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I think it is a parlor trick, because not that many years ago when he did a week of shows from Iraq (this was The Colber' Repor'), and Obama (present via satellite) ordered the General onstage to give Steven a buzz cut. That was definitely a full head of hair, and we got to watch it grow out.

As I recall, Junior was always a jerk. He was ALWAYS talking about establishing his "legend". As for his back, it got as bad as it did because he refused to recognize the problem. All he had to do was power through it. If I'm remembering rightly, his gf/wife was a nurse and he wouldn't believe her. It wasn't until a doctor showed him the pictures and absolutely refused to endorse his happy talk that he finally quit fishing. In some ways I considered him dumber then Elliott.

I realize this aired a few weeks ago, and once something has aired spoilers aren't required, but I've been avoiding the H50 forum as I was saving the last several episodes to binge watch over my birthday. 😐

This week was previously scheduled off; Seth announced it at the end of last Thursday's episode.

Reelgood.com is pretty good.

I thought it was an 8-track - which is continuous play, no ejecting required.

A&E used to be Arts & Entertainment; Bravo used to be about things that earned Bravos. The History Channel actually used to be about history, and TLC used to be The Learning Channel, and provide educational programming. I know, I was there when they debuted in the 80s, before the profit margins of scripted "unscripted" reality programs that skirted union rules to further save costs became the overriding factor for programming.

Traditionally the British sovereign and heir apparent do not get along - the only example to the contrary that I can come up with back to the Glorious Revolution is Edward VII & George V.

I have to include "My Ox Is Broken" from the Amazing Race. Miss Alli was in fabulous form that day.

Or, since this was the April 1 show, it might have been a prank.

Yeah, they filmed a leg in Sri Lanka months before the tsunami, and IIRC part of that leg happened on that rail line where the waves swept a loaded train off the track. For that matter, the first episode of the first race aired September 5, 2001; the second episode was scheduled for September 12, and was delayed one week to September 19. I believe the next season was scheduled for this summer, and I bet it sticks close to that date.

Not entirely sure if this belongs here, but it was the closest fit (please move as necessary). I've been expecting the cable companies to start streaming some premium channels (Xfinity watchathon is due within the month based on years gone by, and they have been doing a lot of weekend-long free stuff for the past month), but today Comcast surprised me: March 20 through April 19, they are offering Showtime, EPIX, History Vault, Grokker Yoga Fitness, and DogTV.

CBS usually keeps episodes available on demand for five weeks after the broadcast. And much longer if you have All Access. I think you can still watch it there through Sunday, March 22 (I have All Access so the whole season is still available to me).

If the show were losing money it would have been cancelled already. With both their contracts up, AO & SC would have asked for really big $$$$$, especially if AO has health issues and SC prefers to work much closer to his young family (DDK relocated his kids to Hawaii, but that wound up being a thirteen year run - for the most part re-locating kids that far for a job that is potentially so un-guaranteed isn't that good in civilian life (and military life in theory has a good support system built in)). Costs are a significant reason long-running shows will end without too much weeping by the money people (looking at you, Friends) especially if most of the highly-paid cast is ready for Something New & Different & Therefore Challenging to play. On the other hand, if it is a big money-maker, most of the original cast has moved on or taken a reduced role, and It Gets The Ratings, a show can go on forever (glaring at you NCIS - especially for making me realize that the percentage of not-good scripts filmed today is roughly the same percentage as in the early seasons). The Law and Order franchise is a Black Swan. PS Yep, season 9 was the previous tipping point, not 8. I was too sad to look harder.

AO is (or was) a certified (or whatever the term is) stuntman, and used to do a lot of his own stunts. That bit from the pilot, where he leaps up as a car rear-ends another car in front of him, lands on the hood of the second car and slides off? All him (it was in the title sequence for years). So there was this big big stunt in episode 16 of season 2, which looked really impressive and scary and I think did not happen quite correctly, and he got a bad shoulder injury and wound up with a pain-killer problem due in part (according to an interview I remember but cannot find) to being OCD and not keeping track of how many pills he was taking. This was when H50 shut down production for a month near the end of filming of the second season so AO could go to rehab, did the McGarrett-less crossover with NCIS Los Angeles, and cut one episode from that year's schedule. He re-signed for season 8 after planning to leave (his injuries were so bad that he was anticipating not being able to lift his eventual grandchildren) when he found a very effective stem-cell treatment. I really wanted them to beat the original series' episode count (season 12 would have done it!), but I've had ten years checking in with Hawaii and maybe there will be another decent show there soon (sorry Magnum).

From the one article I've read so far they were apparently looking at Danno & a new partner, but it didn't seem to work. If AOL is pulling out for health, then we got two more years then he (and the rest of us) originally thought was possible. I'm relieved that Caan isn't the reason it's ending. I'm also relieved that making room for the MacGawdawful series also isn't the reason. Once I realized this season was ending with 22 episodes instead of the 25 of the last many seasons, AND ending at the beginning of April instead of during May sweeps, I have been bracing myself. Two more seasons would have pushed it past the 280-ish of the original series. I think I will miss Eddie most of all 😭 Time schedule the re-watch.

The late shows very often do not do new shows on a holiday week, especially Xmas/NY, Thanksgiving, 4-Jul, Labor Day, & Memorial Day. Easter week is usually an off week too.

So, after posting this screed I discovered Xfinity has the entire series (24 seasons and counting) On Demand. 🙄 By watching four per day, I can be caught up in three months. And I can watch four per day because a) my On Demand allows fast forwarding, including the 8-9 minutes of commercials, and b), I do skip most of the non-cooking bits. It's not all that bad, watched this way. 😲 Still a lot of butter, cheese, salt, and generally processed food. But also mango margaritas. Her kids are the opposite of TV-precocious, her husband seems easy-going and enlightened (a ranch business didn't survive Mad Cow in the nineties if the people running it were fools), they don't constantly preach. (They aren't the Duggers? Maybe that prejudice colored my initial viewing, as the Duggers were my first intro to home schooling.) The Lodge is the guest house, not the bunkhouse (and that kitchen is still my definition of kitchen porn). They do eat meat (with an interesting grill outside - I can't judge grills, because if it looks like an old oil can is part of the architecture, I recoil). Still, for northeast Oklahoma, it is awfully white. In brief, I post this generally apologetic note to acknowledge that a close examination of existing evidence can introduce nuance, welcome or not. Ah, Nuance, Nuance (surely She is one of the Muses?); why dost Thou Tease, Tempt, Torment, and generally Torture me with Thine Shiny-ness?

Pioneer Woman. It's not the wealth, it's not the very conservative "values", it's not the way her family is (seemingly reluctantly) roped in -- it's the recipes. Yeesh. Everything is cans and jars and very processed, and for Oklahoma there is a surprising absence of MEAT, and I realized early on that her "recipes" were either written by the food companies or are salvaged from the ladies magazines of the fifties and sixties. There is no acknowledgement of health, nutrition, or local food sourcing. It's the 21rst century, dammit. I do however like the kitchen porn. Even though it is apparently the bunkhouse kitchen and not her private one, I love the space (and the cavernous pantry). I want that kitchen, and the budge that supports it.

The article I read said it's going to 2003 (ish), which is after Margaret and the Queen Mum die, but before Charles & Camilla marry. This will avoid the crap Kate got, the crap Meghan got, AND the crap Andrew dealt. I think my biggest problem with season 3 is that they are reaching the times that I know about, and they are being careless with historical accuracy.

And it's back April 10, according to thefutoncritic.com. In the meantime we have MacGyver.

So maybe it's the proximity to the (maybe) aborted start of a war this week, or maybe I'm still remembering my duck-and-cover drills from 1962, but dammit I am sobbing Yes, Children of Mars just dropped.

According to IMDB and to epguides.com, Season 21 is only 4 episodes.

How is no one commenting on the final finale cameo by Robin Ellis as Rev. Halse? The meta was glorious!

It was the locker room (presumably the ladies'), and she was changing back into her own clothes and hijab.