For a limited time you can watch last night's Big Bang Theory season premiere, "The Matrimonial Momentum," free online. Even more exciting, you can watch this entire "half-hour" show in a mere 20:26.
Stephen C reveals: "I'm really mostly a hoofer. Mostly song and dance."by KenThe wait is over, just about.
The preview for tonight's highly satisfying Season 3 finale of Last Tango in Halifaxby KenThis illustrates the problem with having no writers about TV I can turn to for guidance. All through the six-episode Season 3 of Last Tango in Halifax, which aired tonight on many PBS stations, I kept thinking, somebody shoulda told me about this.
Since we haven't seen much of each other since December, Stephen asks, "What've you guys been doing?" ("Me, I've been busy," he says.) Here he shaves off the beard he adopted after finding it by the highway, which helped earn him the cover of Homeless Sea Captain Monthly. The beard had to come off, he explains, because on CBS, it turns out, "Tom Selleck's moustache has a noncompete clause."by KenI know I just saw a post somewhere by someone who couldn't believe he'd only just discovered that Stephen has started a podcast.
DILBERT by Scott AdamsJuly 9: "Hard Work Is Necessary For Success"[Click to enlarge.]"I take Life as it comes, and although I grouse a great deal and sometimes lie on the floor and kick and scream and refuse to eat my supper, I find that taking Life as it comes is the only way to meet it. It isn't a very satisfactory way, but it is the only way. (I should be very glad to try any other way that anyone can suggest.
Episode 3 of Mr. Robot airs tomorrow night on USA Network.by KenI admit that the first thing that put me off of USA's new series Mr. Robot was the title. Wouldn't you assume that a show called Mr. Robot is about robots, or at least one robot? And I wasn't in the market for a show about robots, which sounded suspiciously like an offshoot of the vampire/zombie genre, which I don't participate in.Fortunately, Noah tipped me off withthe advisory that it's his favorite TV offering since Breaking Bad, which, coming from him, is exalted praise indeed.
Plus Marc Maron on podcasting the president(And a note on the nuttitude of Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito)Do you suppose it's a coincidence that a bacon feast has been arranged on the set of The Billy and Josh Show while the bacon-fiendish Josh is on a juice cleanse?
I've posted a piece on last night's Mad Men finale, and the experience of watching it as part of an audience of enthusiasts, on my Sunday Classics blog. -- Ken#
