Miss Anne Thrope
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8 hours ago, Affogato said:
Apparently my comcast wifi only platinum account (i don’t pay for the appellation) comes with peacock. I just happened to look and did not know. Maybe someone else is equally clueless.
8 hours ago, jah1986 said:It does come with Peacock for the 1st year, then you have to pay whatever the monthly/annual fee is.
I got it free for 2 years. On the billing page of your account, it gives the end date (at least on mine it does, under Add Ons).
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13 hours ago, CrazyInAlabama said:
And Bryce Hughes and Addy Perez are both on tonight from Richland County.
And we learned that they like horses.
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20 hours ago, Ancaster said:
I googled Squeezy and it sent me to loads of apps to help strengthen one's pelvic floor. Which could lead to fun, @Miss Anne Thrope 🤣
Well now! Let me try again.... ; )
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3 hours ago, ams1001 said:
I do Wordle, Connections, the NYT Mini Crossword, and a new one I found recently called Squeezy, plus the Morning Brew newsletter's mini crosswords (which are a couple times a week) and their bigger Saturday crossword. My aunt sent me one called Phrazle the a few days ago but I couldn't get into it. The crosswords have the potential to help me on J! at least. Not so much the word games, I think.
Thank you for mentioning Squeezy --it looks like fun.
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Xfinity, my internet (only) provider, threw in Peacock at no charge for 2 years expiring sometime in 2025. I'm sure that perk will be dropped if/when this merger goes through. But much as I love my guilty Peacock pleasures, I don't see myself paying for them. If this merger goes through, my evil half kind of hopes the resulting service falls flat on its face.
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On 2/13/2024 at 6:31 PM, shapeshifter said:
On the outside chance I haven’t already suggested this here:
Did you try putting the (leaf) antenna high on the wall by the ceiling instead of in the window?On 2/14/2024 at 9:33 AM, peachmangosteen said:I've never actually tried one. When I do the 'search what channels you can get in your area' on them (I've tried the Tablo thing and some others) it tells me there are none.
If you live in a valley -- like I do -- you can do all kinds of things with an antenna and still not get any OTA channels. (I'm sure other geographic factors can affect reception, but that's my particular circumstance.)
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5 minutes ago, DearEvette said:
Pour one out. My free ride with Paramount+ has sadly come to an end. As of Feb 16th I'm out. No two more months free extensions for me. For almost one year I think I have only paid about 3.99 total for Paramount+. It was good ride P+!
I signed up for the 3 months at 3.99 deal at the end of November and marked Feb 19 on my calendar to unsubscribe. Mid-January P+ sent an email notifying me I'd be charged 11.99 on Jan 22 -- cutting me off a month early, in fact. At least I got to watch all of the Evil they had, which was my primary motive in subscribing. Still, bad taste in my mouth regarding P+ -- it's like everyone is following Netflix's lead and tightening things up and starting to charge up the wazoo.
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5 hours ago, StatisticalOutlier said:
Also on Spectrum, I haven't figured out why there are two different channel numbers for a lot of the networks. Like TCM is channel 64 and channel 631, and ESPN is Channel 52 and channel 301. But CSPAN is only channel 225.
The higher channel number may be a high definition version.
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17 hours ago, Browncoat said:
Charles Osgood has died.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/23/us/charles-osgood-death/index.html
He was such a good host of CBS Sunday Morning -- definitely a worthy successor to Charles Kuralt.
I enjoyed him so much wherever I found him -- Sunday Morning, the weekday morning CBS show for some years with Paula Zahn and Harry Smith*, or on the radio.
*They played at least one holiday concert on the show: Charles on piano, Paula on cello, and Harry with tuba, I believe. (ETA: And Mark McEwen on triangle, IIRC.) Weird but lovely.
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19 hours ago, SomeTameGazelle said:
TCM introduced Baby Boom today by mentioning that they were showing Nancy Meyers movies, so when I saw they had the Spencer Tracy version of Father of the Bride in my guide I assumed it was an error in the guide. But then they started showing the Spencer Tracy version. I think this must be a Canada issue -- the TCM online schedule also indicates the 1991 version. I don't have any particular need to see either version, but I thought it interesting to note.
We (Connecticut) definitely got the Steve Martin Father of the Bride last night, so maybe a permission-type thing with international markets is in play. I thought they were doing a Diane Keaton featurette. (Ms Meyers makes me twitchy, so had I known, I'd have flipped through even faster!)
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3 hours ago, SoMuchTV said:
There’s sorta kinda a way around this. If you go to the YTTV website on a pc-type device, you can rearrange the order that the channels appear in. So if you’re willing to put in some time up front, you can get a lineup of the stuff you’re most likely to watch. I set it up with my locals, then the “cable” channels I watch the most, then maybe let the rest default to alphabetical order? Not really sure now. I just use the search function for anything that’s not at the top of my list.
We set up the channels on YTTV and it really helps to ease navigation and facilitate flipping. It takes 5-10 minutes, and then you're good to go. I especially like that, since I put channels I'll never watch at the very bottom of the list, I don't have to see them if I do have to flip through the channels. Also -- when you access the guide/channel page, it shows the channnels you've visited recently or often across the top, so you can use that as a shortcut too.
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2 hours ago, roamyn said:
Bobby married her first and they had two sons. David claimed he fell in love with her, while watching them. When Bobby & Patti divorced, David divorced his wife Karen (who he met on the HCTB set), and they had three sons - Brandon, Timothy & Andrew.
Good lord, that's some drama.
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Yikes, I didn't realize Sherman and Soul had a spouse in common! Filing this for future trivia reference.
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On 1/1/2024 at 10:26 PM, JAYJAY1979 said:
I viewed ATWT as the reserved soap...a bit cold and unapproachable. Their most consistent headwriter Marland was also kind of reserved...very New England.
Guiding Light had this energy and warmth especially during the Pam Long and Nancy Curlee days. You felt invited and part of the family.
I think both GL and ATWT were set in the midwest, but I agree about the different tones in the writing. The Bauer kitchen (and BBQ!) were warm and inviting, but the Hughes house was like the living room kids weren't allowed to enter. My memory of ATWT may not represent the show well, though, because I mostly recall things about it from when I was very young, since it was on during school hours.
8 hours ago, cleo said:I will probably give it a try, but I'm not sure when. Sometime later this year. Mostly bc I think that and OLTL are the only other two I have any interest in. If available.
I'm just starting 1993 and I'm struggling with a lot of the storylines other than Blake and Ross. I read 1993 and 1994 aren't very good.
-I hate baby storylines, (and I hate Nadine), so the stuff with Nadine pretending to be pregnant isn't of much interest. I'm looking forward to Billy dumping her though.
I thought Bridget was a hoot and really enjoyed Melissa Hayden's work, so found the fake baby storyline amusing at least -- but I like crazy/silly stories, oft-married characters, etc. The clone storyline and twins with different fathers, for example, are a bridge too far for me, but I'll go about 80% of the way down that road and enjoy the trip.
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Also a fan of Remember the Night. (Holiday Affair looks to be on again today/tomorrow, so may check it out again.) And also remember Gimbels -- though we shopped at a Gimbels (in Bridgeport, CT), not the Gimbels.
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I'd call ATWT a sister soap to GL in that they were both Procter & Gamble soaps. A lot of the same themes, I think some writers crossed back and forth -- that is, changed jobs, didn't write for GL one week, ATWT the next -- but there was no relationship between GL in Springfield and ATWT in Oakdale. At least as far as I recall -- my mom watched both shows forever, so I did osmosis -- no characters crossed over or visited, like I believe Y&R and B&B have done.
I'd call ATWT about as well written as GL, with many remarkable/ oustanding characters like Dr. John Dixon, James Stenbeck, Lucinda Walsh, and of course Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn.
They also had a good eye for talent, casting young Meg Ryan, Julianne Moore, James Earl Jones, Marisa Tomei, and I'm sure others who went on to bigger things. Potential bonus: no cloning storylines.
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13 hours ago, Driad said:
When any f**tb*ll occurs, my local station airs Jeopardy later, when I am enjoying my nightly glass of wine. This week it happened twice, and I got FJ both evenings. Hmm ...
The never-ending debate of correlation vs coincidence. Clearly more testing is in order. Cheers!
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Ms Sternhagen was consistently great IMO, but she especially shone as the crusty doctor in Outland -- stole every scene she was in. Thank you, ma'am, and rest in peace.
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Miss Anne Thrope's Hulu Saga Update: Thank you all for your counsel and assistance. I signed up for the Hulu deal at work today -- it took about 30 seconds and I'm good to go. Still can't get past the landing screen on my home computer, but no longer care.
Again, thank you all for your suggestions. I don't know why signing up did or didn't work in all the different scenarios, I'm just happy to be in!
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9 hours ago, oliviabenson said:
Get a new email/use a different credit card.
Thank you for the suggestion, but I can't even get that far -- the process stops at the landing page where you click "get the offer" or whatever the language is. I do keep a collection of email addresses for occasions such as this.
Maybe it's picking up my IP address (? I dunno, semi-Luddite here), so I mayl try it from a work computer this weekend.
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18 minutes ago, ABay said:
Firefox was the only browser that worked for me. The Hulu deal page wouldn't load for me in either Chrome or Edge.
Thanks for the tip -- unfortunately, it didn't work for me. I've cleared cookies, history, etc. It's not a big deal, and I might try doing it at work, making sure to use a spare address.
I did get the Paramount Plus deal -- thank you all for mentioning that, I look forward to using the crap out of that at least.
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I've been a Hulu subscriber in the past but not since at least April 2023. They sent me an email re the Black Friday offer of $.99/month; I clicked on the "Get this deal" button with no result. I read the fine print and it sure looks like I qualify for the offer.
It turns out many others on various internet fora are in the same boat. Did anyone here run into this issue and find a workaround? (It's certainly not the end of the world but it's made me kind of pissy.)
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8 hours ago, MissAlmond said:
In other news, CBS is set to air a celebration of Dick Van Dyke's 98th birthday on December 21. Good luck with that, Dick! Seems to me every time one of these Celebrating X Birthday! is announced for a future date, The Grim Reaper comes a knocking first.
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/dick-van-dyke-birthday-special-cbs-1235792308/
https://people.com/dick-van-dyke-98-years-of-magic-cbs-special-8403564
4 hours ago, Crashcourse said:Now I'm nervous for Dick Van Dyke.
Betty White died just before a documentary about her was to be released on her 100th birthday.
Will they ever learn?
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I liked The Landlord too, and it appears to be growing on me (seen it 2x). While it is dated and/or clunky at times, I think a lot of the satire is still relevant and bitterly funny. The luminous Diana Sands was largely the heart of the story and carried it well. I've always had a soft spot for Beau Bridges so consider the source; but I thought he (and writer Bill Gunn and director Hal Ashby by extension) achieved a good balance -- getting involved with his tenants rather than going with the original plan to evict everyone, but not getting excessively warm and fuzzy and retaining a good measure of the jerkiness that comes with being a rich, somewhat callous, white guy. Pearl Bailey and Lee Grant were also wonderful, especially together, IMO -- as noted, I clearly enjoyed The Landlord a lot the second time around!
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Milestone Moments: All The Celebrity Vitals
in Everything Else TV
Liked him a lot in Romancing the Stone -- "Look at those snappers." Thank you and RIP, sir.