Tom Holmberg

It's weird when they keep having dead people selling products, like Larry King still advertising prostate supplements. Zombie advertising. Colonel Sanders doesn't bother me as much. Even though he was a real person he was also TV character of sorts.

Hopefully he was upright when he passed.

My mother would do that with corned beef hash, slice the hash into patties, then fry them like a burger and serve on a bun. Actually not too bad.

I thought they've done those already, but maybe I'm mixing it up with another series.

Mad Men (TV Milestones Series) Gary R. Edgerton ISBN: 9780814345467 This one-stop primer offers a succinct analysis of one of the most skillfully produced, artistically innovative, and culturally resonant scripted series in modern television. It opens by explaining how Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015) functions as a representative example of much deeper and more profound structural changes happening in television since the 2000s. Gary R. Edgerton highlights influences driving the creation of the show, including creator Matthew Weiner's personal connections to the subject matter and the development of the main character, Don Draper (Jon Hamm). Analysis of the show's story progression is delineated by a pivotal shift from a culturally relevant Zeitgeist phenomenon to a narrative more concerned with Draper's introspective and existential journey to reconciliation and self-awareness. Cultural reflections are also explored with interrogations of privilege and prejudice, the American Dream, ethnicity, race, gender politics, and class as witnessed through the program's complex and conflicted characters. Following its debut, Mad Men quickly became a bellwether of contemporary culture. The award-winning series set the creative standard in drama over the span of its initial run and is now recognized as a milestone in the history and development of scripted television. Throughout its seven seasons, the series struck a delicate balance of being both complex and cerebral while also entertaining and accessible, a balance that Edgerton skillfully carries over to this book. *** The Television Genre Book, 4th Edition Glen Creeber ISBN: 9781839022081 This key textbook on television genre brings together leading international scholars to provide an introduction to the debates, issues and concerns of the field. It introduces the concept of 'genre' and how it is understood in television studies, and then addresses the nine main televisual genres: drama, soap opera, comedy, children's television, news, documentary, reality television, animation and popular entertainment. The Television Genre Book has expanded to reflect the ways in which TV has altered radically in recent years, particularly with the arrival of online streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max and Amazon Prime. This 4th edition is now: 1. llustrated in colour throughout with international case studies of classic and contemporary programming from each genre. 2. Covering horror, political thrillers, Nordic noir, sadcom, historical documentaries, docu-drama, reality television and consumption in the age of streaming. 3. The sport section is significantly extended to include hybrid sport, professional wrestling and sports documentary. 4. Including case studies on Stranger Things, Killing Eve, The Crown, Chernobyl, Black Mirror and Fleabag.

Will & Grace (TV Milestones Series) Tison Pugh ISBN: 9780814349069 The sitcom Will & Grace (1998-2006, 2017-20) forever shifted the media landscape and its treatment of queer themes by starring an openly gay protagonist, Will Truman, on primetime network television. Will, along with his best friend Grace Adler and their constant companions Jack McFarland and Karen Walker, engaged in many stereotypical sitcom shenanigans imbued with decidedly queer twists. Despite the series' groundbreaking nature, its accuracy and responsibility in representing gay men-and of queer culture in general-has been questioned throughout its initial run and reboot. Author Tison Pugh places the sitcom in its historical context of the late 1990s and early 2000s, considering how it contributed to contemporary debates concerning queer life. Will & Grace returned in the Trump era, offering viewers another chance to enjoy the companionship of these quirky yet relatable characters as they grappled with seismic shifts in the nation's political climate. Pugh demonstrates that while heralding a new age of queer representation, characters across the series were homogenized through upper-class whiteness to normalize queerness for a mainstream U.S. audience. In negotiating protocols of network television and the desires of audiences both gay and straight, this trailblazing series remains simultaneously haunted by and liberated from longstanding queer stereotypes.

The Teeter guy's been advertising that thing for at least 20 years, I believe. But he is proof that white guys can't jump.

I think its cute, I've seen a lot of babies doing that. Not sure what they think they are doing, but they seem to enjoy it.

Maybe Einstein taught him?

Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream David J Brokaw ISBN: 9780813197845 Post-World War II America has often been mythologized by successive generations as an exceptional period of prosperity and comfort. At a time when the Cold War was understood to be a battle of ideas as much as military prowess, the entertainment business relied heavily on subtle psychological marketing to promote the idea of the American Dream. The media of the 1950s and 1960s promoted an idealized version of American life sustained by the nuclear family and bolstered by a booming consumer economy. The seemingly wholesome and simple lifestyles portrayed on television screens, however, belied a torrent of social, economic, and political struggles occurring at the time. By the late 1950s, television writers were increasingly constrained to distract audiences from confronting counternarratives to the Dream. Among the programs that railed against this trend was Rod Serling's television masterpiece The Twilight Zone. Now considered an enduring classic, the allegorical nature of the show provides a window into the many overlooked issues that plagued Cold War America. In Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream, David J. Brokaw describes how the TV show reframed popular portrayals of white American wish fulfillments as nightmares, rather than dreams. Brokaw's close reading of the show's sociopolitical dimensions examines how the series' creators successfully utilized science fiction, horror, and fantasy to challenge conventional thinking – and avoid having their work censored - around topics such as sexuality, technology, war, labor and the workplace, and white supremacy. In doing so, Brokaw helps us understand how the series exposed the underbelly of the American Dream and left indelible impressions in the minds of its viewers for decades to come.

I thought it interesting he could be sucked into "90210", but not "Babylon 5".

At the time this was originally on, I was obsessed with everything spy-related. So obviously the Bond films (which we would take the El downtown to the Loop to see in a first-run theater the weekend they opened). TV shows like Man from UNCLE, Get Smart, the Avengers, The Prisoner, Wild Wild West, Amos Burke, Secret Agent (which wasn't very good), etc. Also comics like Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD and books like the Nick Carter series, even had the spoof, Israel Bond, Oy Oy Seven books.

Now we can still hope they'll run the "Blondie" series

I heard today that (HBO) Max is going to make a TBBT spin-off following Leonard and Penny as parents.

Is the Saturday movie still one movie in a film series?

With this ad and Groundskeeper Willie, is there some stereotype I'm unaware of?

Early morning Sat. April 22, they are showing "Start the Revolution Without Me" a sort of "Airplane"-like take off on historical romances, starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland. Has one of my favorite movie lines: Gene Wilder: "...One day I shall be King!" Donald Sutherland "And I shall be Queen!"

And don't use if you are allergic to drug commercials.

Dr. Loveless is my favorite TV villain of all time. Michael Dunn was a very interesting person. When you see Dr Loveless singing with Antoinette in the show Dunn and Dorin are recreating their singing act they did in nightclubs. He had a great deal of talents. Apparently he lived with chronic pain from his medical conditions.

Hempvanna?

Ross Martin upstaged Conrad as well.

Not to insult Conrad's acting, but a lot of the villains upstaged him because their characters were more melodramatic (I'm looking at you Dr. Loveless).

The message of the ad is positive: embrace your differences, and its nice that Amazon made it, but it doesn't make me want to buy anything from Amazon. Maybe at this point Amazon doesn't feel it needs to get people to come and buy stuff, they'll do it whether Amazon advertises or not.

I have a moderate to severe pain in the ass from all these drug ads.

Unless its Ozempic