| The Drill Down 476: On With The ShowThis week on The Drill Down podcast, Hulu‘s skinny bundle, Facebook fixes Live, Amazon has something new to Show, boots that keep you running, and Net Neutrality needs your help again, plus much, much more.
...continue reading » Tags: #RedNoseDay, Alexa, Alexa Calling, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Apple, Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, Cable, cord cutting, digital Assistant, Echo Show, Facebook, Facebook Live, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Hulu, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, Net Neutrality, Red Nose Day, skinny bundle, streaming Video | |
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| Farewell, Jon Stewart: The Last ‘Daily Show’
I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a family that ritualistically watched ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. I loved history and journalism, and ended up teaching high school level history. The calming, straight forward, no nonsense, nonpartisan news days have long since passed. With the advent and expansion of cable news, and the big money filing in, it’s incredibly difficult to find real, genuine news. As channels like Fox News went over-the-top conservative, stations like MSNBC had to hit back equally to the left. 16 years ago a phoenix rose over the garbage heap of the phony “real” news and gave us the greatest fake news show ever. 16 years after taking over for Craig Kilborn, Jon Stewart left The Daily Show last night, in perfect circumstances… as the Republicans were holding their first Presidential debates on Fox News.
...continue reading » Tags: Comedy Central, Dave Attell, Ed Helms, John Oliver, Jon Stewart, Larry Whitmore, Lewis Black, Olivia Munn, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, The Daily Show, Trevor Noah | |
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| The Drill Down 371: You’ve Been ServedThis week, the Apple Watch has arrived, so has HBO Now, a divorce over Facebook, the Russians invade the White House, Star Wars arrives on digital, and can the NSA see your dick pics?… and much much more…
...continue reading » Tags: 4K, Alien: Isolation, Apple, Apple TV, Apple Watch, automotive, car, clean energy, cyber warfare, cyber-espionage, cyberattack, cyberhacking, Digital Distribution, Digital downloads, Edward Snowden, Energy, Facebook, HBO Now, iPad, iPhone, John Oliver, President Obama, Ready Player One, Russia, Smart Watch, smartwatches, Star Wars, The White House, Video Games, Video Streaming, videogames | |
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| NBC Cancels Cult Favorite Comedy ‘Community’ After 5 Glorious Low-Rated SeasonsIt looks like the doors of Greendale Community College are closing forever. Today any hope for intelligent, innovative comedy finding a home at NBC was almost permanently nuked like a microwaved gremlin as the network has announced the long-dreaded yet tragically inevitable cancellation of the cult favorite comedy series Community only a few weeks after the conclusion of its fifth season.
...continue reading » Tags: Alison Brie, Chevy Chase, Community, Dan Harmon, Danny Pudi, Donald Glover, Gillian Jacobs, Jim Rash, Joel McHale, John Oliver, Jonathan Banks, Ken Jeong, Yvette Nicole Brown | |
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