Rickster

You’re right, but I CAN see that someone from a restaurant pastry chef background is probably spending very little time, if any, making elaborately decorated cakes, compared to someone who owns a specialty bakery. I wonder if this show is trying to take a page from GBBO with hosts and judges being overly intrusive while competitors are trying to get things done.

Roger is in a new series on Britbox, “Murder in Provence”, in which he plays a French investigative judge. Oddly enough, every French person on the show speaks with a British accent, while the Italians and Americans use their normal accents. I just suspend disbelief and pretend the show is taking place in a sunnier and warmer Oxford, with better food.

I was very surprised there wasn’t a malpractice suit coming out of this. Maybe doctors don’t sue other doctors? We watched about 10 minutes of the next show only because the DVR automatically recorded it for some reason. Knowing nothing about Dubrow outside of Botched, or his wife, we found it really jarring to see him in this sort of relationship show. Not our cup of tea.

We were trying to understand why a Saudi female (?!) industrialist would be allowed to access Federal Reserve vaults in the first place.

FIFA has suspended Russia and Belarus as of today. I believe the IOC has done the same, at least for Russia. UEFA has suspended Russian club teams as well.

We wondered if that was really his home, or just a staged house.

I liked them at first, but the costumes and whole act has really gotten old for me. With the new design of the floor, and they mentioned how bots can’t go up on the rails so easily with the wall design, they haven’t mentioned that they seem to have created corners that bots can be easily flipped into and can’t get out. That seems new this season.

Given that unlike FN, Netflix is to some extent a global broadcaster, it’s possible they may pull in chefs from other countries. I’m thinking of things like their Chef’s Table series, for example.

You must not watch “Botched”.

I wonder if, in this covid era, it was a check up conducted over Zoom with the doctor just reading lab test results. If the patient didn’t bring it up, the doctor wouldn’t notice. Otherwise, I thought it was odd too.

Haven’t seen all of last night’s show, but I’m going to speculate. All the ER cases seem to be in that one Alabama hospital. I’d guess the producers have an arrangement with the hospital (maybe it was even publicized in the area) and are offering incoming patients a deal to either cover expenses, or just a payment if they agree to appear on the show. That could be a big inducement to someone who’s uninsured.

I had wondered where all the big names were during the Pebble Beach Pro-Am a few weeks ago. It’s a pretty high profile tournament. Now I know they were playing with Phil in Saudi Arabia.

Lindsay Czarniak is married to Craig Melvin from the Today show, who did some of the hosting from Beijing.

“A lot of snow” can have different meanings. When I lived in the midwest, it could snow 1-3 inches a few times a week. Where I live in the northeast, it might snow once or twice a month, but it can be 6-12 inches or more. Not sure what is the case in Yorkshire. I had to avert my eyes from the trees in full leaf in this episode, especially during the two drives up to the mansion that were shown. Or tell myself they were evergreens.

One difference in the daytime version is that overall dollar amounts are lower, so the low offer was a reasonable amount less than the middle, and sometimes players took it. In the ABC version the low offers are ridiculously low vs what the player has “earned”, so no one takes them. The producers are obviously looking for people to make riskier bets

We missed part of the show too, but I’m pretty sure they said there would be some additional competitors not in the preview.

As did the New York Times (might be paywalled). What’s Norway’s Secret?

Not a complaint about coverage, but I know the overhanging Ukrainian crisis has really impacted my enjoyment of these games.

If you mean the NBC Sports Network on cable, they moved all their coverage to USA network. The Winter Olympics does have fewer events, but some coverage has been moved to streaming for sure.

I would disagree that the Tokyo Olympics coverage was great, especially compared to previous Summer Games, but these definitely have been lackluster, and I’ve watched them less than any prior games. All Winter Games suffer in comparison to Summer ones due to the sports being more obscure and less popular in the US and usually less US medal competitors. A couple of other thoughts: I think NBC had trouble gearing up to cover another Olympics 7 months after the last one, especially with all the restrictions around covid here and in China, when they usually have 2 years to get ready. I would guess covid restrictions prevented NBC doing a lot of the background color pieces on sports and athletes you were suggesting, both here and in Europe over the past two years. I think these are more important in the winter than in the summer, plus they could do nothing in China. I do think NBC has done a poor job of organizing its coverage. I have trouble finding sports I want to watch, and see lots of repeat coverage. In some ways, I think the Winter Games don’t have enough interesting events for the expansion of time NBC is devoting to it on all its broadcast and streaming networks. It definitely feels slapdash this year. Edit: I also occurred to me that NBC could be trying to see how cheaply they can produce a Games, for example, keeping most of the sports commentators in the US, especially with viewership falling off.

The Today show has been doing a lot of Olympic updates and stories, but it’s doing the regular news coverage plus the entertainment and lifestyle stuff it always does. They seem to need co-hosts, and Savannah Guthrie was out yesterday (long President’s weekend?) and normal #3 host was in Beijing. They have a few other backups, but maybe the Ukraine situation coverage meant they wanted someone with more gravitas like Willie?

Willie had to run over to co-host the Today show at 7am, for some reason.

Interesting spoiler. My comment was based on the experience of a British relative of my mother, who was a dentist serving a rural area who was never called up. Not sure about his age at the time, might have been early thirties.

I have no knowledge of the books or prior series, but, I could see a large animal farm vet being exempt from being called up because his work might be deemed “essential to the war effort”. Of course, it would depend too on how many other vets are in the area.

NBC Sports HQ and Studios are all in Stamford CT and all Olympic studio shows and commentary (and most other NBC sports) come from there except for a handful of people in Beijing. There was some apparently some chance Tirico would go back to Beijing, but I guess they decided not to.