TV Watercooler

Good TV this fall.........

babyk — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:07:26 GMT

Can I just say that there are so many good TV shows this fall that I'm having trouble deciding what to watch! I guess I just need to buckle down and buy a TiVo......anybody want to contribute to the BabyK TiVo fund?

America's Got Talent-The Chicken Catcher

Buzz Blogger — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:56:17 GMT

Wow what a great performance last night by the "Chicken Catcher". Everyone here at KMTR is talking about him this morning. Very humble man with a wonderful country music voice. If you missed it click below.

http://www.nbc.com/americas-got-talent/video/clips/kevin-skinners-performance/1131369/

Beauty and the Geek

badgerrr — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:58:10 GMT

TV is a wasteland. There is little doubt. But sometimes even TV will slam into something powerful and thought provoking. When one looks thru the blather to see what is revealed within....this can be big stuff.

I feel this is true for a reality program called "Beauty and the Geek". THIS is thought provoking.

This event is staged with ravashing young women who have made their way in this world based on their looks. Then they are paired with young men who are the classic "Geek", (Trekkys - Computer Nerds - Sword and Sorcery types). They then compete in various trials which play against type. The Geeks are challanged on fashion, social skills and "girl stuff". The girls are challanged on intellect and "boy stuff".

Watching the interplay twixt these groups (which carefully avoid each other in real life) is most revealing.

One of the things that stands out for me is how perfectly this event confirms the old saw....

Power corrupts

We see, perfectly, how (especially for women) beauty is power and that for everyone - power corrupts. So many of these girls have been actually devastated by the corrosive effects of their looks. In some cases the woman inside was made as repulsive as the outer woman was attractive. This plays in bold relief against the unwieldy geeks.

But it seems there are untold life lessons revealed in this program.

Any other observations on the lessons revealed in Beauty and the Beast; or of the nature of the corruption of power in our individual lives?

Cable - Satellite -?- Best value? Recommendations?

badgerrr — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:03:28 GMT

Over these last few years, I've become increasingly horrified by the cost of my Comcast Cable. It's nothing special...just the level above absolute basic....and it's almost 50 bloody bucks a month now!

I'm hoping somebody out there has a real feel for the deals around here, for access. I want to keep stuff like the History channel, the Travel Channel, and such but don't really need stuff like HBO or STARZ.

Any observations, Recommendations?

Does anyone else hate Poker After Dark?

Rebel — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:57:04 GMT

I am a night person and do the majority of my TV watching between 9 pm and 5 am. I pay the same for my cable as everyone else with the same service, yet most of what's on at those hours is crap! I get stuck with numerous infomercial channels, several shopping channels, a bunch of sports and news channels, a couple of Spanish channels and several channels that show old movies or programs from 40 years ago. This is infuriating and unfair! And a few weeks ago KMTR added to the garbage by replacing The Tonight Show with Poker After Dark at 2:05 am and removed Conan altogether in the am. So now there's one more hour with nothing to watch, and one more poker show that really sucks, even for a poker show. It would sure be nice to have some prime-time programs replayed during those hours!
If I had a digital tv recorder I could record programs to watch later, but I don't and I no longer use a VCR. Besides, the nighttime programming needs to be improved for everyone.