Category Archives: Television

Lousy SMarch Weather

Posted on March 21, 2013 by dedc79

The Vulture’s “Best Sitcom of the Past 30 Years” competition has come to an end, with The Simpsons beating out Cheers in the finals.  I don’t know that I would have put either show in the finals even though I … Continue reading →

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Convergence

Posted on March 12, 2013 by dedc79

I’m a big fan of Game of Thrones and the Hold Steady but never thought I’d see them together.  (h/t BK) The Hold Steady will record a new song for the upcoming third season of Game of  Thrones, featuring lyrics … Continue reading →

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Boy, That Escalated Quickly

Posted on February 4, 2013 by reflectionephemeral

This happened, apparently: RT @randballsstu: MT @gavinpurcell Will Ferrell made Old Mil ad aired in Superbowl but only in small town MT, OK & TX.youtu.be/Ok6dXmFaYq8 — James Fallows (@JamesFallows) February 4, 2013

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Two of My Favorite Things

Posted on January 23, 2013 by dedc79

Hockey and the Muppets, together at last: The Rangers are off to an 0-2 start in this strike-shortened season.  Hopefully they’ll get their act together soon.

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Dostoevsky on Television

Posted on January 18, 2013 by dedc79

(via the Daily Dish) Over at First Things, Helen Rittelmeyer posits that the characters on the television show Arrested Development were modeled after, or at least inspired by, the characters in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.  Here’s an excerpt where she compares G.O.B. to Dmitri … Continue reading →

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CALMing news

Posted on December 13, 2012 by dedc79

For those of you who, like me, hate it when you’re watching tv and commercials come on at much higher volumes than the broadcast, I’ve got some good news: Beginning Thursday, television stations and cable providers are required to keep  … Continue reading →

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Speaking truth to dumb

Posted on June 26, 2012 by nickgb

[UPDATE: HBO put the whole pilot episode up on youtube. Give it a shot.] I watched the pilot of The Newsroom last night, and I enjoyed it. There’s still a lot of quirks to it that will be ironed out; … Continue reading →

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They Estevezed the wrong son

Posted on June 4, 2012 by nickgb

I’ve never watched more than 10 minutes of Two and a Half Men, mostly because, after five attempts at going more than two minutes, I realized I’d seen everything I needed to. There were entire scenes, chock full of laugh … Continue reading →

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He laughed, he cried, he barked

Posted on April 26, 2012 by dedc79

Perhaps motivated in part by data showing significant declines in the number of people watching television, the industry is reaching out to a new (and truly “captive”) audience: Plenty of things will grab a dog’s attention: squirrels, tennis balls, funny … Continue reading →

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Actually, Billy Idol stole HIS look

Posted on April 10, 2012 by nickgb

Since I haven’t nerded this blog up in a while, and as DE is off trying to burn effigies of Senators (hockey, not pork barrel), and someone else is probably still in a non-extradition honeymoon location… I’ve been trying to … Continue reading →

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Steve Holt!

Posted on March 28, 2012 by dedc79

I consider myself a pretty big Arrested Development fan, but I’ve got nothing on some of the fans of the tv show, which is returning from cancellation in 2013: Fans of “Arrested Development” are rallying in support of one of … Continue reading →

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Pelosi the Younger

Posted on March 19, 2012 by dedc79

RE already weighed in with disgust on Alexandra Pelosi’s (daughter of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi) video hit-job on Mississippi.  Not content to stereotype the State of Mississippi via interviews with three or four people, Pelosi decided to move her experiment … Continue reading →

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Priced to move

Posted on March 15, 2012 by nickgb

MLB.tv lets you watch baseball for $20/month. NHL Gamecenter lets you watch hockey for $80/season. NFL.com has so much auto-playing video that I couldn’t bear to find their options, but Sunday Ticket is over $50/month, on top of your DirectTV subscription. NCAA.com … Continue reading →

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Sherlock vs. Sherlock Holmes

Posted on March 15, 2012 by dedc79

As someone who has read each and every Sherlock Holmes story written by Arthur Conan Doyle (even the lousy one written from Holmes’ perspective), I was more than disappointed to watch the recent film adaptation starring Robert Downey Jr.   I … Continue reading →

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Woohoo! Four Day Weekend!

Posted on February 24, 2012 by dedc79

There aren’t many tv shows that have ever come close to the brilliance and hilarity of the episodes from Season 2 through Season 7 of The Simpsons.  In honor of the show’s 500th episode (a few hundred too many, in my opinion), Grantland’s … Continue reading →

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Choosing One’s Own Memory Above That Of The Cameras

Posted on January 31, 2012 by reflectionephemeral

nickgb is bummed about all the Giants-Patriots stuff going up on the blog, so it’s obviously time to talk about Carlton Fisk’s home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, and how he’s preserved his memory of it:

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Must be a new Apprentice season coming up…

Posted on January 30, 2012 by nickgb

I guess someone stopped paying attention to him for 5 seconds. I hope they learned their lesson! Donald Trump’s top political adviser told ABC News he’s speaking to “high-level political operatives” to explore a third-party bid for the real estate … Continue reading →

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TV Recommendation: Southland

Posted on January 26, 2012 by nickgb

I haven’t talked about TV for a long time, but I wanted to share a new recommendation. Southland, the once-cancelled NBC police show has found new life on TNT, and catching up on the current season has been really enjoyable. … Continue reading →

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