[TV orNotTV] Re: Does any TV critic hate Corden more than this guy?

2016-03-30 Thread JW
> I am sympathetic to Steuver's perspective that Corden's late night persona is an attempt to > out-Fallon Fallon. To put it in terms that Geoff Peterson might use, James Corden is the > Jimmy Fallon fly with a British accent. and > I don't mind panel interviews, butI think a key difference betwee

[TV orNotTV] Re: Donz' 'toob channel...

2016-04-15 Thread JW
> It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. :) Always appreciated, Donz. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsu

[TV orNotTV] Re: NHL Playoff Coverage Observation

2016-04-17 Thread JW
> By “alternate channel,” I meant an alternate Root > Sports channel — e.g., on DirecTV, Root Sports > Pittsburgh is channel 659, but they can activate > 659-1 as an alternate if necessary. I'm pretty sure no such channel exists for these rare conflicts. That may have to do with Root not being own

[TV orNotTV] Re: AMC would rather just pick up series directly from Britain...

2016-04-20 Thread JW
> Um...let's say your mileage may vary and > color me skeptical. I've never before in my life heard > anybody propose this theory. It certainly doesn't > apply to the way I or any of my circle of friends view > British TV/movies. It depends on what/how you're watching. In the past, a distincti

[TV orNotTV] Re: The Artist Sometimes Known as Prince

2016-04-24 Thread JW
> “The Prince Show,” with co-host Beyoncé – for example: The SNL tribute was a classic example of fitting 60 minutes of content into a 90-minute program. It's not a spoiler to point out that the last half-hour or so was several episodes of "The Prince Show", when one would have been more than suff

[TV orNotTV] Re: The Artist Sometimes Known as Prince

2016-04-25 Thread JW
> To be fair, while the After-Party performance may not have been Prince at > his best, what makes it cool is the context, and people like Fallon, Rock > and, at one point, JZ hopping up on stage to sing back-ups. It is amazingly > cool in the way it might be if Prince suddenly appeared on stage to

[TV orNotTV] Re: Rest in Peace, Ed Dravecky

2016-04-26 Thread JW
Thanks for passing this along, Joe. I echo everyone's sentiments on what a loss this is for the group, and, of course, join in sending my condolences to Ed's family. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV o

[TV orNotTV] Re: Rest in Peace, Ed Dravecky

2016-04-27 Thread JW
Unfortunately, it takes an event like this to remind me not to take a group for granted. So, thank you, everybody, for making TV or Not TV such a worthwhile group. Your contributions are appreciated. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are sub

[TV orNotTV] Re: Canadians robbed of important life moment... by another fact of life there

2016-05-08 Thread JW
NBC is carrying Game 5 of the Pittsburgh-Washington series at 7:15ET, following Kentucky Derby coverage. NBC is also carrying a new episode of SNL at 11:30. As you know, the game was over around 10:00, so there was no problem. If it had gone long, I believe that NBC would had stuck with it, even

[TV orNotTV] Re: not just Supergirl

2016-05-13 Thread JW
> BTW, speaking of "Castle," there's a possibility I may get to do a phone > interview with Susan Sullivan next week. (This is in connection with a > production of "Steel Magnolias" she's doing at the Bucks County Playhouse > with Patricia Richardson and Jessica Walter, directed by Marsha Mason.) >

[TV orNotTV] Re: Indy 500 to be seen LIVE in Indianapolis

2016-05-26 Thread JW
Before the same-day delay, the race was available around the country on closed-circuit television. (Wki says that was from '64-'70.) I know that while looking through old newspapers, I've seen ads for similar presentations of the Daytona 500. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You

[TV orNotTV] Re: My interview with Susan Sullivan

2016-05-30 Thread JW
Tim, Nice interview. I'm glad to have helped in my small way, and even gladder that it worked out so well for you, despite your phone's best efforts. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group

[TV orNotTV] Re: Walt Whitman won't watch Colbert

2016-06-10 Thread JW
I'm painfully aware that I'm no longer in the demo any of these shows are aiming at, but still... I really want to like Colbert's Late Show. He's capable of doing a smart, funny show, but instead of improving as the show got over its growing pains, that goal seems to be receding. Fallon remains "

[TV orNotTV] Re: Gawker exploring options, including sale

2016-06-15 Thread JW
I don't have a great deal of use for Gawker, either. However, the slope gets pretty slippery pretty fast: http://gawker.com/now-peter-thiels-lawyer-wants-to-silence-reporting-on-t-1781918385 What's to stop the Koch brothers from funding a similar campaign against The New York Times? -- -- TV o

[TV orNotTV] Re: Gawker exploring options, including sale

2016-06-16 Thread JW
PGage, upthread: "I am currently engaged in a conflict with my employer that was covered in a few media outlets (the case is trivial for almost everyone, but pretty major to the parties involved). In one of the published stories a claim was made about me that was patently false and potentially dam

[TV orNotTV] Re: Meyers bans Trump from show

2016-06-17 Thread JW
When Meyers announced the ban on Tuesday, and when he reiterated it Wednesday and Thursday, he made a point of mentioning that Trump had no interest in appearing anyway. (In which case, I suppose, the "ban" is doing a brilliant job of getting publicity for Late Night.) -- -- TV or Not TV Th

[TV orNotTV] Re: Today's Winner In Beating The System...

2016-06-23 Thread JW
> I am in Paris without easy access to CSPAN. Life's rough. And/or that's the first time that statement wasn't a complete win-win. Not that you need my encouragement, but enjoy Paris. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[TV orNotTV] Re: Clickbait on Colbert, But...

2016-06-23 Thread JW
> The question may be when Meyers does "Closer > Look"--before or after 1 a.m. "A Closer Look" comes right after the monologue/faux-Update before the first commercials. > And I wonder what The Wrap thinks Licht should have Colbert doing. > Interviewing "Big Brother" castoffs? Hell, no. So far as

[TV orNotTV] Re: More Variety stories

2016-06-23 Thread JW
> I'm sorry, but if Colbert is doing his show live the weeks of the > convention, he should be in Cleveland and Philly and not at the Ed still > doing celebrity interviews. But I guess Chris Licht and Moonves want to > turn him into the Jay Leno for a new generation. If he were at the conventions,

[TV orNotTV] Re: Clickbait on Colbert, But...

2016-06-25 Thread JW
> Maybe not enough people would like that, or maybe Stephen is just too tired > of that character? But I knowI would like that. I would also like to see > him interview at least selected guests, for at least one segment, as that > character. As I think about this, it seems clearer and clearer to m

[TV orNotTV] Re: Clickbait on Colbert, But...

2016-06-26 Thread JW
> I wish they were trying harder to avoid Dave's Late Show. I watch the > comedy bits, but SC's interview segments are just as canned and artificial > as Dave's ever were, even when they are (awkwardly) leading into prepared > material. Oh, what I'd give for spontaneity. Interviewing is traditiona

[TV orNotTV] Re: British Jimmy back on homeland TV

2016-07-01 Thread JW
> (who has never knowingly been called Jimmy in the UK :-) ) Probably not outside this list in the US, either, but since two other networks each have a late night Jimmy... -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[TV orNotTV] Re: Alec Baldwin hosting Match Game? No.

2016-07-01 Thread JW
> A huge part of what made the mid-to-late 80s the golden age of Pyramid was > that they more or less rotated among the same 20-30 celebrities, and I'd > wager that, by the end of that time, Shelley Smith wasn't the only one who > was more famous for Pyramid than for anything else they'd done. I'm

[TV orNotTV] Re: How often does the NFL cause CBS or FOX to cut a show from the lineup?

2016-07-06 Thread JW
> Actually, it did happen – the game went double > OT -- and Lorne was not happy, because he had > J-Lo live. After one of those long events, the policy became that SNL would start going live-to-tape at 11:30, so that cast, crew, and audience didn't have to wait around. -- -- TV or Not TV

[TV orNotTV] Re: Here's your Rio Olympics broadcaster lineup

2016-07-07 Thread JW
> The only thing I saw that surprised me a bit in the announcer list was that > Karch Kiralyi was not doing beach volleyball. I think Karch is coaching the US women's indoor team. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Googl

[TV orNotTV] Re: Convention related late night stuff

2016-07-19 Thread JW
A bit of spoilage about Monday's Late Show: Yes, it was live from the Ed, so of course it started with a taped song and dance number. Some of that footage was shot in Cleveland, as was what I assume the Vulture link refers to. Despite being live, they missed the plagiarism thing entirely. -- --

[TV orNotTV] Re: Convention related late night stuff

2016-07-20 Thread JW
>> People were connecting the dots around 10:30 pm >> so I suppose the Late Show people could have >> whipped up something in an hour or so. Would it >> have been any good? >> Maybe 11:35 is too soon to be ready to comment >> fully on the crazy of the day. It certainly seems to be >> to soon for wh

[TV orNotTV] Re: John Hinckley to be released from psych facility

2016-07-28 Thread JW
> Which is to say that when you do see a report recommending > release, you have to give it some weight. It's always nice to hear stuff like this from people who know what they're talking about. Thank you. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you a

[TV orNotTV] Re: Sports/network news question

2016-07-29 Thread JW
I know that on Sundays in Pittsburgh, the CBS affiliate (KDKA-TV) puts the network news on at 6:00 and the local at 6:30, so that if sports run past 6, it's the national broadcast that gets shortened/cut first. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because y

[TV orNotTV] Re: LS vowel movement

2016-07-29 Thread JW
What am I missing here? Aren't Viacom and CBS parts of the same corporate structure? Why would Comedy Central care about Colbert-specific content going to CBS? -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not T

[TV orNotTV] Re: I tried watching the Olympics on NBC today

2016-08-08 Thread JW
Responding to a few things: > I guess the prime time is actually live on the east coast (we still get > treated like Donald Trump's pool boy out here on the west coast with a tape > delay)? According to this piece, which was linked in the Jenkins column, even us Easterners got the opening ceremon

[TV orNotTV] Re: NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-10 Thread JW
> The immediate thought that came to my mind as I read this: "What would ABC > have done had the Miracle On Ice been a 10-3 Russian blowout (which was the > score of the exhibition game played less than two weeks earlier)?" Maybe shown a couple of highlights, including goals by the plucky college

[TV orNotTV] Re: NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-11 Thread JW
> I would strongly disagree that they weren't building to that game. Here is > part of Jim McKay's introduction: There's a lot I don't remember 36 years later, like what time the US-USSR game actually started. If the second game started at 8:45, then the first game must have been very late, if not

[TV orNotTV] Re: New Trek will be a view from the proverbial gallery

2016-08-12 Thread JW
> Oh God, please don't let it be an empath. I sense that you don't like that idea. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To

[TV orNotTV] Re: Where's BriWi.ca when you need him?

2016-08-12 Thread JW
On Twitter, I saw a couple of references to CBC blowing the call, then this: https://twitter.com/FriedgeHNIC/status/763926803811409920 That's all anyone has to say in that situation. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the G

[TV orNotTV] Re: NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-12 Thread JW
> It was a 5:00 PM ET start, so the game was in the books when McKay went on > the air at 8:00. Both games were in the same rink, so they'd have had to > have time to reset the building for the nightcap. Thanks, Joe. I'll stand by my assertion that if the game had been another 10-3 Soviet win, it

[TV orNotTV] Re: NBC's Unforgivable Sin [Was: I tried watching the Olympics...]

2016-08-12 Thread JW
I just want to add my thanks here for the discussion of coverage outside the US. It's nice to get a look outside our bubble. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, se

[TV orNotTV] Re: Feds investigating hack of Leslie Jones' website

2016-08-25 Thread JW
> The internet is such a vast wasteland of racism and misogyny that I stopped > taking it seriously a long time ago Maybe you're hanging around the wrong places. "The internet," at heart, is a method of connecting computers. (Of course, "computers" now includes a wide variety of devices.) It allo

[TV orNotTV] Re: Wilmore sits with Colbert next week

2016-08-28 Thread JW
> I'm assuming they'll talk about more than the > novelty assortment of travel-sized liquor bottles > that The Late Show sent The Nightly Show > during the latter's last week. As reasonable as your assumption is, and as much as I'd also like to hear a serious discussion, I don't put it past the La

[TV orNotTV] Re: Wilmore sits with Colbert next week

2016-09-02 Thread JW
I'm happy to report that I was wrong, and Wilmore's visit to the Late Show was reasonably substantive. So now I'll complain that they've booked CBS News political director John Dickerson for Friday. If they recorded it Thursday night, there's a decent chance they'll miss something interesting duri

[TV orNotTV] Re: Wilmore sits with Colbert next week

2016-09-04 Thread JW
> It clearly was not taped Friday - lots of Lettermanesqye comments about > what a great Friday crowd... I don't really have a problem with taping Friday's show on Thursday, but they should be smart enough not put a guest whose appearance is likely to be out of date on the delayed show. The altern

[TV orNotTV] Re: Late Night Ratings and Costs [Was: Wilmore sits with Colbert...]

2016-09-05 Thread JW
Don't forget that Worldwide Pants was also being paid for the Late Late Show, probably with the same sort of mix of CBS and WWP employees that we're talking about for the Late Show. With CBS no longer paying those license fees, Moonves' claims about both shows being more profitable than they were m

[TV orNotTV] Re: Quickie Review: The Good Place

2016-09-27 Thread JW
> Somehow the point of this show certainly is > that nobody really belongs in The Good Place. It will be interesting to see how long they can keep plates spinning before they have to explain what's going on. As a limited 13-episode series, it could be really fascinating, but as an American network

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL pegs Baldwin as third Trump in 12 months

2016-10-05 Thread JW
> IIRC he wouldn't be the first to use that word. > Chris Rock used it earlier in an Update segment > where we heard his bit about the Redskins name > for the first time. I think you'd have to go back to Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase in Season 1 for the first use. -- -- TV or Not TV The Sm

[TV orNotTV] Re: Monday Night Football ratings down; what about NFL as a whole?

2016-10-06 Thread JW
Mike Mulvihill of Fox Sports tweeted this: NFL viewership trend through Week 4: Regionalized Windows CBS: -3% FOX: -3% National Windows TNF: -15% SNF: -13% MNF: -19% Apparently, people are still watching their local teams, but aren't as interested in the prime time games. That would seem to pu

[TV orNotTV] Re: Monday Night Football ratings down; what about NFL as a whole?

2016-10-10 Thread JW
This week's Monday Morning Quarterback features a section called "TV or not TV: That is the question" that discusses the election cycle. http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/10/10/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-returns-suspension-nfl-week-5 -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received

[TV orNotTV] Re: Sic or Dick?

2016-10-12 Thread JW
> I am smiling as I read this, but also, yes - this is a great illustration > of my point. What if my post above was for some reason quoted in an AP > story? I am writing here informally and quickly, wouldn't I feel like the > editor was a dick if they put [sic] after my mistaken it's? (Answer: yes

[TV orNotTV] Pidge's championship (was Re: This week's J! test )

2016-10-15 Thread JW
Dave, I'd like to add my congratulations to Pidge, and my condolences to you on now being the second-ranked Jeopardy! champion in the household. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To p

[TV orNotTV] Re: OT: My dad is gone

2016-10-15 Thread JW
Bob, I just got the digest, and I'd like to add my condolences. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from t

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL pegs Baldwin as third Trump in 12 months

2016-10-18 Thread JW
> It's not even close, really. She Who Will Not Be Named pioneered the > one-size-fits-all overplayed characterization... Cheri Oteri would like credit for her contributions. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

[TV orNotTV] Re: Will there be a Trump TV?

2016-10-27 Thread JW
Businessweek on the present and post-election future of the Trump campaign: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV

[TV orNotTV] Re: Give the Devil (Joe Buck) His Due

2016-10-31 Thread JW
FWIW, I enjoyed the first few innings when the game zipped along. When the game slowed down, though, I thought Fox added absolutely nothing, and the broadcast became interminable, even as the game itself remained close. Smoltz's insights are fine, but if he's still doing the job in ten years, we'l

[TV orNotTV] Re: Give the Devil (Joe Buck) His Due

2016-11-01 Thread JW
> Woe - you rode that one way off the cliff. It would take at least 30 years > of banal, inane and ill-timed observations and pseudo analysis for us to > get even half as sick of Smoltz as we were of McCarver. I don't know what the exact time frame is, especially since how often they're on the air

[TV orNotTV] Re: Any words on the Cubs' win?

2016-11-04 Thread JW
> By long tradition, if not black letter law, that relative strike zone has also > always been relative to the position of the umpire... "By long tradition," games ended when the sun went down, each league had its own umpiring staff, etc. Time marches on, and traditions change. Some of us may rue

[TV orNotTV] Re: Any words on the Cubs' win?

2016-11-06 Thread JW
> Technology now allows the game to be > officiated at a non-human level, where > time is slowed down, and margins are > so small they could not possibly influence > real time decisions by players or officials. There's a huge difference between players and officials. Nobody is paying/tuning in to

[TV orNotTV] Re: Any words on the Cubs' win?

2016-11-07 Thread JW
> All of the players and officials are color blind, but the TV > audience is not. In the game 99% of the balls are blue or red, but 1% are > green, so occasionally a team is "incorrectly" given points for scoring a > green ball. In such a scenario, would it really make sense to change the > scoring

[TV orNotTV] Re: TDS and @midnight live tonight

2016-11-10 Thread JW
> NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Late night TV was mostly preempted on Election > Night, but on Wednesday the hosts of late night returned with plenty > to say about the stunning election of Donald Trump Think anyone was waiting for Fallon's reaction? -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) Peopl

[TV orNotTV] Re: McKinnon & Chappelle: SNL Gets Election Right

2016-11-14 Thread JW
> I know there is some McKinnon hate here, but I think all but the deepest > Hillary-haters (and there may be more of those on the left than the right > these days) will have to give er credit for the cold open last night, which > managed to combine a sad good bye to Cohen with a nice coda for Hill

[TV orNotTV] Re: McKinnon & Chappelle: SNL Gets Election Right

2016-11-15 Thread JW
I'll assume that our collective lack of finding an appearance is accurate, and that Steve first saw Mr. Cohen on another show. When I saw the cold open, I recognized the song as Leonard Cohen, and didn't remember him doing SNL, although that's far enough from definitive that I confirmed it here. I

[TV orNotTV] Re: MNF question

2016-11-22 Thread JW
>From the 9/14/01 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. NFL postpones weekend's games: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tYVIIBAJ&sjid=f3ADIBAJ&pg=5176%2C1292307 jump: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tYVIIBAJ&sjid=f3ADIBAJ&pg=6619%2C1302734 Also on both pages: Pirate bus, which was

[TV orNotTV] Re: NFL's Chargers to LA

2017-01-14 Thread JW
>> I wonder if the NFL would allow some Chargers or Rams home games to be preempted for let's >> say a better game? > > Wouldn't be much trouble to get the NFL to agree. They don't care what game is on, as long as > there's a game on. > > The owners of the Rams and Chargers however, would never hea

[TV orNotTV] Re: Adios to PBS and NPR?

2017-01-27 Thread JW
> But a few weeks ago, that same PBS station replaced PBS World > (on one of its four subchannels) with PBS Kids 24/7. Are other PBS > stations doing this too? In Pittsburgh, WQED added the Kids subchannel. (Before Kids launched, they put the PBS feed on that subchannel, which was a welcome change

[TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Mike Connors

2017-01-27 Thread JW
> I was a huge Mannix fan as a kid. I don't remember being drawn to his > emotional involvement, but I do remember how striking it was to have an > African American actress in a pretty important role, and for the most part > how matter of factly they treated it. Mission:Impossible, which was also

[TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Mike Connors

2017-01-28 Thread JW
> I can check this myself - but what year did MTM start? 1970, so Mannix would have followed it that first year. The 70--71 schedule is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%E2%80%9371_United_States_network_television_schedule and has links to other years. Carol Burnett moved to Saturdays in 1

[TV orNotTV] "Costas passes torch to Tirico"

2017-02-09 Thread JW
Mike Tirico will be the primetime host of next year's Winter Olympics: http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/bob-costas-olympics-retiring-mike-tirico-1201982718/ (with video) http://www.today.com/news/bob-costas-pass-olympic-hosting-torch-mike-tirico-t107967 -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV)

[TV orNotTV] Re: RIP "Moonlighting" theme singer Al Jarreau

2017-02-13 Thread JW
Jarreau's other great TV contribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T-7NJQVRa4 -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To

[TV orNotTV] Re: Time shifting the Grammy Awards

2017-02-13 Thread JW
> Best pop vocal album is a minor award? It was given by 3:55 p.m. With all the categories that have awards, and with all the performances they want to include in the telecast, many important-seeming Grammys have to be handed out early. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You rece

[TV orNotTV] Re: small TV world....

2017-02-15 Thread JW
> When Trump beat Fallon last week... That's probably not what you meant to say, but it's more accurate than we might have thought. > My dirty secret is that after the election I was unable to watch much in > the way of late night television of any kind for several months... Colbert hasn't let u

[TV orNotTV] Re: Academy lays award mixup on acctg firm's shoulders

2017-03-01 Thread JW
> I just don't think it matters, though I suppose I > understand people's curiosity about it. No, it doesn't Matter, but many of us saw it, and it's something we can dissect without touching on genuinely important issues. It's the same reason that if you wanted to go into describing the "inside ba

[TV orNotTV] Re: Academy lays award mixup on acctg firm's shoulders

2017-03-02 Thread JW
> Why need two sets to handout anyway? I realise guest presenters come on > from either wing, but a single set could be used backstage and passed to > each presenter in turn. It would mean not being quite ready in both wings > at all times, but there must be backstage route from left to right wing.

[TV orNotTV] Re: Another week on top for Stephen

2017-03-04 Thread JW
>> Does any late night host do this well? That's the structure of guest >> interviews on all of the shows. I think Kimmel is a bit smoother at it but >> it doesn't feel natural for anybody. > > TV's Craig Ferguson spoiled me for eternity. I found that a lot of SCG's interviews just lay there. When

[TV orNotTV] Re: So long, Bill Webb

2017-03-09 Thread JW
"Webb’s fast-paced camera cuts, extreme close-ups of the intensity on players’ faces, and timely snapshots of passionate fans in the stands have become standard in any baseball game televised today." Sigh. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you a

[TV orNotTV] Re: American Sports Network is going out of business

2017-03-13 Thread JW
> Our local C-USA school (Marshall) beat writer > is reporting that ASN may soldier on with a > change in management structure. Further > details may emerge in the coming week. If you're in a C-USA market, that's probably a good thing. My ASN viewing, though, usually involves flipping by, figuring

[TV orNotTV] Re: SNL to live up to its name in a larger area

2017-03-17 Thread JW
> I have asked about this for years and have always been told NBC could not > do it because they wouldn't put "adult content" on before 10:00. Did st > change? My completely uninformed guess is that, especially in this age of social media, the network is willing to let SNL do its thing in prime ti

[TV orNotTV] Pelley's pronouncements [was, for some reason, Worst TV commercial ever?]

2017-03-27 Thread JW
> If the networks have not increased spending > on newsgathering resources over the next few years, > then it will be hard to argue that market forces have > resulted in more serious television news coverage; > but if they are spending 3 more minutes per night on > serious national coverage from th

[TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Dave's mom

2017-04-12 Thread JW
>From the Indianapolis Star: http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2017/04/12/mengering-letterman-olympics-carmel-cbs-mother-presbyterian-hofert/100361486/ Written by her children: http://www.indystar.com/story/entertainment/arts/2017/04/12/mengering-letterman-hofert-indianapolis-olym

[TV orNotTV] Re: ESPN to lay off 40 more on-air talents

2017-04-29 Thread JW
> Getting rid of Cowhered and Bayliss would balance out the harm done by > losing 500 talented employees... Both are actually now at Fox Sports. As you suggest, that was addition by subtraction on ESPN's part. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because y

[TV orNotTV] Guest hosts on Kimmel this week

2017-05-01 Thread JW
Jimmy did the show tonight and told this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmWWoMcGmo0 The schedule for the rest of the week: Tuesday: Host Will Arnett with guests Maya Rudolph, Ben McKenzie, Music from Incubus Wednesday: Host Anthony Anderson with guests George Lopez, Music from Future Thur

[TV orNotTV] Re: Stanley Cup question

2017-05-06 Thread JW
> I'm surprised that NBC doesn't use some of their big names on PBP, but > maybe they don't want to do that. They use experienced hockey announcers, instead. (Although Al Michaels has a famous hockey call on his resume, I have no idea when he last worked a hockey game.) -- -- TV or Not TV

[TV orNotTV] Re: Kurtz: Late night talk shows unfriendly to conservatives

2017-05-09 Thread JW
> It's almost like the right conveniently forgets all of Dave's Bill Clinton > jokes, which he continued to do right until the end. And what could be more leftist than having on Medal of Honor winners to tell their stories? -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this mes

[TV orNotTV] Re: IYC: The "Sharknado 5" pee-arr

2017-06-05 Thread JW
>>> HWCNBN... >> >> Faulty, perhaps, but not misleading. After all, How else could you >> differentiate him from He Who CAN Be Named? > > He who can be named is named, of course. Of course. I'm sure this thread is more entertaining than Sharknado 5. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) Pe

[TV orNotTV] Re: Report: Megyn Kelly's first NBC interview will be the Kardashians

2017-06-20 Thread JW
I haven't watched the segment, nor am I going to, but I did come across Matt Taibbi's appreciation of it: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/megyn-kelly- vivisects-bloated-conspiracy-hog-alex-jones-w488787 -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message be

[TV orNotTV] Re: Report: Megyn Kelly's first NBC interview will be the Kardashians

2017-06-20 Thread JW
I haven't watched the segment, nor am I going to, but I did come across Matt Taibbi's appreciation of it: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/megyn-kelly- vivisects-bloated-conspiracy-hog-alex-jones-w488787 -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message be

[TV orNotTV] Re: Colbert is New To You On Friday

2017-07-02 Thread JW
Harumph. If the monologue's new, I'll watch it, but once they start showing footage from previous episodes, I'm out. It's not worth sitting through material that didn't blow me away the first time in hopes that they'll sneak in something good. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! Yo

[TV orNotTV] Re: "Hawaii 5-0" coming back minus two original stars

2017-07-02 Thread JW
I'll repeat what I said when this version first went on the air. If it was "Honolulu Cops," I could watch it and judge it on its own merits. But when they call it "Five-O" and use the original character names, they have some obligation to the original. And from the bits and pieces I see from time t

[TV orNotTV] Re: "SET FOR LIFE" problems

2017-07-20 Thread JW
> The third problem was related to the second. I.e. > while I had the aspect ratio set to "SQUEEZED", small text > on the screen was very difficult to read. Unfortunately, > "SET FOR LIFE" displayed lots of small text. Compounding > that, "SET FOR LIFE" often displayed that small text for a > relat

[TV orNotTV] Re: Letterman with a Letterman impersonator

2017-07-27 Thread JW
> I think it has something to do with when he has being a Twitter > troll a few years ago, but regardless this was a hard interview to listen > to. I found that Norm was hard to understand for technical reasons, and that it was terrific to hear Dave again. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (

[TV orNotTV] Re: OT: LA radio

2017-08-05 Thread JW
> By sheer accident, I find myself sitting on a big story in the world of LA > radio, a shake-up in the on-air talent at one of the talk stations. Can you do a podcast episode about it? -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[TV orNotTV] Re: FOX Sports hires Michael Vick as a studio analyst

2017-08-27 Thread JW
Reading the Variety article, I noticed two things: 1. Vick will be on the pre-pregame show. 2. Variety needs to upgrade its copy editing. Focusing on the TV part, it will be easy for those who want to watch football but avoid Vick to do so. While I happen to agree with PGage here, I respect that

[TV orNotTV] Re: RIP Richard Anderson

2017-09-01 Thread JW
> Wow - he was one of those people who was on TV *constantly* in the sixties > and seventies. Kind of like William Schallert, except I don't think > Anderson did much comedy. Exactly. As you and Bob both mentioned, all those classic series that are now on the sideband channels seem to include Ande

[TV orNotTV] Re: Hilarious House of Frightenstein

2017-09-09 Thread JW
I'll settle for Monster Chiller Horror Theater. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send e

[TV orNotTV] Re: Why did FOX switch to The Orville before the game ended?

2017-09-18 Thread JW
As I understand it, the rules are: The primary game, which is the one that the506 has on the map, will be shown to its conclusion.* If it's a lopsided enough game (there are official criteria), the network can switch to another, more competitive, game, which they'll show to its conclusion. If the

[TV orNotTV] Re: (TVBarn) ex-Chief back to the beat

2017-09-28 Thread JW
Aaron will always be the Chief here. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvo

[TV orNotTV] Re: CBS to sell Television City?

2017-10-01 Thread JW
> after all, Ed kept saying "Hollywood" every night at the top of the " Tonight > Show" even if they were in Burbank Often, Johnny would then go on to explain how they were actually in Burbank, so he could joke about the age of the residents, or refer to "Burbank's famed Restaurant Row." -- --

[TV orNotTV] Re: #Napafire (NotTV)

2017-10-12 Thread JW
> It is hard to tell from my vantage point if this is being covered much on > national TV. It's leading the network newscasts. They may be using local Bay Area reporters, but they're certainly covering it. Stay safe, etc. I'd think you'd be able to smell if some of the perishable food had perishe

[TV orNotTV] Re: He shook four hands -- and one of them was mine.

2017-10-26 Thread JW
That's really cool, Melissa. If you don't mind my asking, how much were tickets? -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To un

[TV orNotTV] Re: He shook four hands -- and one of them was mine.

2017-10-27 Thread JW
> Ha! I rarely respond to email so quickly, but I'm leaving on a trip this > morning, and it's a pain to type on an iPad. > > The answer's a bit complicated Thanks, and enjoy the trip. -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to

[TV orNotTV] Re: Controversy over Larry David SNL monologue

2017-11-06 Thread JW
> The best part of the episode was the sketch on giving an award to an old ad > guys whose old material was so offensive; that was hilarious and had some > texture to it. As someone old enough to remember those days, I was struck by how no ad, even then, would have used the taglines that offended

[TV orNotTV] Re: NFL switchin' Saints, among others

2017-11-17 Thread JW
> I do notice that a lot of times a station will show the 4:05 game, so they > won't compete with the home team, even if the home team is lousy. Any > reason for that? If it's a home game, there can't be another game on by rule. Even for road games, local team ratings crush other games, even for b

[TV orNotTV] Assigning NFL games

2017-11-19 Thread JW
A New York Times piece on how markets get games: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/sports/football/why-people-in-mississippi-have-to-watch-the-giants.html -- -- TV or Not TV The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not T

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