Tag: television
RIP Don LaFontaine, King of Voiceovers
HidingFromGoro.
Posted to Media on Tue Sep 02, 2008 at 12:17:18 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Don LaFontaine, the "movie trailer voiceover guy" has passed away at age 68 due to complications from a collapsed lung. He'd done work for over five thousand movies.
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jPod: Score One For Canadian TV?
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Posted to Media on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 08:14:58 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Somewhere deep in the cube farm of a Vancouver, BC corporate megalith that "resembles, but legally no way is Electronic Arts" lies a group of videogame programmers known as Jpod. As a group they're younger, more attractive, closer-knit and slightly more screwed up than most software engineers. Moreover, they spend an entertaining but unrealistic amount of work time dealing with family issues and Chinese gangsters. Wait, what?
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Picture It...
thefadd.
Posted to Media on Mon Aug 04, 2008 at 03:34:37 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Dreams of one final reunion are now down the drain as Estelle Getty has passed on. The actress best known for her role as the wise-cracking Sophia on Golden Girls has passed away.
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Breaking The Matrix
thefadd.
Posted to Media on Mon May 12, 2008 at 06:50:46 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The Ron Paul inspired cable network Break The Matrix has been picked up by independent cable operator Bay Country Communications out of Maryland. The infant network's strategy includes hooking up with the so-called "independent" cable operators who serve 12 million American households.
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Television - the medium that everyone loves to hate... and loves
skeeter1.
Posted to Media on Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 12:32:08 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
I was a product of the '50s, when television was just becoming popular. All we had then was Black & White, but without, I'd never have seen the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the wonder of the first lunar landing in 1969. Later on came color TV, and with it the horrors of the Vietnam War, the god-awful vision of 9/11/01, and countless other news events.
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It's February 20th, 2009 And Why The Hell Can't I Get Jerry Springer On My TV Set?
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Sat Apr 12, 2008 at 10:40:32 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
If you're a TV viewer who isn't hooked up to cable or satellite services, you might be in for a big surprise on February 19th of next year. That's the magic date when television broadcasters will stop sending analog signals. Therefore, if you're picking up your transmission through your own house antenna or rabbit ears on an old analog box, you won't be seeing anything after February 19th. Unless, of course you have a new box with a digital tuner in it or you're a cable or satellite customer (they're doing all the conversion work for you). This is not a date which has been creeping up on us unannounced. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been letting the public know of the upcoming transition for years.
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The Best TV Series ... EVER!
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 02:40:13 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The HBO series, The Sopranos was recently brought to a sudden end with the truncated crooning of Steve Perry. Perhaps not the best ending ever (or maybe it was) but the series is rated highly by those who followed it over eight seasons, not to mention TV critics. This raises the question of, if not The Sopranos, then what TV series qualifies as the greatest EVER?
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Grey's Anatomy Prepares To Give Birth
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Posted to Media on Sat Feb 24, 2007 at 07:10:02 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The list is short but august: Mork From Ork, George Jefferson, Fraser Crane -- all these characters were stars of spinoff series, beginning their fictional lives on other programs and then moved to new ones. Though once a common practice ("All in the Family" spun off so many shows that even its spinoffs had spinoffs), the practice has been increasingly rare. But now ABC might return to the glory days, by spinning off the neonatal surgeon Addison Shepherd character into her own prime time series.
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24: Tutoring Torture to the US Military?
Acefantastik.
Posted to Media on Thu Feb 15, 2007 at 08:34:41 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
By the time you comment in this thread, Jack Bauer may have already tortured you.
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Colts Beat Bears, 29-17
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Posted to Sport on Mon Feb 05, 2007 at 09:53:01 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Most of you probably watched Super Bowl XLI. If not for the game, then for the ads, or to watch Prince do the halftime show, or just to have an excuse for a party.
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A weekend of Holiday television
Steve Urkel.
Posted to Media on Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 09:24:31 PM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.
We've brain-jammed about best and worst gifts, what are the best/worst Christmas specials? Warning: some links are in this story are satirical.
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