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Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has been using “yabba dabba doofus” Donald Trump as a comedic punching bag for a long time. On Tuesday night, Kimmel continued this routine, poking fun at ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 03:45 PM PDT
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Even if he gets on a chair and barks like a dog he is, we won’t get to see this because the trial won’t be televised. That to me is a shame. He can come out and lie lie lie and it will only take one juror to say, Not guilty. I really wanted to see him...
by Vetwife
20 comments
on Sun Apr 14, 2024 at 03:07 PM PDT
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Is it the end of civilization or just millennialism when CNN interviews an astrologer today about the eclipse. I have probably watched too much TV and likely too many sit-coms, even as they are always light mental fare, and I don’t think I learned much...
by annieli
19 comments
on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 05:30 PM PDT
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Actor Ed O’Neill has played many roles. He was a losing presidential candidate on�season six�of “The West Wing,” only to eventually end up as vice president on the show. The anti-feminist, ...
by Charles Jay
127 comments
on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 02:00 PM PST
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Hiya, writers & frenz — Click the WrØ-tert link HERE for WriteOns that cover Tertiary & minor characters (‘extras’, ‘walk-ons’, ‘spear-carriers’, ‘redshirts’, ‘plot fodder’, including kill-able...) and in Write On! Tagging & Indexing Project for...
by mettle fatigue
88 comments
on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike of 2023 wasn’t the longest in the union’s history, but it came close. Combined with the somewhat concurrent SAG-AFTRA strike, this disrupted the 2023 —
by Alonso del Arte
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 05:00 PM PST
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www.hollywoodreporter.com/… This trial-balloon article suggests a proposed “merger” between CNN and CBS News that would result in the firings of hundreds of journalists and support personnel, cuts that would rival the 1983 bloodbath at CBS News that...
by Pantone2583C
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 06:29 PM PST
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Before he became the first musical director of “Sesame Street,” Joe Raposo used to make ends meet by performing at jazz venues around Boston, accompanying on piano such legends as Ella Fitzgerald. When the children’s show went on the air in 1969,...
by Charles Jay
69 comments
on Sat Dec 30, 2023 at 12:00 PM PST
with 142 Recommends
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In 1961,� Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow declared American commercial television to be a “vast wasteland.” That was particularly true for outside-the-mainstream musical ...
by Charles Jay
114 comments
on Mon Dec 25, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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A media icon, how might he have treated humorously the misidentification of antisemitism with antizionism represented by H.R. 894. Writer-producer-developer Norman Lear, who revolutionized American comedy with such daring, immensely popular early-‘70s...
by annieli
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on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 06:48 AM PST
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Norman Lear, television producer of such shows as All in the Family and Sanford and Son, has died. A visionary and progresssive voice that was willing to hold a mirror up to America’s face, Lear faced a multitude of challenges in his storied life. Born...
by Rule of Claw
11 comments
on Wed Dec 06, 2023 at 06:36 AM PST
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That the use of artificial intelligence has been a key sticking point in negotiations between striking actors and the big studios has been widely reported. But The Hollywood Reporter has new details showing how greedy and disrespectful the Alliance of...
by Laura Clawson
105 comments
on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 11:05 AM PST
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I have written before that the medical cases on Transplant, a Canadian TV show starring Hamza Haq running on NBC, are not all that interesting. But once in a while, one medical case on a given episode is really interesting and unusual, the kind that...
by Alonso del Arte
13 comments
on Thu Nov 02, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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This one almost slipped my mind. Transplant is a Canadian show that NBC started�airing in 2020 to fill in a hole on the schedule caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Each episode was a highlight of ...
by Alonso del Arte
2 comments
on Thu Oct 12, 2023 at 08:10 PM PDT
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Now that the strike of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been resolved, movies and television are slowly getting back to normal, though the actors represented by SAG-AFTRA are still on strike. ...
by Alonso del Arte
7 comments
on Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 08:30 AM PDT
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The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announced a tentative deal Sunday night to end the writers’ strike, which started May 2. The strike ...
by Laura Clawson
41 comments
on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 09:06 AM PDT
with 111 Recommends
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by BrianMcFadden
8 comments
on Fri Sep 22, 2023 at 02:50 PM PDT
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During a pivotal scene in Pachinko, the sprawling and multigenerational account of a Korean family, Sunja, the main female protagonist, assiduously endeavors to remove blood from the shirt of Hansu, her eventual paramour. Sunja is an impoverished...
by Eihenetu
8 comments
on Thu Sep 14, 2023 at 01:01 PM PDT
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Here's a show that would be perfect for Start TV if it wasn’t too British and too TV-MA: Scott & Bailey , a buddy cop drama about two women detectives on the Major Incident Team of�the Manchester�...
by Alonso del Arte
5 comments
on Sun Oct 08, 2023 at 07:50 PM PDT
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The following historical background on forced sterilization of minority girls and women in the U.S. and beyond runs long, even without delving into the Nazis’ study of U.S. 17th-19th century policies toward indigenous people and the disabled as a basis...
by mettle fatigue
37 comments
on Sat Sep 09, 2023 at 05:00 PM PDT
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