[TV orNotTV] Re: Steve Harvey Goes Two For Three At Miss Universe Pageant

Joe Hass: > > Hosting a beauty pageant is a reasonably easy task. You read off the > prompter, stare at hot women for a couple hours, then open an envelope and > read the name of the winner. > > Steve Harvey managed to only successfully perform two of the three tasks. > Like an old song from

[TV orNotTV] Amazon deal: "Downton Abbey"

Till the witching hour in the west (link): The first five series, $40 DVD (cheaper in the used section), $45

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: BriWi special report: "optional" to affiliates

I would assume that it could be considered to be a breach of the affiliation agreement in the same way that NBC said it would be if Boston's WHDH stopped airing the Leno at 10 PM disaster in favor of local news. On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Joe Hass wrote: > But what I

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC affil to go cable?

Wesley (in Colorado): > > The rumors that WHDH will lose NBC have started to heat up recently, with > the story now that NBC may take the Telemundo station and turn it into the > NBC outpost for Boston with the just poached WHDH weatherman being part of > the NBC 60(?) team. Telemundo gets

[TV orNotTV] Disney cutting ties to Fusion

The joint venture of ABC News and Univision, introduced back in 2013 here (link), is on the block, sources tell THR

[TV orNotTV] Re: TV station groups close to merger

Moi, Sept 28 (with a correction; I always do that with large sums like these): > > > Moi, Sept 9: >> >> >> Media General is acquiring Meredith, creating an 80+-station behemoth >> which will be the fourth-largest in the country behind Fox, CBS, and >> Sinclair... Meredith's Stephen Lacy will

[TV orNotTV] Re: Viacom finalizes succession plan

Moi, Dec 8th: > > > LA Times > > > (link): At an investment conference in LA, CEO Philippe Dauman, battling in > court with Sumner Redstone's ex-goil Manuela Herzer over the care of the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Viacom finalizes succession plan

And if Moonves takes over Viacom, goodbye Epix, the premium channel that most of the big MSOs won't carry and only has a chance from streaming (but doesn't have that original scripted programming because it doesn't have the subscribers) and hello to Paramount and Lioinsgate movies back on Showtime

[TV orNotTV] Here's your new Top Gear UK lineup

We already know about Chris Evans (link to earlier thread)... the others are: David Coulthard, square-jawed veteran of Formula One (1994-2008, highest finish 2nd in '01); Sabine Schmitz, female German sports-car racing star

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here's your new Top Gear UK lineup

Remember that this is hardly the first time Top Gear has been rebooted (ugh, that word). The first time around it went from being a straight-up news & road test program (not unlike MotorWeek in the US) to the plucky little motoring show with old men falling down and setting themselves on

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here's your new Top Gear UK lineup

David Coulthard has been a presenter on the BBC's Formula One coverage until the end of this season. As of a couple of days ago Channel 4 is taking over the BBC's F1 rights package, meaning that Coulthard would have been out of a job. I don't think the co-presenters' racing pedigree will make

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here's your new Top Gear UK lineup

Schmitz was also on the team who hosted the German car show D Motor.  That team 'lost' to the UK hosts in the second of Schmitz's two appearances. It sounds like Evans will be joined by three professional drivers.  Not sure how that affects the shows appeal to those who don't follow the various

Re: [TV orNotTV] Here's your new Top Gear UK lineup

A couple years ago, CBS gave the green-light to a new pilot entitled "Rockford Files" that featured none of the original cast members, none of the original writers, and nobody from the original production team. The only remaining aspect of the original series was the car. Ultimately the series was

Re: [TV orNotTV] Viacom finalizes succession plan

> On Dec 23, 2015, at 7:35 PM, Mark Jeffries wrote: > > And if Moonves takes over Viacom, goodbye Epix, the premium channel that most > of the big MSOs won't carry and only has a chance from streaming (but doesn't > have that original scripted programming because it