I remember visually where I was standing when I first heard the CBC Radio announcer describing this piece of music he was about to play. It wasn't so much music like a song, but a tone. Somebody had invented, or discovered this tone that sounded like it was rising higher and higher, forever. It...
I don't know if it is the greatest or dumbest idea, but Why so extreme? Can't it just be ok. You mean meh? I've never used meh. That Emoji Movie has me thinking of meh. I even posted a long birthday message about hearing meh from a ffriend who's birthday today happens to be. On Facebook, it tells...
Spoilers: possible Spolier for The Good Place.
The following video is not one of my own, nor is it anything I am related to in any way, except that I loved it and always forget where it is or how to find it, so I posted it here for reference when I want to show it to somebody else. It is not only a...
We're a few months into the 2016 seson, and a few shows have already been cancelled. It's time to list the shows I still watch weekly. In no particular order The Daily Show with Trevor noah Full Frontal with Samantha Bee @Midnight (occasional) TMZ (occasional)...
One of my favourite genres of Television for the past few years, is the murder show. The hour long dramas that come on at 9 or 10pm and start with a discovery of the body scene. I've blogged before about those scenes, and I still wonder if they are written and sold...
In the 1987 TV series Max Headroom, which apparently took place 20 minutes into the future, a lot of technology was displayed. One of the neat idea that stucjk with me over the years was the "Blipverts". These were a new format TV commercial on Network 23 that...
It's Monday, and that's a bit later than usual for me to watch this past weekend'd Saturday Night Live. It's been a pretty consistent Sunday morning ritual, but toady I was a day late. Â The first thing I noticed when they said Big Dick and it really looked like he...
I just finished watching the ABC Fall Preview and writing a blog review elsewhere. I find my PVR has also recorded the Global TV Fall Preview too, and since I'm in the writing mood, I decide to check it out. In Canada, Global TV is one of the big networks but it buys...
It's the weekend before all the new shows of the fall start to appear on the TV schedule, and so I decided to sit down and watch the ABC Fall Preview episode. Since I started my medication Tom lessen my obsessive tendencies, I watch a lot less TV than I used to. I...
I have a very social relationship with many of my clients, having served them often for over 20 years now. One client of mine that I consider a friend, has a 19 year old son with amazing talent, and has recently started down the path of a singing career.As is the...
I was watching this week's episode of Agents of Shield and an evil genius has rounded up a bunch of criminally insane super Villains, like so many comic books plots from history. An ugly man takes off his BAIN type face mask and yells a loud screen in the middle of a...
iZombie is a new show on The CW. I like the comic book style credits they use to do scene transitions and some effects that would be too costly to work out. It's a great idea. It makes me believe this may be based on a comic. I didn't bother to look up whether it is...
I just finished watching this week's 2014 Christmas edition of Saturday Night Live. It's odd to feel cheated that hardly any celebrities showed up this year. The only cameos were three former SNL Characters - so far anyway. The demographically perfect boy band One...
It's Thanksgiving Monday as I write this, and I've taken it as a day off from work, so I am treating it like a Sunday. Typically Sunday has been the day if the week I watch some TV. I try my best to keep a balanced diet of television variety, which includes hour long...
One of the things I noticed about the CSI series of TV shows, was how they like to use situations from the news, and mix their murder mysteries into new and creative stories. Quite frequently, I find myself wondering how this effects the real crime world. They've...
I am about to watch the third episode of Forever. Before I start with the traditional dead body reveal scene, I wanted to acknowledge the overall change I'm witnessing in the new series television dramas this year. At least in the few I've watched so far, they seem...
I watched the series premier of Scorpion last week, and blogged about how I was concerned that the time may have passed for the nerd drama> Too much of the audience knows the tech is fake these days, and it spoils their enjoyment of the show when they do silly...
Every once in awhile when I'm watching a television show, and my mind thinks ahead and figures out how it's going to end, it makes me remember my dad. My memories of him have pride attached. Like a good son, I looked up to him, and respected how smart he was, and how...
I found myself watching another episode of an old show I'm not proud to admit to; Whodunnit. As is often the case, I find myself thinking about TV on two or more different levels. I can enjoy a show for it's plot, or acting, or other ideas. I often explain my...
For the first time ever, a magician won America's big summer talent show; America's Got Talent. Judge Howard Stern has been campaigning for more than three years on his morning Sirius Satellite radio show for America to vote more for variety acts than singers. Like...
A few summers ago, during the slow summer season when hardly anything new is on TV, I started binge watching The Highlander series every day on one of those obscure higher package cable channels. I have always been a fan of time travel stories, and although immortals...
I'm watching the premier episode of Scorpion as I write this. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2419510784/tt3514324?ref_=tt_ov_I It's a federal agent crime drama where the lead characters are a group of super smart, uniquely talented under 30 year old nerds, recruited by...
It's new TV week. I sat down this evening to watch and review the new network TV show about Mrs. Clinton called Madam Secretary. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3501074/ It's probably not really about Hilary although the main star looks a lot like a younger version of...
I've been watching more YouTube videos than regular television this summer. Tonight I was watching a two part episode of the educational video series; Vertasium. In week one, he showed a number of science physics things. The one I'm writing about first, was the...
Sometimes, educational TV takes a different approach. It teaches us important life lessons, and helps us socialize. There is a TV show on every night that I strongly recommend everyone watches. Each episode is only 15 minutes, but the lessons it delivers is essential...
Sometimes, I feel guilty over laughing at comedy. A lot of it is mean. The mean stuff often makes me laugh, despite the understanding that a real person is the butt of the joke. Comedy often attacks real people. I believe there is a law that lets them rip apart...
I've been watching a TV show called perception, which in many ways is just another in the long line of buddy cop shows that have come along in the past three years. You've no doubt seen at least one odd pairing of police, FBI or CSI and their helpful, off the books...
TV inspires me to pause and blog often. I used to enjoy watching TV with someone, so we could pause and chat, but now that I live alone this is my compromise. I share with my blog. Today I watched the opening pre-title scene of a recent NCIS episode. (Yes, maybe that...
The World Evolves. The medium used to be the message, but today the audience is the author. The world is the medium and the message. Media is finally created by, and received by both parties. The watcher is the content producer. Reality TV now exists in multiple...
In no specific order, these are shows that I watch every week. It's a crazy amount. King and Maxwell Jimmy Kimmel Live The Originals Body of Proof Lost Girl Supernatural Daily Show Brooklyn 99 Person of Interest CSI NCIS NCIS LA This hour has 22 minutes Rick...
America's Got Talent I was watching Nick Cannon on AGT, when he admitted a comment, and instantly realized, or else a producer did and yelled at in his earpiece. I think Nick Cannon just said; if you want to go to heaven, vote for these guys. I watched the facial...
Sometimes I think about my stories, and how I'll be remembered in the future. Life is long, but other people's lives are infinite. As my friends grow older and have kids, it makes me wonder what their life will be like. Their future. I remember back to my childhood,...
Wow. A lot of people smoked this week on TV. On Saturday Night live, at least three times. On Hero's, MAD TV, and on Studio 60. People I'd never seen smoking were smoking.I wonder who paid who.
Warning. These writings are often streams of consciousness, and it is entirely possible I won't get to describing how that title is relevant before the mood passes and I stop, almost always in the middle. It's who I am. It's what I do.At least for now, if I were to...
