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“There is absolutely no way to rig a national election.”
Posted on November 11, 2020
Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter, Wins The Post-Election Analysis
It Ends Not With A Bang But With A . . .
‘It’s a joy to watch a mainstream media that for four years struggled to call a lie a lie and allowed Trump to use their platforms to spread those lies finally call him out for what he is: a liar.’
Posted on November 10, 2020
Moon TV
By NASA
NASA is seeking new partners to help the agency tell the story of human exploration at the Moon with the Artemis program in ways that engage, excite and inspire a worldwide audience. Through the end of this decade, NASA will explore more of the lunar surface than ever before and will establish a sustainable human presence with Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.
The agency has released an Announcement for Proposals calling for submissions of potential partnerships to visually bring the public along for the ride in new ways, starting as early as a trip around the Moon with astronauts on the Artemis II mission, targeted for 2023. Proposals are due by 11:59 p.m. EST, Dec. 11, 2020.
Posted on November 9, 2020
24 Hours With Showtime Women
Bad Girls And Pavarotti
12:10 a.m.: Sommore: A Queen With No Spades
1:15 a.m.: Liberal Arts
3 a.m.: Colewell
4:30 a.m.: Bad Girls from Valley High
Posted on October 30, 2020
Let The Children Starve
By Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter!
“This all makes Thatcher the Milk Snatcher look like a nice lady.”
Posted on October 25, 2020
Hulu To Sinclair: Drop Dead
By The Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) reported Friday that Hulu has decided to drop Sinclair’s 21 regional sports network brands (RSN), YES Network and Marquee, depriving its subscribers of the excitement of watching their favorite local sports teams.
While Sinclair attempted to come to an amicable and fair agreement, Hulu was not willing to provide the RSNs reasonable compensation for their valuable local sports content.
Posted on October 23, 2020
The Clever Reason He Wants Matt Nagy To Use The Hurry-Up Offense
By Thomas Chambers
It’s amazing how different the television-watching experience is for various sports.
I will theorize that Bears coach Matt Nagy should actually take into account the nature of television coverage in the course of a game. What a pioneer he would be! Yeah, right.
In major team sports, NHL hockey is the best. I believe the game is stopped only about twice per period and the intermissions are great. You can’t stop the game when the Patrick Kane line has one leg over the boards for a shift change.
I’ve always enjoyed watching professional bowling. These guys miss pins too, and they show whole games at a time. The current juggernaut is the Australian Jason Belmonte, a right-hander who doesn’t use the finger holes. The five-time bowler of the year is clutch. Different from the days of Chris Schenkel and Nelson Burton Jr., Earl Anthony and Johnny Petraglia when the gallery behind them was as quiet as a funeral, now they have a few dozen fans on the side of the left lane who constantly scream and never shut up. If Tiger Woods were a bowler, he’d stick his head in the ball return and wait for the next one up the chute to put him out of his misery. If the bowlers don’t mind those fans, neither do I, but the pandemic has thankfully removed them.
Posted on October 15, 2020
(Prosthetic) Penises Suddenly Everywhere
By Peter Lehman/The Conversation
If you’ve noticed an uptick of male frontal nudity in TV and in movies in recent years, you’re on to something.
In 1993, I studied patterns of male nudity in my book Running Scared: Masculinity and the Representation of the Male Body. After the old Motion Picture Production Code was replaced by a new ratings system in 1968, frontal male nudity in Hollywood movies in certain contexts was permitted. Drive, He Said, directed by Jack Nicholson in 1971, was an early film to include such a scene, while Richard Gere’s nude scene in 1980’s American Gigolo helped to transform the young actor into an international sex symbol.
Yet female nudity remained far more common in movies, and there was no frontal male nudity on mainstream television as of 1993.
Posted on October 12, 2020
The Comedic LA Dodgers
Who Did It Best?
Not sure if there are more recent examples, but for Hollywood sitcom writers running out of ideas, the hometown Dodgers were always an easy plot line to turn to.
To wit:
Herman Munster Tries Out For The Dodgers.
Posted on September 30, 2020
WGN Now Trump TV
By David Rutter
After WGN-TV gave itself loud cheers for “landing” an interview with President Trump on Tuesday, anchor and face-of-the franchise Joe Donlon managed to eviscerate WGN’s old reputation and humiliate its new national news show.
That self-cheer should have been your first clue.
We were hoping for 60 Minutes but got Kukla, Fran and Ollie.
Even the normally passive Chicago media observer Robert Feder was embarrassed. “Disappointing,” he wrote, but then what did anyone expect?
Posted on September 24, 2020