Monday, September 21, 2020

TV SHOWS I'VE SEEN EVERY EPISODE OF

                                            Full House

Coupling (British version)

The Thin Blue Line

Degrassi Junior High/High

Read All About It

Ghostwriter (PBS version)

My Pet Monster

Bits and Bytes (I count it, anyway, since I glanced at most of the episodes, the 1991 episodes are updates of the 1983 episodes, and none of the information is relevant today)

Jimmy McDonald's Canada

Hatching, Matching and Dispatching

Zardip's Search for Healthy Wellness

How Do You Do

Music Box         

J-pod

Wingfield (well, actually I read the complete Letters from Wingfield Farm and since, from clips I've seen, the CBC show basically consisted of Rod Beatie standing onstage reciting the books I count it)

The War Years

The Chronicles of Narnia

Dab Iyiyuu    

Sharon, Lois and Bram's Elephant Show

Murder is Forever (well, I've read the three books upon which the episodes were based so what would be the point of watching the actual show?)

A. J. Wentworth, B.A.

Fawlty Towers

Dooley Gardens

Death Comes to Town

Married for Life

Curry and Chips

Blackadder

National Parks Project

Turn-on

Payne

Father Ted

MEDIA-RELATED STUFF

Recently listened to a bunch of countdowns:


Neither the CHR nor the hot AC versions of "American Top Forty" with Ryan Seacrest seem to offer anything their target audiences would want. All the meterosexual wonder does is play new songs, which one can get off Spotify and  other platforms, talk about the music, which information the target demographic can get by following their favourite artists on social, and conduct breef interviews, see previous statement.


"The Alt Eighteen" on Sirius XM is just boring. Madison is annoying and adds absolutely nothing to the program. Also, making a big deal about the listener being able to vote for which songs make the countdown might have been a big deal back when these satelite services first launched, but it isn't now in the age when everyone can have their own personal top ten with them at all times.


Ditto "The XMU Download", although the host for that one is far more pleasant.


"The Hotness" is good but the hosts were flogging the coronavirus propaganda so I am going to have to deduct points from them.


Overall, I can't see the point of these kinds of shows anymore.


However, I did really like "That Thing" with Rich Appel. He plays a good variety of music for commercial radio and I love how he ties songs into the events that took place that week in history.


For good television reportage, the way it used to be, check out                  of "Close U        p" from CKVR.