Tom Holmberg

"In 2021, MyPillow founder Mike Lindell offered $5 million to anyone who could disprove his claim that he had data showing voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. Now, he must pay a 64-year-old from Nevada that award, a federal judge ruled Wednesday." https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/22/mike-lindell-election-dispute-decision/ Bet he never pays it.

The add for Harry's razors with the guy complains that because he shaves everyday blades cost him too much, yet he's shaving like an inch of beard off. Every day?

Lucy Show is on Z Living. "Police Squad" is actually funnier than the movies. "Brady Bunch" doesn't really need to be binged, nor does "Mama's Family."

Pastor Jeff & Robin, married in real-life https://screenrant.com/young-sheldon-season-7-pastor-jeff-robin-married-real-life/

On 2/28 H&I will be showing the "Maverick" episode, "Hadley's Hunters" where Bart Maverick meets all the Warner Bros Westerns stars: Will Hutchins from "Sugarfoot", Clint Walker from "Cheyenne", John Russell and Peter Brown from "Lawman", Ty Hardin from "Bronco", and even non-Western, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes from "77 Sunset Strip" (at a livery stable named 77 Cherokee Strip). A typically unusual "Maverick" episode, which did a lot of this sort of thing.

"Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV" Emily Nussbaum ISBN: 9780525508991 The rollicking saga of reality television—an ambitious cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning New Yorker writer Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary”—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump—Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake. In sharp, absorbing prose, Nussbaum traces the jagged fuses of experimentation that exploded with Survivor at the turn of the millennium. She introduces the genre’s trickster pioneers, from the icy Allen Funt to the shambolic Chuck Barris; Cops auteur John Langley; cynical Bachelor ringmaster Mike Fleiss; and Jon Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim, the visionaries behind The Real World—along with dozens of stars from An American Family, The Real World, Big Brother, Survivor, and The Bachelor. We learn about the tools of the trade—like the Frankenbite, a deceptive editor’s best friend—and ugly tales of exploitation. But Cue the Sun! also celebrates reality’s peculiar power: a jolt of emotion that could never have come from a script. What happened to the first reality stars, the Louds—and why won’t they speak to the couple who filmed them? Which serial killer won on The Dating Game? Nussbaum explores reality TV as a strike-breaker, the queer roots of Bravo, the dark truth behind The Apprentice, and more. A shrewd observer who adores television, Nussbaum is the ideal voice for the first substantive history of the genre that, for better or worse, made America what it is today.

I vote, leave Sheldon in Germany permanently.

I liked the series but I thought it wasn't very accessible. I wish the writers had given it another pass.

I would guess anything involving the bowels might not smell so good.

Yep, just proves my theory that legal firms are funding big pharma, so the produce drugs that they can latter sue over.

Yes, some people are falling asleep while others are scared silly.

I think the government should investigate the Barkley's, so much evil occurs in their house! More than a little bit racist in the current way of looking at things.

They could show, for instance, "The Defenders" and cut back on "Perry Mason", which I like, but they show too many in a day.

Was the father Jerry Seinfeld?

The problem isn't just the weight but there's no convenient way for a single person to carry it. No handles or handholds.

Maybe he had a later date with the older woman?

I don't believe in the concept that kids should know better. I know I didn't when I was that age (maybe I still don't).

I think the Chapstik kid is cute and its something a kid would do (but parents wouldn't like).

There doesn't seem to be a pay off to it.

Saw it repeated over the weekend. These don't bother me that much, though couldn't they come up with a new idea?

For viewers today, I think seeing Harvey Korman talking in a German accent unfortunately borders on humor based on his best known work. He actually does an okay job as a villain. Artie also impersonates President Grant.

That doesn't bother me as much as that damned Jardiance song (I don't care who sings it, it's annoying).

"Saturday Night Forever" by Stephen Tropiano and Steven Ginsberg ISBN: 9781493072606 Television history was made on October 11, 1975, when Chevy Chase welcomed America to the first episode of a new late-night comedy and variety show. Featuring cutting-edge humor, an absurdist sensibility, and a scrappy cast of young, talented performers, Saturday Night Live would go on to become one of the brightest stars in the pop-culture firmament, launching such comedy legends as John Belushi, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, Eddie Murphy, Phil Hartman, Will Ferrell, and Tina Fey. Timed to coincide with the show’s Season 50 in fall 2024, Saturday Night Forever is the ultimate fan’s bible and a loving tribute to a TV institution. Covering everything from the show’s creation by Lorne Michaels to the celebration of its golden anniversary, it gives an in-depth look at SNL’s comedic highlights and nadirs, its memorable hosts and musical guests, and its many controversies, along with the characters, sketches, catchphrases, commercial parodies, and film shorts that have made it the epicenter of American comedy for five decades. Packed with photographs and rich with encyclopedic detail, this is the one-stop resource for all things SNL _________ I wonder if the Star Wars Xmas show is included? Christmas TV Memories: Nostalgic Holiday Favorites of the Small Screen by Herbie J Palato ISBN: 9781493079704 For most of us, fond memories of the Christmas season are inseparable from the episodes, specials, and TV movies that have appeared on television, from the iconic cartoons above to less well-known fare such as A Bionic Christmas Carol, Christmas in Rockefeller Center, and the 1992 remake of Christmas in Connecticut directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Christmas TV Memories embraces it all, offering a tinsel-decked traipse down memory lane, chronicling animated classics, variety shows, made-for-TV features, and specific episodes of series like The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Frasier. With celebrity commentary, historic quotes, and insight from entertainment journalists and archivists, this book will serve as the go-to retro literary companion to the small screen’s most cherished holiday programming.

A couple of interesting Star Trek books are due out or were recently published: Star Trek: Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek by Nana Visitor Nana Visitor, Star Trek’s Kira Nerys, explores how the series has portrayed and influenced women. Interviews with the stars, writers, producers, and celebrity fans reveal the struggles and triumphs of women both behind and in front of the camera throughout the sixty-year history of Star Trek, and how they have mirrored the experiences of women everywhere. __________ Lost Federations: The Unofficial Unmade History of Star Trek by A. J. Black In Lost Federations: The Unofficial Unmade History of Star Trek, author A. J. Black tells a different story. This is an alternate history of the franchise, one filled with roads not taken, from early 1960s feature-films and spin-offs, the original sequel Star Trek: Phase II in the 1970s, via epic planned movies such as Planet of the Titans and into many untold episodes, arcs and character stories from The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, all the way through to the modern era. Bringing together pre-existing material over decades for the first time in one space, plus some new reflections from Star Trek writers and analysis of how it all fits into the wider cultural trends of the last sixty years, Lost Federations invites you to boldly explore a history you may not already know . . .

Now Coke is putting out Spiced Coke (apparently it tastes like raspberries, so I don't really get the spiced part). I do like Vanilla Coke (as well as, Cream Dr Pepper).