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3 hours ago, Shermie said:
Don’t understand what’s so ugly or weird about a pirate ship play structure. Those are a standard, although expensive and exclusive, play structure available for parks and backyards. A place near me sells them and my son worked there for a summer, assembling them for buyers.
I'm sure that @LittleIggy and I weren't the only grown adults who saw the pirate ship and thought, "I'll take it!"
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I'm starting to watch this show and therefore started with Episode #3.
Just in case anyone hasn't watched it yet, I won't give away the winner, but that being said:
House #1, the visual direction-giver in me (ie. turn left at the first intersection after you see X) would be using it as a landmark.
House #2, I want to be a kid again just for the backyard. I also hope the owners get on good terms with the local FD.
House #3, that one part of the kitchen was pretty neat.
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Just a theory: Maybe FN wants to air the rest of the new episodes of Beat Bobby Flay by the end of the year, so rearrange the schedule a bit so the usual Thanksgiving primetime programming is holiday competition-related and keep running those episodes on Thursday primetime through the end of the year since, conveniently, Christmas Eve and New Years Eve are also on Thursdays. Then burn BBF episodes on a night that usually doesn't feature him except when he's made appearances on Chopped, which is especially handy if there aren't any Chopped episodes in the can and he can't complain they aren't in weekday primetime.
After all, there could be worse time slots to air those BBF shows, as can be testified by people involved with shows that get dropped and the remaining episodes get sent to the scheduling equivalent of Siberia.
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Multiple media outlets are reporting that Bobby Flay is leaving the Food Network after 27 years.
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His name is Eduardo Garcia.
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18 hours ago, sharifa70 said:
That made me absurdly happy. Glad to help! 😄
Another Cox Cable customer here who just learned something...
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And now it's the episode with Dan and the CO2 tank.
@Mondrianyone, sorry. Since the cold brew coffee episode was being shown again, and I remember watching it when it was first aired and thought it was way too much work for such a limited result, that I made sure to watch it again. Still have that impression.
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1 minute ago, biakbiak said:
For me it’s not even the time it’s the amount of beans! Serious Eats used half that amount for a quart and it’s great.
I don't drink coffee but I've made it for others and the amount of beans caused me to raise an eyebrow. Made me wonder if Erin prefers her coffee really strong.
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On 6/30/2021 at 10:49 PM, Mondrianyone said:
This only aired here last Saturday. It reminded me of the demo where Erin (?) made two cups' worth of cold-brew coffee using like a pound and a half of beans and a week or so of steeping time. Were they going nuts in quarantine, or are we just being punked?
That episode (S21, Ep5, also included fried eggs and yeasted waffles) was just broadcast on one of the PBS stations I get.
Medium roast coffee beans (7 oz if you weigh, 2 1/2 cups if you don't have a scale), 12-72 hours of steeping (she did 24), and then several more hours of going through a filter to make a concentrate that can keep in the fridge for up to a week. But it definitely was an involved process to make 2, maybe 3 cups of cold-brew coffee.
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I haven't seen the Aperol Spritz segment, and I've never had said beverage, but "First, go get a tank of Carbon Dioxide" is not exactly warming me up to try whatever recipe is being suggested.
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I guess that also means three more years of Hunter Fieri?
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26 minutes ago, bad things are bad said:
wonder if the bad ratings are a knock-on effect from the streaming service? People can watch whatever on demand, so the network airings are less compelling
Streaming, people cutting the cable cord, people getting outside more, stale programming, and most attempts to launch something new fail so therefore sticking with the stale programming.
If I was an FN exec I'd be a bit concerned.
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16 hours ago, dubbel zout said:
Did they do this in the Kimball era? I can see him thinking QVC is beneath him, but Jack seems pretty pragmatic about the business.
Looking at the reviews on QVC's website for previous cookbooks the earliest they go back is the summer of 2016, when Chris was already gone (the infamous lawsuit over Milk Street was filed in October 2016). So while I cannot say it definitively, I'd say it is very much likely ATK hooked up with QVC after Chris went bye-bye.
That being said, when an ATK cookbook shows up on QVC Julia is going to be the rep and they're always going to put her on the channel's most watched show, In the Kitchen With David, which is on Sundays.
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Julia was just on QVC selling a cookbook devoted to salads; she shows up several times a year selling cookbooks, now via Skype but previously she'd make the trip to West Chester, PA to be there in person.
Can't blame ATK for partnering with QVC; at the end of the 10 minute presentation they had sold close to 3000 cookbooks. More than once I've seen an entire allotment of 5000 ATK cookbooks sell out during that same timeframe.
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On 2/26/2021 at 3:02 PM, AllAboutMBTV said:
chessiegal: I have a friend who works on ATK, and said friend told me that two of the presenters did not use their own kitchens. (One used a studio kitchen, the other rented one). It's pretty easy to tell on air as their kitchens are about as personal as a hotel room. My friend did not say why they didn't use their own kitchens, but were I one of them I, too, would have to rent a kitchen as mine is too small and not designed for filming (anything I'd do at the stove would be with my back to the camera as there's no room to film from the side of the stove). Logistics!
Watching an episode right now, I'd bet Bridget is one of the presenters not using her own kitchen, and may be the one using the rental (she's making Tuscan white bean and escarole soup, S21, Ep9).
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On 3/16/2021 at 2:56 PM, pdlinda said:
So, then, the next question becomes: WHO, at the top (or medium) level management at FN decides to operate the show that way??? With all the "social justice" promotions everywhere on the network (the contestants have always come from infinitely different backgrounds YAAAA with wonderful stories about their family history), wouldn't the next step in the evolution of the "culture" of the show be to jack up the compensation for the contestants and pay for their expenses?? How can management be so selfish, short sighted and self-absorbed???
I wonder if it has something to do with what @xaxat mentioned above about how certain game shows like Jeopardy don't pay expenses. Although with Jeopardy in particular, think of the fun they'd have since they don't know how long someone is going to be sticking around. At least with a show like Wheel of Fortune, you're done in a day, but even then think of how many episodes they tape each season.
With a show like Chopped, how do you do it if you've got a contestant coming in from across the country and another from 10 miles away? One's expenses are going to be a lot more than the other's. Establish a top dollar limit with a sliding scale based on distance? Offer everyone a stay in the hotel of the network's choice but limit the number of days and guests they'll cover? Give everyone, regardless of where they're from, a per Diem for a set amount of days? They'd definitely have to include a means for a contestant to waive any expense coverage. Increase the prize money and maybe make sure every contestant walks out of there with at least something, a la Jeopardy?
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On 3/15/2021 at 11:36 AM, Kemper said:
If they would do British movie festivals for Pledge Week(s) ... I would gladly donate. The Doo W** and Oldies shows ran their courses years ago; have seen the Broadway specials many times. And of course, they always go to some form of Downton Abbey show. Suze Orman, yoga (which I loved the first 15 times I saw it), improving brain health, etc.
Has PBS simply given up on having fundraising shows that a lot of people would enjoy and pledge their money for? Have they lost the rights to the Masterpiece Mysteries? My area also has multiple PBS channels ... and the pledge shows are still always the same.
I don't know...apparently a couple of weeks of rerunning old shows is a good tool to raise money.
Around last May or June (sorry, can't remember exactly when), one night in the wee hours of the AM, WETA ran a pledge show featuring INXS at Wembley.
It's back to normal programming for the DC/Baltimore stations next weekend, so there is a light at the end of the tunnel.
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6 hours ago, bad things are bad said:
I find it mindboggling that there are people who would actually subscribe to a streaming service because they want to watch Robert Irvine. Apparently not enough of them, though.
Probably more than one FN viewer:
Robert Irvine's coming back! Yay!
Oh, I have to pay for a streaming service to watch him?
Well, I don't need to watch him that badly.
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18 minutes ago, nitrofishblue said:
One more thing bugs me. They appear to waste a ton of money on the mystery basket items. Last week wss an example of that. In the entree round they gave the 3 chefs the most gorgeous full rack of rib. One rack was enough to feed all. Instead the chefs used less than half of it. What happens to the now unused portions of rib steak? It is not cooked so the crew can't eat it. They give the chefs entire whole fish. Yes, this tests the chefs ability to break down the fish but so much goes to waste. It makes me cry at times to see how much great ingredients go to waste when a chef uses so little of the item.
I wonder if they do that so just in case something goes haywire with a chef's Plan A, they have something available for a possible fast Plan B depending on how much time is left.
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On 2/24/2021 at 10:43 PM, Gramto6 said:
Just a thought, what with Covid and so many restaurants closing, maybe the chefs are going into different directions and the pool is shrinking. Sad but maybe true....
Also, what is the lead time on filming? It may have been done when states, especially east coast ones, were slapping travel restrictions on other states, as in you show up here, we want you to quarantine. Or maybe (probably likely) cheftestants were required to provide a negative test prior to arrival. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt Food Network would cover either of those costs, and from what I understand they don't pay for travel and lodging anyway. So $10,000 before taxes doesn't seem like much of an incentive anymore for the hassle, even if gets your name out there, unless you have the ability to bankroll your trip.
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5 hours ago, Browncoat said:
I always assumed Max and Georg had been friends for a long time -- since before the first Mrs. Von Trapp died. Maybe they were Navy buddies. The children knew Max already. They wouldn't have immediately begun calling him "Uncle Max" upon first meeting him. I also got the impression that perhaps Max introduced Georg to the Baroness. Set them up, if you will.
They made up the character of Uncle Max to replace Father Wasner, the family priest who became the manager when the family started singing publicly and also went with them when they left Austria. They started singing to make money after Georg invested a whole lot of it in order to shore up an Austrian bank which ended up failing and left the family pretty much broke. They even took in boarders to help pay the bills. So whatever backstory you want to make up for Max, go for it.
Elsa is a variation on someone named Princess Yvonne, whom he was was courting but he ended it mainly over the fact that she wanted to put the kids in boarding school and have them spend their time on the Vienna social scene. After the relationship ended, she spread gossip that he was having an affair with Maria, who had been living in the house for a year at that point, first as a teacher and then as the housekeeper. They weren't, but the damage was done. He was fond of her, and although she was reluctant they got married.
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6 minutes ago, Blergh said:
That's because Frau Von Trapp had signed off the rights to her book being depicted for a tiny sum (for two obscure West German movies )and those who bought it were able to sell said rights to Rogers&Hammerstein for Broadway then 20th Century Fox for the Hollywood depictions. Of course, one must keep in mind that Frau Von Trapp had been by no means above sanitizing if not bowdlerizing her actual written bio ( and not for nothing that autobiographies are sometimes called alibi-ographies). Regardless, it did provide the kernel which would inspire the fictionalized depiction which would make the now-deceased Mr. Plummer into an instant, international star!
You can find the West German movies on YouTube.
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2 minutes ago, crazycatlady58 said:
The story is after watching " The Sound of Music " a reporter ask what she thought of it. She replied " It`s a lovely story but it`s not my story. " If you get a chance to read the book that does tell her story please do.
Not arguing with you on that. What got put on screen is a lot different than what really happened.
1 hour ago, ABay said:I'm not going to argue Christopher Plummer was not beautiful in The Sound of Music, because I'm not blind. And he also had a lovely speaking voice in everything. But I can never figure out who Georg is, other than not a fan of the Nazis. The man at the house is impossible for me to imagine tolerating Max and courting Elsa. Some of that is the writing, some of it is the acting.
I think part of it is that the stage musical had a lot more political context added into it and they intentionally didn't include it in the film.
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Another TSOM story: When they were filming in Austria, the real Maria was there (she's actually in the movie; as Julie Andrews is leaving the convent she can be seen walking in the courtyard in the background, from left to right, with one of her grandchildren). When she met Christopher Plummer, she shocked him by kissing him on the lips and telling him he was better-looking than her husband.
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Ugliest House In America - General Discussion
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During the recap show there was a commercial for the renovation episode which is coming up and if you watched carefully they gave away the big winner. I won't say which one it is, but I'm not surprised.