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I was away from my computer last week, but have to add I really liked this also for all the reasons above. Especially enjoyed McGee turning into "McGibbs" ha ha. (and the "Rule 70?" from Gibbs). As said, everyone had an important part to play. I guess they didn't show Gibbs diffusing the bomb? But they didn't show him *not* doing it, if you know what I mean, so it's not like the show "cheated."
I do miss seeing Palmer. then again we haven't seen much of Vance lately either except for the NCIS NOLA cameos.
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I really didn't like the ending. I thought it might be the neighbor. The girl seemed too young to me to suddenly be pulling that "I'm just a sweet little girl" line on Gibbs at the end. I didn't think it was believable and really seemed dragged in out of left field due to it being Halloween week. Also, were we supposed to believe she inflicted all those injuries on herself? A kid who looked about 8? And how did she get the gun out of the safe?
Too bad because I've been liking this season overall. Tony's possible new girlfriend does seem like a positive development. And as mentioned last week, I like that Bishop has become more human and with things still to learn. (Last year she could have dressed up as Wonder Woman!)
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Well, actually there is a Channel One on Time Warner in NYC - it's New York One, with local news all day/night.
The thing I was most fascinated with was the Reuters news channel, which foreshadowed the Internet I suppose, since it was just a page by page teletext of news and entertainment stories. I could have sat there and watched it cycle through the news all day.
The Reuters news feed! I haven't thought of that in years, I seem to remember watching it to follow tennis scores.
I never got cable till I moved to NYC in the 1970s, yes I'm old :). My first shock was that the cable channels had commercials! Silly me, I thought I was paying for free TV. Interesting also about the late night sign offs, I suspect it partly depended on the station. We had rules in my family against watching a lot of TV, but one night I sneakily stayed up to 2AM to watch the Joe Franklin Show, and believe me that was a long time ago! So whatever station Joe was on then must have run very late.
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The murders were more violent than usual; I had to look away sometimes during this one, but the plot did keep me guessing. I did figure out the final twist (well, one of them
that the scientist wasn't really dead; I didn't figure out that Tony knew
) right after it happened but it was still good. Since the guest agent was FBI (right?) I was hoping to see Fornell but he's going to NCIS:NO next week instead.
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Next week, guest appearance by Fornell!
I did think tonight's show was more interesting than the last two, well at least less predictable to me. I couldn't figure out though, why Pride acted surprised that the exit from the basement was in the middle of the city; how far could they have gone?
Bringing in his daughter and the upright piano was interesting though.
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I couldn't stand Sam. To me the only good thing about Cheers is that, unlike with The Twilight Zone, I don't get creeped out by seeing the end of it when waiting for Perry Mason to come on!
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Thanks for bringing up nimble tv, folks, I am really surprised it didn't get a lot more publicity after Aereo folded. I took out a $5 a month plan so I can Cloud-DVR 10 hours and it looks good on my Roku and Ipad Mini. They don't explain up front, though, that even if you have a cable subscription in New York for example, you are only getting a few channels, almost totally over-the-air like Aereo. However, I can record some late night shows I like so it's good. I did ask them in an email to consider adding METV since they are now broadcasting from Times Square and I hope they will consider it; they said they would pass my request along.
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Any New Yorkers here who are, like me, not able to receive the new METV station over Channel 3? I'm currently on my 3rd new antenna trying to pull in a channel that's less than two miles from me! After waiting so long to have it over the air in NYC, I'm very disappointed, I wish they would move the network broadcast frequency to UHF as most other channels around here (CBS, NBC) have done.
Anyone with suggestions on a good indoor antenna, please let me know!
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Anyone watching that Beachfront Bargain show, and are you as sick of seeking cookie-cutter, shoebox-shaped condos as much as I am?
And wondering why a family of 4-8 people would choose a one-bedroom unit?I admit to watching that show as a kind of a guilty pleasure, but it does drive me crazy. I have to wonder if this show is faked. You have a family with kids insisting on "room for entertaining" though they are maybe hundreds of miles from their home, and an "Indoor pool" like it's a deal breaker. Then they expect their kids of both sexes to share the same bedroom? Is this all just a fraud to show off these condos for the program?
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Maybe part of the problem with this ep was that you knew coming in what the disease was going to be, there was no jolt of shock as there would be in real life. Leverage handled a similar type of story line in The Rundown Job and it was one of the most gripping shows I have seen, but they didn't telegraph everything ahead of time.
I want to like this show, but maybe they need to be more suspenseful and less obvious with the writing.
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I was really taken aback by the whole Vance subplot, since I was getting convinced they were about to kill the character off. Then he's fine! I'm glad he is okay of course but yes, it was awfully quick. I did think he was getting attracted to the nanny but maybe also feeling a need to find a stepmother for the children in view of his situation.
The resolution to the crime wasn't that surprising, simply because I thought jealous-wife would be too bland a storyline for NCIS to use as a wind-up though maybe they have before. Corruption made for a more interesting storyline. I did wonder also if Abby's park ranger friend would turn out to be a baddie though hopefully not (if he returns).
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I use Twitter and Facebook, but mainly to help publicize an artists' group I belong to. It's free publicity and I like to think it helps a little. I rarely post anything under my own name, though I do follow other people (a few relatives and organizations) on FB at times.
I used to maintain a website for work, and believe me it was a tough job. You have to update constantly. Anyway, I only have a personal one for my photography now which is much easier to handle.
I do have a working Ipad One - Resell value $2 it says on the web! However it still runs Youtube, Netflix, Hulu and a lot of other apps so I keep it for vacation use. However I got a new Ipad Mini this year and I think it's absolutely great, it has the portability of a Kindle with the color, web and video capability of a regular Ipad. I do like it. I also got an Iphone 5c but kind of wish I hadn't since so many people seem to have theirs get damaged or stolen...My old rule of thumb was never spend more than $100 on a phone but I do keep it hidden.
If you get a phone or tablet the podcasts can be a lot of free fun. I listen all the time to the Film Photography Podcast who explore all kinds of rare cameras and film and are really entertaining.
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CBS reruns the show very late on Saturday night / Sunday morning, and in just about 2 hours (2:05 AM Eastern) they are scheduled to show one of my very favorites, The Hot Potato Job. I love that Parker's convinced, late in the con, that there must be a diamond in the potato.
I haven't seen the actual show, but every ad for CBS' new show Scorpio makes it look like a total Leverage rip-off to me. Anyone actually see it?
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I haven't seen this commercial mentioned yet, and I just love it - the Realtor.com ad with the "doghouse architects".
Poor Sausage looks so teary eyed when they roll up to the house that's just been sold!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9sRsTdOzeY
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The whole argument is so stupid I don't know where to begin. Leaving aside for a second the quality of the individual shows, some of which are as good today as when they were made, the idea that it's old so it's bad would negate the entire history of fine art, music, literature, you name it. Over 70 percent of silent film is thought to be lost because the generation that followed it had exactly this attitude, it's old, it's no good, so the nitrate films dissolved, burned, exploded due to neglect. I only wish there was a comedy on today as hilariously absurd as Green Acres or as brilliantly self-satirizing as Dobie Gillis. Of course, thirty years from now some guy will be dissing today's shows in the news I suppose.
But now for the really important question, when does ME-TV start broadcasting from Times Square? There's rumored to be a holdup, either legal (Channel 3 in Hartford CT is said to be unhappy) or maybe technical? Anyway I hope it's sooner rather than later.
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Regarding Leverage, I don't think it's a UO, because I don't know anyone here who doesn't like it but it's so sad, I agree that so few people watched it. I'm still trying to get people I know to watch the re-runs. I wrote this elsewhere, but I really don't think TNT did a good job with promotion at all, they certainly gave it horrible lead ins (Falling Skies?)
I may be a party of one, but I watched "Turkeys Away" (WKRP) on rerun last fall and barely laughed at all. The long build up has almost no humor and once the final situation is revealed that's it....I just think it's way over-rated. Give me the Bob Newhart "Over the River and Through the Woods" Thanksgiving episode any day.
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What? Did someone diss Green Acres? That show was absolutely brilliant! It was the height of comic absurdity; every time Eva Gabor would mispronounce a word or come up with some weird idea, everyone in the town would repeat it to Oliver as if it was nothing! And this was even before the regular appearances of Arnold the pig! That show was truly surreal, it puts most later TV sitcoms to shame. In fact I just watched two episodes the other night and it didn't disappoint.
Oh and by the way, Eddie and Eva singing and acting out the theme song was the best sitcom intro ever.
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I have been noticing that there are "Coming Soon" and "Returning Soon" trailers on MeTV and I find myself very excited: CHiPS, Cheers, Mission:Impossible, and The Adventures of Superman!
Then I get a bit apprehensive: it's going to be cycling in the "new" stuff as the new fall season starts up too. *sigh* Choices....
Excited about Mission: Impossible, but don't understand them showing Cheers, wasn't that an 80s show? Not so retro, I hope they don't keep going down that road into the 1990s.
Regardless, I can't wait for the ME-TV New York City broadcast from Times Square which should start any day now. As it is, I sometimes lose ME-TV over Time Warner cable because I have to use a "Tuning Adapter" machine for it to be received over my Tivo/Cable Card (it's a "switched" channel) and I lost several shows I wanted to record over the last few days when said Adapter went on the blink. Humph. I hope ME-TV is on Channel 3 tomorrow!
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Oh I just love METV. I have it on my cable but I can't wait till they start broadcasting in New York City as well, just to have another option. If they only had Perry Mason, that would probably be enough, I love watching the Perry-Della-Paul-Tragg scenes and the retro details. But as people are saying here they have so many other great shows, everything from The Fugitive and Star Trek to the Odd Couple and my recent discovery (on very late) the brilliant self-satrizing early 60s sitcom Dobie Gillis.
I have to share this brilliant METV Kirk/Spock - Odd Couple Mashup which completely duplicates the look (typeface, split screen) of the Odd Couple opening credits: Hope this link works:
http://metvnetwork.com/videos/metv-promos/star-trek-the-odd-couple-remix
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Star Trek TOS got 65 ish episodes before it was canned.
That few? I would have thought in those late 60s days 3 seasons would have added up to more eps. Star Trek definitely ran 3 years, my family actually watched it when it was first on. Actually the Friday night thing was good for us, we didn't have school the next day. But not good for the show I guess!
I vaguely remember the Richard Benjamin/Paula Prentiss sitcom from that era, He and She, which was very clever but didn't last long at all I think.
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Are the brothers twins?
Drew: Identical – Minus the hair
Thanks katalizt
with some of the customers Jonathan has to deal with who want to argue every little thing, I can't blame him if it bugs him a little. They are getting his services free, correct?
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Actually I think that shows with a lot of current events references age really fast. For example if I watch Barney Miller, which I think holds up really well, and I suddenly hear a rare reference to Jimmy Carter or New York mayor Ed Koch, I react because I forget how old the show is. But a show with constant references like that would age to me.
(Bob Newhart mentioned in an interview that he asked his writers not to include Gerald Ford references in his first show since he expected his show to be in syndication some day!)
One early 60s show I've been watching on METV and loving is Dobie Gillis. It just does a great job of satirizing its own white-bread, materialistic era. Dobie can't seem to get beyond borrowing the car, borrowing Dad's money, chasing the prettiest girl in school as in "beautiful, angelic, greedy Thalia Meninger" (Tuesday Weld). I'm looking forward to seeing spoiled rich boy Warren Beatty.
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I'm still trying to figure out if they are twins? They look like it and have almost identical voices too.
I like Jonathan although maybe it's just that he seems to be doing more of the work. If that's really the case.
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Even if SVU tried to screw it up. I deny that episode. I'd like to think Goren is still solving puzzles at the NYPD, especially as he was adamant about not losing his job when in therapy.
I deny it too Wendy, or in any event I simply figure Goren and Eames reunited after that and are solving New York's weirdest cases again.
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S12.E05: The San Dominick
in NCIS
Or On Demand, if you have it. I thought of using the CBS app for Ipad, but they demand your name and date of birth, bonehead move by CBS when hackers are everywhere.