Re: [TV orNotTV] 71st Primetime Emmys

2019-09-22 Thread Kevin M.
My friend Chris over at Variety also picked up on the odd music choices https://variety.com/2019/tv/opinion/emmys-bizarre-music-choices-1203345424/ On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 10:33 PM PGage wrote: > Fleabag is genuinely transcendent; PWB rightly dominated the night. The > show I came away determi

Re: [TV orNotTV] 71st Primetime Emmys

2019-09-22 Thread PGage
Fleabag is genuinely transcendent; PWB rightly dominated the night. The show I came away determined too watch is Barry, which I watched the first two episodes of then lost track of. And yes, I was of course joking about Jon Batiste. It’s just that instead of playing music from the winning program

[TV orNotTV] Aron Eisenberg, Nog of ST: Deep Space Nine, dead at 50

2019-09-22 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
The actor and photographer had a renal condition from birth, which accounted for him being a good height to play kids and Ferengi well through his 20s.  Passed on Saturday quite suddenly, no official cause as yet. https://io9.gizmodo.com/aron-eisenberg-the-actor-who-played-nog-on-deep-space-1838

Re: [TV orNotTV] 71st Primetime Emmys

2019-09-22 Thread Steve Timko
I saw most of it and I would say Alex Borstein won the night. She should have given that speech last year. Comedy bits were hit and miss. Nothing that will go viral. Thomas Lennon's jokes, for the most part, were lame. It probably sounded good in the planning meetings. Was that bad enough they shou

Re: [TV orNotTV] 71st Primetime Emmys

2019-09-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
Appreciate the joke, but Rickey Minor was listed as musical director and there was a "band" credit, which is weird because the producers said that there was not going to be a band. They were getting more dead on as the evening progressed, but I do wonder if Phoebe Waller-Bridge's sister wrote a th

Re: [TV orNotTV] 71st Primetime Emmys

2019-09-22 Thread Doug Eastick
Really? It was him? I figured it was some 20 something intern that googled popular songs and put together a random shuffle list for the evening. On Sun., Sep. 22, 2019, 10:27 p.m. PGage, wrote: > Congratulations to Jon Batiste, who was apparently the Music Director for > the Emmy’s, which bor

Re: [TV orNotTV] 71st Primetime Emmys

2019-09-22 Thread Jon Delfin
Wait, there was live music? It wasn't all needle-drops? On Sun, Sep 22, 2019 at 10:27 PM PGage wrote: > Congratulations to Jon Batiste, who was apparently the Music Director for > the Emmy’s, which bore his signature lack of connection between the song > being played and the person or program be

[TV orNotTV] 71st Primetime Emmys

2019-09-22 Thread PGage
Congratulations to Jon Batiste, who was apparently the Music Director for the Emmy’s, which bore his signature lack of connection between the song being played and the person or program being introduced... -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

Re: [TV orNotTV] Gillies out at SNL

2019-09-22 Thread chialex
Classic case of "I'm not sorry about my material. I'm sorry my material cost me a lucrative gig." -From: "Kevin M." To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Cc: Sent: Saturday September 21 2019 10:47:00PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Gillies out at SNL In his

RE: [TV orNotTV] Gillies out at SNL

2019-09-22 Thread Brad Beam
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kevin M. >In his return to stand-up, Gillis went full white-privilege, acting like the >racist a-hole he apparently is. His entire set isn’t transcribed in the >article, but the parts that are... ugh. https://va

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: HGTV buys Brady Bunch house

2019-09-22 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
What Kev just said. Allegedly hundreds of hours of footage were shot, but if neither the channel's hosts nor the Bradys were in them, it's like the tree falling in the forest. (I had a health sitch -- a new urinary stone -- but did get to see the second episode.) B -- You received this mes