Category: Television
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Bewitched Returning to TV??
Please oh please let the rumors be true and please oh please let it be good! For details on the possible rebooting of Bewitched (possibly one of my all-time favorite television shows ever) please visit my friend Mike’s blog: Hailing Frequencies Open.
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The Captains (Part 2)
My friend Mike emailed me about a week ago with information about a free screening for William Shatner’s documentary The Captains. He is upstate stage managing Cooking With The Calamari Sisters: Mangia Italiana with our friends Steve and Jay so he couldn’t go. But when I mentioned it to Quincy she froke out. “WHAT TIME ARE…
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Hoarders: An Obsession with Television
I killed cable a few months back and have not regretted it once. In fact, between Netflix and Hulu I have no need for “traditional” TV. And I’ve discovered that I enjoy watching a series one episode after another as opposed to waiting week to week for the next new episode. It doesn’t matter that…
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann: Marriage Equality is Not a Threat
Keith Olberman is absolutely right. Watch and learn.
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Time Warner Cable and NOM – Advertising Discrimination
I was invited to this event on Facebook by a friend and, initially, thought, “Nah, I don’t need to R.s.v.p. to this. I already canceled Time Warner Cable.” But then I read it again and realized that this was more than just canceling service. This will send a message to Time Warner Cable that, because…
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Twitter Faux Pas: The Blake Shelton Kerfuffle
So, as the Twitterverse (and most of the world and web) knows Blake Shelton made a mistake in using Twitter to be funny without thinking through what his tweet might mean to various people. In his post, he said, “Re-writing my fav Shania Twain song.. Any man that tries Touching my behind He’s gonna be…
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Holy Golden Girls Batman!
Back in January I helped my friends Addie Brownlee, Jill and Aileen put together a concert celebrating Dolly Parton‘s birthday. The show, featuring Addie along with her special guest Martha Wainwright, was a huge success and we all had an amazing time reliving some of Dolly’s most memorable hits. Cut to today when Jill (who…
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Cutting the Cable (aka Hey, TV is on the Internet!)
Let me start out this diatribe by explaining that I have almost never been happy with any cable provider, any place that I have lived. Service is questionable, customer service is most often exceedingly failing and tech support is, at best, awake. So, having heard of the growing trend in cutting the cable from such…
Tommy Karr 