2025-09-20 15:30:19
Dutch tv show laughs at #Kimmel suspension.
https://www.thewrap.com/dutch-comedy-show-roasts-disney-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-trump/
Dutch tv show laughs at #Kimmel suspension.
https://www.thewrap.com/dutch-comedy-show-roasts-disney-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-trump/
NFL 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/
new season of Man on the Inside.
https://tv.stefanhayden.com/show/74443
Brendan 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
😱 A Guide to Traversing the Furthest Reaches of the Alien Franchise
http://www.vulture.com/article/best-alien-books-video-games-comic-books-tv-show.html
#movies
I 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.
Sadly 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
Post Malone set to headline Cowboys' Thanksgiving halftime show in Dallas https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/post-malone-headlines-cowboys-thanksgiving-show/2211468e41ab99e0c9fc9515…
There are good TV/video creations and then there are the truly awful ones that destroy brain cells.
I am wondering when Hulu will begin promoting a brain-cell-burning show about "The Real AIs of Santa Clara"?
Why have I never seen this sort of shot in a movie or tv show, why?!?!
https://youtube.com/shorts/1URr5NTBesU
Snapchat launches Topic Chats, which enables public conversations on subjects like F1, and plans to use AI and other safety tech to moderate the chats (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/snapchat-rolls-out-topic-chats-for-publ…
The tv at this tire Shoppe is set to local network affiliate.
Holy crap is tv Morning Show insipid meaningless crap. Like my brain wants to escape. Beautiful perky hosts, with big dad joke rizz, showing tiktok videos in between massively distilled news pieces that are so meatless they're vegan.
The meteorologist is the least flake, they actually have a post-sec degree.
Ok thank for mobile devices, I can choose my own brain rot.
Watched 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
This 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…
https://www.compactmag.com/article/how-gay-identity-trumped-gay-sex/
Very little of this article is rooted in reality, which is ironic, given the thesis.
Fox 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
6. The “TV” section of that public Krisworld site promises real live TV, but no sign of that on this A380
7. (Like most airlines, so I shouldn’t pick on Singapore) the “TV” section is just another section of episodes of stuff. Even if “Series” is a whole section. Just like DVD boxsets, but with most seasons missing and episodes within seasons missing — like somebody played “pin the tail on the donkey” for the best top episodes of a show they don’t care about.
8. Where’s the …
Was looking for a new series to start, and knowing nothing about the show - but knowing that there's a character named "Phil McGangus" - well I might could maybe have to look at this
#Deadloch
'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/
In other news, the merger between RT, TASS and NBC has been approved by the FCC... 😏
#censorship #StateRunMedia #news
Must-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…
Jimmy 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…
I 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.
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Goddamn, 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
#UsPol #FreeSpeech #Kimmel
"Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension"
Axios 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…
Temporal Variabilities Limit Convergence Rates in Gradient-Based Online Optimization
Bryan Van Scoy, Gianluca Bianchin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12512 https://
Jimmy 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
Been reading some of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer comic-books, set after the TV shows ended.
It's a very different world with Buffy and Xander being commanders of a whole slayer army with seemingly massive resources, from a castle being attacked by various supernatural forces.
Very different pacing from the TV show too.
You know that episode of Angel where Spike and Angel are running around in Italy chasing after Buffy who now dates The Immortal?
Turns out it wasn't Buffy at all, but one of her decoys that have been deployed around the world. Andrew thought it would be funny to troll the two vampires by pretending she was dating The Immortal.
The artwork is all great, but sometimes a little rough and I find it challenging since I don't always recognize who is supposed to be who, especially as the artists and styles switch from book to book.
Some of the mini stories feel like just pulling the TV show characters back for no good reason.
I hear rumors of a new Buffy TV show starring SMG with no involvement from Joss, and wonder if it'll assume these stories of visiting the future or fighting with an army from a castle base will be retconned out entirely?
It's an entertaining read and nice to visit those characters again, but doesn't feel much like the TV show because it's such a different setting and Buffy is very different as a commander than a school girl.
#reading #comics #buffy
The DMV show on CBS has some really good jokes.
#tv
Future archaeologiists will look at 2025 TV show and wonder if there had been a sudden and widespread famine that only affected actors.
Apple 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/
Disney 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…
In 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”.
I 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.
Line 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
Dear 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 …
Analytic Characterization of $t$-Quasicircles and Conformal Mappings onto $t$-Quasidisks
Xin Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12281 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…
Paramount says Jon Stewart has renewed his contract to executive produce and partially host The Daily Show through 2026 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-new-daily-show-deal-1236416716/
OMG my The Bear opinion isn't fringe 🥲
I LOVE S1. I've made SO many ppl watch it.
I also liked S2.
I absolutely HATED S3. It felt like the writers got too much artistic freedom after their (well-deserved!) success & I had to watch them artistically jerking-off on TV.
https://
Jesus 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.
But 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
Every time I interact with one of these AI-enhaced user interfaces I feel like I'm conversing with a moron who's just huffed a bag of airplane glue. I'm looking at you, Google TV.
Show me the damned ballgame.
Apple 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…
Jimmy 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
An interview with Pluribus creator Vince Gilligan on why he choose Apple TV for his show, the AI disclaimer in the credits, Tilly Norwood, and more (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/pluribus-explained-vince-gilligan-rhea-see…
Tried 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.
There’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
Honestly nothing about Eric Adams surprises me any more.
#FuckEricAdams
Being 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
Nielsen: 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-…
R𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔 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…
SAG-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
Mixed-Derivative Total Variation
Vincent Guillemet, Michael Unser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23995 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23995
Nexstar 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/
Apple 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/
TWENTY 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
Netflix plans to release the Stranger Things S5 finale in 350 movie theaters in the US and Canada from December 31 to January 1, despite previous statements (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne
Subtitle 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
Seventeen 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
The Athletic plans to launch The Athletic Show, a weekly 30-minute show, on Oct. 25, available first on Amazon Fire TV before appearing on Athletic platforms (Drew Lerner/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/athletic/the-athletic-amazon-launch-weekly…
Watched 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
The saddest NFL fan bases after Week 8, plus Brian Kelly's ouster https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6753041/2025/10/27/nfl-week-8-browns-steelers-the-pulse/
"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
Sources: Gayle King, who has anchored CBS News' morning show for over a decade, is expected to leave the program next year; her existing contract expires in May (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/gayle-king-cbs-mornings-anchor-out-1236565036/
In 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
As 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…
Q&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
SAG-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
Watched 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