[TV orNotTV] Former FOX News host and DJTJ's girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, has COVID-19

2020-07-03 Thread Steve Timko
https://www.kolotv.com/2020/07/04/the-latest-donald-trump-jrs-girlfriend-contracts-coronavirus/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr..

[TV orNotTV] Watch "Tommy Smothers dead-on imitation of Johnny Carson - Jan 1991" on YouTube

2020-07-03 Thread Doug Eastick
https://youtu.be/oghxf-HS6go "It's national policy.." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussi

Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC skating 'casters in video that vulgarly picks on Olympian

2020-07-03 Thread Joe Hass
There is so much to unpack here from a journalistic perspective that infuriates me that I'm going to shortcut this. 1. Christine Brennan filing a column about someone using the term "camel toe" (because I'm not a prude who buries vulgarities in a news story because they're thinking of the millions

Re: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
The kind of policy may have changed from time to time, but per his IMDB page, Trebek has done commercials for a particular insurance company since the 1990s.  Print as well (common in the Sunday supplements, at least when they were thick enough to run ads). https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871618/o

RE: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Doug Fields
Has he really? Interesting. I guess I never crossed paths with one of them before the last 4-5 years. I never had to work graveyard shifts back in the good old days. 😊 Doug Fields Tampa, FL From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Mark Jeffries Sent: Friday, July 3, 2020 7:45 PM To:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Melissa P
Sadly, the commercial runs on Fox News during the day. On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 6:06 PM Doug Fields wrote: > Trebek’s been doing the same thing for several years (starting right > around the time of his cancer diagnosis, if memory serves) selling > $9.95/month no-medical-questions-asked life insur

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Melissa P
I'll say with 100% certainty that I'm the only one in this group who saw a taping of Concentration -- with Hugh Downs. I was probably 7 or 8, and it was my family's first trip to NYC since my parents arrived in this country. Although the main purpose of the trip was to visit relatives, my sister

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Joe Hass
1. If you are reading this post and have even the slightest hesitation as to whether you should read the article, my tongue isn't as far into my cheek as you might believe when I ask what the hell you're doing subscribing to a board like this. 2. I think back to what happened to Kellee Kim. The mo

Re: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
And he's been doing those almost as long as he's been doing "Jeopardy!" Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 5:09 PM Doug Fields wrote: > …although in Alex’s defense, his is actually in the traditional 60-second > commercial format, rather than a 3

Re: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread daniel anderson
I wonder what Norm felt when he saw the soaps* The Doctors* and *Another World* in Living Color, but not his own show? On Friday, July 3, 2020 at 11:49:16 AM UTC-4, Mark Jeffries wrote: > > Norm Blumenthal, the show's producer (and sole rebus creator for the > entire run), had the advantage of

RE: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Doug Fields
…although in Alex’s defense, his is actually in the traditional 60-second commercial format, rather than a 30-minute infomercial. DF From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com On Behalf Of Doug Fields Sent: Friday, July 3, 2020 6:06 PM To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs,

RE: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Doug Fields
Trebek’s been doing the same thing for several years (starting right around the time of his cancer diagnosis, if memory serves) selling $9.95/month no-medical-questions-asked life insurance policies during the overnight hours. I don’t recall ever seeing it outside the hours of 1:00am-5:00am. B

Re: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Steve Timko
Hugh Downs was in many ways the perfect TV talking head. He was white, male, competent and inoffensive. I was largely indifferent to him until in his retirement he used his credibility with seniors to sell hokey health care products in an infomercial. On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:49 AM Mark Jeffries

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Adam Bowie
But Cosby wasn't *The World's* biggest star. Johnson is. (Suspect someone like Mr T was known better globally than Cosby.) Something that seems to keep coming up regarding reopening cinemas is that without LA, New York and Houston, nobody can make money.* So movies have to appeal to those markets

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 12:48 PM Adam Bowie wrote: > Isn't the biggest movie star in the world right now Dwayne Johnson? > > TV's behind the times. > And for years Bill Cosby was the biggest TV star (or among the biggest), but that didn’t translate to a widespread increase in diversity on the boo

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Adam Bowie
Isn't the biggest movie star in the world right now Dwayne Johnson? TV's behind the times. On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:43 PM Kevin M. wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 12:35 PM PGage wrote: > >> There is some reality to that, but I think what needs to be overcome more >> is the perception white

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 12:35 PM PGage wrote: > There is some reality to that, but I think what needs to be overcome more > is the perception white audiences won’t watch shows with predominantly non > white stars. Black, Asian and Hispanic actors have opened huge box office > films in recent years

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread PGage
There is some reality to that, but I think what needs to be overcome more is the perception white audiences won’t watch shows with predominantly non white stars. Black, Asian and Hispanic actors have opened huge box office films in recent years. White Americans drop tons of money to watch Black mus

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Kevin M.
Having read the article, one key aspect of introducing or nurturing diversity in any form of media that has to be overcome is that, with few exceptions, white audiences are less inclined to watch media with minority leads or mostly minority casts. I maintain there is a level of societal conditionin

Re: [TV orNotTV] Roy Moore sues Baron Cohen et al

2020-07-03 Thread Steve Timko
New York Federal Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss as Case Heads to Discovery (New York, New York, July 2, 2020). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, and a former federal prosecutor, announced that the Honorable Andrew Carter denied a motion to dismiss filed b

Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Carl Reiner

2020-07-03 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
PGage, Tuesday (6/30): > > This is so sad, on many levels. He really was one of the greats. His > relationship with Mel Books is epic in itself. I have been following him on > Twitter the last few years and he was so focused on living long enough to > see Trump defeated. > > His last known photo

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread twolper
I should add that another thing that is changing is if a young man who was brought on to be a bad boy character was found to have some racist tweets or IG posts in his past, the response from the producers or the network would be to express regret and let it go. That’s changing now. > On Jul 3,

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Strahan, Sara & Keke" not returning?

2020-07-03 Thread Karen Owen
Keke was on with Jimmy Kimmel recently and talked about a video of her at a protest march and an  upcoming movie. No mention made of her daytime show. -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- You received this message because

[TV orNotTV] NBC skating 'casters in video that vulgarly picks on Olympian

2020-07-03 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Participating in an "At-Home Variety Show" promo clip for Peacock with John Michael Higgins and Elizabeth Banks, neither Tara Lipinski nor Johnny Weir used the *bon mot* describing a female anatomical thing as they watched footage of Bradie Tennell from the 2018 PyeongChang Games, but apparently

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Tom Wolper
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:52 PM Kevin M. wrote: > Without reading the article, my experience with reality TV and race could > best be described as tokenism. Shows going back to The Real World have THE > black guy or THE Asian girl or for that matter THE gay cast member. That > way they couldn’t be

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Kevin M.
Without reading the article, my experience with reality TV and race could best be described as tokenism. Shows going back to The Real World have THE black guy or THE Asian girl or for that matter THE gay cast member. That way they couldn’t be accused of excluding anyone, but they weren’t exactly tr

[TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Tom Wolper
As I read this article I hesitated about posting it to the list because we generally think the worst of the Reality TV shows we don't watch. But as I got deeper into it I learned a lot about the economics of Bravo shows and how much things are changing starting about 5 weeks ago. https://www.mothe

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Strahan, Sara & Keke" not returning?

2020-07-03 Thread Joe Hass
Just Adderall up and get back in the game! On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 19:33 Kevin M. wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 5:31 PM 'bobjersey' via TVorNotTV < > tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> >> Kevin M., today (7/02): >> > Never heard of it, nor have I heard of the show replacing it >> >> He k

Re: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
Norm Blumenthal, the show's producer (and sole rebus creator for the entire run), had the advantage of running a small portion of the network that no one paid attention to and had fought off every attempt to go to color at the network whose slogan became "The Full Color Network" until the bosses pu

Re: [TV orNotTV] Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Trivia note: "Concentration" was the last NBC show to switch to color full-time. But it was already a color show by Christmas 1968 -- this appears to be a kinescope of a color broadcast. > On Jul 3, 2020, at 12:11 AM, JW wrote: > > > But I will always remember him most fondly as the MC on Con

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Jon Delfin
Bob Clayton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Clayton On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 4:11 AM 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I've already forgotten his name, but he succeeded Downs as host. I did > love this game. > > This episode reminds me of nothing so much as the ni

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread 'Dave Sikula' via TVorNotTV
I've already forgotten his name, but he succeeded Downs as host. I did love this game. This episode reminds me of nothing so much as the night Groucho was a guest panelist on "What's My Line?" and utterly destroyed the program. I saw Borge some time in the 90s, and even though I'd seen every b

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread Steve Timko
Victor Borge does not do well when he has to share the stage. Who is the other Santa? On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 12:11 AM JW wrote: > > But I will always remember him most fondly as the MC on Concentration. > > The 1968 Christmas episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TttxuMzlKNs > > -- > You receiv

[TV orNotTV] Re: Hugh Downs, Longtime Host of '20/20' and the 'Today' Show, Dies at 99

2020-07-03 Thread JW
> But I will always remember him most fondly as the MC on Concentration. The 1968 Christmas episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TttxuMzlKNs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emai