Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: My dad's health

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Jersey
Youngest bro just took him out to doctor/hospital; I've quickly learned that I can't just pick something up to hand it to him, as he would look at the place where he'd left it and think it's missing or even stolen. B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Bristology: Colin Cowherd movin' on

2015-07-27 Thread Adam Bowie
With regard to ESPN being sold as a standalone package like HBO Now, Disney CEO Bob Iger is reported as saying it won't happen for another five years. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/27/disney-ceo-iger-espn-could-one-day-be-sold-direct.html I assume that those cable agreements regarding inclusion of

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: My dad's health

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Jersey
He did have a small stroke, thankfully not the kind that would shut down half his functions. That's likely what affected his sight. They're keeping him overnight. I want to believe that some type of rehabilitation is possible, but short-term he won't be able to drive his car, not that the

[TV orNotTV] Writer of early TV sitcom dead

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Jersey
TVWeek http://www.tvweek.com/tvbizwire/2015/07/this-woman-who-just-died-at-age-98-was-a-true-pioneer-of-early-tv-a-triple-threat-creator-writer-and-star-she-wrote-nearly-11000-sitcom-scripts-all-by-herself/ (link), sourcing the *NY Times*: Peg Lynch, 98, wrote and starred in *Ethel and

[TV orNotTV] New title for NBC sitcom

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Jersey
The Mark-Paul Gosselaar return to the network, once *People Are Talking*, is now *Truth Be Told*, the latest in a bunch of recent renames recounted by THR http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/nbcs-people-are-talking-changes-811299 (link). B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV)

[TV orNotTV] Josh Duhamel to '11/22/63'

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Jersey
He'll play the father of one of Jake's (James Franco) students when he travels back in time in the Hulu adapt by JJ Abrams of the Stephen King story. THR http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/josh-duhamel-hulus-11-22-811295 (link) B -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People!

Re: [TV orNotTV] Josh Duhamel to '11/22/63'

2015-07-27 Thread PGage
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Bob Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: He'll play the father of one of Jake's (James Franco) students when he travels back in time in the Hulu adapt by JJ Abrams of the Stephen King story. THR

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: My dad's health

2015-07-27 Thread PGage
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Bob Jersey bob.in.jer...@juno.com wrote: He did have a small stroke, thankfully not the kind that would shut down half his functions. That's likely what affected his sight. They're keeping him overnight. I want to believe that some type of rehabilitation is

Re: [TV orNotTV] Wyatt Cenac on blow up with Jon Stewart

2015-07-27 Thread Steve Timko
This was Wyatt Cenac's second interview on WTF. He was also on episode 23 in November 2009. A shorter interview.  No mention of the murder of Cenac's father. It ended with a weird discussion by Maron of Rachel Maddow stabbing Glenn Beck with a dagger and Maddow pulling out Beck's heart. Sent

[TV orNotTV] Chicago/NotTV: Just in from Feder...

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Jersey
Literally within the hour of my posting, John Records Landecker says he will leave 94.7 WLS following his Friday-night show. He refused to call it the R-word... but he's not going to resurface at another outlet any time soon. He's fed up with the 70s and 80s stuff that's crept into not just

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: My dad's health

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Jersey
PGag, to moi: The vision symptoms did make me suspect a stroke of some kind, glad to hear it is small (though as they say, only other people's strokes are small). Will be joining others here in keeping a good thought for him. Given what they know since his tumour was removed, they're