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TV: Give Me That Remote!

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busterman62 said:
Ailes should have sexually harassed Greta too. He could have pleaded insanity and no heterosexual jury in the country would have ruled otherwise.
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The woman might be smart -- I don't know, never watched her show -- but she has a face for radio, that's for certain.
 
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St. Clown said:
The woman might be smart -- I don't know, never watched her show -- but she has a face for radio, that's for certain.
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She's not smart. She's a Scientologist and her dad was best friends with Joe McCarthy. She made her big media breakthrough as a CNN talking hairdo for the OJ trial. Her husband was an advisor to Sarah Palin.
 
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Greta loved Ailes. Now she's gone. She'll go to Trump. Hannity will go to Trump. O'Reilly might even go to Trump. Gretchen Carlson and Donald Trump have accomplished what MSNBC and CNN could not.
 
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Kepler said:
She's not smart. She's a Scientologist and her dad was best friends with Joe McCarthy. She made her big media breakthrough as a CNN talking hairdo for the OJ trial. Her husband was an advisor to Sarah Palin.
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That is an amazing resume :D
 
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Finished up Stranger Things over the holiday weekend. Very, very good. Best way to describe it is that it's what the old Stephen King miniseries should have been rather than being the general dreck that they actually were.

I know they've already announced it'll be back with round two, and I can see several directions available to them as far as where to go with the second season based on how this one ended, but I have a hard time believing that they'll strike gold twice.
 
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unofan said:
Finished up Stranger Things over the holiday weekend. Very, very good. Best way to describe it is that it's what the old Stephen King miniseries should have been rather than being the general dreck that they actually were.

I know they've already announced it'll be back with round two, and I can see several directions available to them as far as where to go with the second season based on how this one ended, but I have a hard time believing that they'll strike gold twice.
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I feel the same way. I would have loved for them to just stop: it was so good I don't want them to spoil it. But I understand once they have a winner and a moneymaker they will keep on going to the well until they ruin it.

Still, though, we'll always have the first one. It was shocking how good it was. We live in the golden age of television -- I have no idea why, but I'm not arguing with it.
 
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Kepler said:
She's not smart. She's a Scientologist and her dad was best friends with Joe McCarthy. She made her big media breakthrough as a CNN talking hairdo for the OJ trial. Her husband was an advisor to Sarah Palin.
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So, she's smart enough to scam stupid people and make money. ;)
 
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A year's worth of episodes to show during their 6 weeks off and Jeopardy chooses to give a week to the Power Players episodes?
 
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Better Late Than Never - this thing is better scripted than it should be. It's a reality show that follows Terry Bradshaw (drafted by Kepler last night), Henry Winkler, William Shatner, George Foreman, and some young guy I don't recognize on adventures in foreign lands. The first episode is only half complete, and the quintet is in South Korea. These guys all play off each other really well.

ETA: Okay, I thought it was the first, turns out it was second to last. Huh. I'll have to check if it's on Hulu.
 
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I saw a billboard ad today for a CBS remake of Macgyver. W T F? there are only so many ways you can mix plant food with salad oil to make an explosive compound....

I enjoyed the first two or three years of the original but then it got stale. I cannot imagine how they could improve on it in terms of cleverness or plot lines. Perhaps it will become a CGI fest....

There was something about the hams who over-played the villains and the low-budget sets that gave the original a charming air to it that I doubt they can recapture. It was all in rollicking good fun then, they clearly did not take themselves too seriously and that was a big part of the appeal.

(I still love the way he recovered hundreds of pounds of stolen diamonds from a high-rise office by dumping them into a downspout that had been rejiggered to empty into the trunk of a car...low-tech cleverness with a sense of humor).
 
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St. Clown said:
Better Late Than Never - this thing is better scripted than it should be. It's a reality show that follows Terry Bradshaw (drafted by Kepler last night),
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The Mets signing Tebow actually makes my error 1 trillion times funnier. I just wish it had been in round 14 instead of 7 -- that kinda hosed me unless one of my lottery picks pays off.
 
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St. Clown said:
Better Late Than Never - this thing is better scripted than it should be. It's a reality show that follows Terry Bradshaw (drafted by Kepler last night), Henry Winkler, William Shatner, George Foreman, and some young guy I don't recognize
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The fifth guy is Jeff Dye, the guide. He's a comedian and has been an MTV personality. I'd never heard of him either. I like the premise, though I think they could have added a woman like Tilda Swinton or Julianne Moore.
 
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Watched the first two episodes of Stranger Things at a buddy's house last night, and immediately signed up for my free trial of Netflix so I can finish the season. Holy S, the opening/abduction scene is about as intense at TV can get. Along with many others here, I'm an 80s child, and the nostalgia factor is through the charts. I'm completely hooked. Can't wait to see how it plays out.
 
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So, I didn't realize this until just this moment. Jonathan Nolan, a.k.a. "the talented Nolan brother," is directing and producing the HBO reboot of Westworld. All well and good; I knew that. What I didn't know was the following. Take a deep breath.

He is also working up a screenplay for a movie based on Foundation.

OK, so here's the thing. The lack of a movie version of the Trilogy (don't talk to me about those abortions they call the prequels and sequels) is the single greatest gap in the serious SciFi universe. It was inevitable. I would argue that J. Nolan is the one big budget person operating today with a non-zero chance of pulling it off. We could have had a lot worse.

This is much like The Princess Bride -- the original book is so precious I am terrified they will ruin it. And like TPB, even if they can manage a really solid telling, it will of course be so different as to almost be an entirely different work of art.

So let's all pray for the first competent translation of an Asimov story to film. And hunt down every extant print of I Robot and shoot them into the sun...
 
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