July 8, 2022
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Sports, Television
$100000 Pyramid, British Open, Celebrity Family Feud, Conjuring Kesha, Everything's Trash, Formentera, Freedom, Journey, Metric, Solar Opposites, South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2, The Final Straw, The Open Championship, Thor: Love and Thunder, Tuca & Bertie, What We Do in the Shadows
CREDIT: discovery plus/Screenshot
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Thor: Love and Thunder (Theaters) – I’m glad that Jane’s back!
TV
–Conjuring Kesha Series Premiere (July 8 on discovery+) – Will this be good enough to get me to sign up for discovery+?
–Celebrity Family Feud Season Premiere (July 10 on ABC)
–The Final Straw Series Premiere (July 10 on ABC) – Will Jenga sue?
–The $100,000 Pyramid Season Premiere (July 10 on ABC)
–Tuca & Bertie Season Premiere (July 10 Adult Swim)
–What We Do in the Shadows Season 4 Premiere (July 12 on FX)
–Everything’s Trash Series Premiere (July 13 on Freeform) – A sitcom starring Phoebe Robinson.
–Solar Opposites Season 3 (July 13 on Hulu)
–South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 (July 13 on Paramount+)
Music
-Journey, Freedom
-Metric, Formentera
Sports
-The Open Championship (July 14-17 on NBC, Golf Channel, and Peacock) – AKA the British Open.
May 21, 2021
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Television
$100000 Pyramid, Chrissie Hynde, Crime Scene Kitchen, Duncanville, Gary Numan, Intruder, Joel McHale, M.O.D.O.K., Master of None, Olivia Rodrigo, Press Your Luck, Rugrats, Scaled and Icy, Sour, Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan, twenty one pilots
M.O.D.O.K. (CREDIT: Hulu/YouTube Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
TV
–M.O.D.O.K. Season 1 (May 21 on Hulu) – Robot Head.
–Duncanville Season 2 Premiere (May 23 on FOX)
–Master of None Season 3 (May 23 on Netflix)
–The $100,000 Pyramid Season Premiere (May 26 on ABC)
–Crime Scene Kitchen Series Premiere (May 26 on FOX) – I usually don’t watch cooking shows, but this one’s hosted by Joel McHale.
–Press Your Luck Season Premiere (May 26 on ABC)
–Rugrats Reboot Premiere (May 27 on Paramount+)
Music
-Chrissie Hynde, Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan
-Gary Numan, Intruder
-Olivia Rodrigo, Sour
-twenty one pilots, Scaled and Icy
July 23, 2020
jmunney
Awards Shows, Emmys, Television
$100000 Pyramid, 2020 Emmys, Conan, Emmy Wish List, Emmys, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Holey Moley, Last Week Tonight, Match Game, RuPaul's Drag Race, Saturday Night Live, Sherman's Showcase, The Masked Singer, To Tell the Truth, Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Whose Line is it Anyway?
CREDIT: ABC; IFC
The 2020 Emmy nominations will be announced on July 28. As per annual tradition, I have assembled a Wish List for as many categories as I have something to say about. There is no minimum or maximum number per category, nor is there any strict adherence to official Emmy rules. And of course, there is the necessary caveat that I have not seen everything. Even with much of the country shut down for the past few months, that’s impossible.
Now that I have made my way through the avalanche of award-worth Dramas, Comedies, and Limited Series, it’s time to get a little silly with the Variety shows. And this year, I decided to also talk about Reality, as there are enough competition shows that I plainly love to be able to fill out a ballot.
Conan is my top choice among the talkies, as Mr. O’Brien and company adapted quite naturally to the new reality of at-home production and Zoom interviews. The Soul Train/American Bandstand homage that is Sherman’s Showcase is the easy choice in Sketch Series; seriously folks, you gotta check this show out. And while I don’t always include SNL in the field, it earned a spot this year thanks to the resiliency demonstrated in its at-home episodes.
Moving on to Reality, where my Competition Program picks are dominated by game shows, naturally enough. At the top of the heap is the mini-golf showcase Holey Moley, one of the most purely fun and positive shows on the air right now. And Joe Tessitore and Rob Riggle are the perfect silly/serious M.C. pair to present the whole shebang.
KEY:
Bold=My winner
CREDIT: YouTube Screenshot
Variety Talk Series
CONAN
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
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September 10, 2019
jmunney
Game Shows, Television
$100000 Pyramid, ABC, ABC Summer Fun and Games, Battle of the Network Stars, Card Sharks, Celebrity Family Feud, Family Food Fight, Game Shows, Holey Moley, Match Game, Press Your Luck, Summer Fun and Games, The Gong Show, To Tell the Truth
CREDIT: Byron Cohen/ABC
Summer 2019 is winding to a close, which means we will soon have to say goodbye for now to one of my favorite programming blocks, ABC’s “Summer Fun & Games.” I’ve been meaning to do an appraisal of how well each show reaches its potential and how thoroughly they strike my particular pleasure centers, and that’s what I’ve done below. I’ve included all the shows that are currently on the block as well as those that have been cancelled or are on hiatus, organizing them into categories worthy of their status.
CREDIT: Heidi Gutman/ABC
The Titans
Celebrity Family Feud
Match Game
It’s your boy Steve Harvey hosting the stalwart program that all the fame-os want to be on. And it’s Master MC Alec Baldwin fully inhabiting the ringmaster role in the perfect venue where celebrity shtick comes to (blank).
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June 7, 2019
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
$100000 Pyramid, Baskets, Big Little Lies, Card Sharks, Celebrity Family Feud, Match Game, Pose, Press Your Luck, Silversun Pickups, The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Tonys, Widow's Weeds
CREDIT: Jason Bell/CBS
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Limited Theatrically)
TV
So many game shows!
-73rd Annual Tony Awards (June 9 on CBS)
–Celebrity Family Feud Season Premiere (June 9 on ABC)
–The $100,000 Pyramid Season Premiere (June 9 on ABC)
–Big Little Lies Season 2 Premiere (June 9 on HBO)
–Pose Season 2 Premiere (June 11 on FX)
–Press Your Luck Reboot Series Premiere (June 11 on ABC)
–Card Sharks Reboot Series Premiere (June 12 on ABC)
–Match Game Season Premiere (June 12 on ABC)
–Baskets Season 4 Premiere (June 13 on FX) – Top-notch FX drama and comedy is burning up the summer!
Music
-Silversun Pickups, Widow’s Weeds
June 18, 2017
jmunney
Television, What Won TV?
$100000 Pyramid, AFI Life Achievement Award, Better Call Saul, Diane Keaton, Downward Dog, Fargo, Leslie Jones, Orphan Black, RuPaul's Drag Race
In this feature, I look back at each day of the past week and determine what shows “won TV” for the night. That is, I consider every episode of television I watched that aired on a particular day and declare which was the best.
CREDIT: ABC/Lou Rocco
Sunday – The $100,000 Pyramid, for Leslie Jones’ reaction
Monday – Better Call Saul
Tuesday – Downward Dog
Wednesday – Fargo
Thursday – AFI Life Achievement Award for Actress, Director, and Climate Change Denier Diane Keaton
Friday – RuPaul’s Drag Race: Extra Stressful Reunion Edition
Saturday – Orphan Black
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