[TV orNotTV] RIP Diana Rigg

2020-09-10 Thread Tom Wolper
Part of my pandemic watching was a DVD box set of the Emma Peel era of The Avengers. She was so much fun to watch. And I'm glad she got to have a high profile role in Game of Thrones later in life. She was 82. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/diana-rigg-dead-game-thrones-avengers-star-was-82

[TV orNotTV] So long, Dame Diana Rigg

2020-09-10 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Mrs Peel, and the Queen of Thorns. “She was a beautiful kind and generous human being that enhanced the lives of all that knew her as well as a great actress. She leaves a great void in my heart,” said Lionel Larner, Rigg’s longtime friend and talent agent. 82. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/

[TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Diana Rigg

2020-09-10 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
You beat me to it. I'll drop mine from web. Tom Wolper, Sept 10th: > Part of my pandemic watching was a DVD box set of the Emma Peel era of The > Avengers. She was so much fun to watch. And I'm glad she got to have a high > profile role in Game of Thrones later in life. She was 82. > > > https:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Diana Rigg

2020-09-10 Thread Adam Bowie
I just love the Emma Peel era Avengers. This is very sad. She was fantastic in just about everything she did. There was a fantastic late 80s BBC drama called Mother Love in which she played a wonderfully calculating woman. Sadly, it's hard to find. And although it may have been the Lazenby Bond fi

Re: [TV orNotTV] RIP Diana Rigg

2020-09-10 Thread PGage
She really was great. I will add this tweet from channel4news: “Her daughter said Rigg died in her sleep this morning, having been diagnosed with cancer in March. She said she ‘spent her last months joyfully reflecting on her extraordinary life, full of love, laughter and a deep pride in her prof

[TV orNotTV] Hank Williams jnr off "Monday Night Football" again

2020-09-10 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
What with COVID holding down or cutting out crowds this coming season (beginning tonight with NBC's traditional opener), his "rowdy friends" are gonna be rather few... ESPN will, for this year only, use a remix of the beloved Little Richard's "Rip It Up," augmented by Virginia band Butcher Brow

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: SportsTV: A Torturous Broadcasting Hypothetical for CBS

2020-09-10 Thread danieland...@gmail.com
I'd say the NFL would delay the late games rather than have the six NFL home markets (Buffalo, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, New York, and Miami) peeling off to take their appropriate games. once the horn sounds, or there's a winner, they'd switch. On Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 9:16:43 PM UTC-

RE: [TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Diana Rigg

2020-09-10 Thread Brad Beam
From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Adam Bowie >More recently, aside from Game of Thrones, she had a lovely cameo in a >beautiful little comedy called The Dectorists (may be on Netflix) where she >played the mother of her real-life daughter Rachel

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Diana Rigg

2020-09-10 Thread David Risner
First two seasons (series) of Detectorists are on Amazon Prime here in the US. Looks like what Amazon has labelled as season 2 includes the Christmas special that aired just after series 2 aired in the UK. On Thu, Sep 10, 2020, 2:49 PM Brad Beam wrote: > *From:* tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailt

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Diana Rigg

2020-09-10 Thread Steve Timko
I hate to value women on their sex appeal alone. I'm sure Diana Rigg was a wonderfully intelligent person in real life. But her characters seemed to be people who were a lot of fun and adventurous. Not high maintenance. That made her extra hot. On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 2:59 PM David Risner wrote:

[TV orNotTV] Re: Nicolas Cage to star in scripted Joe Exotic series

2020-09-10 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
Amazon Studios joins the project... https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/joe-exotic-series-nicolas-cage-amazon-1234765499/ (link) Moi, May 5th: > CBS Studios and Imagine Entertainment producing along with Texas Monthly, > based on their article about the eccentric animal-keeper... > > > https://

[TV orNotTV] Re: "Doogie Howser" reboot in dev at Disney+

2020-09-10 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
“Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.” ordered to series. No casting yet. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/doogie-howser-reboot-disney-plus-2-1234765675/ (link) Moi, April 9th: > The main character would be a part-Asian girl in Hawai'i. Bochco's fam > are involved with the 20th-based project. > > > https:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jay Leno as Groucho Marx

2020-09-10 Thread Tom Wolper
On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 7:24 PM Steve Timko wrote: > I recall one analysis of the success of the Groucho Marx version. One > cause for its success was is that people watching on TV loved Groucho > Marx's facial expressions. He spent a lifetime developing an ability to > mug. The show was broadcast