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Probably saves the whistling for the I Love Lucy theme song.
Nope. I do Love Lucy, but no singing or whistling over here.
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Probably saves the whistling for the I Love Lucy theme song.
ESPN used to be based on the great ABC Wide World of Sports. ESPN covered everything you could imagine. It was fantastic. Exposure to things we don't commonly see. Obviously in the minority here. I watch very little sports, but when it served not only as a sports network, but also as a cultural study, I was grateful it existed. It's nice to have that option. Now if I flash by it, I feel like it is just another sports network. I have another dozen of those on my standard cable card, and they're all covering the same things. whoopie ding.Not a very Fedora Lounge related TV show, but I was watching Sportcenter this morning - any reason they can't cover each sport in its entirety versus covering a game from the NBA, then something about Nascar, then an upcoming NFL game, then a college football game and then something about soccer?
Wouldn't covering the news of the day for one sport as one block make more sense, i.e., all the NBA news, and then all the Nascar news, and then all the NFL news make more sense?
Or are they just trying to force the fan of only one or two sports to hang around longer?
if the later, then that is a great way to have a short-term win (I stayed today), but a long-term loss as I will now go to the web more for my sports' news.
The Librarians
ESPN used to be based on the great ABC Wide World of Sports. ESPN covered everything you could imagine. It was fantastic. Exposure to things we don't commonly see. Obviously in the minority here. I watch very little sports, but when it served not only as a sports network, but also as a cultural study, I was grateful it existed. It's nice to have that option. Now if I flash by it, I feel like it is just another sports network. I have another dozen of those on my standard cable card, and they're all covering the same things. whoopie ding.
The Curse Of Oak Island! Next week is the Big Reveal. Finally, will see what the Holey Grail and Ark Of The Covenant look like!
Watched it also! Getting pretty strange, but fun.
Every league has its own network now, and many of them are part of the basic cable package. You have to pay extra to get access to all the games, but they all have dedicated networks. Many sports do as well. Tennis Channel. Soccer channel. Comcast has a local sports channel in every big market (Comcast SportsNet). NBCSN (NBC Sports Network). CBSSN (CBS Sports Network). Fox Sports. BTN (Big Ten Network). I would imagine all the other big college conferences have them as well. ESPN has a handful of networks. That's just off the top of my head, and I don't even watch sports. There has to be others.What are all these other sports networks you mention - I think I get Fox, but are there others?
Did anyone other than Old Rogue & I catch "Agent Carter" on ABC tonite? I normally do not watch the big 4 networks preferring the sat channels but it seemed interesting.
Like the shot in the beginning of her walking in a red fedora style among the "bland" colored mens fedoras.
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The Curse Of Oak Island
Finally have divers in the Money Pit
That's precisely why I don't watch those kind of shows anymore. There's so little substance, and too much recap and commercials.Actually, they have divers in borehole 10X, which they hope leads to the Money Pit (why they don't simply spend a few hundred bucks and run a high-def downhole camera down there, I don't know). And it's gotten pretty pathetic that last night's hour-long episode showed approximately 5 minutes of actual progress. They'd show a minute, then rehash that minute a couple of times with voiceover, then cut to commercial. They'd come back from commercial and spend several minutes replaying what they showed before commercial, approximately 30 seconds of something new, then rehash to prepare for commercial. They repeat this over and over. Last night may have been the worst episode in the history of the series, and I expect next week's season finale to be even worse. "Is today the day the team finally finds the Ark of the Covenant? Or is it something even more powerful...something so magnificent that it will change human history forever? Find out next time..." I'm guessing probably not.