Re: [TV orNotTV] Time For TV Concerts To Grow Up

2017-01-01 Thread Steve Timko
On both Letterman and SNL (and probably other shows), music companies paid the networks to reimburse the cost of having musical acts perform. I wonder if Mariah Carey's backers paid to have her perform on New Year's Eve and how much they paid. On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 5:05 PM, PGage wrote: > John P

[TV orNotTV] Time For TV Concerts To Grow Up

2017-01-01 Thread PGage
John Pareless at NYT has a useful take on the Mariah Carey debacle last night on the ABC Ball Drop-Show. Our family did our usual 30 minute interrupt of our TV binge to watch the show, go to the bathroom, and call/text family and friends. We saw her set, wondered what we were seeing, and read some

Re: [TV orNotTV] New Year hilarity ensues

2017-01-01 Thread Kevin M.
Don Lemon shouldn't be allowed near a microphone, drunk or sober. Mariah would not have had that issue if my former boss, and the guy whose name is still at the top of that abysmal broadcast, was still alive and running things. On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 5:02 PM Bob Jersey wrote: > > Don Lemon, in

[TV orNotTV] New Year hilarity ensues

2017-01-01 Thread Bob Jersey
Don Lemon, in N'awlins, gets hooched, gets a piercing, gets his mike cut off... Philly dot com (link) Mariah Carey, on NYRE, gets her whole backing track cut off... Phi

Re: [TV orNotTV] Close to the Enemy

2017-01-01 Thread Kevin M.
Having watched all seven episodes, I highly recommend this series. I miss the concept of a TV miniseries here in the US, the kind that wasn't a backdoor pilot or an attempt to earn enough viewers to generate a sequel... just a series that took its time to tell a good story. That's what "Close to th