tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post4592231579147409466..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: This week in TV Guide: September 8, 1979Mitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-88098884475919278172015-01-27T01:27:05.966-05:002015-01-27T01:27:05.966-05:00Is the book you mentioned by an author named Keith...Is the book you mentioned by an author named Keith Dunnavant. If so I have a copy of the book also.paulsonj72https://www.blogger.com/profile/18118231322032199900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-7177518999907310752014-09-09T11:20:25.519-04:002014-09-09T11:20:25.519-04:00Exactly! I wrote about this a while ago in a book...Exactly! I wrote about this a while ago in a book that reinforced much of what I already knew, but opened my eyes to a lot more of the sausage-making that is college sports. http://www.itsabouttv.com/2012/11/a-marriage-made-in-tv-heaven.html Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-87064879185368826902014-09-09T11:19:10.527-04:002014-09-09T11:19:10.527-04:00Quite correct. "Tis a tangled web of relatio...Quite correct. "Tis a tangled web of relationships, isn't it?Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-51423092329215330592014-09-09T11:18:24.842-04:002014-09-09T11:18:24.842-04:00Yes. Joining a 70- minute program (60 + 10 minute...Yes. Joining a 70- minute program (60 + 10 minutes of extra commercials) 30 minutes into it? Call me crazy, but I have a feeling that viewers might have a hard time catching up with the story.Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-87205375956221580032014-09-09T11:17:29.021-04:002014-09-09T11:17:29.021-04:00Actually, I had to think about that for awhile. I...Actually, I had to think about that for awhile. I think I did see it once, at a friend's house, on DVD. But, aside from the music, it didn't make much of an impression - I doubt I would have picked it out of a lineup as a movie I knew. I know, I'm an outlier...Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-28324050289182885802014-09-09T09:56:02.515-04:002014-09-09T09:56:02.515-04:00A New Kind of Family (sitcom; Eileen Brennan, Gwyn...A New Kind of Family (sitcom; Eileen Brennan, Gwynne Gilford* and Rob Lowe)<br /><br />* Actually, the first name that came to my mind was Jack Gilford. But then again I've probably seen too many sit-coms and Cracker Jack commercials in my lifetime….<br /><br />And….. you've NEVER seen "Jaws"??????????????Richard J. Marcejhttp://www.theblabbingbaboon.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-83373758346925476792014-09-09T07:51:00.085-04:002014-09-09T07:51:00.085-04:00So Channel 9 joined the Late Movie in progress eve...So Channel 9 joined the Late Movie in progress every Friday night? That's one click away from putting up a slide that says "turn the TV off and go to bed." jbhttp://jabartlett.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-76474677213290970772014-09-08T14:44:32.435-04:002014-09-08T14:44:32.435-04:00In the blurb on the Miss America pageant, you ment...In the blurb on the Miss America pageant, you mentioned Cheryl Prewitt's future brother-in-law being Richard Roberts. This came after a failed marriage to Terry Blackwood, a popular singer in the Southern Gospel and Contemporary Christian fields (The Imperials and later spinoff group Andrus, Blackwood & Co.) as well as being the son of Doyle Blackwood (a founder of The Blackwood Brothers Southern Gospel group)Jacobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-59850574983023360402014-09-08T14:24:04.342-04:002014-09-08T14:24:04.342-04:00Good reason why ABC was the only network carrying ...Good reason why ABC was the only network carrying college football in 1979: Beginning in 1951, and continuing through 1983, the NCAA limited the number of live college football games on television.<br /><br />Basically, when there was a network college football game, no other college football game could be broadcast. And with very few Friday-night or Saturday-night games back then, there were very few live college football games outside of the network package.<br /><br />Some TV stations taped local college football games for taped showings that evening. I believe the NCAA rules by 1979 barred taped-delay telecasts from starting any sooner than 10:30 P.M. Eastern time.<br /><br />At one time, games were mainly national telecasts, but by 1979, there were several weeks where there <b>were</b> regional telecasts.<br /><br />The NCAA's policy was shot down by the Supreme Court in 1984, which opened the way for unlimited television coverage of the sport. Today, every Football Bowl Subdivision (Division 1-A) game is televised, whether on a local broadcast station, a regional cable sports network, a national broadcast network, or a national cable sports network.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-80188752188535839162014-09-07T23:30:44.331-04:002014-09-07T23:30:44.331-04:00That's why I like the term on off serial. Yes ...That's why I like the term on off serial. Yes Upstairs Downstairs was an ITV series, like Downton Abbey. You know that WGBH is the importer of the Masterpiece and Mystery series. PBS is a distribution network, not a true network like the commercial nets. Addams Chronicles was created by WNET and distributed by PBS. And funding most likly came from CPB, corporate and foundation underwriting. Working at a small public radio station makes me more aware of how. Public broadcasting works.Joseph C McGuirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031292261737674489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-90731292143124337562014-09-07T00:34:39.220-04:002014-09-07T00:34:39.220-04:00How do I know all this?
Simple.
I look things up.
...How do I know all this?<br />Simple.<br /><i>I look things up.</i><br /><br />IMDb is a major help - most of the time.<br />Loads of reference books, biographies (auto- and otherwise), the TV GUIDE collection (along with other old magazines from various eras) ... <br />Over the years (64 of them as of the 30th of this month), what started out as curiosity gradually evolved (some might say mutated) into a mildly insatiable desire to answer any question I could come up with.<br /><br />As a kid, it was seeing old movies in the afternoon, then seeing new TV in the evening - and finding many common names in the credits of each.<br />These days that's getting harder and harder to do - you know why - and I'm freezing the frames on my DVDs and DVRs more than ever, doing those link-ups for my own sake mote than for any other reason.<br /><br />I've mentioned in the past that the "TV critics" I grew up reading were less than no help in understanding how the TV business operated. As it is, I can still be surprised by events from the '50s and '60s that, if the press of that time had covered them in more than a cursory fashion, might have made even bigger stirs than they did then.<br />Instead, we were stuck with "experts" who held their beat in total contempt - not to mention their readers.<br />Even now, it still seems that most papers give the TV column to the last guy in the newsroom who says "Not It!"<br /><br />Whine whine whine - even I get tired of it.<br /><br />About "guest hosting":<br />I dunno.<br />I have no blog of my own, and have no idea how one goes about doing that.<br />Just commenting on other people's blogs is enough of a struggle at this stage (see my age, op cit.).<br />Unless someone such as yourself wants to devote what remains of your life to giving me a tutorial on this stuff ... <br />Nertz.<br /><br />I mjght be back tomorrow with more stuff - if I feel like it.<br />Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-88042713002362695412014-09-06T23:32:51.810-04:002014-09-06T23:32:51.810-04:00Mike, I love those links! How do you know all thi...Mike, I love those links! How do you know all this? Seriously - it's those tidbits that I love looking for and finding. They really enrich the content, and I appreciate the additional context they give. I'll ask again - want to guest host for a couple of weekends sometime?Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-70980998460118187152014-09-06T23:31:21.405-04:002014-09-06T23:31:21.405-04:00No, I'd agree with that. I've always appr...No, I'd agree with that. I've always appreciated the British concept of "limited series," not only because it keeps the season from dragging, but because fewer overall episodes keep the show from going stale. As much as I'd like to see more episodes of "Blackadder," for example, I think they were absolutely right in keeping them limited.<br /><br />Although TV Guide didn't list these as miniseries per se, I still think that "I, Claudius," for example, compares more favorably to "Roots" than, say, "Sherlock" does. "Sherlock is clearly an episodic drama, whereas the classic Masterpiece Theater programs used storytelling formats that were more like NBC's "Best Sellers" series ("Captains and the Kings" being perhaps the best of that series.) But the reason "Upstairs, Downstairs" doesn't count as a miniseries, to my way of thinking, is that it returns year after year.<br /><br />My own thought is that shorter attention spans and the desire for more instant gratification are two reasons why we don't have more extended series than we used to. But regardless of what they want to call it, I'm still saying that something like "The First Churchills" absolutely fits the American definition of a miniseries, especially used in the way that PBS did.<br /><br />I could be wrong on this - correct me if I am - but I think the only extended series that PBS ever produced without importing it from England was "The Adams Chronicles."<br /><br />Great thoughts, Joseph!Mitchell Hadleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-3420774692229495662014-09-06T23:04:37.327-04:002014-09-06T23:04:37.327-04:00When you mention PBS having mini-series I . All of...When you mention PBS having mini-series I . All of the ones you mentioned were British. Either ITV or BBC one off serials. Because Public TV and radio is not funded fully Public TV can't afford to make them then or now. And the reason that public tv, not PBS, doesn't have long serials is because British TV doesn't have them anymore.<br /><br />British TV has such short series that calling the one off serials mini-series is to misunderstand british programming.<br /><br />Just a couple of thoughts.<br /><br />Joseph McGuireAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04051033735276257181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-5778787695026978342014-09-06T11:48:05.495-04:002014-09-06T11:48:05.495-04:00BlogSpot has just lost a perfectly good comment th... BlogSpot has just lost a perfectly good comment that I just put up, and which I now have to do over again from memory:<br /><br /> - Gwynne Gilford was the daughter of Anne Gwynne, a Universal contract actress in the '40s (westerns and horror movies, mainly).<br />Gwynne the daughter married Robert Pine, who at this time was the sardonic sergeant on <i>CHiPS</i>.<br />Their son is Chris Pine, who's Captain Kirk in the rebooted <i>Star Trek</i> movies.<br />Circle Of Life, TV style.<br /><br />Also on the domestic front:<br /><i>Paris</i> was where James Earl Jones met his future wife, actress Cecilia Hart; they remain married to the present day.<br /><br />I'll get to some these others in the due course.<br /><br /><br />Mike Dorannoreply@blogger.com