[TV orNotTV] AMC Networks Buys Out BBC from BBCA

2024-11-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
The channel founded by the Beeb's for-profit arm (now known as BBC Studios) and Discovery in 1999 as presenting the full spectrum of British television other than the costume dramas and mysteries that PBS dotes on got complaints from expats in its early years for an overreliance on what the Bri

Re: [TV orNotTV] UK detectives closing in on Russell Brand

2024-11-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
er of "Don'cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me/Don'cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me"). But Broadway is not exactly warm to people on the pop charts and reality TV. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 12:20 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVo

[TV orNotTV] CBS Back Fives (!) 'NCIS Origins,' 'Poppa's House'

2024-11-08 Thread Mark Jeffries
The "NCIS" prequel and the Wayans' sitcom did not get a full back nine from the Eye, like "Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage" and the "Matlock" whatever (and that got a second season), but it's considered a full season under Bizzaro World TV 2024: https://www.thewrap.com/ncis-origins-poppas-ho

Re: [TV orNotTV] NFL flexing in two weeks

2024-11-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
This is the night that Fallon is scheduled to do a show after the game and the late news, and that he was supposed to shoot a remote segment at Giants Stadium, but I guess now he won't do that. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 11:03 AM 'Bob Jersey'

[TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: New Eastwood Movie Meant for Max All Along

2024-11-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
In the midst of the criticism over the token release for awards consideration of Clint Eastwood's probably-final film as a director "Juror No. 2" last weekend by Warner Bros., THR now says that the film was intended for being a Max original from the beginning with Eastwood's approval and will b

[TV orNotTV] NBC Gives Trump Equal Time for Harris 'SNL' Appearance

2024-11-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
A one-minute message from the former President to camera saying that a Harris Administration would cause a depression ran on both NBC's NASCAR coverage and Sunday Night Football as a response to the Vice President's 90-second appearance in the "SNL" cold open where she talked to Maya Rudolph pl

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: CBS not living up to its Wheel/Jeopardy! deal: Sony

2024-11-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
And their response must be in the form of a question. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Sun, Nov 3, 2024 at 7:52 PM Stan S wrote: > Will Sony accept a cash settlement or would they prefer a Service > Merchandise gift certificate? > > -Stan > > On Friday, November 1,

[TV orNotTV] 'LA Law"s Douglas Brackman Dies at 82

2024-11-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
Alan Rachins played the scion of the law firm in the long-running series for the entire 13-year run and also played Dharma's dad in "Dharma and Greg," along with many film and theater credits--heart failure: https://www.thewrap.com/alan-rachins-l-a-law-and-dharma-greg-actor-dies-at-82/ -- You

[TV orNotTV] Disney+ Gets Into Countdown Mode

2024-10-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
Disney+ was the only major streamer not to offer on their home page a daily list of most-watched programs on their service, but that's changed--however, while everybody else in a country gets the same list on the other streamers (top 10, often one list for movies, one list for TV shows, Amazon

[TV orNotTV] Grammys Move to ABC, Disney+ in 2027

2024-10-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
After over 50 years on CBS (where the awards were live for the first time--NBC aired an annual taped variety special featuring Grammy winners performing called "The Best on Record" in the 60s), the Grammys will move to Walt's place in 2027 and simulcast on ABC and Disney+ (with a next day on H

[TV orNotTV] 'Georgie and Mandy' First Back 9 of Fall Season

2024-10-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
The CBS "Young Sheldon" spinoff "Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage" gets a full 22-ep season, continuing Chuck Lorre's winning streak at the Eye: https://www.thewrap.com/georgie-and-mandys-first-marriage-full-season-order-cbs/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goog

[TV orNotTV] Details of BriWI's Election Night Coverage for Amazon

2024-10-29 Thread Mark Jeffries
It will originate from LA starting at 5 p.m. ET on Nov. 5, will not have a decision desk but will report when the networks and the AP call races, will have Shep Smith at Harris' HQ and Puck's Tara Palmeri at Trump's HQ, with video from the AP, numbers from Reuters and contributions from Axios, P

[TV orNotTV] 'Simpsons' Characters Play MNF on DIS+, ESPN+ Dec.9--Worst Gimmick Ever!

2024-10-29 Thread Mark Jeffries
In the footsteps of last year's Jacksonville-Atlanta game in London real-time animated as if "Toy Story" characters were playing it, the MNF simulcast of the Cincinnati-Dallas game will be presented as if it was being played in Springfield, with CGI versions of Our Favorite Family--Bart on the

[TV orNotTV] MAGA Wack Job Threatens Medhi Hasan, Gets Kicked Off of CNN

2024-10-29 Thread Mark Jeffries
One Ryan Girdusky, a political consultant and contributor to conservative publications whose resume includes working for white supremacist Richard Spencer and appearing on the podcast of Proud Boys founder Gavin MacInnes, was on Abby Phillip's show on CNN on a panel discussing the Trump debacle

[TV orNotTV] Guy Who Sang 'Love Boat' Theme Dies at 86

2024-10-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
Old school crooner Jack Jones, the son of romantic tenor ("Donkey Serenade") and movie star Alan Jones and veteran character woman Irene Hervey, won two Grammys in the 60s for his recordings of "Wives and Lovers" and "The Impossible Dream" (back when the Grammys were designed to spit in the fac

[TV orNotTV] Stewart's 2nd 'TDS' Farewell (?) Live on Election Night?

2024-10-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
There will be an extended length live edition of "TDS" at 11 p.m. ET on Nov. 5 (around an hour, in the same way the show is currently around a half-hour--when all you have after it is "Family Guy" and "Office" reruns...), to be roadblocked on Paramount's zombie channels, and could it be Stewar

[TV orNotTV] Hallmark Calling Their Movie Stars 'Too Old'

2024-10-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
In an age discrimination suit brought by 79-year-old former Hallmark Channel casting director Penny Perry, she claims that Hallmark's programming VP Lisa Hamilton Daly told her that she didn't want "old people" starring in their movies, including channel mainstays Holly Robinson Peete (60) and

[TV orNotTV] TV's First Tarzan Dies at 86

2024-10-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
Ron Ely's "Tarzan" was a more urbane king of the jungle who never said "me Tarzan you Jane" (there was no Jane in his 1966-68 NBC series)--feeling typed by the role, he was able to make other TV and film roles (most notably bringing Doc Savage to the big screen in 1975), hosted the 1980-81 game

[TV orNotTV] Bally Sports Now FanDuel Sports--Hoo Boy

2024-10-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
As of this week, the regional sports channels owned by the ailing Diamond Sports Group owned in part by Sinclair Broadcast Group are rebranding from Bally (as in the casino chain) to FanDuel (as in the gambling app), with FanDuel TV programs airing in some of the time between game telecasts: ht

[TV orNotTV] Fallon to Do Sun. 'Tonight' on Nov. 17

2024-10-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
Following the Jets-Indianapolis game on Sunday Night Football and the local news--it will be recorded before the game, but he'll probably record something that says each team won--guests scheduled are Jon Hamm, Lindsay Lohan and Pharrell Williams (to promote "Piece by Piece" going to Peacock?):

[TV orNotTV] Former NBC Exec Apologizes for Donald Trump

2024-10-18 Thread Mark Jeffries
John MIller, marketing chief at NBC for 25 years, apologizes in the current U.S. News for making people think that Trump was a great businessman in promoting "The Apprentice" and helping to make him well-known enough outside of Page Six readers to be where he is now: https://www.usnews.com/opin

[TV orNotTV] 'Project Runway' Moves to Freeform

2024-10-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
The venerable fashion reality comp started on Bravo, moved to Lifetime briefly, moved back to Bravo when original owners the Weinstein Company (yeah, that Weinstein) sold the format and now will go to Disney's ailing channel (won't be seen in NY or LA because those are Charter Spectrum cities)

[TV orNotTV] Entertainer MItzi Gaynor Dies at 93

2024-10-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
The leggy triple-threat starred in a bunch of movie musicals in the 50s, the most successful being 1958's "South Pacific," where she played Nellie Forbush, but became better known in the 60s and 70s for her Las Vegas appearances and a series of lavish variety specials, most of them on CBS, whic

[TV orNotTV] ABC Forced to Run Wack Job Ad for Third-Party Presidential Candidate

2024-10-12 Thread Mark Jeffries
Thursday (and supposedly yesterday, according to the YouTube description), ABC ran an ad during the last commercial break on "The View" for anti-abortion nutcase and presidential candidate Randall Terry (on the ballot in 12 states), with a disclaimer before and after the ad stating that federal

[TV orNotTV] ABC Monday Night Lineup Moved to Winter for More MNF

2024-10-11 Thread Mark Jeffries
The Alphabet will be simulcasting six more games with ESPN than originally announced, moving Pat Sajak's farewell-I-really-mean-it-this-time-no-kidding to the "Wheel of Fortune" franchise ("Celebrity Wheel"), "Press Your Luck" and the news department's new true-crimer "Scamanda" to mid-season,

[TV orNotTV] Mulaney to Do Live Weekly Talk Show for Netflix

2024-10-11 Thread Mark Jeffries
After the success of his live "Everybody's in LA" series this past summer, it's no surprise that the Service is asking him to do a weekly series, scheduled to start early next year--no indication of livestream time or where he's going to do it: https://www.thewrap.com/john-mulaney-netflix-new-t

[TV orNotTV] Jinkies! 'Velma' Gone at Max

2024-10-10 Thread Mark Jeffries
The animated attempt by Mindy Kaling to take a new look at the "Scooby-Doo" character (including coming right out and saying that she's a lesbian).was not liked by the hardcore adult fans of the franchise (didn't help that it was presented as a prequel before the Meddling Kids met up with That D

[TV orNotTV] Hensons Not Selling Studios to Scientlogists or Anyone Else

2024-10-07 Thread Mark Jeffries
Certain blogs have been claiming that the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios, currently owned by the Jim Henson Company, was being sold to the Church of Scientology (who already owns the former lot of PBS station KCET, which was the lot of B picture maker Monogram before then)--the Henson family

[TV orNotTV] 'That 90s Show' Done at Netflix

2024-10-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
The update of the 1998-2006 Fox sitcom "That 70s Show" only ran two seasons (with the second season divided in half, as Netflix often does), possibly because the streamer audience doesn't respond very much to multi-cam sitcoms: https://www.thewrap.com/that-90s-show-canceled-on-netflix-after-2-s

[TV orNotTV] Daddy Zaslav Math: Wrestling = NBA

2024-10-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
Still hurting from the misbegotten decision to let the NBA package fly out of their hands to Amazon, Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it has extended its relationship with All Elite Wrestling (the promotion that isn't the WWE), with the weekly TBS and TNT programs to be also streamed

[TV orNotTV] Trump Won't Do '60 Minutes' Interview

2024-10-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
Scott Pelley was supposed to interview him for a broadcast ("60 Minutes" is probably the last place at CBS News that still considers itself a "broadcast," as Bill Paley preferred that over "program" or "show") scheduled for this Monday night in which Vice President Harris will be interviewed se

Re: [TV orNotTV] Spirit Halloween claps back at SNL bit

2024-10-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
And I have the feeling the people who run Spirit are almost as old as Lorne and about as hip as some people think "SNL" is these days. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:46 AM PGage wrote: > Aside from Weekend Update (which I thought was first rat

Re: [TV orNotTV] Oliver miffed at HBO for delaying Youtube posting of his main stories

2024-10-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
As he said under the previous management when HBO Max didn't have "90-Day Fiance" or "Dr. Pimple Popper," "HBO Max--it's not HBO, it's TV." Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:34 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV <

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tim Allen's next sitcom trades in execs

2024-09-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
Somebody said that one of the secrets behind "Modern Family"'s success was that they were doing a one-camera mockumentary and still hitting a punchline every 15 seconds like a multicam. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 3:38 PM Kevin M. wrote: >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Tim Allen's next sitcom trades in execs

2024-09-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
s, while the kids are all watching that show on Hulu about the restaurant in Chicago that claims that it's a sitcom and has no punchlines on purpose. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 10:08 AM Tom Wolper wrote: > This is one of those series that will go to ai

[TV orNotTV] Glor Gone at CBS in Paramount Bloodbath

2024-09-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
Jeff Glor, the CBS News reporter who anchored the "Evening News" between Scott Pelley and Norah O'Donnell, is one of over 2,000 Paramount Global employees laid off yesterday as they try to get their financial house in order before handing it over to the Ellisons--as far as we know, he's the onl

[TV orNotTV] Mr. McMahon Not Happy About Netflix Doc

2024-09-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
Vince McMahon, who took his family's small regional wrestling promotion into the WWE worldwide "sports entertainment" juggernaut, is not happy about the docuseries about him that Netflix will drop tomorrow, claiming that it gives the impression that the "Mr. McMahon" evil character he plays in

[TV orNotTV] Re: memories of that first SNL episode in ’75 with Lorraine Santoli – brioux.tv

2024-09-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
It just happens that the "60 Minutes" podcast "A Second Look" is also devoting this week to the 2004 episode where they filmed a lot of the action at 30 Rock for the week up to the telecast (they lucked out and got the week Ashlee Simpson was musical guest--say no more). We hear bigger chunks o

[TV orNotTV] Bee Back for Beast

2024-09-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
Samantha Bee, MIA since TBS dropped "Full Frontal," will return in what is the official podcast of the Daily Beast website, co-hosting with Beast chief content officer and Brit Joanna Coles and interviewing guests--the first weekly episode drops Thursday wherever you get your podcasts, includin

[TV orNotTV] 'Golden Bachelorette' Contestant Hit With Restraining Order by Ex-GF

2024-09-22 Thread Mark Jeffries
The same week that it was discovered that the winner of this year's "Bachelorette" had been arrested for breaking into his ex-girlfriend's home, it's been discovered that 60-year-old alleged educator Gil Martinez, a contestant on the current "Golden Bachelorette" (who did get a rose in last Wed

[TV orNotTV] Oh Crap: Major YouTube Advertisers See Their Ads Placed in Front of Rightwing Wackoness

2024-09-20 Thread Mark Jeffries
For example, Adobe and Mazda--and the campaign of Vice President Harris--have seen their ads being dropped in front of videos starring nut job rightwing bloggers repeating Vance's disproven claims about Haitian immigrants munching on roast Fido and sauteed Puff--and they're not happy about that

[TV orNotTV] Hannity Producer Fired for Alleged Sexual Harrassment

2024-09-19 Thread Mark Jeffries
Robert Samuel had been with Fox News for 20 years, working for Billo before moving to Hannity's show, where he's been the last five years, but according to Brian Seltzer's revived "Reliable Sources" newsletter, he's gone: https://www.thewrap.com/fox-news-fires-hannity-executive-producer-sexual-

[TV orNotTV] New Chicago Sports Channel to Be Over-the-Air

2024-09-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
Chicago Sports Network, the joint venture between the White Sox, Bulls and Blackhawks and Standard Media that is replacing NBC Sports Chicago (which goes off after the Sox end their season on Sept. 30), will be primarily distributed through the subchannels of WJYS, a religious station licensed

Re: [TV orNotTV] Have I Got News for You

2024-09-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
hope that for the Missing Words round they will start doing the "guest publications" like the UK version, which are usually journals like the "Poultry Raisers' Gazette." And I guess I'll look up on Max the Anderson Cooper show on misinformation that followed "HIGN

Re: [TV orNotTV] Re: Colbert Thursday Sept 12 taping

2024-09-14 Thread Mark Jeffries
Thursday. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 7:34 AM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Yeah, we'll know shortly from Sue T when ol' Englishman in NY'll air... > Bridges and the cooking thingie aired

[TV orNotTV] Venu Won't Launch for at Least Another Year...

2024-09-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
A trial date has been set for the antitrust suit brought by the streamer Fubo against Disney, Fox and Warners for their proposed sports streamer Venu Sports of Oct. 6, 2025, meaning that Venu's launch may not happen until 2026--if at all: https://www.thewrap.com/venu-sports-fubo-antitrust-tria

[TV orNotTV] UNI Anchor Leaving After 38 Years

2024-09-10 Thread Mark Jeffries
Jorge Ramos has been anchoring "Noticiero Univision" on the Spanish-language network since 1986, has interviewed many world leaders and was thrown out of a Trump press conference in 2015 for pissing him off--he will continue to anchor until after the election and will leave the net at the end o

[TV orNotTV] Kimmel: 'No Future' in Late Night

2024-09-10 Thread Mark Jeffries
In meeting the press after winning a Creative Arts Emmy for hosting the Oscars and asked about East Coast Jimmy's one less show a week, West Coast Jimmy quoted the Sex Pistols: https://deadline.com/2024/09/jimmy-kimmel-late-night-oscars-hosting-creative-arts-emmys-1236081552/?utm_source=www.stat

Re: [TV orNotTV] IYC: Creative Arts Emmys

2024-09-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
"Only Murders in the Building." They got to this point with two Grammys, two Tonys and one Oscar ("City of Stars" from "La La Land"). Their collaborators on the song, Marc Shaiman and Scott Willman, are one Oscar away from an EGOT (they already have Emmys). Mark Jeffries

[TV orNotTV] DirecTV Files FCC Complaint, Accuses Disney of 'Bad Faith' in Negotiations

2024-09-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Basically, barring an 11:59 p.m. surprise, no way in hell will DirecTV subscribers see Monday Night Football (or, in many cities, Seacrest's first night on "Wheel of Fortune") tonight: https://www.thewrap.com/directv-fcc-complaint-disney-negotiations/ -- You received this message because you a

[TV orNotTV] 'We're Here'--Not: HBO Cancels Drag Queen Show

2024-09-07 Thread Mark Jeffries
The unscripted series where drag queens, all veterans of "RuPaul's Drag Race," visit rural communities and small towns to confront and combat prejudice, is ending on HBO after four seasons and many awards, including a Peabody (and generally "Peabody Award" and "reality show" are not in the same

[TV orNotTV] Re: YouTube suspends Russian propaganda account

2024-09-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
Meanwhile, the Russians say they are going to go after US media: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-will-target-us-media-response-move-against-rt-2024-09-05/ Nothing like a bunch of rightwingers throwing around "the military-industrial complex" like they're Amy Goodman or someth

[TV orNotTV] '9-1-1 Lone Star' Starting Last Season at Fox

2024-09-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
The spinoff of "9-1-1," once owned by the network, is now owned by Disney (through 20th Television) and there just isn't the interest in shows that aren't owned at least in part by the network and aren't animation, sports or unscripted--the upcoming fifth season will be the last and no indicatio

[TV orNotTV] Presidential Debate Rules: Mikes on Mute, Strict Time Limits, No Audience

2024-09-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
Pretty much same as last time on CNN when it was Biden v. Trump, ABC's producing it but it will be on all terrestrial networks except The CW (some CW affiliates may carry it), news cable channels and news streamers Tuesday night (unless Trump succeeds to get out of it): https://www.thewrap.com/

[TV orNotTV] 'CBS Mornings' Gets Third Hour (Sorta)

2024-09-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
The third hour of the Eye's morning show, titled "CBS Mornings Plus" (I didn't want to do the salute to the opening of "Password Plus" this time), will air at 9 a.m. starting Sept. 30 on KCBS Los Angeles, WBBM Chicago, KPIX San Francisco, WWJ Detroit and WFOR Miami, along with the CBS News stre

[TV orNotTV] Barney's Back (Oh Boy)

2024-09-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
The notorious purple dinosaur is back, this time as a CGI animated character in a CGI world (this time there won't be future stars in his young charges like Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato in the original "Barney and Friends") on the new series "Barney's World," dropping Oct. 14 on Max and then ma

Re: [TV orNotTV] Dancing With The Trash

2024-09-05 Thread Mark Jeffries
Alright Adam--in your neck in the woods would "Strictly Come Dancing" be desperate enough to book the UK equivalent of Sorokin? Would the BBC allow it? On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 7:47 AM Tom Wolper wrote: > I don’t know why anybody bothers writing satire anymore. > > On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 1:25 AM K

Re: [TV orNotTV] DirecTV cuts off die Maus

2024-09-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
as a subscriber to what is now known as the Paramount+ with Showtime linear channel, I should get Par+ with Showtime streaming for no extra cost. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 8:05 PM PGage wrote: > All of that makes a certain kind of sense, and seems just about >

[TV orNotTV] Ellen's Swan Song on Netflix Sept. 24

2024-09-04 Thread Mark Jeffries
DeGeneres says that the standup special "For Your Approval" will deal with the alleged toxic workplace on her talk show that more or less caused what she calls "being kicked out of show business," although the question remains why she chose to do her show with the Warner Bros./Telepictures exec

[TV orNotTV] Netflix Top 10 Movies 8/30

2024-09-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
Haven't received one of these in a while, these are just movies and not television series, in Casey Kasem order: 10. 23 BLAST--2014 sports tearjerker inspired by the story of Travis Freeman, a teenager who continues to play football despite losing his sight--Stephen Lang and soap actress Kim Z

[TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Trump Movie Coming Out Before Election

2024-09-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
"The Apprentice," the biopic about the Republican candidate for president's relationship with the notorious Roy Cohn (played by Sebastian Stan and "Succession"'s Jeremy Strong) which has nothing to do with the reality comp that has been alleged of being the linchpin to why the easily deluded th

[TV orNotTV] NoTV: Chicago Rightwing Talk Hosts Pay for Mocking Walz's Son

2024-08-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
Last Thursday on Salem-owned rightwing talk WIND in Chicago, "The Morning Answer" ("The Answer" is Salem's branding for their rightwing talkers) hosts Dan Proft and Amy Jacobson were just having a good old time mocking Gus Walz's "That's my dad!" response to his dad Tim's speech at the Democrat

Re: [TV orNotTV] Glaser Your Golden Globes Roast--Uh, Host

2024-08-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
In the case of Koy, it wasn't just the racists who complained. And yeah, I know she was probably kidding. And if things don't go well, particularly in the ratings, this could be the last time CBS will carry the Globes. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 4

[TV orNotTV] Glaser Your Golden Globes Roast--Uh, Host

2024-08-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
After last year's debacle with Jo Koy, Ricky Kushner and Glenn Weiss (just off their success putting together the Democratic National Convention), who are producing the Golden Globes for Dick Clark Productions, have hired roaster Nikki Glaser, the star of the Netflix Tom Brady roast, to front th

[TV orNotTV] Amazon MGM Out of Unscripted Business?

2024-08-28 Thread Mark Jeffries
The Wrap claims that Amazon MGM is considering selling its unscripted division, which is interesting considering that Amazon Prime and Freevee are upping their reality and game show catalog, which already includes their joint venture with Fox and the BBC's for profit division "The 1% Club" and

[TV orNotTV] Gaza War Protesters Interrupt Pelosi Interview on Colbert

2024-08-21 Thread Mark Jeffries
Nancy Pelosi was being interviewed on Colbert last night live from Chicago's 4,000-seat Auditorium Theatre, where the upper balcony gives you the view of dots on the stage, when some Gaza war protester starts screaming at her while she's talking--Colbert stops the interview and tosses to a comm

[TV orNotTV] Meyers Will Do Prime Time 'Closer Look' After Presidential Debate

2024-08-21 Thread Mark Jeffries
It will follow the Harris/Trump debate on NBC on Sept. 10 and will be Seth's first extended version of his trademark "Late Night" segment since the 2020 elections, when he did a half-hour special edition: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/seth-meyers-closer-look-nbc-primetime-special-

[TV orNotTV] Ladies, Netflix and Google Can Help You Look Like 'Emily in Paris'

2024-08-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
In the first deal of this kind since Netflix started its ad tier, Google will become the sponsor of the much-mocked sitcom that dropped the first half of Season 4 this week, with the possibility of all Netflix subscribers being able to use Google Lens to shop for the clothes Phil Collins' nepo

[TV orNotTV] Court Blocks Launch of 'Sports Hulu'

2024-08-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
A US District judge has granted an injunction request from sports streamer Fubo for the launch of the Fox/Disney/WBD streamer Venu Sports, saying that it would lessen competition in accordance with antitrust laws--Venu's principals are planning an appeal: https://www.thewrap.com/fubo-venu-sport

[TV orNotTV] 'Master of the Hollywood Squares' Dies at 98

2024-08-16 Thread Mark Jeffries
Although Peter Marshall's career encompassed Broadway, movies, TV and radio, he is undoubtedly best known as the straight man to the tic-tac-toe board panelists on "Hollywood Squares" during its original 15-year run on NBC daytime and syndication--his stint as the straight man to comedian Tommy

[TV orNotTV] 'SNL' Producer (Not Lorne) Dies at 78

2024-08-14 Thread Mark Jeffries
Bob Tischler had worked as a producer on National Lampoon projects and the Blues Brothers albums when Dick Ebersol brought him in after the disastrous Jean Doumanian season of "SNL" to be showrunner with the mercurial Michael O'Donoghue, who pushed for the show to be more risky--he became sole

[TV orNotTV] Paramount Global Shuts Down Paramount TV Studios

2024-08-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
No big surprise here, considering the cutbacks at Par and the fact that they own two other TV production houses in CBS Studios (the "NCIS" franchise and other hit CBS shows) and MTV Entertainment Studios (the Tyler Sheridan-verse), while Paramount TV's only hits "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" and "Re

[TV orNotTV] Netflix to Start Weekly Live Psychic Crap

2024-08-13 Thread Mark Jeffries
"Live from the Other Side," where the former subject of E!'s "Celebrity Medium" Tyler Henry will conduct readings with what will probably be D-list celebrities, will stream on Tuesdays at 6 p.m. ET (weird time) starting Sept. 17: https://www.thewrap.com/live-from-the-other-side-tyler-henry-netf

[TV orNotTV] SemiNoTV: Apple Switches Clooney/Pitt Movie to AppleTV+

2024-08-10 Thread Mark Jeffries
"Wolfs," Apple's actioner starring George Clooney and Brad PItt, was to have had a wide theatrical opening distributed by Sony on Aug. 27, but noting that Apple's previous wide theatrical releases have not done well at the box office (with the possible exception of the first, Martin Scorsese's

[TV orNotTV] Half of Comedy Duo Who Had to Follow the Beatles on Sullivan Dies at 93

2024-08-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
The comedy duo of Mitzi McCall and Charlie Brill had their big television debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show" on Feb. 9, 1964--the same show where four lovable moptops from Liverpool made their American television debut--and the two of them had to follow a Beatles song with the girls in the studio

[TV orNotTV] Cartoon Network Website Shut Down, Viewers Told to Go to Max

2024-08-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
This follows Warner Bros. Discovery's announced Sept. 30 shutdown of the streaming version of sister channel Boomerang and Paramount shutting down several cable channel websites earlier this year--the phone app or streaming apps are still available, along with their social media accounts (inclu

[TV orNotTV] Martin: I Won't Do Walz on 'SNL'

2024-08-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
Steve Martin may be a wild and crazy guy, but when Lorne asked him to do the Vice Presidential candidate on "SNL," his response was "I'm not an impressionist": https://www.thewrap.com/steve-martin-tim-walz-snl-role/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[TV orNotTV] Disney May Have to Cough Up $5B More to Buy Out Comcast from Hulu

2024-08-09 Thread Mark Jeffries
The Mouse House paid $8.6B in December as a starting payment to buy out Comcast's one-third share of the streamer, in full valued then at $27.5B--however, the companies since then have disagreed over the value and an arbitrator has been hired to decide with Disney's appraiser saying it's worth

[TV orNotTV] Video Game Influencer Bribes Trump, 500K Idiots Watch

2024-08-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
Adin Ross, who first achieved Internet fame playing video games for the public and was kicked off of Amazon's Twitch for homophobic remarks, went to Mar-A-Lago Monday and handed Orangina a new Rolex and a new Tesla truck with "Make America Great Again" on the hood and the picture of Orangina wa

[TV orNotTV] Broadcasting & Cable Magazine Dead

2024-08-06 Thread Mark Jeffries
"The Newsmagazine of the Fifth Estate," started in 1931 and known simply as Broadcasting for most of its history, was a regular presence in almost every radio and TV station in America and a place where broadcasters looking for jobs perused its want ads and where every FCC decision and license

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'SNL' Movie Coming Out on 50th Anniversary of Premiere

2024-08-03 Thread Mark Jeffries
aving "SNL" in other hands to sink or swim. If, if, if... Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 9:05 AM PGage wrote: > Totally agree with the criticism of the Comedy Cult of Personality they > have over there. It’s not that he has a crappy sense of humor, bu

[TV orNotTV] Lemon Sues Musk for Dropping Deal for Videos on X

2024-08-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon had made a handshake deal with looney Elon to produce videos to run on X, but when he invited Musk to be his first guest in March and asked him some questions about his drug use and politics, Musk cancelled the deal, later making statements that it was what he did at

[TV orNotTV] Beeb Pulls 'Doctor Who' Episode With Disgraced News Anchor

2024-08-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
A 2006 episode from the second David Tennant/Billie Piper series of the beloved SF show has been pulled from the BBC's iPlayer streaming service because of an appearance by disgraced former news anchor Huw Edwards, although it seems only his voice is heard describing something happening at the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Underwood Replacing Perry on 'Idol' Panel

2024-08-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
I happened to see "Death Becomes Her" in its Chicago tryout and it's a fun show. I should mention that a lot of the crowd at the matinee I was at was there to see former Destiny's Child Michelle Williams (of course, not the "Dawson's Creek" Michelle Williams), who almost steals the show from Meg

[TV orNotTV] Just 2 More Seasons of 'Squid Game' Original on Netflix

2024-08-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
The South Korean dystopian futurefest, a surprise international hit for Netflix that spun off a reality comp version, will have its second season premiere on Dec. 26 (Merry Christmas!) on the service, with a third and final season sometime next year: https://www.thewrap.com/squid-game-ending-se

[TV orNotTV] 'BSG' Reboot Called Off at Peacock

2024-08-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
The second reboot of "Battlestar Galactica," from Sam Esmail ("Mr. Robot"), had been announced in 2019 as a charter series for the streamer, but little work had been done since and the show is not cast yet--Universal's cable/streaming shingle UCP will pitch elsewhere: https://variety.com/2024/t

[TV orNotTV] Underwood Replacing Perry on 'Idol' Panel

2024-08-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
Carrie Underwood, the second most successful alum of the OG music reality comp after Kelly Clarkson, will take Katy Perry's spot on the judges' panel when the new season starts in the spring, the first panel change since the show moved to ABC seven years ago: https://www.thewrap.com/carrie-unde

[TV orNotTV] Jost to Host 'Jeopardy! for Dummies'

2024-08-01 Thread Mark Jeffries
That is the pejorative some have labeled "Pop Culture Jeopardy!," a spinoff for Amazon Prime Video of the venerable quizzer with a team tournament format and none of that book learnin' stuff--Colin Jost of "SNL"'s Weekend Update and sleeping most nights with ScarJo will host and production will

Re: [TV orNotTV] 'SNL' Movie Coming Out on 50th Anniversary of Premiere

2024-07-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
ill not retire, although I would think the 50th anniversary would be a good time), the show dies too, because it's become too expensive for NBC and like everything else in television, it's not generating the revenue it used to. Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.co

[TV orNotTV] 'SNL' Movie Coming Out on 50th Anniversary of Premiere

2024-07-31 Thread Mark Jeffries
What was called "SNL 1975" is now called "Saturday Night" (the original title of the series--well, technically "NBC's Saturday Night"), but it's still Jason Reitman's telling of the hours before that first telecast--and Sony will release it to theaters on Oct. 11, 50 years to the day of the ser

[TV orNotTV] Veteran BBC Anchor Accused of Kiddie Pron

2024-07-30 Thread Mark Jeffries
Huw Edwards, a veteran of 40 years with the Beeb and anchor of what was "The 10 O'Clock News" and now is "BBC News at Ten" (even if ITV's newscast has been "News at Ten" for decades) and event coverage, mysteriously left the pubcaster in April and now we know why--he has been accused to alleged

[TV orNotTV] Stewart: CNN, NBC Won't Let Their People on His Show

2024-07-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
On this week's edition of his "Weekly Show" podcast, Jon Stewart and two of his bookers say that when they go to a CNN or NBC employee to ask to appear on what we assume would be either the podcast or "TDS," they say that the network has to approve it--and they don't. and when the bookers ask wh

[TV orNotTV] Hit It Nicholas: Real Life 'Succession' at the Murdochs

2024-07-26 Thread Mark Jeffries
Looks like Rupert is trying to change his irrevocable trust to make sure that favored son Lachlan will control the media empire and keep it right (wing), not his Commie sibs--the kids are not alright with this, as Pete Townsend might say: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/24/business/media/rupert

[TV orNotTV] WBD, Disney Offer Streaming Bundle

2024-07-25 Thread Mark Jeffries
Starting today, ad tiers of Disney+, Hulu and Max together are $16.99 a month, ad-free tiers $29.99 a month--available to all subscribers on all three streamers' websites (remember that HBO cable subscribers get Max as a bonus): https://www.thewrap.com/disney-plus-hulu-max-bundle-launch-price/

[TV orNotTV] NBA to Daddy Zaslav: No Deal For You!

2024-07-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
The NBA has announced that the attempt by Warner Bros. Discovery to get something--anything--that would keep the NBA on TNT is not a match with the offer from Amazon (which basically puts many games on streaming) and that beginning in the fall of 2025, ESPN/ABC, NBC/Peacock and Amazon will be th

[TV orNotTV] BBC Apologizes for Alleged Mistreatment by 'Strictly' Pro Dancers

2024-07-24 Thread Mark Jeffries
BBC director general Tim Davie has issued an apology for the alleged "gross misconduct" of two of the professional dancers on "Strictly Come Dancing" (the home base for the "Dancing With the Stars" franchise) towards their celeb charges in previous seasons after the said celebs complained--the t

[TV orNotTV] Former MSNBC Anchor Convicted of Defrauding Investors

2024-07-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
In urban areas, Carlos Watson's signs for his "smash hit" YouTube talk show where unavoidable at the beginning of this decade, but a NY federal jury has convicted Watson and his company Ozy Media of defrauding investors as to the true status of the company, including telling them that Oprah Win

[TV orNotTV] Opie's Movie of Vance Book Returns to Netflix Top 10 Thanks to Trump

2024-07-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
Unless it's a Christmas movie or a sequel to it comes out (or if it's "Super Mario Bros. Movie"), Netflix originals usually fade into the search page a few weeks after the initial release, but "Hillbilly Elegy," Ron Howard's 2020 Netflix original adaptation of the memoir of J.D. Vance that was

Re: [TV orNotTV] Original I Love Lucy opening

2024-07-17 Thread Mark Jeffries
along with the short person bellboy shouting "CALL FOR PHILIP MORR-ISSS!" Seems to me that TV Land for a while replaced the syndication titles with one of the network titles, covering up Philip Morris with the old TV Land logo. Mark Jeffries On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 4:46 AM JW wrote: >

[TV orNotTV] 'TDS' Retreating from Milwaukee and RNC

2024-07-15 Thread Mark Jeffries
Due to the assassination attempt on Trump and heightened security surrounding the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, "The Daily Show" will not air tonight as everyone travels back to NY (COM will probably run either an "Office" rerun or a "South Park" rerun at 11 p.m. ET), the show w

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