Re: [TV orNotTV] News about an across-the-pond newsreader...

2014-04-30 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
Neil Patrick Harris, once they take Hedwig to the West End David From: John Edwards To: "tvornottv@googlegroups.com" Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:19 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] News about an across-the-pond newsreader... Is Chelsea Handler rumoure

Re: [TV orNotTV] News about an across-the-pond newsreader...

2014-04-30 Thread John Edwards
Is Chelsea Handler rumoured to be his replacement? Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 30, 2014, at 2:08 PM, "Kevin M." wrote: > > Jeremy Paxman stepping down as anchor of BBC's Newsnight, a post he has held > for a quarter of a century. > > http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27230684#"; >

Re: [TV orNotTV] News about an across-the-pond newsreader...

2014-04-30 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
I desperately want him to race, and beat, Clarkson on the Top Gear. David From: Kevin M. To: "tvornottv@googlegroups.com" Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:08 PM Subject: [TV orNotTV] News about an across-the-pond newsreader... Jeremy Paxman stepping do

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Utopia" Hard to Achieve

2014-04-30 Thread Kevin M.
Everything you wrote seems like it ought to be from a satirical article in The Onion. On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > There is a great row in the halls of Fox over "Utopia," the upcoming new > reality series based on a Dutch format built on a group of people > attempting

[TV orNotTV] 'Utopia" Hard to Achieve

2014-04-30 Thread Mark Jeffries
There is a great row in the halls of Fox over "Utopia," the upcoming new reality series based on a Dutch format built on a group of people attempting a rebooted society. First of all, there's the potential cost of $50M for 20 episodes (and you thought reality shows were supposed to be cheap).

[TV orNotTV] The Kent Shocknek of Tupelo, Mississippi

2014-04-30 Thread Kevin M.
Matt Laubhan rushes to join the rest of the newsteam in the basement as a tornado touches down http://youtu.be/ABqzsfVp6s4 and for those who haven't seen Shocknek dive for cover during an earthquake http://youtu.be/ZWAlkZVyTOg -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) Peo

[TV orNotTV] Yahoo to combine three recapping shows into one

2014-04-30 Thread Bob Jersey
(Firefox just upgraded to v29... foogly) TheWrap(link): “Primetime in No Time,” “Daytime in No Time” and “Nighttime in No Time” will collectively become "TV in

Re: [TV orNotTV] Almost Human

2014-04-30 Thread Kevin M.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:56 PM, calwatch wrote: > Fortunately Almost Human shouldn't last more than a season, with the > ratings it's getting. > Fox officially cancelled it, so there you go -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message b

Re: [TV orNotTV] Cheesiest explosion sound ever...

2014-04-30 Thread Jon Delfin
You might want to skip this week's Castle (just check my FB feed yesterday). On Apr 30, 2014 4:18 PM, "Kevin M." wrote: > Last night's NCIS: LA. Mild spoiler: An RV explodes. Crudely edited inside > the sounds of the explosion is, clearly, the sound of machine gun fire. > Nobody was shooting anyt

[TV orNotTV] Cheesiest explosion sound ever...

2014-04-30 Thread Kevin M.
Last night's NCIS: LA. Mild spoiler: An RV explodes. Crudely edited inside the sounds of the explosion is, clearly, the sound of machine gun fire. Nobody was shooting anything... it was a bomb. This was sloppy FX work by any standard. Ripped me out of the story completely. Having heard real things

[TV orNotTV] News about an across-the-pond newsreader...

2014-04-30 Thread Kevin M.
Jeremy Paxman stepping down as anchor of BBC's Newsnight, a post he has held for a quarter of a century. http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27230684#"; -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

[TV orNotTV] TV news poking fun at itself, again...

2014-04-30 Thread Bob Jersey
"Does local TV news annoy you?" NY's Fox-5 asked in February(link) and again this past week

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: KNBC's scaled down Universal newsroom named after Brokaw

2014-04-30 Thread Jim Ellwanger
K.M. Richards wrote: > Not quite, Jim. > > When analog television for full-power stations was discontinued, stations > had three options: > >- Call letters plus the suffix -DT >- Call letters plus the suffix -TV >- Call letters only, unless also on a co-owned radio station somewhere, >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: KNBC's scaled down Universal newsroom named after Brokaw

2014-04-30 Thread K.M. Richards
Not quite, Jim. When analog television for full-power stations was discontinued, stations had three options: - Call letters plus the suffix -DT - Call letters plus the suffix -TV - Call letters only, unless also on a co-owned radio station somewhere, in which case a suffix is requir