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I didn't see the match but Bublik is certainly known for...shall we say uneven play to the max. And he has admitted not loving tennis. As far as I know underarm serves are not technically against the rules though. I did see Alcarez again today and it's stunning how quickly he is adapting his game to grass. I can see him someday turning into an absolutely dominant player without ever becoming boring.

I like Iga a lot, but I would really love to see Petra Kvitova make the comeback by winning her third Wimbledon title. After what she went through with the attack on her hand, it would be amazing. She won a warmup event so I don't think it's out of the question. Sad about Felix AA going out already. Glad to see Alcarez is still in the event after the loss of so many promising players early on. Carlos does bring the excitement.

I just read about Berrettini - who had just won 2 straight warmup tournaments - and Cilic. It is so unfortunate. Both former finalists who had a serious chance to go far. The important thing is that both of them apparently self reported their Covid cases. It is being stated that both were in close contact with other players. Will Wimbledon institute daily testing? I think they should.

Watching Season 2 of Capitaine Marleau on MHZ, there was an entertaining episode (Sang et lumière or Blood and Light) guest starring David Suchet as a retired Scotland Yard detective who offers to help Marleau when the journalist wife of a small town mayor goes missing. Marleau seems to get reassigned to a different town in every episode! I am not sure if this was ever explained in the beginning but I guess it keeps the variety in the scenery and the guest casts going.

Great news, thanks!

I just miss seeing Inside the NBA after every game. It's just not the same :) However I don't really have a favorite team these days so I'm all right with a seven game series.

Yes this show was never terribly deep but they seem to have gone over to the looney side in the writing.

Yes, there were 3 Iron Chefs Japanese it turns out. Iron Chef Italian was Masahiko Kobe. I read that he sadly passed away after a fall at his restaurant.

Iron Chef (Japan) is also streaming on Peacock if that's any help. Most of the eps I have seen are pre-Morimoto. I didn't realize how late in the show's run he joined as Iron Chef Japan.

I finished The Art of Crime on MHZ, at any rate the 5 seasons they are showing. Apparently there is at least another season planned. Those who can't stand "will they or won't they" may get turned off, but I enjoyed the episodes with their artist based themes overall (however the Egyptian episode was pretty weak to me, though it did somewhat address the story of Florence's mother). The final episode of Season 5 was really excellent, involving a victim who left clues based on color codes corresponding to parts of paintings of Delacroix, and a young boy with an amazing memory. I've gone on to Capitaine Marleau, an MHZ series also from France about an eccentric woman detective. I've seen the first two episodes and they were good 90 minute stories with fine casts including some well known French stars.

I wish TNT would run Inside the NBA during the finals even if they can't carry the games. I'm going to miss Charles on this show so much whenever he retires.

I just remembered that you can listen live to French Open Radio online (commentary is in English): http://tun.in/seTeY

Thanks @dcalley for the link. Not that I expect too much from Peacock, but I'm disappointed that their coverage is basically only weekends with little more than NBC. But at least there's no chance of getting Chris Fowler this time with Mary Carillo and Johnny Mac!

Update on The Art of Crime, I just watched Season 2's Two Parter A Wounded Man. Excellent episode but -- warning, don't turn it off until you see the credits.

Speaking of one-season shows, I really enjoyed The Good Guys with Bradley Whitford and Colin Hanks. Whitford's senior agent was caught in his past "glory days" and there was entertaining use of music, one episode even using the Stones' version of "You Can't Always Get What You Want"! (which would never be allowed in syndication I suspect, if the show had lasted that long) I see the show is on Prime, I still have one three episodes I purchased.

I've also subscribed to the pay version of MHZ, and my new nightly show is The Art of Crime. I really enjoy having a show that deals with art every week, and I get to see how much of my high school French I can still remember. I like all the characters/actors though my favorite is Florence's eccentric and cranky art-expert father. I hope they keep finding reasons to keep him around. The stories have been decent I think in that I don't generally guess what's going to happen ahead of time. I have to say though that the first 2-parter of Season 2 with its subplot with the beautiful, compulsive thief - felt at one point like something out of Leverage. She even was blonde like Parker!

It's funny hearing Wednesday tossing around that 60s slang as well!

Probably some of you fans already know this, but I have read that John Astin came up with the famous "finger snap" in the theme song after a stint in the chorus of West Side Story. Just loved those 60s theme songs/introductions, they always let you know what the show was about. Now they get cut for more commercials.

Thanks so much for posting this, it's wonderful.

Yes it is amazing how quickly Carlos has come along. Again, he's certainly exciting to watch, though I have to feel a little sorry for Casper. But they do both seem to be nice guys.

I've been watching Miami also and while I realize that the logo is supposed to be a bouncing tennis ball, it keeps reminding me of a Slinky. Yes I'm old. I'm sorry I wasn't able to watch Iga vs Naomi, but I just can't make myself shell out for Tennis Channel these days, though they have some good commentators. I'm sorry for tennis that Barty has retired but I hope she will be happy with her life. And of course the travel has been much worse for Australians, especially with Covid. I'm sometimes resistant to all the hype new players get, but I will say that Carlos Alcaraz just plays one exciting match after another. How dominant he will turn out to be, who knows but he definitely brings the drama, and in a good way.

I've been lately watching a Youtube feature called "Ask Eddie" where Film Noir fans write into Eddie Muller, host of Noir Alley on TCM, and a version of this question came up. His answer was, as I understood it, to do with movie rights. TCM doesn't own everything they show. They pay to rent a certain number of movies in a certain amount of time, and therefore, apparently, feel the need to get their money's worth out of the number that they have paid for in that amount of time. He also said, if I remember correctly, that he chooses films for Noir Alley by looking over the list that TCM provides. Which is not to say personally that I don't understand the complaint myself, a lot of the time I see the same old standards on TCM and think "again?" but there is a certain economic situation at play in some cases. "Ask Eddie" is a fun watch by the way.

I used to watch a Canadian "Border Patrol" show which featured various people being questioned at the Canadian border. One of the less dramatic ones was an American film director who was carrying a large amount of cash over the border because it was an easier way to pay his crew in Canada, if I remember. The Canadian border staff counted it all and he went on his way.

It's been how long now, and there are still so many jerks, Djokovic prominent among them, who still won't acknowledge that the vaccine protects those around you, not only yourself. He doesn't live in a bubble! On a brighter note, I watched Felix Auger-Aliassime get his first title victory in a dominant performance against Tsitsipas in Rotterdam. It would be great to see Felix as a real slam contender.

The switch to change black and white shows to color was sometimes unfortunate I think. Personally I feel that it was very detrimental to the noir look and feel of The Fugitive, despite the show getting a huge rating for its finale. I wonder if it would have worked well for Perry Mason either. I did read that The Dick Van Dyke Show would have aslo gone to color also if it had been renewed.