It's kinda of a naughty show. And for some reason I liked it too. However I live my life differently though....LOL I just don't see it lasting either.
Paired with Weeds on Showtime, the premise could work. Shame it isn't on cable.
What are you watching this summer?
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What will I watch?
Baseball, baseball, and more baseball.
Baseball, baseball, and more baseball.
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Category 5 wrote:What will I watch?
Baseball, baseball, and more baseball.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz . . . . . . .
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24 will take place in the year 2017(4 years ahead of Season 6) when it returns in January. Jack Bauer will be 52. 
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06202008/tv ... 116271.htm
Back to You was canceled over a month ago, LOL.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06202008/tv ... 116271.htm
Back to You was canceled over a month ago, LOL.
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Brent wrote:24 will take place in the year 2017(4 years ahead of Season 6) when it returns in January. Jack Bauer will be 52.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06202008/tv ... 116271.htm
Back to You was canceled over a month ago, LOL.
Yeah, and you know how much I keep up with this stuff! You're the walking TV encyclopedia, and I'm your polar opposite. I never know what's going on!
After missing a whole year, I can't wait for 24 to return! I still have a long wait, though. I don't watch squat these days. Astros, news... that's about it.
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Cracks Showing in SAG Ranks?
In a move that will no doubt cause some serious cracks in SAG support among the rank-n-file, influential actors Tom Hanks and George Clooney are showing support for AFTRA, the smaller actor’s union, in its decision to make a deal with the AMPTP, a deal that SAG leadership doesn’t like. Members of AFTRA will vote to ratify the deal in the first week of July, according to Hollywood trade paper Variety.
Other actors also showing support for AFTRA are Academy Award winner James Cromwell, Emmy winner Mike Farrell, Morgan Fairchild, Tess Harper and Richard Masur. Masur’s support for AFTRA’s deal with the producers is a real blow to SAG’s cause because he was a one-time president of the Screen Actors Guild. He and the other actors on board with AFTRA are claiming that SAG, in its unbending demands, “hold(s) us all hostage.” They also are alleging that SAG’s actions will create a business shut down that the industry can ill affored at this time, especially after such a prolonged WGA strike, which lasted four months.
SAG has a membership of 120,000 while AFTRA counts 70,000 members with 40,000 of those having joint-membership in the two unions.
According to a written statement from those actors supporting AFTRA — “AFTRA has made a good deal,” the letter said. “In fact, under the circumstances, it’s a very good deal. As did the DGA, WGA and AFTRA net code deals, the AFTRA Exhibit A deal establishes important new principals and even improves on those deals.”
“AFTRA will almost certainly step back and let SAG attempt to make a deal without them,” the letter went on to say. “AFTRA will not go back to the table with SAG, no matter what the SAG leadership is saying — you just can’t spend years openly vilifying another organization, destroying their work, and still expect them to come back and work cooperatively. AFTRA will let SAG go in with its list of demands (that none of the other unions got) and hold us all hostage.”
Two other top stars, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, are also urging SAG leaders to be more open about looking at AFTRA’s deal and seeing if compromise can’t be negotiated in order to thwart a possible strike after the SAG contract expires on June 30.
In a move that will no doubt cause some serious cracks in SAG support among the rank-n-file, influential actors Tom Hanks and George Clooney are showing support for AFTRA, the smaller actor’s union, in its decision to make a deal with the AMPTP, a deal that SAG leadership doesn’t like. Members of AFTRA will vote to ratify the deal in the first week of July, according to Hollywood trade paper Variety.
Other actors also showing support for AFTRA are Academy Award winner James Cromwell, Emmy winner Mike Farrell, Morgan Fairchild, Tess Harper and Richard Masur. Masur’s support for AFTRA’s deal with the producers is a real blow to SAG’s cause because he was a one-time president of the Screen Actors Guild. He and the other actors on board with AFTRA are claiming that SAG, in its unbending demands, “hold(s) us all hostage.” They also are alleging that SAG’s actions will create a business shut down that the industry can ill affored at this time, especially after such a prolonged WGA strike, which lasted four months.
SAG has a membership of 120,000 while AFTRA counts 70,000 members with 40,000 of those having joint-membership in the two unions.
According to a written statement from those actors supporting AFTRA — “AFTRA has made a good deal,” the letter said. “In fact, under the circumstances, it’s a very good deal. As did the DGA, WGA and AFTRA net code deals, the AFTRA Exhibit A deal establishes important new principals and even improves on those deals.”
“AFTRA will almost certainly step back and let SAG attempt to make a deal without them,” the letter went on to say. “AFTRA will not go back to the table with SAG, no matter what the SAG leadership is saying — you just can’t spend years openly vilifying another organization, destroying their work, and still expect them to come back and work cooperatively. AFTRA will let SAG go in with its list of demands (that none of the other unions got) and hold us all hostage.”
Two other top stars, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, are also urging SAG leaders to be more open about looking at AFTRA’s deal and seeing if compromise can’t be negotiated in order to thwart a possible strike after the SAG contract expires on June 30.
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Category 5 wrote:What will I watch?
Baseball, baseball, and more baseball.
And when baseball is not on I will watch people talk about baseball,
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Brent wrote:24 will take place in the year 2017(4 years ahead of Season 6) when it returns in January. Jack Bauer will be 52.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06202008/tv ... 116271.htm
Back to You was canceled over a month ago, LOL.
Can't wait! 24 FTW!
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The show has become a bit cheesy ever since David Palmer left the white house in Season 3. But I like cheesy. I like screaming at the TV when a favorite character comes to the rescue (Tony), or dies (Tony), or comes back from the dead (Tony). Super excited for the show's return.
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lurker_from_nc wrote:Cracks Showing in SAG Ranks?
In a move that will no doubt cause some serious cracks in SAG support among the rank-n-file, influential actors Tom Hanks and George Clooney are showing support for AFTRA, the smaller actor’s union, in its decision to make a deal with the AMPTP, a deal that SAG leadership doesn’t like. Members of AFTRA will vote to ratify the deal in the first week of July, according to Hollywood trade paper Variety.
Other actors also showing support for AFTRA are Academy Award winner James Cromwell, Emmy winner Mike Farrell, Morgan Fairchild, Tess Harper and Richard Masur. Masur’s support for AFTRA’s deal with the producers is a real blow to SAG’s cause because he was a one-time president of the Screen Actors Guild. He and the other actors on board with AFTRA are claiming that SAG, in its unbending demands, “hold(s) us all hostage.” They also are alleging that SAG’s actions will create a business shut down that the industry can ill affored at this time, especially after such a prolonged WGA strike, which lasted four months.
SAG has a membership of 120,000 while AFTRA counts 70,000 members with 40,000 of those having joint-membership in the two unions.
According to a written statement from those actors supporting AFTRA — “AFTRA has made a good deal,” the letter said. “In fact, under the circumstances, it’s a very good deal. As did the DGA, WGA and AFTRA net code deals, the AFTRA Exhibit A deal establishes important new principals and even improves on those deals.”
“AFTRA will almost certainly step back and let SAG attempt to make a deal without them,” the letter went on to say. “AFTRA will not go back to the table with SAG, no matter what the SAG leadership is saying — you just can’t spend years openly vilifying another organization, destroying their work, and still expect them to come back and work cooperatively. AFTRA will let SAG go in with its list of demands (that none of the other unions got) and hold us all hostage.”
Two other top stars, Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep, are also urging SAG leaders to be more open about looking at AFTRA’s deal and seeing if compromise can’t be negotiated in order to thwart a possible strike after the SAG contract expires on June 30.
This is exactly why I have very little concern about an actors strike. I just don't see it happening(and a strike authorization vote has not happened yet, that will probably not be til Mid-July at this rate and it takes 75% to approve it, which I see as very unlikely). The SAG has put themselves in a very bad spot here.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 52825.html
Cut! Actors' strike threatens to bring Hollywood to a standstill
By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
To have one trade union paralyse Hollywood was strange; two doing it in quick succession feels like carelessness. A threatened walkout by actors, which could begin as early as next week, is throwing major film and television studios into chaos.
The contract dispute, this time between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and their white-collar bosses, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), is causing what industry experts have called a "virtual strike".
Production deadlines for dozens of major projects have been scrapped amid growing signs that the SAG, which has 120,000 members, will fail to resolve its dispute before a deadline for industrial action on Tuesday next week.
Most major film shoots are now either being put on hold, or wrapping-up early to avoid disruption.
"No one is doing anything that finishes after 30 June, and nobody's starting anything now," one lawyer representing actors told The Hollywood Reporter. "This is the impact of a strike already."
Victims of the crisis include Sir Ridley Scott, who has delayed filming his Robin Hood remake, Nottingham, until late summer. Martin Scorsese, Peter Jackson and Steven Soderbergh are meanwhile rushing to finish their current projects by 1 July. Those films are Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, The Lovely Bones and The Informant.
Other stars who are likely to have a busy week include Will Ferrell (currently working on Land of the Lost), together with Seth Rogen (Observe and Report), and the James Bond actor Daniel Craig.
The entire cast of High School Musical 3; GI Joe; When in Rome and Disney's Race to Witch Mountain are also racing to complete shoots before any picket lines appear.
At issue in the SAG dispute are almost 70 elements of a proposed new contract with the major studios that is being haggled over at AMPTP's headquarters in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. Bones of contention are said to include payments for film and video clips screened online, the issue that was at the heart of the previous writers' dispute.
With no resolution on the horizon, several major projects are planning to suspend actual filming and work on special effects for however long it takes to resolve the dispute. The Transformers sequel is about to begin a planned hiatus, along with Angels & Demons, the follow up to The DaVinci Code.
On television, the autumn season for dozens of network shows, which was already knocked out of schedule by the 100-day writers' crisis, now faces renewed chaos. The hit show Gossip Girl is in the middle of filming its second series. Army Wives, Saving Grace, The Closer and Monk are also mid-production, while 24 has decided not to chance its arm and cancelled an entire year of shows.
Whatever happens, the "summer of discontent" could not have come at a worse time for an industry that is counting the cost of its first strike in 20 years.
The Milken Institute, a Californian economic think- tank, recently estimated that the state would already lose about $2.1bn (£1.07bn) in output as well as 37,000 jobs by the end of the year.
"Even if the actors strike doesn't happen, there is already an economic impact going on which is currently affecting production schedules," said the study's author, Kevin Klowden. "Even a smaller strike would slow down the recovery."
The dispute has gained added importance in trade union circles because SAG's smaller rival union Aftra recently concluded contract negotiations with the AMPTP. In a Monty-Python style dispute, SAG is now attempting to prevent Aftra's members endorsing that deal.
"We're frustrated and discouraged that the talks have stalled because SAG's Hollywood leadership is focused on its campaign to interfere with the affair of a fellow union," said AMPTP's spokesman, James Hiestand, yesterday. "The producers remain committed to avoiding another harmful, unnecessary strike and to reaching another fair and forward-looking labour agreement."
Whatever happens, those worst hit by any disruption will be actors and technical staff. The Actors Fund, a charity that assists film-industry employees who have fallen on hard times, said yesterday that it has received 800 requests for support already this year, more than four times its usual level.
"Usually we give out $250-$350,000 a year in emergency financial assistance in Los Angeles," said a spokesman. "This year, we've already given out $1.2m. If this new strike happens, it will be devastating for people."
George Clooney recently donated $25,000 to the Actors Fund, but other major stars are actively lobbying to prevent the strike. Tom Hanks recently took a full-page advert out in Variety urging both sides in the dispute to mend their differences, while T R Knight, the star of Grey's Anatomy (another show that begins filming this week) told a recent interviewer: "I support my union, but I'm hopeful that it's going to resolve this because it's not time for another strike."
The turmoil may also spill over into the political arena. California's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger – who is a SAG member – was the subject of a heated editorial in yesterday's Los Angeles Times criticising his failure to intervene in the dispute. "We saw how you handled the writers' strike... It was, frankly, kind of a girlie- man performance," it read.
Cut! Actors' strike threatens to bring Hollywood to a standstill
By Guy Adams in Los Angeles
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
To have one trade union paralyse Hollywood was strange; two doing it in quick succession feels like carelessness. A threatened walkout by actors, which could begin as early as next week, is throwing major film and television studios into chaos.
The contract dispute, this time between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and their white-collar bosses, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), is causing what industry experts have called a "virtual strike".
Production deadlines for dozens of major projects have been scrapped amid growing signs that the SAG, which has 120,000 members, will fail to resolve its dispute before a deadline for industrial action on Tuesday next week.
Most major film shoots are now either being put on hold, or wrapping-up early to avoid disruption.
"No one is doing anything that finishes after 30 June, and nobody's starting anything now," one lawyer representing actors told The Hollywood Reporter. "This is the impact of a strike already."
Victims of the crisis include Sir Ridley Scott, who has delayed filming his Robin Hood remake, Nottingham, until late summer. Martin Scorsese, Peter Jackson and Steven Soderbergh are meanwhile rushing to finish their current projects by 1 July. Those films are Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, The Lovely Bones and The Informant.
Other stars who are likely to have a busy week include Will Ferrell (currently working on Land of the Lost), together with Seth Rogen (Observe and Report), and the James Bond actor Daniel Craig.
The entire cast of High School Musical 3; GI Joe; When in Rome and Disney's Race to Witch Mountain are also racing to complete shoots before any picket lines appear.
At issue in the SAG dispute are almost 70 elements of a proposed new contract with the major studios that is being haggled over at AMPTP's headquarters in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles. Bones of contention are said to include payments for film and video clips screened online, the issue that was at the heart of the previous writers' dispute.
With no resolution on the horizon, several major projects are planning to suspend actual filming and work on special effects for however long it takes to resolve the dispute. The Transformers sequel is about to begin a planned hiatus, along with Angels & Demons, the follow up to The DaVinci Code.
On television, the autumn season for dozens of network shows, which was already knocked out of schedule by the 100-day writers' crisis, now faces renewed chaos. The hit show Gossip Girl is in the middle of filming its second series. Army Wives, Saving Grace, The Closer and Monk are also mid-production, while 24 has decided not to chance its arm and cancelled an entire year of shows.
Whatever happens, the "summer of discontent" could not have come at a worse time for an industry that is counting the cost of its first strike in 20 years.
The Milken Institute, a Californian economic think- tank, recently estimated that the state would already lose about $2.1bn (£1.07bn) in output as well as 37,000 jobs by the end of the year.
"Even if the actors strike doesn't happen, there is already an economic impact going on which is currently affecting production schedules," said the study's author, Kevin Klowden. "Even a smaller strike would slow down the recovery."
The dispute has gained added importance in trade union circles because SAG's smaller rival union Aftra recently concluded contract negotiations with the AMPTP. In a Monty-Python style dispute, SAG is now attempting to prevent Aftra's members endorsing that deal.
"We're frustrated and discouraged that the talks have stalled because SAG's Hollywood leadership is focused on its campaign to interfere with the affair of a fellow union," said AMPTP's spokesman, James Hiestand, yesterday. "The producers remain committed to avoiding another harmful, unnecessary strike and to reaching another fair and forward-looking labour agreement."
Whatever happens, those worst hit by any disruption will be actors and technical staff. The Actors Fund, a charity that assists film-industry employees who have fallen on hard times, said yesterday that it has received 800 requests for support already this year, more than four times its usual level.
"Usually we give out $250-$350,000 a year in emergency financial assistance in Los Angeles," said a spokesman. "This year, we've already given out $1.2m. If this new strike happens, it will be devastating for people."
George Clooney recently donated $25,000 to the Actors Fund, but other major stars are actively lobbying to prevent the strike. Tom Hanks recently took a full-page advert out in Variety urging both sides in the dispute to mend their differences, while T R Knight, the star of Grey's Anatomy (another show that begins filming this week) told a recent interviewer: "I support my union, but I'm hopeful that it's going to resolve this because it's not time for another strike."
The turmoil may also spill over into the political arena. California's Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger – who is a SAG member – was the subject of a heated editorial in yesterday's Los Angeles Times criticising his failure to intervene in the dispute. "We saw how you handled the writers' strike... It was, frankly, kind of a girlie- man performance," it read.
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Watched Weeds last night, episode 2 of Season 4.
I didn't recognize Celia Hodes in one scene (where she's all dolled up). LOL!
Didn't think I'd feel sorry for Celia but I did when she appeared in heavy makeup, with tears.
Getting used to the new setting. Adding the cranky father-in-law and bedridden great grandmother to the mix are good.
But I miss Conrad!
My favorite Weeds character has to be Doug. Glad to see he's still in each new episode. They have to keep Doug!
I didn't recognize Celia Hodes in one scene (where she's all dolled up). LOL!
Didn't think I'd feel sorry for Celia but I did when she appeared in heavy makeup, with tears.
Getting used to the new setting. Adding the cranky father-in-law and bedridden great grandmother to the mix are good.
But I miss Conrad!
My favorite Weeds character has to be Doug. Glad to see he's still in each new episode. They have to keep Doug!
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fact789 wrote:Wipeout and I Survived A Japanese Gameshow are on tonight!!! Its been too long. Finally!
Yeah, finally!
Also watching the premiere of Celebrity Family Feud, America's Got Talent, and Hell's Kitchen. How I will watch it all I'm still not sure.
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Brent wrote:fact789 wrote:Wipeout and I Survived A Japanese Gameshow are on tonight!!! Its been too long. Finally!
Yeah, finally!
Also watching the premiere of Celebrity Family Feud, America's Got Talent, and Hell's Kitchen. How I will watch it all I'm still not sure.
lol Its possible. I might skip Americas Got Talent since its still in auditions.
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fact789 wrote:Brent wrote:fact789 wrote:Wipeout and I Survived A Japanese Gameshow are on tonight!!! Its been too long. Finally!
Yeah, finally!
Also watching the premiere of Celebrity Family Feud, America's Got Talent, and Hell's Kitchen. How I will watch it all I'm still not sure.
lol Its possible. I might skip Americas Got Talent since its still in auditions.
I'm probably going to record Wipeout and Japanese Game Show, watch Celebrity Family Feud, Hell's Kitchen, and like last week, only the 2nd hour of Talent at 10.
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http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/b ... -nonsense/
Please note this was edited from the original . .
For days and weeks and now minutes ago, I've been bombarded with lists of name actors who are supporting either AFTRA's AMPTP contract ratification or else SAG's effort to get AFTRA to renegotiate. (Seriously, is someone going to choose how to vote just because AFTRA paraded Tom Hanks and Sally Field or SAG trotted out Jack Nicholson and Holly Hunter?) Then there are the letters, the membership emails, and all the other nasty missives back and forth between the union heads, most of which I've decided against posting for now. I'm sick of it, truly sick of it. This is not news. This is meaningless spin. There's a reason I am sitting out these propaganda games underway between AFTRA and SAG -- because only the AMPTP wins. What I am doing is putting the final touches on a SAG/AFTRA/AMPTP package of urgent news and information that Hollywood needs to absorb. For those who are impatient for the posts, please understand that they represent a lot of research and analysis and fact-checking. Just know I'm working around-the-clock. My goal is the same since the start of all these guild negotiations: to chronicle how Hollywood talent collectively bargains in the face of impossible odds since a handful of Big Media moguls control the movie and TV business and hold all the power.
Please note this was edited from the original . .
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Wipeout! Great show. 5/5 stars. Continuous laughs. Not to be missed
I Survived A Japanese Game Show. Good show. Game show wasnt the best. If thats what the Japanese watch I feel sorry for them, no offense. Its interesting that many Japanese can understand English, and that they dont clap with their hands! I think it could have been produced better. 4/5 stars.
The second hour of America's Got Talent. The real standout was the last act, the Elvis Impersonator. Loved that act. 100% real. 4.5/5 stars over all for this hour.
Wipeout! Great show. 5/5 stars. Continuous laughs. Not to be missed
I Survived A Japanese Game Show. Good show. Game show wasnt the best. If thats what the Japanese watch I feel sorry for them, no offense. Its interesting that many Japanese can understand English, and that they dont clap with their hands! I think it could have been produced better. 4/5 stars.
The second hour of America's Got Talent. The real standout was the last act, the Elvis Impersonator. Loved that act. 100% real. 4.5/5 stars over all for this hour.
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I thought Wipeout! was very funny, very much like the show MXC. I was laughing for some parts of it. The NJ thing was awesome (something about 3 people on top of each other?).
I have to yet to see "I Survived A Japanese Game Show", but I made sure I got it too.
Hell's Kitchen was pretty good, nothing unexpected this week.
I have to yet to see "I Survived A Japanese Game Show", but I made sure I got it too.
Hell's Kitchen was pretty good, nothing unexpected this week.
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