Re: [TV orNotTV] Quick review: Poker Face

2023-02-10 Thread Marti Lawrence
Last night's episode of Poker Face with Ellen Barkin and Tim Meadows was spectacular. ~Marti On Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 10:31:48 AM UTC-6 PGage wrote: > Continuing to dig this show; not obsessing over it, but enjoying whenever > I watch. > > I am classifying this as an episodic show (tho

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quick review: Poker Face

2023-02-10 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm getting very jealous about this show which I'm keen to see. Sadly, the Comcast-owned Sky seems to have lost interest in the Comcast-owned Peacock here in the UK. Peacock has only ever been a tile in the Sky service and not a stand-alone streamer. But if I go in today, they seem to have a grand

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quick review: Poker Face

2023-02-10 Thread Kevin M.
On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 9:13 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > I'm getting very jealous about this show which I'm keen to see. > Off topic, but I’m annoyed that Richard Hammond’s garage-centered series on Discovery is unavailable here in the states. It seems a no-brainer to secure streaming deals with both

[TV orNotTV] (formerly TV) Jon Batiste drops track from "Marlowe" soundtrack

2023-02-10 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
The former LSwSC bandleader has a song on the soundtrack to the Neil Jordan/Liam Neeson film "Marlowe", which debuts in U.S. theaters soon (I've seen conflicting dates) - either today (2/10) or Wednesday (2/15)). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mOwkaf2RVg The film stars Neeson as Philip Marlowe,

[TV orNotTV] Fox SB-pregame chat with Biden up in the air

2023-02-10 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
The WH rejected having Fox News do it, then Fox dunked his people's request for folks from digital division Fox Soul... https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/white-house-super-bowl-interview-fox-news-president-biden-1235519340/ (link) B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to th

[TV orNotTV] CBS reviewing captioning policy after Bad Bunny issue at Grammys

2023-02-10 Thread 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV
The generic "*speaking/singing in non-English*" subtitle, natch, didn't go over too well... especially with California congressmember Robert Garcia, to whose complaint network head George Cheeks responded Friday (10)... https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/cbs-live-closed-captioning-bad-bunny-grammy

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox SB-pregame chat with Biden up in the air

2023-02-10 Thread 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV
This is the first I've heard of FOX Soul, which appears to be an effort from the company to compete with BET? As with nearly everything about the Super Bowl that isn't the game, I have a hard time caring about this. Best,David On Friday, February 10, 2023 at 06:50:16 PM PST, 'Bob Jersey' vi

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBS reviewing captioning policy after Bad Bunny issue at Grammys

2023-02-10 Thread Kevin M.
Recently watched the Benedict Cumberbatch film “The Courier” which featured a lot of Russian dialogue, which the filmmakers took pains to embed English translation on the screen. But my wife enjoys watching shows with the captions on, and over the embedded English translation on the screen, the cap

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBS reviewing captioning policy after Bad Bunny issue at Grammys

2023-02-10 Thread Jim Ellwanger
Based on my experiences during my closed-captioning career, the CBS president's statement "We worked with a closed captioning vendor that did not execute at a standard to which we should rightfully be held" is code for "We didn't spend enough money on the captioning for them to use a bilingual l