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Jan 16, 2024, 9:21:34 AM1/16/24
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Favorite Emmy ad:

For Curb Your Enthusiasm [and platform]:

Larry David taking of mask to show alien face and saying:

My job is done here.

And with another alien boarding a flying saucer and flying away!

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 4:22 AM <tvor...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
"Kevin M." <drunkba...@gmail.com>: Jan 15 09:49PM -0800

I like noir. This is not quite noir, but it’s close. If I was watching it
on AMC instead of iTunes I’d be frustrated by commercial breaks seemingly
every two minutes, often in the middle of scenes. Aside from that, it’s
worth taking a look at.
 
Kevin M. (RPCV)
Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com>: Jan 15 07:50AM -0800

In an interview with the Times of London (which is behind a pay wall),
David Chase says that the 25th anniversary of his groundbreaking "The
Sopranos" should be considered "a funeral," not a celebration, and that
television is starting to dumb down again:
 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/sopranos-david-chase-tv-dumb-interview-1235787462/
"Kevin M." <drunkba...@gmail.com>: Jan 15 08:18AM -0800

I think if Chase checks, there was dumbed down TV 25 years ago, too. And
although I liked (but did not love) The Sopranos, I wouldn’t classify it as
smart TV. It was well made TV, but it wasn’t smart TV.
 
Kevin M. (RPCV)
 
 
Adam Bowie <ad...@adambowie.co.uk>: Jan 15 04:56PM

Whatever you think of The Sopranos, I think Chase is right.
 
Yes, there's still Succession, Fargo, The Bear, White Lotus and so on being
made. But I'm not going to kid myself that this is what Netflix et al will
be producing for the most part in the future. The most popular drama on the
recent Netflix data dump was The Night Agent, which frankly, is rubbish. I
only managed one episode. A bit more swearing than a network show, and
perhaps more sex (I don't know), but otherwise, it might have aired on CBS.
 
And it just feels to me that we're getting more of these "gourmet burgers"
as Netflix's Bela Bajaria put it herself. In other words, if NCIS is
McDonalds, then The Night Agent is McDonalds with fancier presentation and
slightly better ingredients. But only very slightly. But just as I might
like a burger and fries from time to time, I also like to eat better food,
and that's what it feels like is going away. Like a town where the only
restaurants are chain fast food places.
 
Amazon's hottest show right now is Reacher. And it's absolutely... fine.
It's definitely not exceptional in any way. It has more cash spent on it
than a network show - the action sequences are better. But it's still very
obviously Canada doubling for the US for tax reasons, and has an
A-to-B-to-C plot that is not going to challenge any viewer who is also
scrolling TikTok at the same time. I've no doubt it works well globally
because there's not even an enormous amount of dialogue to translate/dub.
Nobody ever got poor on selling big guys firing big guns.
 
It's just a televisual reversion to the mean.
 
 
Adam
 
Tom Wolper <two...@gmail.com>: Jan 15 12:08PM -0500

In a world of 500+ TV series there are going to be only 2 or 3 that are
going to be considered classic or brilliant. And if these 2 or 3 brilliant
series aren’t recognized by the algorithms to push into people’s feeds they
won’t be found by a mass audience.
 
Mark Jeffries <spotl...@gmail.com>: Jan 15 07:17AM -0800

Joyce Randolph was the last surviving of "with the stars" from the
so-called Classic 39 1955 cast of Jackie Gleason's "The Honeymooners,"
having started playing Ed Norton's wife in the sketches on Gleason's CBS
variety show before it spun off into its one season on its own--she left
Gleason after that, but thanks to the constant rerunning of the Classic 39
(and the so-called "Lost Episodes" from the variety show that were added to
the package in the 90s), she is the most well-known Trixie--she died in her
sleep on Saturday:
 
https://www.thewrap.com/joyce-randolph-honeymooners-trixie-norton-dies-obit/
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