On Jul 27, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > After the viral video success of the Mister Rogers Auto-Tune, PBS has had the > same treatment done to the host of "The Joy of Painting," who has been in his > grave for over 15 years (and for all we know, may still be in reruns on some > pu

[TV orNotTV] Bob Ross' Happy Little Auto-Tune

After the viral video success of the Mister Rogers Auto-Tune, PBS has had the same treatment done to the host of "The Joy of Painting," who has been in his grave for over 15 years (and for all we know, may still be in reruns on some public TV station somewhere): http://www.thewrap.com/tv/colum

[TV orNotTV] So long, Lupe Ontiveros

Better known for films such as *The Goonies, Real Women Have Curves,* or as *Selena*'s killer Yolanda Saldivar, her telly career (she told NPR she was cast as a maid "more than 150 times") was most recently highlighted with roles on *Rob* and *Desperate Housewives*. 69. HuffPost,

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBS shakes up "This Morning"

My question: Have they pretty much stuck to their promise to keep the show more serious and hard news than "GMA" and "Today," which they initially claimed was the reason for bringing in Rose, in particular? On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:41 PM, PGage wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Davi

[TV orNotTV] Amazon Deal of the Day (July 27th): HBO season packages on Amazon Instant Video

The first seasons of many of the cabler's original series, like *The Wire, Oz, S#x and the City, *and *The Sopranos.* Prices and savings vary

Re: [TV orNotTV] Is NBC Purposely Planning a DVR-Unfriendly Olympics?

Without knowing what type of DVR you have, I can only relate this to my own TiVo, which gets its listings data from the Tribune Company, meaning Zap2It.com reflects the same data. Checking their online site's Olympics coverage, it is exactly as you stated. The schedule shows a block of time wi

Re: [TV orNotTV] Is NBC Purposely Planning a DVR-Unfriendly Olympics?

On 7/27/12 10:37 AM, Doug Eastick wrote: > On 2012-07-27 7:29 AM, Brad Beam wrote: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_Olympic_Broadcast_Media_Consortium >>> >>> >> End result - I am glad I upgraded most TiVo's to hu

Re: [TV orNotTV] Is NBC Purposely Planning a DVR-Unfriendly Olympics?

On 2012-07-27 7:29 AM, Brad Beam wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_Olympic_Broadcast_Media_Consortium End result - I am glad I upgraded most TiVo's to hundreds of hours of hard drive space. Bedroom reco

[TV orNotTV] Re: Jeremy Piven to PBS

On Thursday, July 26, 2012 10:36:31 PM UTC-4, Bob in Jersey wrote: > > THR: > > ITV will produce the *Entourage* vet in a bound-for-*Masterpiece* drama > about the American-born, British-department-store mo

Re: [TV orNotTV] Is NBC Purposely Planning a DVR-Unfriendly Olympics?

I'm just envying PGage the ability to program manually on the DVR. Time Warner took that away from us a couple of years ago. (And last week, they rolled out new, buggy software again. I so hate being an unpaid beta-tester for TW. But I digress.) On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Brad Beam wrote:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Is NBC Purposely Planning a DVR-Unfriendly Olympics?

- Original Message - From: "Doug Eastick" End result - I am glad I upgraded most TiVo's to hundreds of hours of hard drive space. Bedroom records NBC, living room records CTV, and swimming isn't on SportsNet or the other channels that are part of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada'

[TV orNotTV] Re: Is NBC Purposely Planning a DVR-Unfriendly Olympics?

> Is there some technical reason why NBC is doing it this way, or is it > possible they really do want to discourage time-shifting as a way of > protecting their primetime coverage? I suspect that some of it is a holdover from the days when Ebersol (and Roone before him) would decide what would be

[TV orNotTV] Re: George Jefferson' Dies at 74

> In this case, how did the obit writers know that he did not want it included? I would imagine that obituary writers err on the side of discretion. In the case of a public figure, it probably has to do with what's on the record. If the writer looks back through the clips and doesn't see anything

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: George Jefferson' Dies at 74

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Dave Sikula wrote: > My best guess is that the obit writer didn't feel it was germane to the > biography. I wouldn't expect the obit for Kirk Douglas to read "Douglas was > an avowed heterosexual," any more than I would expect David Hyde Pierce's > obit to read "

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: George Jefferson' Dies at 74

My best guess is that the obit writer didn't feel it was germane to the biography. I wouldn't expect the obit for Kirk Douglas to read "Douglas was an avowed heterosexual," any more than I would expect David Hyde Pierce's obit to read "Pierce was a homosexual who kept his private life private."

Re: [TV orNotTV] Hashtag Politics

Keep in mind there are third party groups out there (for profit) who have amassed tens of thousands of Twitter accounts. Theoretically, a campaign could pay such a group to post using the hashtag and thus bypass Twitter's "promoted" identification banner by making a hashtag trend. These are the sam