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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Sasha Alexander & Angie Harmon, America's savviest, sexiest and most-likable TV crime fighters, return Tuesday night as Rizzoli & Isles returns to TNT for Season 3 at 9 pm Eastern. Love #rizzoliandisles


KTTV FOX 11 Los Angeles' Good Day LA: Sasha Alexander of TNT's Rizzoli & Isles, June 4, 2012. http://youtu.be/nC9FCsVvgYY



Sasha Alexander & Angie Harmon, America's savviest, sexiest and most-likable TV crime fighters, return Tuesday night as Rizzoli & Isles returns to TNT for Season 3 at 9 pm Eastern, the first of 15 new episodes.


On Tuesday afternoon, TNT is re-running six episodes from Season 2 from 3 p.m. until the Season 3 premiere at 9 p.m. Eastern. The encore is at 11 p.m. 





ABC-TV's The View: Angie Harmon of TNT's Rizzoli & Isles, June 4, 2012.
http://youtu.be/H5aVeodTfH0

 

TNT video: Rizzoli & Isles, Season Two Rewind
http://www.tntdrama.com/video/?oid=312570&eref=sharethisUrl

http://www.tntdrama.com/series/rizzoliandisles/


http://www.youtube.com/user/RizzoliIslesTNT


http://twitter.com/#!/tessgerritsen


http://twitter.com/#!/JaneRizzoli  @JaneRizzoli


We all know from all the TNT promos and teasers that Jane and Maura are on the outs after Jane changed her mind and might've shot Maura's criminal father, Paddy in the Season 2 finale, leading Maura to get all primal on Jane.


My own intuition -and knowledge of how TV dramas like to resolve things- tells me that as the first few episodes develop and the facts emerge, it'll become clear that that it wasn't bullets from Jane's gun that did the deed but rather bullets from the gun of Jane's love-interest on the DL, FBI Agent Dean. 
Which will be how and why the Internal Affairs folks come into the picture and "out" their relationship.








Did I mention yet that a few months ago, I was part of TNT's focus group that -theoretically at least - helped shape the  direction of the print ads for Rizzoli & Isles this season? 
There were some really good ones and some ones that seemed, well, not quite so inspired.
In any case, when they start showing-up in the usual media sources, I'll comment here from time-to-time on the news ones, since I kept notes on what I originally thought of the various renderings we were given to examine, and how they ranked among the ones I graded.

I nixed almost all of the more egregiously gun or handcuff-oriented ones -like what Kanal 9 uses in Sweden- just because they seemed to remind me of silly Grade B film ads from the 1960's and '70's, or seemed designed to appeal to people who aren't already watching the show.


While every show always likes to add viewers, at this point, since they have a winning formula and are getting very good ratings and have advertisers very interested in being associated with  the show, I think their priority ought to stay on making the show more consistent and on keeping their present viewers happy and properly motivated, not expending energy trying to get new viewers by portraying the show as something it's not.

Meanwhile, Angie Harmon has been making great use of that killer smile and killer body while 
production was dark on the Rizzoli & Isles set...




Craig Morgan- This Ole Boy (Official music video) features Angie Harmon. January 9, 2012. http://youtu.be/59q432IKIpI


Given what I've written here in the past about how much I like the stars and the show, it probably won't surprise you to learn that I'd watch this even if it were a silent film...





Above, beautiful and talented -and like me, Texas-bornAngie on the cover of the September 2000 Texas Monthly, which I bought when I still lived in Arlington County, VA -and was flying pretty frequently. The particulars are that I bought it iAugust of 2000 while I was at a Walmart located on the drive from DFW Airport to Sulphur Spings, halfway between Dallas and Texarkana on I-30, for a fabulous-but-hot weekend that featured the wedding of my dear friend, Shannon.
That weekend, when the Cowboys lost to the Eagles, it averaged between 110 and 115 degrees.


Thursday, April 12, 2012

'God Bless America' - The feel-good American comedy of the summer involves an armed serial killer with annoyance issues and the pop culture-obsessed teen girl who wants to ride 'shotgun' on his journey; Bobcat Goldthwait on Jimmy Kimmel Live


'God Bless America' Trailer HD http://youtu.be/NaEjtiqCw4Q


'God Bless America' - The feel-good American comedy of the summer from Magnolia Pictures involves an armed serial killer with annoyance issues and the pop culture-obsessed teen girl who wants to ride 'shotgun' on his journey. 
Starring Joel Murray and Tara Lynne Barr, the film opens in theatres on May 11th.


Yes, the same Joel Murray who plays Freddy Rumsen on AMC-TV's Mad Men.
http://youtu.be/YWCz3omZpMk


Director Bobcat Goldthwait on ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Parts 1 and 2, April 11, 2012.

http://youtu.be/U_-fiHLXTko



http://youtu.be/fbUAVquG9Po


http://www.magpictures.com/

Friday, March 30, 2012

Thursday's news about the "Hey Jimmy Kimmel, I Silverstoned My Kid" contest, mocking Alicia Silverstone's odd parenting notions



Original video was pulled off YouTube, so I have gone back and replaced it with this "best of one!
ABC-TV video: Jimmy Kimmel's YouTube Challenge - I Silverstoned My Kid. Uploaded April 3, 2012. http://youtu.be/G4qAVY5RSR8

I originally saw this story and video at The Telegraph on Tuesday but decided not to post it. Until now! 


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/celebrity-news-video/9170401/Actress-Alicia-Silverstone-posts-video-of-herself-feeding-son-mouth-to-mouth.html

Winner(s) to be announced next week, probably on Monday night's show.

The Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/JimmyKimmelLive

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Coming this Fall: A 24/7 News Channel from Univision & ABC News -in English! Marriage of news & advertising convenience, necessity or desperation? And will it be hard news or soft?; Brazil abtains


Wall Street Journal: Disney's ABC, Univision May Launch News-Channel. February 7, 2012. 
http://youtu.be/pfOnlXlV8lA
Coming this Fall: A 24/7 News Channel from Univision & ABC News -in English! Marriage of news & advertising convenience, necessity or desperation? And will it be hard news or soft?; Brazil abstains
Naturally, as has been described here on the blog many times previously, given the rapturous and over-the-top way the Miami Herald has traditionally chosen to greet almost any quasi-news story that involved either Spanish-language marketing, advertising or television, always emphasizing the froth with lots of positive quotes from the people who stand to profit the most, in what is, essentially, a consumer transaction that involves selling soap to someone, possibly with a tilde, but never really looking hard at whether or not what is being offered is actually quality or not, I can hardly wait for the coming Herald article on this new way of trying to sell more advertising. 


I hereby predict that the Herald reporter, whomever it is, will say that that this move may well be "Revolutionary."
Or genius. Or overdue.
Or a guaranteed hit even before it hits the air.


We all know how the Herald gets when they have a brand-new shiny toy to talk about that has something to do with Latin America and marketing, witness their recent spate of pro-Brazil articles and editorials the past year.


Who can count the number of pieces they've done on the theme of visiting Brazilians make-the-world-go-around in Miami, which, given where we are and the current sad state of serious news coverage in local Miami TV stations, quite naturally copied the theme like nobody's business.


But when President Obama was leaving for Brazil last year, despite all the news coverage nationally in print and on TV about what the U.S. and the West wanted to do at the U.N. with regard to sanctions or counter-moves to the killings and repression in Syria, the Miami Herald NEVER wrote a single thing in the newspaper or online about Brazil abstaining from voting on the matter, did they?
Nope, and I was looking, too.


I checked not only the online archives but scrupulously checked the newspaper -everyday.
Before, during and after his trip.


The Herald said nothing even while writing about how important Brazil was asserting itself... blah, blah.
But when push came to shove, Brazil ducked.
That's many things, but what it's NOT is leadership.
Or positive.


For a country like Brazil that's forever talking so much about wanting to be taken seriously on the international scene, it hardly gets more transparent about what you really want to do than abstaining from an important vote at the U.N, does it?
Of perhaps having to vote against China and Russia.
So they did nothing.

Today's New York Times tells the tale of what that indifference has wrought months later:
In Turkey, once a strong supporter of Mr. Assad and now one of his most vocal critics, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Parliament that the veto of the United Nations resolution on Syria by Russia and China had given Mr. Assad a “license to kill,” 
The only thing missing in this and so many other news articles the past about all the people who have been maimed or killed is a note that reads "Thanks Brazil" from President Assad.


And lest you forget, last year, on March 21st, I wrote about Brazil abstaining on a vote on sanctions against Libya.
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/rejecting-pixie-lotts-boys-and-girls.html


So why the South Florida news media refusal to report the facts about the Brazil abstentions on Libya and Syria, and their logical consequences?
Good question.


But not for me, for the Herald and the rest of the South Florida news media that far too often seems content to lets its own advertising bottom line dictate what actually gets covered or mentioned on-air on in print.


No, unfortunately, as I've said here before many times, the South Florida news media, and the Herald in particular, simply can't say enough good things about Latin America, whether its countries, its consumers or its markets, when there's money to be made, but rather curiously, they and their reporters only seem to seek out people for the article who will say good things.
Or who will directly or indirectly profit from it.


Where's the objective balance to the stories?
Where's the follow-up and perspective?


No, THAT won't come until months later.
Then, they may run an AP story that they post online, but which you never see in the newspaper itself.


Sort of like the one they used here to share the news:
Univision, Disney look at English news channel
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/06/2628257/univision-disney-look-at-english.html


No doubt we'll see that over-the-top story in the Herald soon, and I can already guess whom they will interview from their small list of Usual Suspects to say how great this is for everyone.
No, not really, mostly just some of the advertising folks who want to sell air time for Barack Obama political commercials.
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See more news video from The Wall Street Journal LIVE's News Hub at:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL40ABBAC77E4BF616&feature=plcp


Wall Street Journal YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/WSJDigitalNetwork

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Kiefer Sutherland talks about his remarkable new hit Fox-TV drama, "TOUCH," and reminisces about "Stand By Me" and how much he still misses River Phoenix


Fox Broadcasting video: TOUCH - Father and Son. January 27, 2012.
http://youtu.be/7Sox4gYi6HQ




Kiefer Sutherland on Jimmy Kimmel Live PART 1. January 23, 2012.

Kiefer Sutherland on Jimmy Kimmel Live PART 2. January 23, 2012.


Kiefer Sutherland on Jimmy Kimmel Live PART 3. January 23, 2012.

Keep in mind that per the discussion above, while the TOUCH World Premiere is on Monday March 19th at 9 pm Eastern, you can see the first episode -that was given a sneak preview by Fox-TV this past Wednesday and won its time-slot- right now on Fox's Video-on-Demand (VOD).


The show's creator is Tim Kring, the executive producer for both NBC-TV's Crossing Jordan, starring longtime HBB favorite Jill Hennessey, and NBC's Heroes.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_number


http://www.fox.com/touch/

http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxBroadcasting


http://www.youtube.com/user/JimmyKimmelLive

Friday, January 13, 2012

Finally at the weekend when the NFL really means NOT FOR LONG; 1970's NFL intros for ABC, CBC and NBC broadcasts


1973 NBC Sports NFL broadcast theme

Yes, those were the days...
In those dark teen years of the early-to-mid Seventies, many years before consumer VCRs existed and became commonplace -and were soon taken for granted in no time by kids who grew-up thinking that you'd always been able to see something from television a second time, on your own schedule- I can recall that the Monday after the first NFL weekend of the year, my friends and I at J.F.K. Junior High in North Miami Beach spent time trying to properly identify the order of the identifiable NFL players during this quick-cutting video montage of NBC's.


And frankly, wonder whether or not ABC would be updating their intro -yet again- that night for Monday Night Football, which, in retrospect, they actually changed less than they did the 'third man' in the booth after popular Don Meredith left to pursue entertainment options in Hollywood. 



1984 ad for Safeway's Super Store -They've got a sale on VCRs, only $369; I guess the savings gets passed on to you! -LOL!
http://youtu.be/T6mD2bZc9w8


The VCR format fight: VHS vs. Beta TV commercial for NEC, 1984
http://youtu.be/FnaL50cwh-Q


The three American TV network's football themes gripped my friends and I from the start, and quickly became embedded in our young brains, which perhaps best explains why when you see them again on YouTube, you're struck by the fact that not just for my friends and I, but for millions of other sports fans alive then who watched them, they still remain preferable to anything on the air now, esp on ESPN or Fox-TV.
And they say as much in the YouTube comments, too.


When my friends and I at JFK got together at lunch, P.E. or after school, and it turned out that someone hadn't been paying close attention to the fact that the first establishing shot of the NBC intro was one from the the defending NFL champion Dolphins locker room... well, you suddenly weren't such an NFL expert after all.
Yes, we did not grade our friends' NFL prowess on a Bell Curve.
It was always sink-or-swim.


How many players in the three videos I've posted can you name?
(And how many of what would now be considered illegal hits?)


To name but a few: Danny Abramowicz -fades from his gold-colored Saints pants to the gold of the NBC text- Larry Little, Larry Csonka, Joe Namath, Essex Johnson, Ken Stabler, Cliff Branch, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Tommy Casanova, Walter Payton, Craig Morton, Willie Brown... 


And the player who is seen the longest in the NBC intro at the top is Dolphins All-Pro guard Bob Kuechenberg, who hits his own helmet at the end to show that he's strapped up and ready to play.



CBS Sports "NFL Today" intro from the 1970's
http://youtu.be/tUUMMlGPeMA


1971 ABC Monday Night Football intro for Baltimore Colts at Minnesota Vikings, with a Johnny Unitas pre-game interview  with Howard Cosell. 
http://youtu.be/Kr_fa-hR3zY

For those of you too young to know or remember, the Baltimore Colts were the defending NFL champs in 1971, having won Super Bowl V nine months before in Miami, beating the Dallas Cowboys 16-13 on the last play of the game. The very talented Minnesota Vikings had lost to the Kansas City Chiefs in the previous Super Bowl, which is why Howard Cosell is so clearly animated about the match-up in what was then the second year of ABC's Monday Night Football.
This is one of the best quality videos of 1970's NFL football that I've seen in years, and includes TV commercials.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Tonight's ABC show "Once Upon a Time" with Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin and longtime HBB fave, sexy Lana Parrilla, is Must-See TV for Me!

ABC-TV video of "Once Upon a Time"
First Look: I Shall Destroy Your Happiness; the first nine minutes of tonight's Pilot.

Sunday's ABC-TV show "Once Upon a Time" with Jennifer Morrison, Ginnifer Goodwin and longtime HBB fave, sexy, sexy Lana Parrilla, is Must-See TV for Me!
All are smart, funny & sexy and highly-watchable. And Lana playing the Evil Queen?
That's a no-doubt-about-it no-brainer!
8 p.m. Eastern, sharp!

ABC-TV video: Behind the Fairy Tale - Once Upon a Time

More info and videos at the official Once Upon a Time website

I first became aware of lovely and talented Lana -network webpage - in NBC's wonderful but too-short-lived Boom Town from eight years ago, where she was, yes, AWESOME, with a cast that was superb.

I have watched every single TV project Lana had ever been in, even when I wasn't crazy about the show overall, and I truly hope that with the folks behind this production and the great cast, this will be the show where Lana gets the overdue attention she deserves -love her!

More on the Brothers Grimm


http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Happy 60th Birthday, Color TV! We still love you, NOT computer games, Facebook, texting or micro-brewing


RCA video: The Story of Color Television.

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Intro to The Adventures of Superman TV series, starring George Reeves.
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Intro to ABC-TV's Disneyland - 1.18 - Davy Crockett at the Alamo - Part 1 of 4, starring Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen.

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Intro to ABC-TV's original "Zorro" series, starring Guy Williams.
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U.S. network TV color intros from the 1960's.

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Bonanza Season 1, Episode 1: A Rose for Lotta Part [1/4 - HD]
The reason that many families finally bought a color TV -NBC's Bonanza on Sunday nights was in color.

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Intro to ABC-TV's The Green Hornet, starring Van Williams and Bruce Lee

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RCA COLOR TELEVISION 1961 CLASSIC TV SHOWS & COMMECIALS on DVD at TVDAYS.com. My family's first color TV was an RCA model in 1969.
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ABC-TV's The Fugitive "The Judgement" (2nd part) FINAL EPISODE 1967 Act I of IV (In color HD), Aired August 29, 1967. Starring Richard Janssen and Barry Morse. Until 1980, the most-watched U.S. TV show episode of all-time.
The final season was the first in color.

"Tuesday, August 29th: The day the running stopped."

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ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE 1977-1981 (CLEAN).flv
And as everyone recalls, in the pre-cable 1970's and '80's, once a James Bond film had come and gone from the theaters, the first time you'd ever be able to see it again was on ABC's Sunday Movie.
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ABC's Monday Night Football intro (1973)

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ABC's Monday Night Football intro (1979); Frank Gifford pre-game of Houston Oilers at Miami Dolphins

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Thursday, September 15, 2011

Minka-mania! Soon, South Florida will be Minka's World: we'll just live in it; Charlie's Angels premieres on ABC-TV next Thursday


ABC-TV video: Behind the Action of Charlie's Angels - Charlie's Angels
http://youtu.be/RZ91zEMTVFA

In no time at all, much to the dismay of some, this South Florida-set TV show will regularly be among the twenty most-watched and recorded programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia.

And with that, the professional scolds among some in academe and at the Think Tanks, the Usual Suspects, will decry the lack of positive role models for young girls on TV.

Until then, though, the adorable and delightful Minka Kelly is back again on the small screen, and as anyone who knows me or who has read the blog since it started over four years ago knows, that's great news.
Here at the Hallandale Beach Blog, we don't care who knows: We LOVE Minka!

Minka Kelly is the sexiest woman alive 2010. Esquire, November 2010.
She's definitely in the conversation!

Now if only there was some way to have a joint Burn Notice-Charlie's Angels episode!
I think Michael's mom would like Eve's (Minka's) spunk! (Look out, Fiona!)
Who doesn't like a smart woman with spunk -besides Lou Grant?
Not me!

For the record, I NEVER saw the Charlie's Angels films in theaters nor have I ever watched them on TV, since the premise and the assembled cast just wasn't very appealing to me.
But 35 years ago, I did watch some of the original shows once in a while...




Pilot episode of ABC-TV's Charlie's Angels (1976) http://youtu.be/FW_daBHfjag

If you're a regular reader here, you already know about the erroneous Jaclyn Smith as my aunt story. If only...



Above, Chery Ladd and Gene Barry sing and dance in an episode from the original TV series. Oh, the things you have to do these days to catch a criminal or solve a mystery. Cheryl sang the national anthem before some Super Bowls, you know? Well, now you do. http://youtu.be/kjkWCYAuUN4

It's neither here nor there but when former 'Angel' Chery Ladd (Kris Munroe) -my favorite- played James Caan's wife on NBC-TV's "Las Vegas," and had Molly Sims as her daughter, tell me that wasn't absolutely perfect casting?

The two of them together were perfectly believable!




1978 Hasbro TV commercial for Charlie's Angels action figures -Kris Munroe

http://youtu.be/9L1XhxZJwzM

As I put it on my other blog South Beach Hoosier years ago...

SOMETHING TO CHEER ABOUT! NBC'S FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS


Something to cheer about! NBC's Friday Night Lights
Actress Minka Kelly as Lyla Garrity, the heartbreaking soul of the Dillon Panthers. I honestly don't think there's anyone on television with a more natural and beautiful smile than Minka Kelly. See past articles about the show at:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/friday_night_lights/index.html

My last Minka-related post was on April 15, 2011 titled, Quality writing counts! 'Friday Night Lights' last season begins tonight at 8 p.m. on NBC-TV,

http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/quality-writing-counts-friday-night.html

Friday, June 24, 2011

Somewhere between Hipster, Intentionally Ironic or Camp is a "Happy Ending," my favorite new TV show


excerpt from ABC-TV's Happy Endings, Season 1, Episode 7
Max teaches Penny how to be a hipster to make it easier for her to fit in with her new guy - a lethargic and pretentious hipster with hipster friends.

Somewhere between 'Hipster' and 'Intentionally Camp & Ironic' is a Happy Ending.

At 00:32 the adorable Elisha Cuthbert finally says something in this clip...
Love her!

I sure hope that ABC gives this show enough time for the cast and writers to really come together even more and for a larger audience to find it and support it, since I personally find this show's writing to be some of the funniest and most trenchant observational humor since Gilmore Girls left the scene.

There's nobody in the cast I don't like and they all seem to have that sense of magic and timing to make it always look like it's the first time they're mouthing their lines, not the twenty-first

(But the suits at ABC -particularly the ones in affiliate relations and PR- ought to be more diligent about making sure that the show's promotional information on the Internet is consistent and doesn't mention multiple dates and time slots for the show.There's far too much conflicting information.
Don't f-up a good show with promise simply because nobody is paying attention to the details.)

And seriously, as someone named Dave, how can I possibly NOT love a show where a character named Dave was supposed to marry Elisha Cuthbert?
(I mean her character, Alex.)

Elisha Cuthbert is a smasher!

She's straight out of Stureplan via Canada if you know what I mean.
She's double-vetted for talent, charm and good looks!

Happy Endings homepage at ABC-TV is at http://abc.go.com/shows/happy-endings

Hulu supposedly airs the entire episodes of the last 5 shows to air on ABC at:



Meanwhile back in Flatbush...


New York Post video: Soap & Suds - Brooklyn, NY laundromats as "happenings"

Didn't I read in an essay in -yes- The New Yorker, many years ago, that this laundromat-cum-music hall craze originally got passe around the late '80's or so?
There are some parts of the USA -and entire states- that the fad never ever successfully migrated to.

By the way, when you do a search in The New Yorker's index, there are currently 250 entries for the word "hipster."
Here's the most recent, an essay from last November by Richard Brody in their The Front Row blog titled Hip Replacements:

Thursday, June 23, 2011

ABC News video: Diane Sawyer tours 'Nightwatch,' the U.S.'s high-tech 'Doomsday' plane capable of surviving a nuclear attack -sorry, no window seats!






'Doomsday Plane' Would Save President and Joint Chiefs in Apocalypse Scenario,




By Michael Murray, June 7, 2011


http://abcnews.go.com/US/doomsday-plane-save-president-joint-chiefs-apocalypse-scenario/story?id=13782736





I meant to post this interesting video two weeks ago after seeing this when it first aired on the ABC Evening News with Diane Sawyer, but after saving the embed info in Draft on my email account, I forgot about it.

A week later, I saw the Swedish version of it while perusing Aftonbladet's website
and their WebbTV page, so I decided then to go ahead and post both of them so that you could see what the latter emphasizes.

Just about everything as it turns out, but you also get a kee sense of how much the people in Sweden know about what's compelling news video here in the U.S., but when was the last time you saw a video segement of a foreign TV network news that wasn't BBC or ITN on U.S. TV?
I mean besides here on the humble blog?






















Aftonbladet: Följ med in i domedagsplanet - Tål en kärnvapenattack
http://www.aftonbladet.se/webbtv/nyheter/utrikes/article13149866.ab


http://abcnews.go.com/

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Sunday, after I pick-up Odin in Ásgarðr, he and I are seeing Kenneth Branagh's "Thor" at the AMC Aventura 24



Los Angeles Times "Hero Complex" video: ‘Thor’: Kenneth Branagh’s ‘great problem’ would be a sequel. Excerpts from conversation between Thor director Kenneth Branagh and star Chris Hemsworth and Geoff Boucher of the LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/videobeta/0d01b8e2-9999-4f1a-aa8e-b27a985ea5c3/Entertainment/Hero-Complex-screening-of-Marvel-s-Thor-

Sunday, after I pick-up Odin in Ásgarðr, he and I are seeing "Thor" at the AMC Aventura 24. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_%28film%29


Los Angeles Times
24 Frames blog
Critical Mass: 'Thor' swings his hammer and the critics scream
By Patrick Kevin Day
May 6, 2011 2:55 p
.m.

Bridges are the key theme of this weekend's "Thor," a film that bridges us from the doldrums of spring releases to the flashier, if not better, world of summer blockbusters. It also serves as another step in the bridge from the first "Iron Man" in 2008 to next summer's superhero all-star jam, "The Avengers." And within the film itself, a superhero actioner about the Norse god of thunder and his adventures in his home of Asgard and on Earth, a rainbow bridge connects the well-regarded Asgard sections of the film with the less successful Earth sections, set in Puente Antiguo, N.M. (which means "Old Bridge").

Read the rest of the post at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/05/critical-mass-thor-swings-his-hammer-and-the-critics-scream.html

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CBS News Sunday Morning video: Kenneth Branagh interviewed by CBS News correspondent Martha Teichner, May 1, 2011
Story at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/05/01/sunday/main20058747.shtml

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http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Exclusive-Interview-Kenneth-Branagh-brings-blockbust-Thor-to-life---VIDEO-121315789.html



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Kenneth Branagh on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 1
of 2, May 5, 2011.
http://youtu.be/ZryqdtI0SCc




Kenneth Branagh on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 2
of 2, May 5, 2011.
http://youtu.be/SKSq9XKBiS8


See also:
http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Exclusive-Interview-Kenneth-Branagh-brings-blockbust-Thor-to-life---VIDEO-121315789.html




Anthony Hopkins on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 1 of 3, May 3, 2011

http://youtu.be/jLpUJH1__nM



Anthony Hopkins on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 2 of 3, May 3, 2011.

http://youtu.be/Yq3fQKfHyZY



Anthony Hopkins on Jimmy Kimmel Live
PART 3 of 3, May 3, 2011.

http://youtu.be/ErlO6Q8HU54

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Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/JimmyKimmelLive



BBC's Planet Earth video set to Sigur Ros' "Glosoli" http://youtu.be/4HqcjgJCDuw

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Robyn - Call Your Girlfriend & Dancing on My Own - ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live; 13-Year-Old Girls Ruining American Idol Vote -and U.S. film industry!



Robyn -"Call Your Girlfriend"
on ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live, April 13, 2011

http://youtu.be/4R2zbo--jPA




Robyn -"
Dancing on My Own" on ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live, April 13, 2011

http://youtu.be/spy9uv30y2A

Above, as promised last night, the two videos of Robyn performing on last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live TV show, plus, two wild cards.



"13-Year-Old Girls Ruining American Idol Vote" montage
on ABC-TV's Jimmy Kimmel Live, April 13, 2011
http://youtu.be/VqtwsMLSRg0


As most of you regular readers to the blog know by now, I DON'T watch Fox-TV's American Idol, since actual singing talent is NOT the main focus of the show like TV singing competition shows in other countries,

It never hurts, of course, to be ridiculously talented AND ridiculously good-looking like
Élodie Frégé, the 2004 winner of Star Academy in la belle France, whom I mentioned here on Valentine's Day, when I also ran the great infectious video below.
She's a super-talent, plus,
nous partageons la même date d'anniversaire!




Élodie Frégé & Michal "Viens jusqu'à moi"
http://youtu.be/MU-ldqcvjow


http://www.youtube.com/user/ELODIEFREGETV1