The company banned TV ads featuring a same sex couple (following a right
wing wingnut group’s threat to boycott the Christmas movies), but has
reversed the decision.
And to all a good night.
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/hallmark-reverses-decision-same-sex-zola-advertising-1203438871/
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The union is official
https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/nbc-news-digital-workers-union-1203435907/
On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 10:27 PM Tom Wolper wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 1:25 PM Kevin M. wrote:
>
>> In the midst of all the sexual misconduct allegations, their response is
>> to
Yeah - I'm pretty sure "box" is a British idiom. See also "the idiot box"
or indeed "gogglebox."
As an aside - Strictly Come Dancing was always going to have to change its
name to what became Dancing with the Stars because of its contrived title
that reference both the Baz Luhrmann film and a
> On Dec 15, 2019, at 4:10 AM, Mark Jeffries wrote:
>
> (since we don't call TV "the box" over here)
Tell that to Jeff Kisseloff, author of this book (which I recommend to any
member of this list who hasn't read it):
https://www.amazon.com/Box-Oral-History-Television-1929-1961/dp/0670864706
Mark Harmon was the only panel guest on Colbert Friday night. I guess he
was the perfect Friday night guest, as he is non topical, and the interview
could have been taped anytime in the last week or two. But what stood out
is how retro (and interesting);the segments were. Someone did a great
The U.S. version of "Gogglebox" was called "The People's Couch" (since we
don't call TV "the box" over here) and ran four series over three years on
Bravo to little note earlier this decade. It may be revived here if CBS
notes the success of the Australian version on their recently-acquired
