Tagged: television

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tv/video: Jamie Goes West

Just watched a very cute–and ultimately cheeky–ad for Jamie Oliver’s new Channel4 series Jamie’s American Road Trip this morning. From cowboys to alligator hunters, and ex-gang members to high-society ladies, Jamie Oliver wants to discover the real heart of America,...

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cartoons: I’m fabulous!

In deference to my nerdy roots, I am rarely ever ashamed to say that I still love cartoons.* For the most part, I’ve given up on a lot of modern cartoons, especially since the ones that seem cool never last...

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ads: tenor to soprano… to bass

An ad making the rounds that gave me a chuckle is the new one from Mike’s Hard Lemonade. The recent campaign features Steve Berg (last seen as one of the groupies/singers in Dr. Horrible who’d do the weird stuff) as...

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internet tv: no more free Hulu?

While this is likely barely in the development or planning stages, it would still be very inconvenient and unfortunate. DailyFinance: Soon, you’ll have to pay for Hulu. Speaking last night at an Internet Week event sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter,...

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FML: shoulda worn jeans

Due to gamer’ish activities last night, I was up and running a little later than usual today. No big deal, the office would keep and I wasn’t late, so I wasn’t moving at top speed. Took care of my ablutions,...

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ads: are y’all even still together?

Thanks to TiVo*, I don’t see that many ads anymore, but this one always cracks me up: “It’s the 34th time this year…” The other ads in the series are cute and ride that fine line of awkwardness that’s made...

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random: condemned to repeat it

Anyone else sick of all the remakes, covers, re-imaginings, etc.? To go off on a slightly* geeky tangent, in the X-Men and Alpha Flight comic from 1986, the trickster god was offering mankind the opportunity to become like gods. One...

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ads: “Put it in me, Scott.”

I’m only posting this because I saw an edited version on tv a few minutes ago and compared to the original, it was nowhere near as funny… or disturbing. Last week, AdFreak posted a Quiznos ad created by Nitro to...

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video: “Elmo wants this tape!”

Ricky Gervais… doing comic work for charity is totally his thing. He’s a seasoned professional at it, crack a few jokes, raise some dollars, all in a day’s work right? And Sesame Street’s Elmo, so cute, so cuddly, so innocent....