Author Topic: Must See TV Thread (Read 191642 times)

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #2350 on:** February 15, 2025, 10:53:46 pm »

A bit late, but tonight's SNL is the very first show. I forget who the host was ... Elliot Gould? Paul Simon?

imref · « **Reply #2351 on:** February 15, 2025, 10:56:18 pm »

Quote from: JCA-CrystalCity on February 15, 2025, 10:53:46 pm

A bit late, but tonight's SNL is the very first show. I forget who the host was ... Elliot Gould? Paul Simon?

George Carlin IIRC.

Watched a few of the clips from last night's concert. Ferrell and Gasteyer doing Not Like Us was ... interesting.

The SNL movie on Netflix was really good as well, it tells the story of the debut episode.

English Natsie · « **Reply #2352 on:** February 26, 2025, 06:04:21 pm »

Just caught up with the first film in the new season (37) of 'American Experience' - 'Forgotten Hero - Walter White And The NAACP'. An informative, and balanced, profile of White along with a history of the NAACP, which serves as a good primer of the development of the civil rights struggle from the end of Reconstruction to the mid 1950's. I say 'primer' as earlier AE films have covered the major events (for example, Scottsboro) in greater detail. For myself, the notable omission is of any reference to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union - generally regarded as the first true racially integrated struggle, where ordinary blacks and whites came together in common economic and social cause, and gave a foretaste of how things could be.

A lot of ground to cover, so it is a long-form (two hours), but well worth your time and attention. Great start to the new season.

imref · « **Reply #2353 on:** February 26, 2025, 06:11:45 pm »

The Pete Rose documentary (4 parts) on HBO Max is really really good. I never realized he and Bench pretty much hated one another.

imref · « **Reply #2354 on:** March 04, 2025, 12:52:18 pm »

Finally finished watching Cobra Kai last night. The last run of 10 episodes were fantastic. They did a really nice job wrapping up the series and story arc without ever taking themselves too seriously.

Anyone watching Zero Day?

imref · « **Reply #2355 on:** March 14, 2025, 10:40:17 am »

Don't screw this up:
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/ted-lasso-returning-fourth-season-rcna196425

English Natsie · « **Reply #2356 on:** March 23, 2025, 07:12:31 am »

Best ad I've seen, for a while...

English Natsie · « **Reply #2357 on:** March 27, 2025, 01:24:11 pm »

The latest 'American Experience' film is now available. 'Change, Not Charity - The Americans With Disabilities Act' is an excellent resume of the history of societal attitudes towards the disabled, and the struggle for legal rights. Some of the attitudinal examples will take your breath away, for their crass insensitivity - particularly the polio vaccination flyer. It's a short-form (50 minutes) and well worth your attention.

imref · « **Reply #2358 on:** March 27, 2025, 01:39:43 pm »

recently watched "The goes wrong show" on Prime. It is a 6 episode British comedy with each episode featuring a live performance of a play in which everything that can go wrong, goes wrong. This is the same theater troop that created 'the play that goes wrong'.

If you like British slapstick humor, you'll like it. Pay special attention to the director's opening comments about what went wrong in the lead up to the performance.

JCA-CrystalCity · « **Reply #2359 on:** March 27, 2025, 02:04:26 pm »

Quote from: English Natsie on March 27, 2025, 01:24:11 pm

The latest 'American Experience' film is now available. 'Change, Not Charity - The Americans With Disabilities Act' is an excellent resume of the history of societal attitudes towards the disabled, and the struggle for legal rights. Some of the attitudinal examples will take your breath away, for their crass insensitivity - particularly the polio vaccination flyer. It's a short-form (50 minutes) and well worth your attention.

I/M/O, the ADA is the greatest piece of civil rights legislation since LBJ.

English Natsie · « **Reply #2360 on:** April 03, 2025, 03:14:05 am »

Rather delayed, for the US (broadcast on CNN on 3/9), but the BBC have just broadcast 'Twitter - Breaking The Bird' - an insightful exposition of misguided tech utopianism (although if you really want this, then you have to see the great Adam Curtis' 'All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace'), and how not to run a business. Ironic to hear Twitter's founders saying that social media just might have been a mistake, and that we need to 'move on to something else'. Genies and bottles...

imref · « **Reply #2361 on:** May 01, 2025, 08:51:33 pm »

Rumbling that The Bear season 4 drops on June 15

English Natsie · « **Reply #2362 on:** June 03, 2025, 01:37:10 pm »

Caught up with the latest 'American Experience' - 'Mr Polaroid', which examines the life, and career of Edwin Land. It examines how Polaroid photography foreshadowded today's self-image driven society. I felt the end section was a little rushed and, therefore, rather weak - other than mentioning 'technological change' it doesn't really explain how Polaroid went from $60 per-share to 28 cents per-share. I suspect that the program-makers didn't feel they had enough material for a longform, but that the shortform didn't quite give enough space. Still worth your time.

imref · « **Reply #2363 on:** June 18, 2025, 04:26:46 pm »

The Bear, season 4, drops next Wednesday.

imref · « **Reply #2364 on:** July 17, 2025, 08:23:21 pm »

CBS is cancelling the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ending the program all together. It will run through May of next year.

HalfSmokes · « **Reply #2365 on:** July 17, 2025, 08:30:45 pm »

It’s a ton of money for mediocre ratings. Im sure NBC will do the same soon enough

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #2366 on:** July 17, 2025, 11:34:30 pm »

Resident Alien season four is hilarious.

blue911 · « **Reply #2367 on:** July 18, 2025, 08:05:50 am »

Quote from: imref on July 17, 2025, 08:23:21 pm

CBS is cancelling the Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ending the program all together. It will run through May of next year.

It’s stale and the late-night talk show has been replaced with podcasts. Long form interviews seem to be the fashion.

Natsinpwc · « **Reply #2368 on:** July 18, 2025, 12:49:35 pm »

Quote from: blue911 on July 18, 2025, 08:05:50 am

It’s stale and the late-night talk show has been replaced with podcasts. Long form interviews seem to be the fashion.

You can say that for virtually everything the networks do nowadays.

imref · « **Reply #2369 on:** July 18, 2025, 01:20:20 pm »

the three 11:30 PM shows still draw a lot of viewers, but not in the 18-49 demo:

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CBS’s Late Show was the only show among the nine tracked by LateNighter to draw more total viewers in Q2 than it had in the first quarter of 2025—although just barely, with the show growing its audience by 1% quarter over quarter. All told, the Stephen Colbert-hosted show averaged 2.42 million viewers across 41 first-run episodes, comfortably outpacing ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! (1.77 million) and NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (1.19 million). In the advertiser-coveted 18–49 demo, however, Kimmel surged ahead with 220,000 viewers—his strongest performance in a year—edging out Colbert (219,000) and leaving Fallon (at 157,000) in a distant third.

https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-tv-ratings-q2-2025/