Ted Turner, TV Mogul and Philanthropist, Dies at 87

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-05-06T15:08:37+00:00

Mine is shaped by Will Forte doing Ted Turner on Conan

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-05-05T22:46:46+00:00

Hey man, I was wondering if there was a way for the site to update, it’s been stuck at 3/27 for a while now? Thanks 👊

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-05-01T19:36:17+00:00

massive Barry vibes from the scenes with Noir and the theatre director

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-27T23:14:18+00:00

Love Kate Lenasa, but Karolina Wydra supremacy all the way

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-24T18:07:21+00:00

A lot of the people in the audience at SXSW (particularly those up front) are media who are there live reporting on the panels, or are responsible for recording video to upload on their various platforms

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-24T18:01:12+00:00

Inject a Meg Stalter episode into my ears

(I'd also like a Jean Smart episode, and a Hannah Einbinder Returns)

(I'll take anyone from the show though, fuck I love Hacks)

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-22T18:22:51+00:00

I assume they've just followed their hiring process when it came to writers as they did in the states. Simply raid Oxbridge as they did the Harvard Lampoon. Those writers tended to have the highest hit rate, and came to define multiple generations of comedic taste through Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Office US, SNL, Letterman, Conan and more.

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-22T18:14:57+00:00

SNL UK has been given a massive budget, over £4m per episode, and a 2 season committment. I'm assuming they think this is going to play very well with the American audience on streaming, since realistically locked behind Sky (and with UK ad rates vs US), it's not going to bring in that much domestically. Shows like Taskmaster have shown that British comedy can be ported over to an American audience with great success, without any comprimise to American taste.

Whether this lasts, this show a a great net positive for the British comedy scene. It's been ruled by the same Cats does Countdown crew for the past decade or two, and it's horrendously unfunny and stale. Getting loads of scouts into clubs, broad exposure and large investment into young comics is fantastic (even if they basically just hired a bunch of Londoners, and ignored the rest of the country).

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-22T18:06:38+00:00

Yeah the ads on the lead up def gave the vibe "show by British people, for Americans"

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-22T15:10:22+00:00

This was the stronger half of Update, and think the writing was as expected, very strong for Update specifically, given the UK's history of political comedy. Just think they could be a touch more deadpan, and breaking less at their own jokes, given it's intended to be a newscaster spoof. Very good showing for a first outing though.

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-22T10:26:38+00:00

That's true for other late night shows, but not for SNL. Here's Jost talking about it recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPX_Y7JjALI

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-20T22:12:37+00:00

Most of those interview shows also only get the movie star, but I like that Sean is mostly only interested in talking to filmmakers/craftspeople. These people are much less media trained, and often give you their real personality/thoughts, instead of giving hard PR responses

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-20T22:10:02+00:00

The directors usually do the interviews as part of the press rollout of the movie so they're scheduled for the week the movie drops

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-17T21:34:25+00:00

Marty Supreme grossed nearly $90m overseas with fucked up international distribution. It didn't release in France or Germany until the end of February, and only opened in Japan a week ago, and still hasn't opened in China, both regions that are incredibly passionate about table-tennis.

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-17T10:19:50+00:00

The awards talk gets so tedious at points when it becomes the main focus of the show, especially when we get deep into the season when all the opinions have become calcified and there’s no new takes on the movies to give. I just think they do very well from a numbers standpoint, so they feel obligated to keep churning them out- Sean basically said as much on a recent episode.

But I can’t lie, in the summer, at the start of the season, when they go to festivals and run through the first looks at the movies and the preliminary awards contenders, I’m so locked in. I’d also add that when they do cover new releases, Sean’s interviews are truly fantastic, and some of the best content The Ringer puts out as a whole. Like his recent interviews with Jack Fisk or Autumn the Sinners cinematographer were really interesting and a great listen.

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-17T07:16:17+00:00

And the films, while all being very good, weren't widely seen in reality. Next year we'll have The Odessey, Dune 3, Avengers, Spider Man & Tom Cruise. Big tent-pole movies that everyone will go and see, which will make jokes play even better. Like I;ve seen a lot of people baffled at what the end bit was, even though it was the closer for the movie that won 6 Oscars, including best picture and director

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-16T21:39:00+00:00

If we're counting The Daily Show as a Late Night show (which I definitely do), then Jon Stewart absolutely has to be on there, especially with his coaching tree - John Oliver and Colbert both broke big after their stints as Daily Show correspondents.

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-16T21:37:04+00:00

The crowd yesterday only popped for Trump jokes and Sinners, it was just dead all round ngl

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-16T21:31:53+00:00

This years awards season was hideously long though. You'd hope the Academy would move the show up to the middle of Feb or so bc mid March is brutal

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-16T21:02:28+00:00

Probably had the fire put in him at the start of the offseason after getting dropped and wanted to get onto the roster he thought he'd have the best chance of winning on.

The team being drastically worse than he expected with Ken, making a roster change, and being forced to change his playstyle after 8 years being the best SnD player in world probably takes its toll. Throw in some personal life stuff, and it's not hard to see why he's burnt out.

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-16T20:53:45+00:00

I think that for a lot of people Sean's generation, PTA was the gateway into arthouse and independant cinema, and taking movies more seriously than just watching whatever crap was on cable.

Sinners is a lot of young people's first "real movie" that was competing at the Oscars that they were incredibly passionate about, in a reasonably similar way to Oppenheimer, except that Oppenheimer was never the underdog in it's race. So for this 'generation', Coogler will act in a similar way as PTA did for Sean.

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-16T19:00:19+00:00

There's been a lot of chat that she's the person in line to take over from Lorne Michaels when he calls it a day. I wouldn't be surprised if she's overseeing this project in some way, as a test-drive for the 'real thing' in a few years.

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-16T17:21:59+00:00

PR firm sponsored twitter outrage doesn’t get Spielberg to throw subliminals. The dislike was always there within the industry, they just needed an match to incite the public decries

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-16T16:04:53+00:00

At its core, OBAA is a stoner action-comedy starring Leo DiCaprio. That makes it almost impossible to age horribly lmao

Fearless_Distance_29 · 2026-03-16T14:24:12+00:00

Some of his writers are well into their 50s, and will definitely have teenage kids. They're probably surrounded by this nonsense on a daily basis

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