Morning Meme: Kish Anger Flares, Puppies Kiss, Basketball Goes Gay and Did Lady GaGa Hang Up on Jonathan Ross?

Wrestling Fans maybe who knows if that's still popular as it was once Stone Cold and The Rock left. I just revealed myself as a wrestling fan didn't I? whoops.
Thank you by the way for including the Predators trailer I'm excited but cautious I mean on one hand The guy who directed My favorite guilty Pleasure From dusk till dawn directs a Predator movie set in a jungle environment with Morpheus?? YAY! but on the other hand it seems like an attempt to follow Aliens with it's epicness which could end falling on it's face. Definitely watching that one...

Burn Notice, White Collar, Royal Pains and In Plain Sight all air on USA and are all fun shows. Whereas yes, SyFy has Caprica but nothing else that interests me. Aside from the morning marathons of older shows, some of which I used to watch, SyFy's programming seems to consist mostly of brain-killing "find the ghost" shows which, since ghosts do not exist, are both boring and insults to my intelligence.

to ax Kish (apart from other ridiculous consideration) had a terrible timing, that put the actors in such bad situation. And i can understand why GLAAD didn't want to make too much celebration about the award

I enjoy both Burn Notice and White Collar on USA, both of which typify the USA formula that, I think, is responsible for its ratings. Whether it's Law and Order:(of whatever flavor), Psych, BN, WC, that show about that hamptons doctor, Monk, etc, USA has a ton of shows that are heavy on the distinctive characters, relatively easy on the brain, relatively family friendly (okay, not so much the SVU, but I could watch Monk, Psych, BN, and WC with my parents without squirming). Plus, the most important part, while all their original series have a limited amount of season long arcs, they all tend to be much more episodic than serial.

 

That is, if you like (or at the very least, don't mind) Monk/Psych/L&O/Etc, and you're cruising through the channels and catch an episode, you're not going to be completely lost (like you might jumping into a random ep of Caprica). They're the TV equivalent of Cozy Mystery genre of books, with generally likeable leads and they seldom go places with their storylines that are going to make you uncomfortable (again, with the exception of SVU). 

 

If I want something intense, profound, difficult, etc, I'm probably going to go for an FX show, or maybe AMC's offerings, etc. If I want mental comfort food (that's relatively gender neutral - not too Lifetime, not too Spike), USA has me covered. On their best days, shows like White Collar or Burn Notice wow me, but for the most part, I know that if I leave one of their shows on, Shawn and Gus will be Shawn and Gus and catch a killer, Monk will be Monk and catch a killer, Michael and Fiona will be Michael and Fiona and make some bad guy pay. 

 

Yeah, I like challenging TV sometimes. A lot of the time, even. But USA's shows are predictable (in a good way, if you like the leads and don't dislike the premise). And if I want some easygoing, mental unwinding time that's not going to leave me frustrated or challenged, USA gives me a lot of shows to choose from where the good guys are a little wacky and the bad guys always get theirs by the end of the hour.  And if I'm in a more prurient mood, there's always L&O:SVU/CI. 

about USA but SyFy has been so "ghost" busters for so long. When was Eureka last on? and Caproca is great but few original shows show up. Their takes on Oz and Wonderland had me at least watch but the rest of the days are "fill".

 I taught high school social sciences and English in Florida for many years. I also worked as an assistant guidance counselor and served on a textbook review board.  The textbook review board was a "reward" for winning the Educator of the Year award.  It was an exercise in frustration and I kept pissing people off because I wanted to adopt the text that contained a special focus section on Civil Protest - it focused on mainly on MLK/Malcom X and the protest over Vietnam but it did cover Stonewall.  Most of my “colleagues”  felt that  focusing on protesting during a time of war was asking for trouble.  Of course they wanted to include a section that focused on the “Christian Principles of the Constitution”   I heard teachers say we could include whatever we wanted they would skip it or use supplemental material if they didn’t like it.   In all honesty I did the same thing but for me it was more to streamline subjects that the text spent to much time on.   I had 18 weeks of a 90 minute a day period to cover American History which had to include a “substantial” time on The Colonies, The Revolution, The Constitution, The Civil War, and the Holocaust BEFORE we even got to the Civil Rights movement.   The first week is largely a bust because of students going in and out of class and the last is largely for testing, projects, etc that meant covering all of American History in 16 weeks with one to two weeks for each of BIG topics.  World History was even worse.  I told the Superintendent that we needed to break the courses into 2 sections like that do in college courses.  I was afraid given the amount of information shoved at them after we passed WWII that their grasp of 20th century history would have them believing we went into Vietnam to protect it from the missiles that Cuba had pointed at it and then America became trapped there until Ronald Regan asked Fidel Castro to tear down the Berlin Wall and let them out.  English was even worse because each teacher basically chose their own reading material.  The school I was at teaching at was in a transition area because of the military base and the seasonal employment.  We are also close to the Mississippi and Alabama state lines; who at the time weren’t following No Child standards.  I watched a third year math teacher breakdown because a week before FCAT testing she got 6 students from Alabama and Mississippi in her Algebra classes (that was the most basic math we taught).  We had to test every student enrolled and they aren’t looking to see if that student had been in a underperforming state a week earlier all they know is the kid is reading at a fourth grade level and can’t solve for X.  National Standards would go along way toward making schools focus on universal standards not state interest.  

The fact that they want to include such specifically conservative material means that if a student transfers out of Texas then their educational standards don’t fall in line with other states.  Many states adopt their own text books but since Texas is such a big consumer other states will likely find themselves having to use the same text.  I think if they want to put a focus on conservatism and Republicans (Ronald Regan) then maybe it should be in the American Government course that is required which affords more time for ideology.  History should be as factual as possible but unfortunately when you blur the truth with agendas that gets lost.

 

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society. - Raymond B. Fosdick

If GLAAD downplayed KISH in their award to OLTL, isn't that counterintuitive to GLAAD's mission to promote gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people in entertainment and media?  If I were them knowing the decision, I would have arranged to have Brett and Scott up there with a celebrity unrelated to ABC making jokes about the recent decision to phase them out.

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We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don't blow them, who else will? -

..."film star".

Tee Hee.

You just know John had a threeway with those two later that night.

USA has a lot of good, original programming these days. Where it used to be all Law and Order reruns, we now have White Collar, Psych, Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, Royal Pains, and Monk (though that's over now). 

 The original programming is well written and acted, and the characters are always more complex and interesting than you expect them to be.  

I love that the guy in front of the guy with the XL Kilt appears to have red scraped-up knees...

And add me to the list of those who enjoy many of the new USA Network series - they've been much more consistent in creating fun, enjoyable shows than any of the major broadcast networks in the past few years. PsyPhy (or whatever they're calling themselves this week) is much less consistent as well - I enjoy Eureka, but Caprica, Sanctuary and Warehouse 13 haven't grown on me the way I'd hoped they would.

I, for one, love the original content on the USA Network.  Psych, Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, White Collar, and Royal Pains are all shows I will TiVo.  Would love to see them add a show with some gay content, but, hopefully, that will be coming down the line.

Thanks for the Kish protest link, Ed!

Once there, I found this link that tells you how to send 50 free postcards to ABC and to OLTL writers & producers.It took about a half hour, but it was worth my time. All y'all with the time should do this as well. It couldn't hurt anything, except maybe the poor mail carriers!

It's almost become a quiet network but to see how many shows they have that makes them keep winning...

that and Monday Night RAW

 

as much as some people may view it, the way they have chugged along for 16 years, why wouldnt a network want them? they hit their demographics pretty good.

 

I love wrestling. there I said it too. =)

 

current eye candy, you guys should look him up, his name is Evan Bourne. 

 

USA Network wins again, link

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/03/02/usa-network-triumphs-in-february/43663

 

"Fate won't compromise"