NPR on Hallmark Movies
Linda Holmes and Lulu Garcia-Navarro are fans, even as they acknowledge that Hallmark’s unreality is utterly heteronormative and nearly all-white.
TV days
The Times reports that “people close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television.”
“Bon Appétit!”
Here’s a third piece of Lassie fan-fiction, with Julia Child.
“The long and short of it”
Alonzo Mourning and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.
Sleigh Bells Ring
“This has exceeded even my lofty expectations!”
Halloween advice
“Make sure you’re well lit.”
World Book Things
Five minutes into the first episode of the new season of Stranger Things, I was thrilled to see the World Book Encyclopedia, or at least a partial set, on a shelf in Dustin’s house.
Shine on, Hallmark Channel
Pumpkin skin care!
Media studies: file drawers, notebook, EXchange name
There are many ways to enjoy television.
“An image of the audience”
Neil Postman on the politician as an image of the audience.
Dream commercial
In last night’s sleep, a commercial for The Tonight Show.
Sean Spicer at the Emmys
Ugh.
Recently updated
Stornography, now appearing in a cartoon.
Stornography
The commodification of horrific weather into televised spectacle.
The first Paul Martin
Jon Shepodd played Paul Martin in the 1957–58 season of Lassie.
Current events
Alliances, rivalries: it’s Big Brother in the White House.
June Foray (1917–2017)
The voice of Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale, and Nell Fenwick.
Snoopy TV
Sitting too close to the television.
Martin Landau (1928–2017)
Actor.
Bob Wolff (1920–2017)
In the 1970s, I watched countless New York Knicks games with Bob Wolff’s play-by-play and Cal Ramsey’s color commentary.
Hal Fryar (1927–2017)
Harlow Hickenlooper of Indianapolis children’s television.
Henry TV
Henry’s dog Dusty is sitting too close to the television.
Mystery actor
She has Bette Davis eyes.
Watching Lost in five sentences
“I’m supposed to believe this?”
Lost thoughts
Lost piles up mythic tropes and media tropes indiscriminately, from Gilgamesh and Enkidu to the Mahabharata to Pandora’s box to Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now (Mistah Locke) to Casablanca (“You’re getting on that plane”) to Star Wars to Jonestown to Raiders of the Lost Ark to MacGyver to Touched by an Angel to The Apprentice. And more, always more.
Domestic comedy
“The Dharma Initiative push-up bra.”
Woodstock TV
Woodstock joins Henry, Linus van Pelt, and Nancy Ritz in having sat too close to the television.
Recently updated
A mystery actor identified.
Mystery actor
You may have seen her on television — dozens and dozens of times.
Domestic comedy
Upon flipping to the last minute or so of Jeopardy.