We have MeTV-which has original Perry Mason/Twilight Zone/Alfred Hitchcock Hour every weekend night beginning at 10:30 pm. Iāve seen every Twilight Zone at least 5 or 6 times. Not including when saw them as a kidā¦Had to look up Black Mirror-my husband, a sci-fi fan, would love 'em!
Scariest TZ to my mind stars Inger Stevens who is driving cross- country, has a near wreck at the beginning and keeps seeing the same hitch-hiker everywhere she stops(this is prior to I-10 going cross-country. Perhaps sheās on Rt 66 or Lincoln Hwy. because sheās not on an interstate:, gas stations, diners, pay phone boxes-same guyā¦ Some of them just creep you out!!
Ah well, weāre not going to marathon anythingā¦gotta travel to TEXAS; another family grief. This is what occurs when one reaches a certain ageā¦sadness/happiness balance, if one is lucky.
We recently discovered a channel 13-4 that shows all the Star Treks from 8pm to 1am 6 nights a week. We watch the original (which weāve seen multiple times) during dinner, and tape Voyager and Enterprise to watch the next day without commercials. Weāll watch The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine when they start their new cycle.
MeTVās Star Trek lineup has proven popular enough to sign up broadcasters across the country, to be sure - but it remains to be seen if such a degree of popularity can derail the IPROās headlong rush towards streaming presentationsā¦
If you have a taste for Shakespearean humorā¦ try UPSTART CROW on Britbox. There are twists and turns in and about Shakespearian dialog that are incredibly clever. The show features a wonderful turn by David Mitchell who portrays Shakespeare himself with hilarious aplomb as he solicits reactions from his family, and others, to his new ideas as to what content and type of play he should write next. The dialog is fairly rapid and shakepeare-like, so we can watch each episode more than once and still catch little gags and distorted references to plays that are quite funny. For example, one episode is a take-off on Covid lockdown, except for them the lockdown is for the plague; they have to wear ābeaky masksā (looks like an antique venetian carnival bird mask) to go outside, etc
Not a Shakespearean comedy or tragedy-except for TEXANS!
NCAA softball final has U/T and Texas Tech tomorrow(Wednesday)/ Second game: Thursday. and if needed a third game on Friday. The athleticism of these women plus all the semi-finalists was unbelievable!
GO RED RAIDERS! Canāt root for U/T and its 40-acres. who probably has the better team. My grandfather played football for Texas A&M a century ago( collegiate loyalty goes deep in TEXAS!).
Iāll try that with Peacock; thanks! I also signed up it for the Olympics last summer, and have disabled auto-renew, so weāll see what happens. But we signed up for a year of Britbox last May so we could watch Vera and Death in Paradise to our heartsā content. Now weāve let our our subscription lapse, but Britbox is not offering us any deals; in fact the price for a year has gone up ten bucks since last year. So maybe Britbox holds itself above the āevery subscription everā crowd.
Ouch.
I think that last Black Friday, they had a deal on Roku, but it was only for a few months, and was not as low as most of the other channels.
And a lot of their stuff shows up on Hoopla, although a season or two back (so only Season 12 for Death in Paradise). But itās free if you have a library card.
Back to the commercials in languages other than English. I saw an ad for 7-11 Chicken that at first I thought was in Spanish, due to it not being in English, and I wasnāt really listening. Then realized I didnāt understand anything, and it sounded odd. Looked up one of the words on the screen at the end, and apparently itās Norwegian! And now Iāve seen a couple of other ads that also appear to be Norwegian or a similar language.
WTF!!??? Iām in NJ, not the midwest where there are actually some Norwegian people. And the closest Iāve come to watching anything Norwegian is watching QI! on YouTube, but Sandi is from Denmark (still Scandinavia, but not Norway). Why on Earth am I seeing ads in Norwegian!
(and do they even have 7-11s in Norway?)
Big Data-tracking - itās a thing leveraged in more ways than readily meets the eyeā¦and not always leveraged correctly, as the broader one casts a net, the more chance there is for a larger harvestā¦
Yes, they do; some years back, I recall seeing the Press Release about the northernmost 7-11 being opened way up in TromsĆø, and was surprised to learn that @ the same time that the corporationās convenience stores were being divested, back in the mid-1980s here in the U.S., its global expansion had stretched as far as Scandinavia.
Yes! Thank God for Hoopla. We watch the sweet Italian priest-detective show Don Matteo, as well as Death in Paradise, on there. But our local library system limits us to watching 5 episodes of anything per month, which is why the Britbox subscription felt so freeing. But Iāve now discovered that the library also has D.i.P. DVD sets, and I donāt mind going back in time to watch DVDs if we have to ā the library is less than a half-mile walk away.
Will check out Rokuās possible deals next Black Friday if we donāt cave before then, thanks for that tip.
Iāll have to check out Don Matteo, at least, once we get caught up on the last season (on Hoopla) of Death in Paradise. Like you, we get only 5 borrows/month, although since Nisha and I have separate library cards, we can get a few more if she doesnāt use up all of her audiobook borrows.
Ooh! We never once thought of setting up a 2nd Hooplaaccount with my husbandās library card! Have to try that!
Don Matteo is special because, who knows why. two episodes count as one on Hoopla ā so as long as you watch the 2nd one within 3 days of the first one, you can get 10 episodes a month of D.M. if that was all you were watching.
We just finished Season 11 of Death in Paradise. We havenāt gotten interested in Beyond Paradise, because that guy was my least favorite on DiP; would love to hear any opinions about that āmurder showā.
