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With his fortunes fading, former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke attempted to sell himself as a possible running mate to South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg by boasting “I am a giant a**hole.” Though seasoned political observers are calling this “another gaffe in an unbroken chain of gaffes since his unsuccessful attempt to win a US Senate seat last year,” sources close to the candidate are optimistic that “Mayor Pete will understand that Beto is proposing a mutually satisfying coupling between two ideological soul mates.” if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at... https://azconservative.org/2019/06/01/dem-signals-support-for-secret-police/

As Americans continue to find better things to do than consume the latest slop the networks are dumping into the troughs, the TV media have railed at Nielsen Media Research for supposedly undercounting viewers. But one sane voice at NBC takes at least partial blame. The fall season is bombing because "some of the programming just sucked," NBC entertainment chief Jeff Zucker said today in New York in a speech to the International Radio & Television Society Foundation. "Our programming is not that good, and the Nielsen sample is bad. End of story," Zucker said. He admitted that "Coupling," canceled...

The smirking yuppies who run NBC were glad that the rubes in Flyover Country were fuming about the network's raunchy new sitcom "Coupling." There's no such thing as bad publicity in Hollywood - unless that publicity fails to generate interest and the chief god of Tinseltown, money. "Coupling," an American rip-off of a British rip-off of NBC's "Friends," is doing so dismally in its coveted slot Thursday night that the pea-brained Peacocks have yanked the show after only three weeks. NBC execs refuse to say when or if "Coupling" will return, the New York Times reported today. Not that anyone...

The US version of BBC2 comedy Coupling has been unceremoniously yanked from the NBC schedule after only three episodes, prompting fears about the show's future. NBC has pulled Coupling from its 9.30pm slot on Thursday night and replaced it with a repeat of another of its new shows, Whoopi Goldberg sitcom Whoopi. Perhaps more ominously, NBC has also announced it will be resting Coupling for "sweeps" month in November, when TV advertising rates for the next quarter are set and the US networks try to maximise ratings with scheduling stunts and specials. The fact that Coupling is being sidelined for...

The US version of BBC sitcom Coupling has been banned by two local stations because of its sexual content. The stations - WNDU in South Bend, Indiana and KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah - are affiliated to national network NBC, which made the show. NBC has remade the cult hit British comedy, about six friends, with the first episode to be shown on Thursday. WNDU said the sexual jokes "push the envelope well beyond the boundaries of our community's standards". The station's managers said they were "disappointed and uncomfortable" with the content. NBC has admitted the show is "provocative"...