Re: [TV orNotTV] Digest for tvornottv@googlegroups.com - 25 Messages in 12 Topics

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May 24, 2013, 12:32:56 PM5/24/13
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Re: Amy's Bakery

I had to go to the front page and search. There is also an article about deportation of Amy's personnel.

Mark


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:33 AM, <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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    Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> May 23 03:26PM -0500  

    Doesn't Randy Michaels still have an interest in that company? At least
    you can't blame Ailes on this one--this time.
     
    Mark Jeffries
    Saints Spotlight Editor
    spotl...@gmail.com
     
     

     

    Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> May 23 11:10AM -0700  

    The A&E series will air up five final episodes starting June 13 after eight
    years, 243 episodes, and 156 of the show's subjects still clean and
    sober--as Andy Denhart points out, this is a good example of a reality show
    that truly is reality, but I guess A&E finds the (allegedly) staged
    "Storage Wars" and soft-scripted "Duck Dynasty" more to their liking these
    days:

    http://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/archives/intervention/2013_May_23_cancelled

     

    Adam Bowie <ad...@adambowie.co.uk> May 23 04:28PM +0100  

    He's written this kind of book before based on his time as a tabloid
    reporter and editor.
     
    Indeed "The Insider" was the book that got him in all kinds of trouble
    since it sort of suggested that he knew all about so-called phone-hacking
    when he's claimed all along that he knows nothing about it.
     
    His previous book has also been a little "free" with the factual accuracy.
    Certainly the suggestion seems to be that rather than keeping an actual
    diary, he re-imagined what his diary might have looked like. Hence dates
    and times are wrong etc.
     
    I didn't read his tabloid book as I find the man odious. That said, it is
    supposed to be good fun. So who knows how his CNN book will end up.
     
     
     
    Adam
     
     

     

    JW <redb...@gmail.com> May 23 07:36AM -0400  

    No digest has arrived since May 19, and a look at the Google Groups
    site shows a fair amount of activity on the list since then. As
    always, thanks for whatever help anyone can provide.

     

    Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> May 22 11:56AM -0700  

    In case you haven't followed this, a Scottsdale, AZ restaurant that Gordon
    Ramsay walked away from in the May 10 season finale of "Kitchen Nightmares"
    after a case of severe delusion from the owners (un-hyped up and overstated
    by the producers, unlike a lot of the cases on the U.S. version of the
    series) has been trying to recover from the bad social media publicity that
    followed the telecast, but--just read this--the whole thing is astounding:
     
    http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/dining/articles/20130521amys-baking-company-owner-deportation.html?nclick_check=1
     
    In case you're wondering, the restaurant owners had applied to go on
    "Kitchen Nightmares" in the hopes that Ramsay would disagree with the bad
    reviews they'd already received and find them the first restaurant in
    either the U.S. or UK versions that didn't need his help. Dey don't know
    him vewwy well, do dey?

     

    Bob in Jersey <bob.in...@juno.com> May 22 01:28PM -0700  

    Firefox:
     
    Cookies must be enabled to view articles on azcentral.com.
     
    Internet Exploder:
     
    Your free trial has ended. Please pay for a digital subscription.
     
    Chrome:
     
    Their attorney, David Asser: “I didn’t know they were going to go on (the
    show)."
     
    -- BOB

     

    Bob in Jersey <bob.in...@juno.com> May 22 01:34PM -0700  

    It's called, I periodically see pages from there linked in Google News
    articles. Soft paywalls are what they are. -- B.

     

    Bob in Jersey <bob.in...@juno.com> May 22 01:59PM -0700  

    Joe Hass wrote:
     
    > Remove everything past the ? and it should work in Chrome:
     
    Note the last part of my first response. Dad J got it on a recommendation
    from a penny-auction site. -- B.

     

    Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> May 22 11:47AM -0700  

    Sam Simon was diagnosed about six months with terminal cancer and was given
    three to six months to live. He doesn't say specifically what kind of
    cancer in his WTF interview with Marc Maron, but says it has gone through
    all of his organs.
    For a man facing death, Simon is going out with humor. He has great stories
    about trying to get medical marijuana and candidly says he is getting
    honors because he writes checks for donations.
    He also says he doesn't think much of "The Simpsons" today, but if he was
    told he had to watch it to cash his royalty checks, he would. He started
    working for Filmation studio and said the most valuable lesson he learned
    there is to come up with a storyline that can be easily described.
    All in all, it's a pretty good listen.
    http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_389_-_sam_simon

     

    David Bruggeman <bru...@yahoo.com> May 22 02:55PM -0400  

    Let me heartily second the recommendation.
     
    David
     
    Sent from my iPad
     

     

    Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com> May 22 01:36PM -0400  


    > "Rod Serling had more originality on a sick day than all the networks’
    > high-priced talent combined."
     
    > http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/opinion/dowd-serving-up-schlock.html
     
    Now that Twilight Zone runs every day on MeTV we can put that to the test.
    And we find out, like any classic long-running series, there were a few
    classic episodes over the years and lots and lots of mediocre episodes.
    Serling liked to do little morality plays and they always related to the
    shallowest sort of morality. He doesn't get deep into characters and their
    desires and there is no complexity in the stories.
     
    As for Dowd, comparing network and cable series without acknowledging the
    difference in their models makes her comments irrelevant. There was a
    period when the networks would try to bring a successful cable concept to
    the network and they would fail. The series Kingpin, which was trying to
    emulate The Sopranos, comes to mind.
     
    Her snark regarding upcoming series is also unnecessary. It's one thing to
    criticize a network after a series airs and doesn't find an audience, it's
    another to criticize them before their series air.

     

    Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> May 22 01:20PM -0500  

    It's the NY Times equivalent to those people who post YouTube comments on
    any and all clips or episodes of anything over 25 years old moaning about
    how much better things were in the good old days--even if it's frickin'
    "Mike Stokey's Pantomime Quiz." (Not to mention the "Nickelodeon sucks
    today" or "MTV sucks today" posts--YOU HAVEN'T BEEN THE TARGET AUDIENCE FOR
    THOSE CHANNELS IN DECADES! Excuse me.)
     
    In fact, the difference now is that cult tastes do have other places to
    flower when they didn't in the old days (unless they had a sugar daddy
    sponsor and an expendable time slot for the network like in the single
    sponsor days). Most of the critically acclaimed and successful cable
    series would've been pulled after three episodes on an OTA network, then or
    now.
     
    And when did Maureen Dowd become a teabagger?
     
    Mark Jeffries
    Saints Spotlight Editor
    spotl...@gmail.com
     
     

     

    Jon Delfin <jond...@gmail.com> May 22 02:26PM -0400  

    Please stop paying attention to Maureen Dowd.
     
     

     

    Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com> May 22 01:39PM -0500  

    I normally don't unless somebody points me to her.
     
    Mark Jeffries
    Saints Spotlight Editor
    spotl...@gmail.com
     
     

     

    <chi...@nc.rr.com> May 22 02:40PM -0400  

    > And when did Maureen Dowd become a teabagger?
     
    She didn't become a teabagger, she was a teabagger then. She just didn't have someone to be a teabagger with.
     
    I play Chris Rock in attack mode and end my turn.
     
    ~D

     

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