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All I wanted to do was share a funny “Downton Abbey Meets Spike TV” skit that was on Saturday Night Live this week. Unfortunately, there’s no authorized version of the sketch online from NBCUniversal. That made me hesitate, but apparently it wasn’t a problem for iVillage, an NBCUniversal-owned site. Nor was it an issue for Time, [...]

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Rupert, my son had a simple request. “Daddy, can we watch last week’s episode of The Simpsons?” No, son, we can’t. You can blame Rupert Murdoch for that. Rupert, I know you’re all upset about all those SOPA & PIPA protests last week. Why, without them, how will you keep all your shows from being [...]

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I’ve watched the BBC — the real BBC — for over 20 years. The ersatz “BBC America” that we get here in the United States has so little to do with the real BBC that I almost wish someone would file a false advertising lawsuit against it. On the off chance anyone from the real [...]

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Dear FTC. Instead of worrying about whether bloggers are disclosing all they should when writing about products, perhaps a little more attention should be focused on TV programs and product placement? This season’s 24 took things to a new level, where plot points were constructed around featuring a product. Is a tiny mention in credits [...]

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Lego Arrested Development

by on February 7, 2010

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My 11 year old loves Arrested Development. He loves Lego. I guess it was inevitable the two would collide. He’s been busy constructing scenes from Arrested Development out of Lego. Here, Gob is about to make the yacht Lucille disappear: Here, Gob is hanging out with one of the many girls of low self-esteem during [...]

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Another Thanksgiving in Britain, another year of missing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade live on TV. But the webcast is happening again! You’ll find it here, and my thoughts about viewing it from abroad from last year are in my Watching The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade From Abroad post. Postscript: Damn, CNN apparently had a [...]

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I’m a big 24 fan. Season 6 is well underway in the UK, and we’ve just had (SPOILER!) the president injured in a bomb blast. The vice president’s now in charge, which got me thinking. In the 24 world, being VP is nothing like that “pitcher of warm piss” that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s vice president [...]

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Speaking of Battlestar Galactica, at last the third season arrives in the UK. And I mean the real third season, not that fake third season that got me to buy the "second season" as advertised on the DVD set when I was in the US earlier this year. But it’s not just Battlestar that’s back. [...]

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In the other room, Celebrity Big Brother is kicking off yet another run on Channel 4 here in the UK. Like most reality TV shows, I try to remain shielded from any exposure. But my wife asked me if I like Dirk Benedict, who she informed me was now entering the house as a contestant. Dirk Benedict? I [...]

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NOTE: Please see Watching The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2010 From Abroad for the latest info. Another Thanksgiving away from home (ie, the US), another Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade that I can’t watch on TV here in the UK. Three years ago, I missed the tradition so much that I took the family to New [...]

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