PBS is airing Bill Cosby’s Mark Twain Prize opposite the World Serious and the Celtics-Timberwolves game.
Maybe the first time in a decade I’ve wished I had a DVR.
Luckily the Cosby tribute will air again late Saturday night (opposite SNL in a bit of in-your-face public programming).
But I’m not sure what the point of showing this [...]
November 4, 2009
Categories: TV . Tags: baseball, Bill Cosby, Mark Twain, NBA . Author: Mark Gisleson . Comments: Leave a Comment
I actually turned on the TV for something other than live sports or news tonight.
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Yeah, it’s weird even thinking about it but ABC was premiering V. It’s not based on the movie (which I liked) but on a ’90s TV show (that I never saw). They promoed an anorexic Morena Baccarin. I was hoping Photoshop [...]
November 3, 2009
Categories: TV, comics, linkcetera, music . Tags: Black Canary, Charlize Theron, douchebags, Los Angeles, Morena Baccarin, Obama, Sting, umami, V . Author: Mark Gisleson . Comments: 3 Comments
So yah, I watched SNL and Tina Fey was funny. The Biden jokes were quite a bit more forced and the Gwen Ifill book shot was cheap but equal time and all, you know? What I don’t know about was the absurdly one-sided skit that followed on the Wall Street bailout that showed only Barney [...]
October 5, 2008
Categories: TV, politics . Tags: Biden, maverick, McCain, Obama, Sarah Palin . Author: Mark Gisleson . Comments: Leave a Comment
I was watching a movie. Broadcast crap, but I was enjoying it. A commercial came on and I started messing around with the computer and made the mistake of opening a recently downloaded video of Vlatko Stefanovski and Miroslav Tadic live in Zagreb, Balkan TV of two virtuoso guitarists. Half an hour later I realized I [...]
July 19, 2008
Categories: TV . . Author: Mark Gisleson . Comments: Leave a Comment
I had a bad experience with my online TV listings service the other day. The listings suddenly switched to a very invasive, very dishonest ad for some bullshit computer security products. I complained, and I’m very happy to say that zap2it responded in a very positive way:
Over the weekend, a company that supplied one of [...]
April 30, 2008
Categories: TV . Tags: idiot box . Author: Mark Gisleson . Comments: Leave a Comment