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Showing posts with label hbo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hbo. Show all posts
Thursday, June 15, 2017

Inside Comedy on Cable

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Two new television series have popped up recently exploring the world of stand-up comedy - "Crashing" on HBO and "I'm ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

The Monsters Are Back

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In this season of " Penny Dreadful ," we have moved beyond the world of the penny dreadful and into the one of its American coun...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Terminator Genisys

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Terminator Genisys ~ There's a joke we have frequently when I run superhero role-playing games, because it's a storytelling dev...
Friday, October 09, 2015

Same Old Same Old

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With the end of this summer's "Big Brother," featuring the dumbest cast of housemates in over a decade, it's time for t...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Blunt Talk and Tunes

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This past week featured the premiere of the new Starz series "Blunt Talk" starring Patrick Stewart and created by Jonathan Ames...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Showtime's Spoiler Problem

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Showtime isn't HBO, not by a long shot, but they really want to be. There's one thing they could be doing that would bring them ...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Entourage the Movie

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HBO makes this promise a lot, and usually it only happens with "Sex and the City," never stuff we really want like "Deadwo...
Friday, March 13, 2015

The Jinx Obsession

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I admit it, it snuck up on me. I like documentaries and used to groove on CourtTV when it was still around, but I didn't think I co...
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Thursday, March 12, 2015

Bosch

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I never would have believed it when I first got my Kindle Fire, but it's true. Amazon Prime has been a wonderful source of quality e...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Betas

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Yeah, so I have a new Kindle Fire, and instead of doing something useful like reading books, I've been binge-watching Amazon Prime wi...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

What I Liked in 2014

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There was a lot to like this year and a lot to dislike, but I'll try to keep this positive. In television this year we probably w...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

BoJack Horseman

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Most Netflix TV series get a lot of publicity like "House of Cards," "Orange Is the New Black," or the recent tragic ...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014

Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart

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Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart ~ Before CourtTV , before O.J. Simpson, this was the trial that in the age of tabloid television...
Monday, August 18, 2014

The Hobbit 1966

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I was surprised to find this treasure on YouTube as I had never heard of such a thing before. This twelve-minute short from 1966 is ind...
Friday, August 08, 2014

Garfunkel and Oates

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I love the comedy team of Garfunkel and Oates. I dug their digital show on HBO a few years back, and was delighted to hear they were ge...
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

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Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley ~ I know I must have seen her or heard her at some point, growing up in the late 1960s and 1970s, but...
Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Rio 2

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Rio 2 ~ Other than being very colorful, having some great Brazilian carnivale music, and explaining exactly what was going on in Angry ...