Re: [TV orNotTV] RIP “Tinker Tailor...” author John le Carre

2020-12-14 Thread Adam Bowie
Likewise, I'm going to feel this loss a lot. I'm an enormous fan of his work - something that I got from my father who'd loved the Karla trilogy (the three books that start with Tinker Tailor). When his last but one novel came out, I thought I'd go about trying to get a signed copy. So I went to

Re: [TV orNotTV] Fox considering dropping TNF

2020-12-09 Thread Adam Bowie
I always found it amazing that the NFL somehow got networks to pay for Thursday Night Football, but then also sold it to digital outlets like Amazon, but then ALSO kept the rights on their own network. Talk about having your cake and eating it! I guess the reality with most of these sports bodies

Re: [TV orNotTV] Formula 1: Drive to Survive

2020-12-09 Thread Adam Bowie
I must confess that I have a real problem with the many of the currently produced sports "documentary" series. It's not that they aren't brilliantly made, carefully crafted and deliver a compelling narrative with sumptuous production values. It's that they're officially sanctioned. And if you

Re: [TV orNotTV] Letterkenny Season 9 Cold Open. For Adam

2020-12-08 Thread Adam Bowie
A lot of Australian, and just a hint of South African mixed in there. Overall, I'm not sure what to make of that! A series that, from what I can tell, has not made it to any UK channel or streaming platform... On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:27 AM Doug Eastick wrote: >

Re: [TV orNotTV] NFL: The Steelers Ravens game is being moved from tomorrow evening to Sunday

2020-12-02 Thread Adam Bowie
On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 1:02 PM Brad Beam wrote: > > > It's not switching on the lights at Blackpool. (Or maybe it is; the folks > on "Corrie" always bangin' about nowt else) > > > Switching on Blackpool lights might get some local TV coverage if they're lucky. Similarly, the most "famous"

Re: [TV orNotTV] NFL: The Steelers Ravens game is being moved from tomorrow evening to Sunday

2020-12-02 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm assuming it's beyond the wit of man to switch on a Christmas tree's lights in the hour before an NFL game, or do it during halftime? I guess I don't understand the pageantry that's involved in such a complex task :-) On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 3:06 AM Brad Beam wrote: > *From:*

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: Novelist getting the shaft from The Mouse

2020-11-19 Thread Adam Bowie
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:58 PM Joe Hass wrote: > The bad news: 99.99% of people are not science fiction fans. > I'd argue that the success of MCU movies, amongst others, suggests otherwise... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: Novelist getting the shaft from The Mouse

2020-11-18 Thread Adam Bowie
Likewise, my brother and I read that original (ghost-written) Star Wars novelisation endlessly. I think we each ended up with a copy. And of course Alan Dean Foster was the king of the movie novelisation. This is not a good look for Disney. Adam On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 23:19, 'Bob Jersey' via

Re: [TV orNotTV] Quickie Review: COBRA

2020-11-17 Thread Adam Bowie
I've just realised that this has pitched up in the US on PBS which surprises me enormously. I assumed it would be somewhere on Peacock (it's a Sky One show in the UK, so shares a Comcast owner). It wasn't massively well received over here. But I didn't watch it. That said, it's been recommissioned

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

2020-11-16 Thread Adam Bowie
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 2:54 PM PGage wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 3:44 AM JW wrote: > >> > the 10:00 am games (yes, that is how I and God refer to them) >> >> No such thing as 10:00 games in my part of the world. Stick to 'early' >> and 'late' if we want to avoid silly religious wars. >> >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Hasan Minhaj to "The Morning Show"

2020-11-13 Thread Adam Bowie
Deadline previously reported an October production date for Season 2, or more accurately, a continuation of season 2, as they'd already begun production prior to Covid:

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: US TV Election Coverage

2020-11-06 Thread Adam Bowie
fullscreen on whichever feed you have audio for. I've had it on all day now. (Mostly muted) On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 4:30 PM Doug Eastick wrote: > Adam - thanks for that link. Such an easy thing to use. > > > On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 5:45 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> I wish I'd found t

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: US TV Election Coverage

2020-11-06 Thread Adam Bowie
I wish I'd found this on election night, but I found this really useful facility built by a developer from The Times (of London) that lets you watch multiple simultaneous YouTube streams of news channels including the ability to mute all, or pick the sound of which channel you want to hear:

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBC TV Coverage for that neighbour thing happening on Tuesday

2020-11-02 Thread Adam Bowie
Here in the UK you've got the following options: - BBC coverage going out on BBC1, the BBC News Channel and the BBC World News channel globally. Coverage starts at 11.30pm UK time, and continues through until 1.00pm the following day. - ITV coverage starts at 11.00pm UK time and continues until

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sepinwall: COVID-19 and the end of Peak TV

2020-10-23 Thread Adam Bowie
a hyperlink for the article I read earlier this week) > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 6:48 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> I still like Netflix. It'll be one of the last TV services I cancelled if >> forced to make a choice. I enjoyed the new Aaron Sorkin movie last week, >> and this week

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sepinwall: COVID-19 and the end of Peak TV

2020-10-23 Thread Adam Bowie
orth > it to lose money in a non-core part of their business. If that is even part > right, after an initial pandemic pause I would expect them to jump right > back in to contributing their share and more of Peak TV. > > I have been rooting for them from the beginning, and I still am. &

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sepinwall: COVID-19 and the end of Peak TV

2020-10-22 Thread Adam Bowie
On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 1:41 AM Doug Eastick wrote: > ok so I understand now that Peak TV means quantity or a large pile > with a peak -- ok, got it. I've been wondering about this crazy volume > of productions for a few years now (basically once the streamers like > Netflix started

Re: [TV orNotTV] Sepinwall: COVID-19 and the end of Peak TV

2020-10-22 Thread Adam Bowie
Buried in the Rolling Stone article it notes that it was FX CEO John Landgraf who came up with the term. I believe that at various TCAs over the years he's presented charts that detail the ever increasing number of original TV series that are being made - and I think he just considers US

Re: [TV orNotTV] IYC: Shatner merch site could cut off Brits

2020-10-16 Thread Adam Bowie
Ha ha. Although I'm not sure that his info is right. There have definitely been proposals about this, but nothing in concrete yet. For what it's worth, in the UK we pay VAT on stuff (think State + Federal Sales Taxes). It's 20%, and it's marked in on the price. The price you see is the price you

Re: [TV orNotTV] Debate #1

2020-09-30 Thread Adam Bowie
It sounds like the Presidential Debate Commission is going to change the rules. 'The commission said Wednesday the debate “made clear that additional structure should be added to the format of the remaining debates to ensure a more orderly discussion of the issues.”'

Re: [TV orNotTV] Debate #1

2020-09-30 Thread Adam Bowie
9pm EST is unfortunately 2am BST, so while I thought about staying up to watch at least some of the first debate - something I've done in the past - this time around I'm pretty glad that I didn't completely disrupt my sleeping patterns for the "shitshow" that emerged. I can't bring myself to

Re: [TV orNotTV] NotTV: Florida FM puts POTUS' name in theirs

2020-09-19 Thread Adam Bowie
I know the people who run Jack in the UK - which is obviously a licence of the format. Indeed there are a few versions of Jack in the UK. Sadly, Paul Darrow, who played Avon in Blake's 7, died last year after a number of health issues (Jack's website is way out of date). He's been replaced by

Re: [TV orNotTV] well, that changes everything

2020-09-15 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm getting ready for RKO+. Launch programming will include: - Citizen Kane: The Early Years - A series of movies based on Astaire & Rogers - think Dancing with the Stars mixed with High School Musical - A remake of The Thing [From Another World] as a 10 part series Adam On Tue, Sep 15, 2020

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Wipeout" revived at TBS

2020-09-11 Thread Adam Bowie
In the UK, the BBC has reheated old episodes of "Total Wipeout" as it's called here. They've used two of the current Top Gear presenters to add new voiceovers to the old episodes. Ironically, the episodes originally had voiceovers by Richard Hammond, a previous Top Gear presenter. The format was

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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Deadline : Oscar Shakes Up Best Picture Eligibility Standards; Strict New Diversity Requirements Take Full Effect In 2024

2020-09-09 Thread Adam Bowie
On first reading, I was as exasperated with this news as many others are. I'm not actually that interested in The Oscars either with the rampant gaming of the system through big budget For Your Consideration campaigns. But I mellowed on reading this BBC piece explaining how BAFTA in the UK *has

Re: [TV orNotTV] Two more shows called up to CBS Prime

2020-08-27 Thread Adam Bowie
I liked Discovery. Season 1 could have done with slightly fewer extended Klingon dialogue scenes, but the whole Lorca arc was very entertaining. Here in the UK, the BBC has just bought Battlestar Galactica (the 2004-2009 one, not the upcoming Peacock version) to run as a boxset on iPlayer, and

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Patriot Act" over after six seasons

2020-08-19 Thread Adam Bowie
I really liked Patriot Act. Netflix has struggled producing "topical" quasi-late night talk shows because there's no real imperative to watch instantly. They've tried a couple of times in the past and didn't make those work. I think this trod a clever line between being *somewhat* topical but also

Re: [TV orNotTV] NOT TV : ‘Fast Times At Ridgemont High’: Brad Pitt Joins Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Matthew McConaughey

2020-08-19 Thread Adam Bowie
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 6:20 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > > Fast Times at Ridgemont High was about teenagers who, with parents never > available, had to deal with adult situations by themselves. The whole cast > for this table read is middle aged. How old is the youngest cast member - > 40? > This

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-10 Thread Adam Bowie
If I'm understanding correctly, I think this is less about "transferring" and more about re-downloading things you previously recorded from your service provider. I would definitely make a list and then try to check in advance.I know that this side of the pond, many shows drop off Cloud DVR

Re: [TV orNotTV] [Insert Tasteless Mock Norwegian Headline Here]

2020-08-07 Thread Adam Bowie
dam Bowie wrote: > >> >> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:11 PM Adam Bowie wrote: >> >>> >>> What happened to the mooted idea - I think by NBC - of doing a US >>> state by state competition along similar lines? You have two >>> semi-finals and

Re: [TV orNotTV] [Insert Tasteless Mock Norwegian Headline Here]

2020-08-07 Thread Adam Bowie
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:11 PM Adam Bowie wrote: > > What happened to the mooted idea - I think by NBC - of doing a US > state by state competition along similar lines? You have two > semi-finals and then a final of 25 songs. You'd get three big three > hour spectaculars! >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Holes in the Vintage Drama Stream

2020-08-02 Thread Adam Bowie
There are always these deep rabbit holes you get into when you're looking for the ultimate version of a show. Which version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer should you go for? (Fox famously "remastered" this in HD re-cropping to 16:9 without any care (crew members can be seen in shot), and not properly

Re: [TV orNotTV] Holes in the Vintage Drama Stream

2020-08-01 Thread Adam Bowie
>From what I can gather it's simply money. Most of the streaming services disproportionately target young audiences - so you find few shows made before 2000 on them. That may be slightly different with something like CBS All Access or Peacock which are owned by networks and may have their own

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-08-01 Thread Adam Bowie
The notes here about the files being encrypted doesn't surprise me. I'm sure a lot of the underlying technology in all these boxes is similar. But I've yet to come across a box that lets you just copy the files across and then do something that lets you watch them. There may be some kind of

Re: [TV orNotTV] James Murdoch Quits News Corp Board

2020-07-31 Thread Adam Bowie
Oh - it's called The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty if you're searching for it. On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:52 PM Adam Bowie wrote: > There's a fantastic BBC three-part documentary on Rupert and his family > that just finished airing on Tuesday. They even ape the Succession opening >

Re: [TV orNotTV] James Murdoch Quits News Corp Board

2020-07-31 Thread Adam Bowie
There's a fantastic BBC three-part documentary on Rupert and his family that just finished airing on Tuesday. They even ape the Succession opening credits to an extent. Highly recommended. Not sure if anyone your side of the pond has picked it up, but if you know how to use a VPN... I bet the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Comcast close to issuing credits to sports-net viewers

2020-07-31 Thread Adam Bowie
Do we think ESPN has had to pay back any of its fees during the pandemic? In the UK, sports channels are almost always add-ons and aren't bundled with basic packages like ESPN. That means people can quickly pick up the phone and cancel them. The main providers have all done some kind of pausing

Re: [TV orNotTV] Technician's Corner

2020-07-31 Thread Adam Bowie
I don't know the ins and outs of your box, but I suspect that your recordings have some kind of encryption on them. I'd be looking at using a combination of an HDMI splitter and an HDMI capture card. The "splitter" which you can find cheap on Amazon and eBay needs to be one that removes the HDMI

Re: [TV orNotTV] Amazon and Roku in standoff with HBO Max and Peacock

2020-07-18 Thread Adam Bowie
I think that this is where the battle lines are being drawn in the "streaming wars." It's really about who gets what deal with what provider. I was listening to The Verge podcast earlier today, and they pointed out that Netflix has the whip hand. Whoever you are, Roku, Amazon, AN Other TV set

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Won’t have the C-Dub to kick around any more?

2020-07-17 Thread Adam Bowie
SundanceTV screened the first two seasons of Amazon's "Transparent." > > Mark Jeffries > Saints Spotlight Editor > spotligh...@gmail.com > > > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 9:08 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 1:57 PM Tom Wolper wr

Re: [TV orNotTV] Netflix releases list of top 10 most-watched original films ever | The Independent

2020-07-17 Thread Adam Bowie
This is certainly not a like for like with Nielsen ratings. Netflix only needs a view of at least *two minutes* to count. Bearing in mind how many shows autostart in their app, or how many viewers have to try a movie they've never heard of, but has just popped up on their home screen, and getting

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Won’t have the C-Dub to kick around any more?

2020-07-17 Thread Adam Bowie
On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 1:57 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > > British shows belong on PBS. Everybody knows that. > It'd be quite fun to see I May Destroy You, Normal People and Fleabag on PBS. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Won’t have the C-Dub to kick around any more?

2020-07-16 Thread Adam Bowie
I see that they're showing the original Taskmaster which is one of my favourite shows full stop. I never saw the short-lived US version, but for throwaway fun, Taskmaster is great. How it'll work in the US, where I don't think many will recognise any of the comedians, I don't know. But then I

Re: [TV orNotTV] Amazon and Roku in standoff with HBO Max and Peacock

2020-07-14 Thread Adam Bowie
I really recommend the Nvidia Shield which is certainly more expensive than a Fire TV stick or a Roku stick, but has everything I want except Apple TV+. Really good quality and a nice remote. And if you get the Pro version, you can run Plex Server on it, keeping everything on a USB drive hanging

Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-14 Thread Adam Bowie
On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 10:21 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > Are ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5's continuity announcers still live in key > time slots? I know that ITV's announcers are all in London now and record > announcements for ITV regional programming (which nowadays is almost all > news

Re: [TV orNotTV] Staff announcers?

2020-07-13 Thread Adam Bowie
Continuity announcers are still alive and well at the BBC in the UK! Indeed each UK *nation *gets its own announcer. So you hear someone different in Scotland to England - in part because there are slight regional variations in programming. And they really are there all the time - not just

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Turner opts out of Champions League deal

2020-07-09 Thread Adam Bowie
I still find this really odd. Why would a broadcaster that has been carrying a tournament bailout right towards the finals? Was there some massive clash that Turner couldn't avoid? Surely the games take place during US daytime anyway, so are unlikely to have major clashes with re-scheduled other

Re: [TV orNotTV] Racism and Reality TV

2020-07-03 Thread Adam Bowie
! On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 8:54 PM Kevin M. wrote: > > > 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

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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Joe Rogan signs a $100 million-plus deal with Spotify

2020-06-20 Thread Adam Bowie
On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 10:58 PM Steve Timko wrote: > Does Spotify have advertisers? Rogan might feel his first pressure, > despite Spotify giving him assurances they don't want to change the show. > Yes - Spotify has advertisers. And that's especially the case on their podcasts, where even

Re: [TV orNotTV] ABC Fall (?) Annotated

2020-06-17 Thread Adam Bowie
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:40 PM Mark Jeffries wrote: > > MONDAY > 8 PM — Dancing with the Stars--I believe host Tom Bergeron has already > said that even in September, the combination of 600 cheering audience > members and 25 sweaty bodies on live television (and no one wearing masks) > is

Re: [TV orNotTV] BBC parks a "Fawlty Towers" episode...

2020-06-13 Thread Adam Bowie
s is easily solvable to me by asking Cleese to confirm in 2013 he > approved removing the jokes. If he did, then the BBC are morons. If he > didn't, then ask him if it's okay now. If he says yes, then put it back; if > they won't, then the BBC are morons. If he says no, then Cleese is

Re: [TV orNotTV] BBC parks a "Fawlty Towers" episode...

2020-06-12 Thread Adam Bowie
I think it gets a bit more complicated than has been portrayed. The original reports suggested that it was about Basil saying, "Don't mention the war!" to some German guests at his hotel. This episode has become so famous in British culture for this scene that it trumps everything else. The major

Re: [TV orNotTV] One critic's getting tired of cop shows...

2020-06-08 Thread Adam Bowie
A couple of thoughts off the back of some of this thread. If you've not listened to it, give the podcast "Running from COPS" a listen. There are only six episodes, but they really get into some of the massive issues seemingly harmless shows like COPS and more recently Live PD bring with them. In

Re: [TV orNotTV] Joe Rogan signs a $100 million-plus deal with Spotify

2020-06-02 Thread Adam Bowie
On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 3:21 PM Tom Wolper wrote: > > I don't get why Spotify is making this deal because they aren't content > originators and, unlike Stern and SiriusXM, I don't see how it will sell > subscriptions. Still, in a world where NBC signed Megyn Kelly for $65 > million with all of

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: CNN Reporter Arrested On Air In Minnesota

2020-05-29 Thread Adam Bowie
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 2:19 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > > CNN didn't indicate that he was, eventually released. Variety did... > https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/george-floyd-cnn-minneapolis-omar-jimenez-1234619821/ > (link) > > > I was watching this

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: The Guardian Goes Long On Sandi Toksvig

2020-05-27 Thread Adam Bowie
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:15 AM PGage wrote: > She looks like one of what I still think of as “new” hosts on the Great > British Bake-Off. > > For what it's worth, she's now quit that show. Another British comic, Matt Lucas has taken over. I can take her in small doses. But then as the Guardian

Re: [TV orNotTV] ABC Renews 8 Scripted Series, Cancels 4 Others

2020-05-22 Thread Adam Bowie
It recently started airing on Alibi in the UK, and I must admit that I think I'm in. I'm not going to pretend that it's anything too different, but the lead character is interesting, and it's not a crime of the week series. The show's tape-deck thing will wear thin after a while - I mean tapes

Re: [TV orNotTV] Ben On Jeopardy!

2020-05-20 Thread Adam Bowie
I've never been to The Last Night of the Proms, but I have been to other Proms and they're always good fun. I fear that the Last Night... trip will have to wait until at least 2021. The BBC may not have confirmed it yet, but there's no way the Proms will be going ahead in their usual guise. But

Re: [TV orNotTV] CBS weighing its options

2020-05-19 Thread Adam Bowie
I look forward to downtown Wellington doubling as, say, Chicago or New York :-) On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 9:49 PM John Edwards wrote: > That sounds like a good idea, until the actors start picking up the local > accent, and suddenly people are being invited to a party on the “bick dick”. > > On

Re: [TV orNotTV] Ben On Jeopardy!

2020-05-19 Thread Adam Bowie
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 4:31 AM Jim Ellwanger wrote: > Just in case any members of the list didn't get a chance to see Ben on > today's "Jeopardy!"... > > http://www.ellwanger.tv/temp/jeopardy20200518.mp4 > > (I'll probably only keep this up for a couple of days.) > > Thanks for sharing! --

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: UK TV industry's plans to return to work

2020-05-18 Thread Adam Bowie
We haven't lost a soap in years. But they all play in primetime, or early primetime anyway, so audiences remain decent-ish. As it happens, Eastenders is supposed to be rebuilding their set, and one of the things they were going to do was increase the scale everywhere. Viewers wouldn't notice, but

Re: [TV orNotTV] CW Fall Not-So-Annotated

2020-05-15 Thread Adam Bowie
On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 12:01 AM Mark Jeffries wrote: > And here's what the C-Dub has thrown together for the fall, according to > thewrap.com--new to CW in caps: > > WEDNESDAY > > 8:30-9:00 p.m. DEAD PIXELS--A Britcom about gamers from Channel 4's "yoof" > channel E4 (syndicated by the BBC's

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: BBC releases images of TV sets to use as zoom backgrounds

2020-05-09 Thread Adam Bowie
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:03 AM M-D November wrote: > > *Yes, there's really a cable channel in the UK called "Dave". Which > always makes me think of the "Turn your crank to FRANK" host segment from > MST3K. > "Dave" is actually pretty successful as a free-to-air/basic cable channel. It built

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: TCM Intro

2020-05-07 Thread Adam Bowie
It's so sad that the UK version of TCM is nothing like the original. We don't get any intros ever, and while the range of films is OK, it tends to be on a fairly hard rotation. They even *downgraded* from HD to plain SD... (On the plus side, there's an independently run channel in the UK called

Re: [TV orNotTV] Critics summer tour canned

2020-05-03 Thread Adam Bowie
That's a tough question to answer. On the one hand, you can't ignore something that has completely shaken up everyone's lives, with at the very least, social distancing likely to be continuing for some time to come. On the other hand, viewers are likely to want entertainment and escapism,

Re: [TV orNotTV] A Parks and Rec reunion

2020-04-26 Thread Adam Bowie
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:47 PM Jim Ellwanger wrote: > > That's also why it's 90 minutes in length -- that's how long "The Tonight > Show" was in 1975. > > Still about 60 minutes too long. And it is 2020 :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: A Parks and Rec reunion

2020-04-26 Thread Adam Bowie
Since we're laying our cards on the table, is now the time to say that I've never seen an SNL sketch I've liked that couldn't be shortened by two thirds minimum? Probably a half decent 30 minutes show somehow existing in a 90 minute slot? :-) I guess they can't really drop the L in SNL, but what

Re: [TV orNotTV] A Parks and Rec reunion

2020-04-24 Thread Adam Bowie
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 2:46 PM PGage wrote: > There is very little else I care more about... > Absolutely! -- 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

[TV orNotTV] Shout! Factory TV and Johnny Carson

2020-04-24 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm not sure how many people here are subscribing to Joe Adalian's "Buffering" Newsletter from Vulture, but I find it a decent weekly read (https://nymag.com/newsletters/). Anyway, I'd not seen this story mentioned in the group, so cutting and pasting: "It got lost a bit in the middle of the

Re: [TV orNotTV] COVID TV

2020-04-20 Thread Adam Bowie
The usual kind of lapel mics that TV presenters tend to wear are omni-directional and are usually really good at picking up sound. Without knowing exactly what kind of masks the reporters are wearing, you could find space inside the mask for one of these, turn down the gain quite a lot, and get

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: AfterMASH - Wikipedia

2020-04-20 Thread Adam Bowie
One of the weird things about MASH is that in the UK, it was never broadcast with a laugh track. So those DVDs replicate the British experience.Seeing MASH *with* a laugh track feels like a very alien experience - and I speak as someone who only occasionally watched the show. Adam On Mon, Apr

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: TRIPPING the Rideau - SlowDocumentary - TVO - 4 hrs

2020-04-15 Thread Adam Bowie
No dice here either - I couldn't even get through with my VPN - although all the big TV companies know many of the major VPNs' servers. On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 3:36 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Eastick, last night (4/14): > "I hope International people

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: XFL to return?

2020-04-14 Thread Adam Bowie
Sky Arts is an odd channel, that's largely thought of existing only as: 1. a way of getting more upmarket viewers to subscribe to Sky, even though they end up watching the more mainstream channels, and; 2. to give Sky, when it was owned by Murdoch, a way to say, "Look we do cultural stuff like

Re: [TV orNotTV] Honor Blackman, James Bond's Pussy Galore, dies aged 94

2020-04-07 Thread Adam Bowie
While the Cathy Gale episodes of The Avengers, which date from around 1962-1964, weren't live, they were shot in studios in a multi-camera environment, often "as live" to get through it. They weren't necessarily filmed either, with many first season episodes still missing as the tapes were wiped

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: BBC shuts down all soaps

2020-03-24 Thread Adam Bowie
This is a good summary of what the BBC is planning over the coming weeks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/bbc-entertains-the-nation-in-time-of-need On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 2:45 AM Brad Beam wrote: > *From:* 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] > >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Decision on Summer Olympics coming in a month

2020-03-23 Thread Adam Bowie
I think it's pretty clear that they won't be happening this summer. I expect that they want that extra month to work out whether the delay should be until later this year (v unlikely), next summer, or even summer 2022 which somehow feels more realistic. And because FIFA was corrupt, the 2022 World

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: "Amazing Race" production halted due to Coronavirus

2020-03-04 Thread Adam Bowie
It seems slightly odd to me that it's being delayed until November. I know the summer release schedule is probably jammed, but everything I've read suggests that the virus is likely to abate a little during the summer, only to return during the northern hemisphere's winter. So won't we be in a

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: My local paper's site scraps article comments

2020-02-25 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm pretty sure that they only really exist(ed) because of the page views they generated. If the hassle and value is so low that the extra views don't make financial sense, then ditching them is a good move. I mostly still regret looking "below the fold" at the comments, but I just can't help

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-17 Thread Adam Bowie
health stigmatisation. But it might well be a case of lack of responsibility towards a person who has been very honest about her own issues. On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 11:04 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > I can't begin to think about how tough it must be to be a young person in > today's world of social

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-17 Thread Adam Bowie
problems this itself becomes a focus of online attacks, which even further > demoralizes them. I was just wondering if this tragic event was more a case > of the first thing (toxic social media culture), which sounds like it was > or the second (mental health stigmatization) which sounds like m

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-16 Thread Adam Bowie
are treated. The two issues seem > to be connected in this case and I am trying to understand why. > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 4:52 PM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> It's unlikely that most of this group will know who she is unless they >> watch the UK original version of Love Island which I

Re: [TV orNotTV] Death of Caroline Flack [Was: Love Island" host steps down]

2020-02-16 Thread Adam Bowie
It's unlikely that most of this group will know who she is unless they watch the UK original version of Love Island which I think is on Netflix Stateside, where I believe it does fairly well. And I should preface all of this by saying that I never watched Love Island, and I don't make a habit of

Re: [TV orNotTV] OT: congrats

2020-02-16 Thread Adam Bowie
Many congratulations Kevin! On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:10 AM Diner wrote: > Congrats! > > On Friday, February 14, 2020 at 11:38:46 PM UTC-5, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote: >> >> Thanks. My only regret is the wedding can’t take place in Studio One at >> the old NBC Burbank facility. >> >> On Fri, Feb

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV Academy to launch its own streaming service

2020-02-13 Thread Adam Bowie
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:20 PM Kevin M. wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 7:08 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> Why don't they just put it all on their own YouTube channel? They could >> broadcast live when necessary. Also, they wouldn't need to build an app >> &qu

Re: [TV orNotTV] TV Academy to launch its own streaming service

2020-02-13 Thread Adam Bowie
Why don't they just put it all on their own YouTube channel? They could broadcast live when necessary. Also, they wouldn't need to build an app " in order to be available on web, mobile, and major settop platforms including Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast, Fire stick and Android TV." YouTube is

Re: [TV orNotTV] You will be able to stream the Super Bowl on Roku

2020-02-01 Thread Adam Bowie
This piece, which I saw linked to on a Verge article, makes for interesting reading. Roku is still losing money because they sell the hardware so cheaply, but they're aggressive in their demands from channels because they have a dominant share of the streaming market:

Re: [TV orNotTV] John Oliver profile

2020-01-31 Thread Adam Bowie
I'm the reverse. I much prefer the longform pieces to the "what did Trump do this week" first segment. That probably just goes to show that we're becoming far too inured to actually quite shocking things. My biggest problem with the longer segments is that they get *too* punched up with gags. I

Re: [TV orNotTV] BBC commits flagrant foul in Kobe coverage

2020-01-27 Thread Adam Bowie
I saw this go out last night. It was one clip in a series of - no doubt hastily compiled clips. They apologised later in the newscast and online. Talking to a someone who has a better idea about these things, I think the clip was indeed in the system from the previous day when James passed

Re: [TV orNotTV] Interesting BBC Four series on filmmakers

2020-01-18 Thread Adam Bowie
Yeah - BBC Four is the BBC's arts, science and culture TV channel (BBC *Radio* 4 is different). It does indeed stream via the BBC iPlayer, and these shows will be available for at least 30 days, and probably much longer after they've aired. Generally the BBC geo-blocks its streams however (as do

Re: [TV orNotTV] Jitters at MSNBC as Brass Eyes Moving Chuck Todd and Talks to Shep Smith

2020-01-15 Thread Adam Bowie
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:38 PM Brad Beam wrote: > > > The downside to skimming the headers? Spending far too long wondering who > or what “Brass Eyes” is. > > > Brass Eye was a seminal British parody of a current affairs show from the late 90s :-) (Lots of great writers on that show, not

Re: [TV orNotTV] "Picard" renewed before it even debuts

2019-12-17 Thread Adam Bowie
I won't pre-judge anything - I mean Chernobyl was created by the guy who wrote the Hangover movie sequels! But this first season at least has Michael Chabon as showrunner, and I'm very interested to see what he does. Also, I've read and seen basically nothing beyond a couple of trailers. Going in

Re: [TV orNotTV] New CFerg quiz show to ABC

2019-12-15 Thread Adam Bowie
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

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: America's Got Talent Also Has Toxicity

2019-12-12 Thread Adam Bowie
I don't think the stories about Gabrielle Union have had much impact over here. But then we've been all Brexit and now elections all the time for the last few months. (I voted this morning - in and out within about two minutes). I'm still a bit surprised, as the most recent season of The X

[TV orNotTV] Most Popular TV Series 1986-2019

2019-12-02 Thread Adam Bowie
This video is quite fun, especially for smart visualisations of data: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DemM7UGmIg Unfortunately, the data is flawed. The early numbers are, I believe, just US Nielsen numbers and so fairly robust. But later on he starts adding in global peer-to-peer numbers plus

Re: [TV orNotTV] Pete Davidson tourIng

2019-11-29 Thread Adam Bowie
Cinespace. Dick Wolf's people consider the locations by > themselves as privileged information, even if it doesn't really reveal any > plot points. > > Mark Jeffries > Saints Spotlight Editor > spotligh...@gmail.com > > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 8:50 AM Tom Wolper wrote: >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Media Companies Learn Nothing From Past 25 Years

2019-11-19 Thread Adam Bowie
ng), > it blows up in your face quick. > > Joe Hass > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 4:29 AM Adam Bowie wrote: > >> It's not hard to think lots of ways to stop a certain amount of this. >> >> Limiting the number of simultaneous users should be easy - Netflix >> obvi

Re: [TV orNotTV] Media Companies Learn Nothing From Past 25 Years

2019-11-18 Thread Adam Bowie
It's not hard to think lots of ways to stop a certain amount of this. Limiting the number of simultaneous users should be easy - Netflix obviously does this. But if you then roll in recognised IP addresses or general locations, then you could quickly require a further 2-factor

Re: [TV orNotTV] Coal-industry biggie sues Oliver for defamation

2019-11-11 Thread Adam Bowie
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 6:45 PM M-D November wrote: > Adam - it's not just you. Having done a semester in London when I was in > college, I remember (being baffled by) the handovers to LWT (from, I want > to say, Carlton) - trying to understand just what the smeg was going on > sent me down a

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