#CBS’ 1973 Saturday night lineup, crafted by iconic programmer Fred Silverman, is still remembered as one of the greatest lineups ever assembled.
8:00: All in the Family
8:30: MASH
9:00: The Mary Tyler Moore Show
9:30: The Bob Newhart Show
10:00: The Carol Burnett Show
Keep in mind that there was no streaming, no recording & watching later, no extra airings. You had to be there at your tv on the night to watch it... and people did, in big numbers.
Today, June 1, 1890, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond meet struggling artist Vincent van Gogh, as they investigate a strange figure in one of Van Gogh's paintings of a church (Doctor Who, “Vincent and the Doctor”, s05e10, 2005)
In case you didn’t catch it, Neil Gaiman pointed us by tweet to this post of George R.R. Martin’s about the state of TV writing today. Explains a lot in regard to the strike. Read it even if you never intend to write for TV or even scripts!
Today, May 30, 1962, Don and Peggy Draper spend Memorial Day at the country club. Don struggles with how he is perceived (Mad Men, s02e06, "Maidenform", 2008)
Marvelous Mrs Maisel is over! Season 5 was a return to form and I really enjoyed it. I'd be here for a spinoff following the adventures of the neurotic over-achieving daughter, who sets off on a road trip in 80s America during which she plays in a post-punk band, invents the internet and averts nuclear war a few times. Later she trains a large language model on recordings of her mother's comedy act. The resulting AI starts WW3.
A single, supersized (90-minute) episode of "Succession" remains, and there's a lot to wrap up. Vanity Fair has identified all the burning questions and dangling plot threads, from whether Kendall's name was underlined or crossed out, to what happened to the cruise documents Greg didn't shred. And then there's the real point of it all: Who will run Waystar Royco? Add your thoughts to the comments!
It’s boggling that capitalism actually rewards the destruction of art. Seeing Disney become the second company to delete content in the name of tax write offs is just gobsmacking. Sure, Willow was bad TV. But should it really be good for a company to put it in a wood chipper?
In Australia, Channel Seven was particularly notorious for doing this.
As a result, there's a whole heap of Australian Rules football footage from the 1980s where the only known existing copy is off the VHS tapes recorded by some guy in the outer suburbs of Melbourne:
"A chance discovery by historian Armin Richter at a trash and treasure market ... saved thousands of hours of footy history.
"At the Wantirna market in 2004 he hit the jackpot.
“'One stall had 10 tapes which had 80s football written on the spine, which I bought. I asked the seller if he had any more and he said he had picked up a bunch from hard rubbish and had more at home.'
"Richter went to the seller’s house later that day and was amazed to find there were another 160 tapes. He quickly snapped them up for $140 and headed home to find if there was anything on them of interest.
“'It was complete episodes of football shows that I had been looking for more than 15 years,' Richter recalls.
"Even better, they‘d all been taped on long play, so each tape had more than seven hours of footage. Richter now had more than 1000 hours of football replay and panel shows spanning from 1983 to 1992, his sweet spot of footy fandom."
Today in 1917, Raymond Burr was born in New Westminster, B.C.
He appeared in 50 films from 1946 to 1957 including Rear Window.
From 1957 to 1966, he starred on Perry Mason & from 1967 to 1975 on Ironside.
Nominated for nine Emmys, he won twice.
He died in 1993.
"Ted Lasso" has never foregrounded music in the same ways as "Stranger Things" or "Yellowjackets." But in the most recent episode, Nick Cave's Milton-inspired "Red Right Hand" entered the locker room. Here's a look at why the creators might have chosen such a distinctive song.
#Google just announced that going forward, any account not logged into for two years gets deleted.
This means huge amounts of rare or unique #video is about to disappear from #YouTube as accounts get flagged as inactive, such as when the user dies. Families' #HomeMovies (often posted by an older relative for their family's benefit), historical footage, rare #television clips, etc. What an incalculable loss to human #history and culture!
If there are videos important to you on someone else's video channel, find a way to download them. And if you have rare #media of historical importance, consider leaving it to institutional #archives or lending it to archives for digital preservation.
The Ingenious One
Love Between Fairy and Devil
Love like the Galaxy
Back from the Brink
Till the end of the Moon
This is more than a 100 episodes! And then recently I found out that there will be a second season of Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty (happy dance) so that's going into the list!
#China produces dramas at a crazy pace and I don't think I can keep up lol.
"97.85% of WGA members voted to...collectively declare, 'Enough is enough. Fuck you and you and you and you. You can’t buy another mansion while we can’t even pay our rent — not if you want us to keep providing you content.'”
ARTICLE: 'The WGA Is On Strike — Here’s Why We’ll Win'