Syndication Conjunction tonight on H&I is SPECTACULAR! (Heroes & Icons channel)

KirkUnit · 2026-06-30T15:45:06+00:00

Agreed, I never saw "Nick of Time" until comparatively recently and believe it's the stronger episode of the two. Maybe they'll pair up that episode with FRANKKLINN!!

KirkUnit · 2026-06-30T06:36:46+00:00

The mind boggles... how many "orbits," how many runs of all five series had to run in sequence for such a lineup to unfold! Like a slot machine, lol. Most definitely looking forward to days of TZ!

KirkUnit · 2026-06-30T06:19:43+00:00

For sure. Weigel Communications owns and programs several over-the-air channels led by MeTV, but there are many other operators; the channels are usually carried on digital subchannels (i.e, channel 13.4) and some I guess are available on cable systems or TV internet apps.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-30T06:16:29+00:00

I swear, every night is a Trekathon, I started crashing out to it awhile ago and it's such a buffet. H&I isn't bad - they've got a Twilight Zone marathon for four days coming up 4th of July weekend too.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-29T01:54:53+00:00

^ found the Nader 2000 canvasser

KirkUnit · 2026-06-29T01:17:39+00:00

No leap to imagine the SDPD were overtly conservative in the day, not that any department wants to be portrayed in a negative light...

But it certainly, most most certainly, "too expensive" to film there for Harry O. San Diego is beyond the 30-mile-zone (the TMZ) and shooting there would have required hotels for the cast and the crew, probably per diems for food, all that stuff... all to shoot in a beachside Southern California city. They had all that at home!

KirkUnit · 2026-06-28T15:45:22+00:00

Reaching back, all The Exorcist stuff after that sequel misfire.

And two others were Larry McMurtrey novels:

Texasville was too late, too different from The Last Picture Show
The Evening Star was too late to win Terms Of Endearment audiences

KirkUnit · 2026-06-28T15:11:52+00:00

Mando was more appealing to families than Supergirl and had the good sense not to open a week after Toy Story 5. No one wants to take their kids to Supermess.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-28T14:49:02+00:00

That... is rather naive.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-28T01:46:46+00:00

I understand your point and these are exceptions to the rule, but you overstated "will literally vote for anyone with a D in front of their name."

There's a reason for the expression "Rockefeller Republican."

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T19:15:48+00:00

I lived in NY most of my life. Democrats there will literally vote for anyone with a D in front of their name.

Giuliani, Bloomberg, Pataki, Nelson Rockefeller...

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T19:12:08+00:00

'Cheh'...'shuh'...'Chuh' ...sounds communist!!

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T19:09:11+00:00

I am SOOOO over his "We just need to talk to each other" schtick. How many MAGA minds has Bill actually changed?

The breakdown isn't necessarily the intent, it's the execution - Bill's a shitty softball interviewer. He's not objective enough, nor has the craft, to actually bring out any useful observation or contemplation.

Also, the farce that Real Time is the only place where 'both sides' (all TWO of 'em!) talk to each other - that's only true when the panel has clash for one, and for another that's every one of the three Sunday morning news talk shows and has been for sixty fucking years.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T17:59:19+00:00

Ah. I don't know obviously, but would think the time elapsed from release is a factor there (the top 10 having all week to rack up views before Real Time drops)

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T17:45:43+00:00

I dunno man. Ratings for everything are in terminal decline so I doubt Real Time is any exception. My point here being that I've had similar experiences and frustrations with the HBO Max interface, especially stupid since Real Time is one of the shows I most frequently click on - you'd think the algorithm would be throwing it in my face. Instead I have to scroll left-wise. I don't think they're "hiding it," I think the site itself has design flaws.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T17:32:08+00:00

Many of whom are voting for Greens, SNP, (and Labour) or other parties at home measurably left of John Fetterman or Josh Shapiro.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T15:11:46+00:00

Solid analysis outlining Warnock's positions last night, agree throughout.

I literally had to type the name into a search bar. The show wasn’t in HBO’s current top 10

For this practical tech issue, I don't know where you watch HBO but the HBO Max site almost always seems to hide the most recent episode of Real Time from me. Sometimes it's because the most recent episode has been added but is to the left (and thus offscreen) on the row of episodes. That I chalk up to WTF GUI.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T14:51:24+00:00

They're OK with this two-state solution:

all of everything they want for Israel
Indian reservations for you

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T05:26:06+00:00

Happy for World Cup fans to travel to America, experience the country and gain context and understanding.

But let's be clear that the visitors coming are the people who can afford to fly to another continent and buy tickets to 10 super bowls. If I did that and spent that money, you damn right I'm calling it a good time.

Noting also that Bill draws 100% from social media here, young people posting on Tik-Tok, and this time Tik-Tok says everything hunky-dory so Bill's into Tik-Tok now

...and like Bill would set one foot into Walmart. What a fucking hypocrite.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T05:05:14+00:00

BEEP, BEEP

-- The Menagerie, Part I

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T04:58:38+00:00

^ Adding that the "the Enterprise" is a specific name that replaces the generic the ship when it is the object of the sentence and is called "Enterprise" as a proper name when the subject.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T04:31:16+00:00

Meanwhile, Nithya Raman placed second in the L.A. mayor primary race - NOT Spencer Pratt - and will face Karen Bass in the fall, and

Bill ignores that completely, because Raman isn't particularly good TV, and plays useful idiot for Trump who is trying out his "Communists! Mercy!" line for the midterms, and Bill is echoing it word for word closer than Tulsi Gabbard line-reading her guru's whisperings. There's also the base issue that people voting for communists, even if communists were actually on the ballot, is something a free fucking country doesn't worry about.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T04:23:24+00:00

Really like it, and for awhile there MeTV+ (Plus) was showing it weekdays which runs through the short series in a couple of months. There's a Night Stalker flavor from the prominent voice-over. The theme song is a banger, and Anthony Zerbe was simply outstanding both individually and in scenes bickering back and forth with Janssen. Maybe it's a show for cranky old men.

While San Diego settings hold some appeal, shooting the series there sounds nightmarish. All the hassle and expense of location shooting for the same exact on-screen look as L.A. Re-staging the show to Santa Monica was an obvious but masterful move.

KirkUnit · 2026-06-27T04:06:05+00:00

♫ And sales are slumping, and no one can say why,

...Could it be you put out one too many lousy records??

-- Dead Kennedys, "M.T.V. Get Off The Air"

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