Dolfan in NYC Posted January 1 Posted January 1 No one watches TV any more. Or at least, no one watches broadcast TV. Well, it's finally time we updated this thread and make the change official. And to celebrate this fact: MTV has officially shuttered all of it's dedicated music channels 1
J.H. Posted January 1 Posted January 1 I was bored last night and decided to watch Tales of the Gold Monkey. Forget that stars noted piece of shit Stephen Collins, the show was fun and I'm genuinely stunned it lasted 1 season. James 1
Craig H Posted January 1 Posted January 1 Another year where I cross my fingers for just one more season of Justified and I swear I won’t ask for another one.
odessasteps Posted January 2 Posted January 2 2 hours ago, J.H. said: I was bored last night and decided to watch Tales of the Gold Monkey. Forget that stars noted piece of shit Stephen Collins, the show was fun and I'm genuinely stunned it lasted 1 season. James Lasted longer than Bring Em Back Alive and other Indiana Jones themed pulp tv shows.
odessasteps Posted January 2 Posted January 2 (edited) Corporate Synergy can used for Good Edited January 2 by odessasteps
J.H. Posted January 3 Posted January 3 (edited) I couldn't sleep last night so I started watching Chicago P.D. I'm on episode episode 6 and they wasted no time crossing over with L&O: SVU. Dick Wolf just churns out watchable television but I still miss Jerry Orbsch. Ice-T remains Ice-T regardless of who he plays. I think the last movie/TV show he flexed as an actor was Surviving The Game. James Edited January 3 by J.H. 1
Contentious C Posted January 3 Posted January 3 1 hour ago, J.H. said: was Sirvivinh The Ga.e. This bundle of typos looks like it would be Ice-T's kid's rap name. I started watching Entourage last night. I can only guess it's because I hate myself. 1
Curt McGirt Posted January 3 Posted January 3 I can see Ice being the one rapper to take one look at his kid rapping, or saying "Dad, I wanna rap" and responding "Yeah, you're not gonna do that."
Greggulator Posted January 3 Posted January 3 Long Story Short on Netflix is a really special show. It is a cartoon from the guy behind Bojack Horseman. (I never watched it.) It is about a Jewish family from the San Francisco area. It crosses across several decades — the 90s, the 00s, touches on COVID. The matriarch (Lisa Edelstein) feels a bit tropey as the overbearing domineering Jewish mother but as someone married into a Jewish family hahahaha it’s funny because it’s true. The dad (Paul Reiser) is a former hippie turned math professor, which is also such an accurate trope from my experience as a member at a reform synagogue with my Jewish family. The children are great and also so well formed. The oldest Avi was a music nerd in high school in the 90s (“Asphalt” is the band on the poster) who is now a divorced dad. The middle daughter Shira (Abbi Jacobsen) is a disaffected teen eventually married to a black woman (Kendra, an awesome supporting character with her own episode.) Yoshi is the youngest son who hasn’t figured out things out yet. It has a lot of really funny and touching family moments. But it also isn’t afraid to be silly like having a high school infested with wolves. I really love this show. 1
J.H. Posted January 3 Posted January 3 (edited) 13 hours ago, Contentious C said: This bundle of typos looks like it would be Ice-T's kid's rap name. I started watching Entourage last night. I can only guess it's because I hate myself. I make my fair share of typos but this one I'm blaming on the stroke I had back in November. Oh yeah, I had a stroke in November James Edited January 3 by J.H. 1
Contentious C Posted January 4 Posted January 4 (edited) I just saw Renee Goldsberry on TV and didn't know she was part of the original Hamilton cast. I just know her from Altered Carbon. Remember that show? Remember when Netflix said they couldn't make any more because it was too expensive? Yeah. Yeah. Also, I didn't know it was possible to find a way to make S1 of True Detective creepier, but then I started a rewatch on Rust's daughter's birthday. Edited January 4 by Contentious C
Curt McGirt Posted January 5 Posted January 5 CBS staff are having big problems with their apparatchik new boss apparently. She wanted to shitcan a 60 Minutes piece about the prisons in El Salvador and their conditions, and a big deal was made of it, now apparently its going back on the air sometime soon. Apparently. You can read about all of it here. (I know this is skirting the political line but hey.) https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/05/bari-weiss-cbs-news
Technico Support Posted January 6 Posted January 6 (edited) 16 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: CBS staff are having big problems with their apparatchik new boss apparently. She wanted to shitcan a 60 Minutes piece about the prisons in El Salvador and their conditions, and a big deal was made of it, now apparently its going back on the air sometime soon. Apparently. You can read about all of it here. (I know this is skirting the political line but hey.) https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/05/bari-weiss-cbs-news I didn't read the full story because everything is too depressing nowadays, but didn't CBS news issue a mission statement type thing saying that news has been dominated by "academics" and "elites" (LOL dogwhistle much?) for too long, essentially signalling that they're going full-on Fox News/Newsmax/OAN? The slippery slope from "news organizations are kid-gloving this administration because they're owned by corporations who don't want any trouble" straight to "fuck it, let's just do propaganda to curry favor" is distressing. Edited January 6 by Technico Support
Curt McGirt Posted January 6 Posted January 6 The academics and elites things is in the article IIRC. I mean, CBS is just a satellite property of the regime and all their news is filtered through a regime apparatchik above Bari Weiss, she is just the first layer in propaganda/censorship, so there is no slope. We are on level ground. The only difference is that people on the inside are fighting it. 1
Chaos Posted January 6 Posted January 6 I began the year by slowly going through Scrubs, as I've seen a lot of episodes but never done a completionist watch, and I'm hopeful to be close to finishing all of it by the time the reboot drops. I'm about 10 episodes into Season 1, and I am surprised how well the humor has aged. It's been some of my biggest laughs in quite some time with just the little bit I've rewatched.
RIPPA Posted January 6 Posted January 6 Agatha Christie's Seven Dials This one is infuriating because it is 3 episodes so too much for a movie but not enough to really be a TV series
hammerva Posted January 7 Posted January 7 The biggest thing about CBS News being state run media is whether it will impact the rest of CBS that isn't news related. I mean I am sure people can avoid things like CBS Mornings and CBS news and while they probably don't want to they can avoid 60 minutes. But the real thing is whether they are going to go after all of CBS and just turn the network into a larger version of Fox Nation.
Curt McGirt Posted January 7 Posted January 7 Fox Nation doesn't have soaps or local news. I think. I really don't know what it has on it.
Mister TV Posted January 7 Posted January 7 3 hours ago, hammerva said: The biggest thing about CBS News being state run media is whether it will impact the rest of CBS that isn't news related. I mean I am sure people can avoid things like CBS Mornings and CBS news and while they probably don't want to they can avoid 60 minutes. But the real thing is whether they are going to go after all of CBS and just turn the network into a larger version of Fox Nation. Going from the promo's I see during football, isn't most of the CBS lineup copaganda and NCIS shows? How further right could they go?
Technico Support Posted January 7 Posted January 7 4 hours ago, hammerva said: The biggest thing about CBS News being state run media is whether it will impact the rest of CBS that isn't news related. I mean I am sure people can avoid things like CBS Mornings and CBS news and while they probably don't want to they can avoid 60 minutes. But the real thing is whether they are going to go after all of CBS and just turn the network into a larger version of Fox Nation. 1 hour ago, Mister TV said: Going from the promo's I see during football, isn't most of the CBS lineup copaganda and NCIS shows? How further right could they go? YES. Their streamer, Paramount+, is seemingly nothing but right-coded Tyler Sheridan shows already. No idea how we got Mayor of Kingstown, which is about racial inequality, dirty cops, judicial system unfairness, etc. from the same guy. Probably Hugh Dillon has more of a hand in creative. It'll probably be cancelled.
hammerva Posted January 7 Posted January 7 Maybe they have already changed it but the biggest example that I can think of is FBI where the main characters are two cops where one is a woman (red flag for them there) and the other is a Muslim (sound the alarm for them there)
J.H. Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Chicago PD S3E2 - Never jas show felt like a back door pilot than this. I mean, if Dick Wolf wanted to L&O: Chicago, this is where the blue print would be.
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