Hunter

Well, I had enjoyed the two Hunter reunion movies and was looking forward to checking out the return of the series that NBC was promoting would air at 9 eastern on a Saturday night towards the end of last season. I guess some clown at the network thought it might be fun and change the time to an hour earlier at the last minute. Good one bozos. I’m sure that did wonders for the ratings. And it undoubtedly pissed off a lot of people, like me, who ended up missing the show.

Bob Hope

I caught the Bob Hope tribute special a while back on NBC – this was for his birthday, not his death. I’m not sure how, but NBC managed to screw it up. This was the same week as the Third Watch promos that didn’t pan out and the rescheduled Hunter. Yep, it was one hell of a week for them. Why exactly did the network feel the need to include an overly generous amount of clips of current “stars”, and I use that term loosely, wishing Hope a happy birthday? Most of the so-called stars were from NBC’s own shows, which made the bits all the more cheap. But the killer for me was several Martin Short segments in which he was made up as his annoying Jiminy Glick character commenting on Hope movies. Wow, good way to go out of your way to ruin what should have been a wonderful special. Thankfully, the career of Hope was more than enough to transcend all of the crap NBC felt the need to fill the special with.

Third Watch Two For Two

For two weeks in a row Third Watch episodes didn’t live up to their promos. NBC must have been trying to set a new record for promising viewers shows that they didn’t feel the need to deliver on in a timely fashion.

Oprah’s Close Encounter With A Light Socket

I was flipping through the TV channels one day, and happened on Oprah’s new hairstyle. It was the afro from hell. You would think with all of the money that the woman has that she could afford to hire someone to tell her she looks like crap before going on the air. Interesting to note that the next time I flipped by the afro was gone. I guess somebody had the guts to tell Queen Oprah how bad she looked.

Poppy’s Puppies

Just happened to tune into The View some time back and noticed that the lovely Poppy Montgomery, one of the stars of the show Without A Trace was co-hosting the show. What caught my attention was the extremely low cut blouse that Ms. Montgomery decided to wear on the show. Even better was that she felt the need to constantly lean forward to talk to the other co-hosts. Now I know why they call it The View. If Poppy had just leaned forward another degree or two those suckers would have been out on the table in all their glory. Hey Poppy, please come back and co-host that show as often as possible.

Identity Promo

When the movie Identity was released the ads caught my attention. It billed itself as the scariest movie since The Ring. Hmm, The Ring was as scary as a dust bunny. No wonder Identity disappeared from theaters so quickly.

A Wee Bit More Catching Up

I’m still behind, but getting closer to being up to date.

NBC Promo

A While back I was watching an NBC program and a promo came on for their coverage of arena football. But instead of trying to tout the benefits of the game, the promo boasted of how the trailer for the new Matrix movie (The Matrix Reloaded – shows you how far I’m behind) would be shown during a break in the game. You know when the commercials are more of an incentive to watch a program than the show itself it says a great deal about the quality of the show.

TV Sound

Am I the only one who is noticing a huge increase in the difference between the volume of TV shows and that of the commercials recently? It seems to be so pronounced on some channels that I am now forced to have the remote in my hand at all times to mute the volume during commercials for fear of disturbing my entire neighborhood.

Laci

With the somewhat discovery of the body of Laci Peterson am I the only one who was a little put off by the glee of some members of the media at reporting on the condition of the body? In some cases they were almost thrilled to be able to report every little detail they could on the dismembered state of the poor woman’s corpse. No wonder so many people are turning away from TV news to the internet.

Spike

TNN (The National Network) recently changed its name to Spike TV. Uh, OK. Little tip kids, the shows are the reason that people watch a network, not the name of the channel. If the shows continue to suck, so will the ratings, no matter how many nifty names you dream up. Oh, and if you are going to use those two goofy bastards that seem to appear in every second commercial on TNN (you know, the guys promoting The New TNN name) that isn’t going to help you in the ratings war either.

Zahn

The overpaid, overrated, Paula Zahn has moved to prime time on CNN. Morning TV just got a whole lot better. It would have gotten a whole lot better had CNN tapped Heidi Collins to replace Zahn. Sadly, they went with Soledad O’Brien, who looks like she would rather be somewhere other than CNN on most mornings. Good job CNN, you have managed to go from really bad, to just plain awful.

Third Watch

Kudos to NBC on their promotion of the show Third Watch during final part of last season. The promos suggested a tragic end for one of the show’s characters. Well the first show following the promos came and went and everyone was still alive. But we did get a promo for the same event for the next week’s show. Morons.