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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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

That would have been great, except that no one at L and O knew they were being cancelled. The same exact thing happened to Leverage, with that thrilling finale - which turned out to be the series finale - broadcast on Christmas Night. I have to say though the Leverage finale was excellent

Yes, I missed Carver/Vance so much that I really fantasized about him returning with Goren and Eames for Seaon Ten. I had the setup figured out: Carver has to reopen a cold case! He needs Goren and Eames to solve it in the worst way! "I don't care what you have to do, I don't care what I said before, get them back!" Well maybe some day there will be a CI movie or TV movie financed by Kickstarter and we can have Carver and Deakins returning...I usually don't like that kind of thing since they rarely live up to the original but I'd like to in this case since it would be nice to tie up some more loose ends...as long as we have another satisfying ending of course :)

That theme and opening make me want to watch the show! Regarding classic shows, my favorites are Green Acres - love the way Eddie and Eva sing the theme - The Fugitive, Mission Impossible. More recently, the original theme for Law and Order CI as Wendy says.

Stephen has been brilliant on TCR, obviously, but nine years is a long time and this gives him an opportunity to try new things without having to travel which with a family I think he doesn't want to do. It's a great opportunity. I imagine he will try to bring some of his people with him. All the best.

I so totally agree about the casting in this show - I mentioned this in the old forum (hi all!) but it was only on rewatching, after I already knew how each story would turn out, that I was amazed by how well each actor was inhabiting his/her role. You don't get that very much, it says a lot for the cast, and for the care they took with this show. I do think TNT did a terrible job of not promoting it. They would schedule it right after that horrible looking (I never watched it) horror-scifi thing Falling Skies and hardly give you a second to breathe before Leverage would begin. Ideally, they should have preceded it with something compatible IMO. Wanted to add, CBS does rerun an episode very late at night over the weekend, or they have been lately.

I agree with your post above WendyCR72 (nice to see people moving over here already)! Of course one of the many damaging things Warren Leight did during his tenure was to write out any mention of Frances Goren's schizophrenia and have her die of cancer. Like you, I'm glad new showrunners took over and the series ended with Bobby in a better place (yet more authentic to his original character).