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Jimmy Kimmel Live pulled after FCC threat over Charlie Kirk joke | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/news/780471/disney-abc-jimmy-kimmel-live-charlie-kirk
Disney and ABC have pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off air “indefinitely” after FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to pull the broadcast licenses of any station that aired his show over comments Kimmel made about the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk.
#charliekirk #latenight #maga #television #tv #uspolitics
archive.org #37719

NBC’s “Whitney” and CBS’s “2 Broke Girls” : The New Yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2011/11/28/111128crte_television_nussbaum?currentPage=all
The problem is that “Whitney” is a terrible show, though in ways that resonate with our culture’s debates about women and humor. Like so many comedians on TV, Cummings plays an off-brand version of herself, an acerbic photographer with a live-in boyfriend. She resists pressure to marry; she and her dude bicker over household habits; they party with friends at a local night club. But, while Cummings is lacerating and deadpan, her fictional avatar reminds me less of Roseanne, or even of Silverman, than of someone much older: Lucille Ball.
#cbs #comedy #entertainment #nbc #television #whitneycummings
archive.org #19830

Ars cracks TV Fringe code - Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/04/ars-cipher-expert-cracks-tv-fringe-code.ars
"Ars' own Julian Sanchez has deciphered a code embedded into the TV show Fringe. Bad Robot, the production company that created the Fox TV show, has been integrating puzzles and easter eggs into shows like Lost for years. Fringe, its freshman sci-fi/mystery which resumes Tuesday night on Fox, presented a particular challenge to viewers. It integrates a series of visual clues before commercial breaks. Sanchez determined that these images represented a simple cipher, building up to a single word per episode tying into the theme of that show."
#codes #cyphers #entertainment #fringe #television
archive.org #12124

Thats Incredible

http://www.rtnville.com/show_pages/thatsincred.html
"Following in the footsteps of "Real People" (1979), this show took a look at the more unusual sides of nature, medicine and human endeavor. Segments ranged from the uplifting (young people overcoming severe handicaps to lead normal lives) to the unexplainable (a park ranger who had been hit by lightning over 7 times) to the simply stupid (a stunt man jumping a motorcycle over the spinning rotors of 3 helicopters). Popularized the phrase "don't try this at home.""
#80s #entertainment #retro #television #thatsincredible
archive.org #11749

Retro Television Network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Television_Network
"The Retro Television Network (RTN) is a system of television stations primarily airing classic television programming from the 1950s through the 1980s, such as Leave it to Beaver, Kojak, McHale's Navy, Adam-12, Emergency!, and The Rockford Files.The network is specifically designed to air on a digital subchannel for a local broadcast station, allowing channels an easy way to expand their programming options. With the 2009 switch to digital television drawing closer, RTN has added many affiliates in 2007 and 2008."
#entertainment #retro #television #tv
archive.org #11748

Sources: Daisies, Eli Stone and Dirty Sexy Canceled - E! Online

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b69940_sources_daisies_eli_dsm_canceled.html
Damn. The crappy new Knight Rider continues on, yet shows like Pushing Daisies and Wonderfalls get cancelled. ""I think the writers’ strike did it," Chenoweth (Daisies' Olive Snook) tells us tonight of the cancellation. "I think that the ratings for all the shows are poor this year, and it’s not what the networks were hoping for. I’m not sure why ABC decided to ax our show. I know they don’t own us, so I know that probably has something to do with it, but who knows?""
#cancelled #pushingdaisies #sad #television #tv
archive.org #11692

Pushing Daisies: Six Ways Pushing Daisies Made Your Inner Nerd Cry Tears of Geeky Joy

http://io9.com/5089795/six-ways-pushing-daisies-made-your-inner-nerd-cry-tears-of-geeky-joy
"Nerds are renowned the world over for our extensive knowledge of possibly useless trivia, our obsessive devotion to our favorite books and films, and our resulting difficulties communicating with non-nerds. Thanks to modern internet culture, however, these days everyone is a nerd. And nowhere is that more evident than in these great moments from troubled urban fantasy show Pushing Daisies — where our hero is a Jedi wannabee slash zombie rights activist, and our Japanese-speaking heroine reads everything in sight."
#nerd #pushingdaisies #television #tv #youmustwatchthisshow
archive.org #11674

Pushing Daisies: Why Pushing Daisies Is The Best TV Show You're Not Watching

http://io9.com/5072618/why-pushing-daisies-is-the-best-tv-show-youre-not-watching
All of you bastards out there need to start watching this show. "I wish that headline wasn't true, but the ratings back me up; not enough people are watching ABC's Pushing Daisies. Bryan Fuller's secretly twisted yet romantic detective show may bring the dead back to life on a regular basis, but it also goes out of its way to prove Isaac Newton and Stan Lee right every week as well. Hilarious, more cynical than you might expect and with the best ensemble cast on television right now, we're giving you four reasons why it's time to put your preconceptions aside and get onboard the Pie Wagon before it's too late."
#entertainment #pushingdaisies #shows #television #tv
archive.org #11621

A Lamentation for TechTV

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/technology/circuits/03POGUE-EMAIL.html
The new channel is really very sad. TechTV, with all its original shows and filler, was quickly taking over as one of my standby channels. I'll miss the real content they had on TSS.
#television
archive.org #2739