Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Living Biblically' Goes to...

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 10:20 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:49 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > >> >> As Mark noted, this one was based on a book. >> > > But I seem to recall the book was based on a blog (or video blog?) > maintained during

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jesus Christ John Legend (and Co)

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 9:54 PM, M-D November wrote: > SiriusXM aired a special on ALW's career earlier this month; in the > special, he talks about how JCS was really meant to be more of a rock-opera > concept album, similar to The Who's "Tommy", which is why the show has

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Living Biblically' Goes to...

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 5:49 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Kevin M. > wrote: > >> I didn’t know it had started airing. >> >> How many failed social media to sitcom concepts have there been now? >> > > As Mark noted, this one

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Living Biblically' Goes to...

I kept seeing the promos for the premiere while watching something (march madness?) and kept deciding that was a show that I didn't want to watch -- primarily because I would not understand any of the references. On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 6:45 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jesus Christ John Legend (and Co)

SiriusXM aired a special on ALW's career earlier this month; in the special, he talks about how JCS was really meant to be more of a rock-opera concept album, similar to The Who's "Tommy", which is why the show has no book scenes and the show essentially lurches from song to song in a somewhat

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jesus Christ John Legend (and Co)

Tom Wolper, in part, tonight (4/19): > > I don't know if the album came out before or after Webber and Rice staged > the show. The album feels like a demo they would use to sell it to > producers and build anticipation in the public. > Album released in Sept 1970, first staged performance in

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jesus Christ John Legend (and Co)

I finally got around to finding the original album on Spotify. For some reason it's a playlist. It simply doesn't compare to the Legend/NBC version. NBC had top Broadway performing talent in all the roles while the album was Warner Brothers talent. The backing music for the album was probably a

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Living Biblically' Goes to...

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 7:19 PM, Kevin M. wrote: > I didn’t know it had started airing. > > How many failed social media to sitcom concepts have there been now? > As Mark noted, this one was based on a book. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'Living Biblically' Goes to...

I didn’t know it had started airing. How many failed social media to sitcom concepts have there been now? On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 3:45 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > The CBS multi-cam sitcom based on A.J. Jacobs' book about his attempt to > live modern life strictly by the

[TV orNotTV] 'Living Biblically' Goes to...

The CBS multi-cam sitcom based on A.J. Jacobs' book about his attempt to live modern life strictly by the Good Book is off of the Eye's Monday night lineup, replaced by those few "Big Bang Theory" reruns not in syndication--what few eps are left will probably be burned off during the summer:

[TV orNotTV] Plug your company on the CBS Evening News

The last two nights, I saw something really disturbing on the CBS Evening News. Tuesday, as part of their coverage of the Starbucks brouhaha, Jeff Glor talked live to Starbucks "board member and CBS News contributor Mellody Hobson." Her contribution to CBS News here was to present Starbucks in