@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialBrendan Carr says it is "worthwhile to have the FCC look into whether The View" and others qualify as bona fide news programs exempt from equal opportunity rule (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
@frankstohl@mastodon.social
@stefan@gardenstate.socialI did really like this show!
Leviathan Review
A twist on history that feels simultaneously timeless and refreshingly new.
#tv
@davej@dice.campI had an odd childhood memory just pop into my head.
When I was much, much younger, I obsessed over the TV series “In Search Of…” [1976-82] (AKA “Great Mysteries of the World”), and took every word of it as gospel. Leonard Nimoy hosted the show, and I thought, why would Spock lie to me? That would be illogical.
It likely had a greater formative influence on me than I give it credit.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz'You are looking live': On Sunday, CBS throwing back to origins of 'The NFL Today' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6631333/2025/09/19/cbs-nfl-today-brent-musberger-anniversary/
@pre@boing.worldWatched Rick and Morty Season Eight.
Justin Roiland has nothing to do with it any more and Dan Harmon barely seems even mentioned in the credits. So I guess now it's the continuing zombie monster of the show they created. Zombie Rick and Morty for a hundred seasons.
Every episode still very dense with ideas, reality swapping and clones and simulations and false memories.
Liked the last one best, when a memory-Rick tries to escape by driving Beth insane to rescue the last memories of his wife.
Zombie Rick And Morty is still pretty amusing and worth half an hour now and then.
#watching #tv #rickAndMorty
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialIn other news, the merger between RT, TASS and NBC has been approved by the FCC... 😏
#censorship #StateRunMedia #news
@lilmikesf@c.im
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
@jensilber@mastodon.socialThis weekend I heard a song on the radio and had a vague recollection of having seen an episode of a TV show in which that song was used as a plot point... or maybe it was in a movie... or maybe even in a book I read (although the memory felt aural rather than textual). In trying to figure out if I could pin down the show/movie I came across https://www.wh…
@egallager@social.treehouse.systemsI don't want to live forever, I just want to live long enough to... (list in alphabetical order by verb):
- climb every mountain, hill, and cliff
- hug every pillow, plushie, and stuffed animal
- learn every language
- listen to every song, podcast, radio show, and sound effect
- meet every person, animal, and other living being
- play every video game, board game, sport, and musical instrument
- read every book, newspaper/magazine article, website, and social media post
- run every computer program
- sleep on every bed, couch, and futon
- swim in every lake, river, and other body of water
- view every painting, sculpture, photograph, map, and other work of art
- visit every city, landmark, historic site, and protected area
- watch every movie, TV show, video, and theater production
...that all shouldn't take too long, right?
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFox News cancels MediaBuzz with Howard Kurtz, the last media criticism show on TV after CNN's Reliable Sources was canceled; Kurtz will remain with the network (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple quietly cancels the release of Apple TV show The Savant this Friday; its trailer faced backlash for allegedly misrepresenting right-wing ideologies (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/23/apple-tv-the-savant-release-cancelled/
@wraithe@mastodon.socialI hadn’t realized Dr Demento was retiring. I’m glad to find out so I can listen to his show on a Sunday as is apropos.
It was a Sunday evening in the early 80s when I found his show, lazing in my grandfathers office (which was also where the TV and radio were, when I ran across “so long mom (I’m off to drop the bomb)” by Tom Lehrer. Two performers who would be influential in my life.
🫡
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMust-see TV straight into my veins.
‘We should have been shouting about this earlier’: David Tennant on his shocking TV show about phone hacking
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyJimmy Kimmel is back!!
May we please see Trump's face when he hears the news?
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/22/jimmy-kimmel-show-return-charlie-kirk-suspension-disne…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialDutch tv show laughs at #Kimmel suspension.
https://www.thewrap.com/dutch-comedy-show-roasts-disney-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-trump/
@rachel@norfolk.socialhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/23/bbc-to-show-masterchef-series-already-filmed-with-gregg-wallace-and-john-torode of course they are going to show it. They couldn’t give a shit about …
@arXiv_mathOC_bot@mastoxiv.pageTemporal Variabilities Limit Convergence Rates in Gradient-Based Online Optimization
Bryan Van Scoy, Gianluca Bianchin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12512 https://
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAxios plans to launch The Axios Show, a five-episode video series featuring one-on-one newsmaker interviews, in September on its own properties, YouTube, and X (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/axios-show-launch-newsmaker-int…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialA great little overview of the best and worst in historical drama on TV.
This line, about Spartacus: «But it is mainly buttocks. Watch it on fast-forward and it’s like being shot in the face by a pump-action bum-gun.» 🤣
https://www.
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineGoddamn, Jacquis Neal is *such* a good host for Crowd Control, and the show itself is so fun! It always feels fresh and new, mainly because it's unscripted and has new audience members (and comedians) every episode.
https://watch.dropout.tv/videos/this-bush-loves-bush
@elduvelle@neuromatch.social#UsPol #FreeSpeech #Kimmel
"Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension"
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJimmy Fallon Plans to 'Keep My Head Down' and Avoid Politics on 'The Tonight Show': 'We Hit Both Sides Equally' (Jack Dunn/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-fallon-avoid-politics-tonight-show-1236535575/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251001/p11#a251001p11
@cheryanne@aus.socialWhere are our splendidly unique Australian universities? Bare-boned cookie-cutter institutions are not the answer. We need, and deserve, multi faceted and accessible university offerings.
https://region.com.au/canberras-universities-need-to-do-more-than-cut…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu"The Cranberries visited Dutch tv show "2 Meter Sessies" on May 25, 1993 for their first television performance abroad. Two songs in this video: 'I Will Always' [00:51] and 'Wanted' [03:38]."
The Cranberries - I Will Always Wanted (Live on 2 Meter Sessions - 2metersessions
https://www.youtu…
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineFuture archaeologiists will look at 2025 TV show and wonder if there had been a sudden and widespread famine that only affected actors.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney Entertainment TV launches video podcasts as TV series companions, starting with Only Murders in the Building on September 9 (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-tv-video-podcasts-only-murders-in-the-buil…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineThe White House thinks two show runners who just signed a $1.5 billion dollar five year deal are hanging on by a thread? Yeah. Sure buddy.
This is the person in charge of US trade deals? 🤦♂️
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/white-house-s…
@tgpo@social.linux.pizzaWow! There is such an amazing drop off in quality moving from season 4 to season 5 of the US #TheOffice.
The drop from season 3 to season 4 was already huge, but this one truly hits you in the face.
The show peaked in season 1.
#tv
@pre@boing.worldBut mostly I have re-watched Buffy.
If you include Angel, and surely you must, then there's more than 250 episodes in Buffy's world and they're all great. Actual best TV show ever made. Haven't rewatched it since the naughties.
Watched about 150 episodes in the last 3 weeks. 😆
It starts well, reaches a good stride in season two and then gets entirely great around the end of S3 when Ayna turns up and creates the Bored Vampire Willow. Buffy S5 with Glory is the absolute peak. Glory is magnificent.
All the main characters are amazing all the way through, and evolve and grow instead of sticking the same as with most TV. They aren't static caricatures.
The plots story and writing is brilliant, the special effects mostly just rubber masks which age better than any CGI does.
There's vampires and slayers and witches in my dreams and I am loving it.
Nothing since has touched it.
The 16x9 cut of the first two seasons is badly framed though. Watch the 4x3 original TV frame size for sure.
#watching #tv #buffy
@cdarwin@c.imIn one of the two main storylines,
Trump, upset over the impending birth of his unholy lovechild with Satan,
sets a series of convoluted traps to force an abortion,
only for Carr to continually wander into them.
By the end of the episode, Carr,
badly injured and hosting a brain parasite as a result of toxoplasmosis from being buried in a mountain of cat poo,
is at risk of “losing his freedom of speech”.
@Defiance@sfba.socialI want to watch this if for only one reason. To see if it shows any clips from an early 90s interview I swear has been scrubbed from the internet.
iirc (big if), it was an E True Hollywood Story. Could've been Howard Stern's old E show. Anyway, Charlie is clearly high, slurring his words, throughout this interview. Definitely before 1998. '93? '95? It was insane to me at the time that it got on TV.
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioLine from a show set in 1990s: "My boss wants to surprise his daughter with this monster 40-inch Mitsubishi TV."
(City on a Hill, S3 E2, 27:1.)
43" is probably the smallest size TV anyone sells/wants these days. 😀
#quotes #entertainment #TV_Shows #comparison #life #society
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialBei jeder meiner Reaktionen auf eine von Trumps absurden Aussagen oder demokratie- und wirtschaftsgefährdenden Aktionen, habe ich die Befürchtung, dass ich wieder einmal über sein Stöckchen springe, genau das tue, was #Trump will: Aufmerksamkeit. Er inszeniert eine Reality TV Show, Great Television, dass ihm, seinen Clan und seinen Unterstützern in die Hände spielt. Was also tun?
@servelan@newsie.socialWasn't there a TV show (spoilers: Space: 1999) where this was a thing and it turned out not to be a good thing?
Pete Buttigieg's replacement wants NASA to nuke the moon - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/pete-buttigiegs-replacement-wants-nasa-to-the-moon/
@arXiv_mathCV_bot@mastoxiv.pageAnalytic Characterization of $t$-Quasicircles and Conformal Mappings onto $t$-Quasidisks
Xin Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12281 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaDear Mister Language Person: I am curious about the expression, "Part of
this complete breakfast". The way it comes up is, my 5-year-old will be
watching TV cartoon shows in the morning, and they'll show a commercial for
a children's compressed breakfast compound such as "Froot Loops" or "Lucky
Charms", and they always show it sitting on a table next to some actual food
such as eggs, and the announcer always says: "Part of …
@stefan@gardenstate.social'BoJack Horseman' Creator's 'Long Story Short' Renewed for Season 2 #tv
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itHonestly nothing about Eric Adams surprises me any more.
#FuckEricAdams
@nelson@tech.lgbtJesus season 2 of The Sandman is tedious. The comic wasn't exactly uplifting but it was interesting and clever. The TV show is just dolor.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThe Alien TV show should have been a sitcom
@newsie@darktundra.xyzICE Is About To Go on a Social Media and TV Ad Recruiting Blitz https://www.404media.co/ice-is-about-to-go-on-a-social-media-and-tv-ad-recruiting-blitz/
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineApple CEO Cook isn’t pulling an iger and being a coward, is he?
Of course he is.
The Real Reason Apple Postponed New Jessica Chastain Series 'The Savant'
https://parade.com/tv/the-real-reasonjessica-chastain-apple-show-the-savant-p…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJimmy Kimmel to Return to ABC on Tuesday After Show's Controversial Suspension (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-live-return-abc-1236374942/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p121#a250922p121
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialEventually, AI-generated audiences will purchase NFTs offered by AI-generated programs using AI-generated money...
Amazon Invests In 'Netflix of AI' Start-Up Fable, Which Lets You Make Your Own TV Shows
https://slashdot.org/story/444998
@77slevin@social.linux.pizza @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSouth Park will be leaving HBO Max on August 5 after Paramount secured exclusive global streaming rights; HBO Max has been the US home for the past five years (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL regular-season games to be broadcast on free-to-air TV in UK first https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6567076/2025/08/21/nfl-uk-tv-sky-sports-channel-5-dazn/
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialThis is utterly unacceptable. The international Dance community must condemn this loudly and publicly.
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialHoly hell. #Ozzy
From: @…
https://flipboard.com/@cnn/e…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV show parody, saying it opposes replacing performers with "synthetics" (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineWould it not be a good idea if ALL media, newspapers, radio, tv, magazines, podcasts,,etc. were to ignore Trump and his regime for a while? Just don't show up at press conferences at all. Isolate his fragile attention seeking ego.
https://www.t…
@pre@boing.worldBeing stuck with a broken wrist so unable to really do much of the things, I have spend a lot of this month watching TV.
I'm not all that up on Star Wars, so when I watched Season One of Andor I didn't know it was about a man called Andor, I had that name confused with Endor, and so I was distracted by the lack of Ewoks.
No such distraction for season two though, now I know it's about a rebel mercenary and his adventures leading up to him being in Rogue One delivering details about how to blow up a death star.
They all live in the Empire, which is relentless and authoritarian and evil just like the real life empire taking over western civilization now. They persecute and harass poor Andor and his buddies so much that they cause the rebellion against their authority that they intend to suppress.
Great show.
Wonder if all the people arrested wrongfully for doing no real crime in the US and UK and around the west will end up fighting the empire here too?
Still wish there was a series about ewoks though.
#watching #tv #andor
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgTried Murderbot. Nope.
Threw it on the pile of every single other Apple TV show that I have started and not been able to get through one season of.
@wraithe@mastodon.socialThere’s a great bit in “Bojack Horseman” re: a fan asking about a little thing in one of his TV episodes; asking if it had some meaning
Bojack notes “no, someone just left a coffee cup in the shot”
“AI” to me is like “what if we just made a whole show coffee cups!”
https://youtu.be/y9dbO56vl3A
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaOperating system drama is basically YouTube drama but with way more keyboard clacking and less ukuleles. Friends turn into rivals overnight just because of which OS you use. It is wild to see people treat software choices like reality TV show rivalries.
What makes me even sadder is how something that should come from understanding and research turns into a full-blown philosophical fight. Choosing an OS should be about what works for you, not a reason to start a digital soap opera.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNielsen: Jimmy Kimmel Live! drew 6.26M viewers on Tuesday, over 3x its Q2 average, despite not airing in 23% of US homes due to Nexstar and Sinclair blackouts (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-…
@tgpo@social.linux.pizza
@skaverat@skaverat.net#Foundation TV Sries.
aka "Particle physics: the show"
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioWe were having a discussion about the origin of the "Enhance!" trope (when someone in a movie or TV show zooms in on a photo or video still and it stays amazingly high resolution), the first instance I can think of is in Columbo season 4, episode 5 ("Playback") from 1975.
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social @cdarwin@c.imR𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮.
While Dems have been asleep at the wheel, MAGA has launched a surprise attack in the November 2025, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Election.
If Dems lose the PA Supreme Court we never hold power here again
— 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻𝘀𝘆𝗹𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝟭𝟵 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀, 𝙜𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙.
We are 39 days out from this election and MAGA has 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 been outspending us by millions
on TV buys, canvassing, and mail.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNexstar says it will resume airing Jimmy Kimmel Live! tonight (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-fully-back-abc-tv-nexstar-sinclair-1236530517/
@pre@boing.worldTWENTY SEVEN series! Man. South Park continues to be pretty cool too.
Still both fresh and yet familiar. I remain in awe of the consistency of the show over more than half my whole life now.
Stupid cock and fart jokes with an absurd setup which on a second level is mentioning and mocking the true absurdity and violence of real life.
Satan being Trump's lover in a rehash of the Sadam Hussain skit is lovely.
They seem determined to try and get cancelled, but haven't managed that in 27 years. Maybe it's a small-dick joke that'll finally do them in?
Still got half of this season to watch. Seems like it's mostly bi-weekly now? Or every episode is delayed.
#watching #tv #southPark
@arXiv_mathNA_bot@mastoxiv.pageMixed-Derivative Total Variation
Vincent Guillemet, Michael Unser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23995 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23995
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialApple quietly cancels the release of Apple TV show The Savant this Friday; its trailer faced backlash for allegedly misrepresenting right-wing ideologies (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/23/apple-tv-the-savant-release-cancelled/
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialOzzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath frontman and icon of British heavy metal, dies aged 76
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/22/ozzy-osbourne-black-sabbath-frontman-and-icon-of-british-heavy-metal-dies-aged-76
@stefan@gardenstate.socialSadly The Paper is not a good show. Part of all the characters are good. But all the plots are boring and there just is not enough jokes. The scripts just need more work. I hope they figure it out in the 2nd season but it's not looking good.
#tv
@pre@boing.worldSeventeen seasons is a very long run too.
Another eight episodes of the gang all being mean to each other and talking over each other and getting into farcical scrapes.
The dinner party rehearsals were the funniest bit. Slowly A/B testing and audience reaction tests, that's how to make art. 😆
Not sure I'd say the show is mostly funny these days, but their bitching meanness to each other is comfortingly familiar.
#watching #tv #alwaysSunny
@smurthys@hachyderm.io"Nero The Assassin" kills slowly. So slow you won't wait for him to kill you. You'll kill yourself. 🙄
1 Star ⭐
#Netflix #TV_Show #entertainment #review
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOne day after signing a $1.5B deal with Paramount, South Park satirizes Paramount's settlement with Trump, pro-Trump PSAs, and the cancellation of The Late Show (Jenna Amatulli/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/24/south-park-t…
@pre@boing.worldWatched Wednesday S2
The family moves to Wednesday's school after being mind-controlled into organising the gala in a plot for money. So it's almost just an Adams Family series really, other than being at Wednesday's school.
The Hyde monsters and werewolves look great, big cgi animals with absolutely massive round eyes.
Wednesday now has a little redhead mini-me stalking her with a crush and eyes nearly as big as a Hyde.
Wednesday is somehow portrayed as both an outcast and also the hero who saves the day and the school every episode. Which is a problem with hero outcasts.
Tim Burton's magical style suits the Adams Family well. Inspired him probably. Goths look cool. The Addams Family is cool.
Nice they way they wove in a story of how Gomez lost his powers. And link Thing to the big bad, meaning Thing can save the day.
Enjoyed the show a lot.
#watching #tv #wednesday
@ladefuchs@electroverse.tech @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn a post, President Trump criticized ABC for returning Jimmy Kimmel to the air and said he would "test ABC out" as "they gave me $16 Million Dollars" last time (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/trump
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioSubtitle blooper: Jackie (Rohr) says "Ah, the girlfriend" as he looks at the body of Jimmy (Ryan).
And the caption attributes the line to...😅
(City on a Hill, S2 E4, ~15:00)
#blooper #entertainment #TV_Show #Showtime #PrimeVideo
@pre@boing.worldWatched all of "Ghosts US", the American version of the UK spooky sit-com.
There's like seventy episodes that I watched in less than a week. This is how I like telly to be. Relentless.
The show's weaker than the UK one in some ways but that shear continuity, the endless-seeming perpetuity of it, drove it into my brain.
US Ghosts are always trying to cop off with each other. Sexy ghosts. Pairing up. Don't remember much of that in the UK one. Perhaps when you make it 5x longer you're left with little else in the way of story to write.
Anyway, it's over now. I miss it in the way you might miss an infuriating neighbour if they moved out.
#watching #tv
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAs Sinclair and Nexstar refuse to air Kimmel's show, Disney has strong leverage with its ownership of major ABC stations and upcoming affiliate deal renewals (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/sinclair-nexstar-jimmy-kimm…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe #LateShow with #StephenColbert is the most viewed late night TV show in America.
And #CBS #Paramount
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Greg Gutfeld about Gutfeld! becoming the most-watched show in the 10pm ET slot, showing mainstream media "that they don't own the culture", more (Ali Lerman/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSAG-AFTRA criticizes AI-generated actress Tilly Norwood, the subject of a viral UK TV show parody, saying it opposes replacing performers with "synthetics" (Thomas Buckley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe fate of Jimmy Kimmel's ABC show, whose contract ends in 2026, will reveal if Colbert's cancelation was a one-off or a fundamental shift in late-night TV (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/26/cbs-canceling-colbert-raises-late-night-questions…
@pre@boing.worldWatched the new Alan Partridge show on BBC, "How Are You?".
Got a chortle or two from every episode, he's still that same embarrassing cringe character as always. Fun to watch him struggle with reality and, in this case, fail to really grasp mental health.
The character has come a long way since The Day Today and Brasseye. They never would have guessed it back then.
#watching #tv #alanpartridge #bbc
