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Subject: Re: TV news for June 23-29, 2024
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:02:14 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:55:07 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:26:04 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/29/24 2:46 PM, Robin Miller wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     ABC news
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> NFL loses 'Sunday Ticket' trial, ordered to pay $4 billion by federal 
>>>>>>> jury  (June 27)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-loses-sunday-ticket-trial-ordered-to-pay-4-billion-by-federal-jury-225928049.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Excellent - at this point, nothing would make me happier than to see the 
>>>>>> professional sports leagues driven into bankruptcy, and forced to return 
>>>>>> to OTA television!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Why? I want sports off my TV altogether.
>>>> 
>>>> Hey, if returns to OTA at least you won't have to pay extra for the
>>>> sports that you never watch with your cable bill.
>>> 
>>> What will you bet?
>> 
>> I will put a massive $0.01 bet on the NFL returning to OTA and
>> dropping the Sunday Ticket. Yes, I'm that confident. Of course even if
>> it did happen it might not happen till a decade or more of court cases
>> are worked through.
>
>That wasn’t the bet. The bet I offered was that my cable price would go
>down. There’s no way in hell they’ll ever take off that ESPN whether or not
>they’re providing me with any sports.
>

True. As long as ESPN is on the cable/satellite systems prices aren't
going down even if ESPN can't show a single NFL game.

>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>>> Paramount+ Prices To Rise For Most Tiers Starting In August  (June 24)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://deadline.com/2024/06/paramount-price-hikes-in-august-1235981617/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ["The company said the Paramount+ with Showtime plan will increase by $1 
>>>>>>> to $12.99 per month for both existing and new customers, while the cost 
>>>>>>> of the Paramount+ Essential plan will rise by $2 to $7.99 per month for 
>>>>>>> all new subscribers. The Paramount+ Limited Commercial Plan will 
>>>>>>> increase by $1 to $7.99 for current subscribers."]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [finger]
>>>>> 
>>>>> The question is what will happen to those of us that get it free because I
>>>>> won’t pay a dime for it.
>>>> 
>>>> Your price will double.
>>> 
>>> lol
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>>> Maggie Grace On Her ‘Lost’ Character’s Exit: “Still The Worst Heartbreak 
>>>>>>> Of My Career”  (June 26)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://deadline.com/2024/06/maggie-grace-lost-shannon-exit-1235983429/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yeah, that I think most would agree that this was a premature character 
>>>>>> kill off.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> But, then again, in retrospect, "Lost" did a lot of stuff wrong.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Like lying to the audience about what was going on.
>>>> 
>>>> That was bad from a viewer perspective but I'll give them credit as it
>>>> kept people talking about the show.
>>> 
>>> True, but not favorably.
>> 
>> Oh, I agree, but people kept guessing what the show was about for
>> years while the show was still on the air.
>> 
>>  
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jeremy Renner Says He Doesn’t Have “Energy” To Play “Challenging” Roles 
>>>>>>> After Snow Plow Accident: “I Can’t Just Go Play Make-Believe Right Now” 
>>>>>>> (June 25)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://deadline.com/2024/06/jeremy-renner-energy-challenging-roles-snow-plow-accident-1235983221/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yeah - dude will never be the same, no doubt.
>>>> 
>>>> Sad, but bad accidents do happen. The good thing is he's already had a
>>>> good career as an action hero so now he can take on more sedate roles.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> It’s not like Marvel is making action hero movies anymore anyway. Certainly
>>> not with white men.
>> 
>> True, they do seem to have a focus on women now for their action hero
>> movies. I wonder how that is working out for them.  
>
>Well, the most recent stinky cheese Larson offering something like $300
>million.

Which sounds like a lot but how much did they spend on making it and
the marketing the movie.

>
>> 
>> It's actually not a bad idea if they had good stories/writing and had
>> some compelling actors. So far they've managed to fail on all
>> accounts. I thought they had a great concept with MS MARVEL if they
>> had stuck with the new hero trying to come grips with her powers and
>> how it changes her life. Then the writers feared they wouldn't get a
>> second season to tell their story so they rushed the character
>> development (she went from barely being able to use her powers to
>> doing all sorts of stunts in just the course of a day or two) and
>> pushed the story to Pakistan so they could bring up the
>> Indian/Pakistan history. Oh, and they introduced the coolest character
>> in the leader of the Red Band only to kill him off shortly after we
>> met him.
>
>I thought Ms. Marvel augered in with the second episode where they made all
>kinds of weird changes from the pilot.
>
>
>> 
>> All of which would have been fine if it had played out over a second
>> season but it was a massive shift in tone and the style of the story
>> telling (lot's of anime/cartoon scenes in the first three episodes
>> that kept it light hearted. That disappeared after those episodes.)
>> 
>
>I was long gone by episode four.

Four was where it got weird like it was an entirely different show. I
swear it had to be the writers being desperate to get their
India/Pakistan history tale in their show so they moved everything up
from what might have been a good second season plot line to fill up
the second half of the first season.