Posted on 04/24/2007 10:13:36 AM PDT by lowbridge
And public-affairs programming such as the kind that appeared on the old National Empowerment Television and documentaries like Frank Gaffney's "Islam vs. Islamism."
Encore’s western channel show the Linda Evans show. oh, that wasn’t the name of it? sorry
The Big Valley
Linda Evans — the only female to hang out with those boys and not wind up dead.
Thanks for the info on Encore.
I like the edited shows. For example, Sopranos is much better with the nudity gone and whatever else is missing. I won't watch the HBO etc shows without editing.
Linda Evans was the only reason to watch the show, if you were a teenage boy anyway:)
Sometimes it can be, personally the nudity and other stuff on Sopranos doesn’t bother me, but most of the time I think it’s bad. Presidents Day Weekend was a real eye opener for that, Sci-Fi did a marathon of Twilight Zone episodes, it was partly sponsored by the people releasing the new Twilight Zone collection and they decided to show the restored episodes like they’ll be on the DVD, this added about 5 minutes to every half hour episode, and watching some of those true classics like Time Enough At Last gain so much with that extra time. That’s really the kind of stuff I was talking about, there’s a lot more commercials now than there were back in the Golden Age where TVLand draws so much of it’s content from, there’s now 22 minutes of half hour show instead of 26 or 27, that’s a lot of content to lose. And unlike with newer shows that are written for that smaller time frame the stuff TVLand is showing were written, filmed and oringally edited for that 26 to 27 minutes ahdn chopping out that “extra” 4 or 5 minutes (1/5 of the total show) often leads to some wierd edits.
I don’t understand-—how are they *surprised* that programming an entire network for people over 50 would be doomed to failure?
To a teenaged girl she was an annoyance taking up valuable screen time. ;)
Yeah, you just wanted to see the fine acting ability of Lee Majors. :)
Not me. To watch men and women treating young women as animals for pleasure pretty much ruins most of the Hollywood offerings for me now days. It just hurts my feelings.
Of course with the Sopranos that’s part of the point. The characters by and large look at the world as targets, for monetary gain, for pleasure, or just for general use. Whether it’s naked women at the Bing or gambling addicts at the executive game or some donut store clerk who’s a jerk on the wrong day to the wrong person. Everybody’s an object to a mobster.
Except, the art of storytelling is to convey meaning without actually forcing the actor to be a prostitute, murderer, child abuser or pervert in reality.
The nudity is there for debauchery reasons.
Most of the strippers in the show are real strippers from the real bar they temporarily rename for the show. And if you see the show unedited you’ll realize that most of the time the other characters aren’t even paying attention to them, which is a whole message in and of itself, too busy thinking about killing to pay attention to all the naked women around.
Oh, in that case, let’s have our daughters audition.
Wow, way to strawman.
There’s so many great old TV shows, but all TV Land seems to air is Gunsmoke and Bonanza. I look at the TV listings, and it’s Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Bonanza...
Like saying that they used "professional strippers" instead of "actresses pretending to be professional strippers" made a point, LOL?
Actually it did, a point apparently way outside of your obsession. Which isn’t a suprise since the whole thing I was talking about with the editing was the shortening for commercialsdone to make classic TV shows fit in the new smaller slots, not whatever editing for content done when transitioning a subscription cable show like The Sopranos to non-subscription. You’ve completely ignored that and thurougly obsessed and naked boobies, which is probably a sign of deeper issues.
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