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80 for Brady - sold out tue night showing -- nm - budice Jan 31, 20:45 4
- "That movie your mom will not like" -- nm - rollo Jan 31, 21:06
- I've heard rumors that the targeted marketing to senior groups is doing much better than expected. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 20:50 2
  - They haven't eaten since 5pm. Concession sales must be off the charts. -- nm - Max Jan 31, 21:00 1
    - we only go to the $4 senior discount showings -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 31, 21:06
‘Batgirl’ “Was Not Releasable” Says DC Co-Chief Peter Safran, But Studio Would Like To Be Back In Business With Pic’s Directors -- (link) - MDH Jan 31, 20:45 3
- just read any public statements from that presentation as being made with a gun stuck in their ribs -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 21:01
- "These guys cost us millions. What they made was crap. But sure we'll give them another chance." -- nm - Mop Jan 31, 20:47 1
  - Right... -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 20:50
There's something fundamentally wrong with Zaslav systematically destroying WBD just as it stumbles into an instant classic like Last of Us. -- nm - David Jan 31, 20:34 3
- this assumes he knows his ass from a good script, or would even care if he did -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 20:59 1
  - No, it doesn't. -- nm - David Jan 31, 21:13
- "Just trimming the fat and helping Professor Xavier out the door." -- (edited) - budice Jan 31, 20:37
Nikki Haley is in the race. February 15 announcement/kickoff. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 20:19 1
- get a fresh head of lettuce out -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 20:22
feels like not enough post-apocalypse shows delve into the underground parking garage value proposition - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 19:20 4
- Raiders and Gunners have those pretty much staked out already. - Qale Jan 31, 19:30
- My favourite part of Fear The Walking Dead was Abigail -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 19:27
- No supplies, have to leave all of the time to get them.No sun, no vitamin D. -- nm - jnine Jan 31, 19:24 1
  - you have to do that anywhere you find above ground anyway -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 19:26
It occurs to me Night Court went off the air 31 years ago without Harry having a kid, but Rauch is 42... Probably best not to think too hard about it. -- nm - Ender Jan 31, 18:56 14
- They haven't said how old her character is. -- nm - .☕ Jan 31, 20:01 1
  - It's a hard 23. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 20:15
- I also don't think she's made a single reference to her mother... -- nm - Ender Jan 31, 19:03 6
  - she can have her own show: How I Met Your Father -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 31, 19:32
  - Also and I know he's 92 now could they get John Astin to appear - eagr Jan 31, 19:08 1
    - He's still alive?! -- nm - Ender Jan 31, 23:35
  - Saving it for season 9. -- nm - Reagen Jan 31, 19:05 2
    - 9 seasons on a streaming network? - eagr Jan 31, 19:13 1
      - It's network, not streaming. -- nm - Ender Jan 31, 23:35
- Harry fucked -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 19:02 1
  - caught some of Mel Torme's strays. -- nm - Reagen Jan 31, 19:03
- Maybe he didn't know till later just like Harry found out who his true father was later in life -- nm - eagr Jan 31, 19:01 2
  - Let the record show, eag is well verse in his Night Court lore. -- nm - Mop Jan 31, 19:55 1
    - try explaining what Thursdays on NBC meant from 82-02 to a Tik Tokker -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 20:00
IYC: Beyoncé Renaissance tour dates have started leaking. Word is official announcement tomorrow. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 18:51
Heh. Call of Duty DMZ has a Hummer EV vehicle you can steal. So I did. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 18:44
Hah, and one of the apps just emailed me a message saying “you have not triggered a W-2G event and will not be receiving anything from us.” -- nm - Tim Jan 31, 18:40
Matlock reboot with Kathy Bates, Good Fight spin off with Elsbeth Tacioni... -- (link) - Remlik Jan 31, 18:27 8
- MATLOCK! -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 18:51 3
  - What if we rebooted Matlock as Murder She Wrote? -- nm - David Jan 31, 19:01 2
    - They tried to reboot Murder She Wrote a few years ago. No one wanted it. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 19:03 1
      - Angela Lansbury can't speak out against this one. -- nm - David Jan 31, 19:06
- In this article: "We are out of ideas, but we still know how to entertain you. Enjoy!" -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 18:47
- I’m not sure what I did to deserve an Elsbeth spin-off in my life but it must have been good. -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 18:28 2
  - . . . only on Paramount Plus Premium! -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 18:34 1
    - That’s fine. I’ll gladly pay for that. -- nm* - spamlet Jan 31, 18:34
Happy 'Plan for Vacation' Day! -- nm - ty97 Jan 31, 18:17 3
- I have zero travel or vacation plans. - Beryllium Jan 31, 20:32
- I have 2 trips planned - coastal cruise in May and a week in Chicago in September. Need to decide what to do for my birthday in August and - Meg Jan 31, 18:57
- is this a poll? currently looking at a bungalow in the outer banks for a week in july. -- nm - znufrii Jan 31, 18:39
James Gunn reveals future of The #DCEU -- (link) - Beaker Jan 31, 18:17 2
- Hee -- nm - Pippy Jan 31, 20:44
- HAHA! -- nm - Remlik Jan 31, 18:40
loLarry -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 18:09
Pickleball player loses point due to “aggressive stepping” -- (link) - Dano Jan 31, 18:02 2
- Yeah you're not allowed to do stuff like that -- nm - rollo Jan 31, 21:04
- And for those reasons, I'm out. -- nm - Monica Seles Jan 31, 18:10
(Fake) Dr. Phil hanging up the whatever it is he puts on -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 17:57 1
- Taking down his shingles -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 18:01
The Kraken arena fires the house band mid game for singing a protest song against billionaires, calling Bezos a jerk -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 17:45 8
- 🎵and now they won't let me listen to my music at work / probably because Jeff Bezos is a massive jerk🎵 -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 19:34
- Was it a cover of Bo Burnham's Bezos I? -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 18:03 2
  - it was a rewrite of a NY song about the metro, only they called it Orca for the nicname of our regional transit card -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 18:55
  - Come on Jeffery you can do it. -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 18:14
- Friday night's house band Nite Wave was pretty good. First time I've seen a house band at a hockey game. -- (link*) - Max Jan 31, 17:57 2
  - Hey, I was there, too! - psilotum Jan 31, 19:15 1
    - I was with a group in 203. Almost on one of the roving cameras. -- nm - Max Jan 31, 21:04
- help them, Elon -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 17:48
Peacock dumps its free, ad-supported plan for new users. -- (link*) - Ender Jan 31, 17:30 4
- Lol. Insane. So that streaming is facing imminent collapse. Here comes the consolidation. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 18:33
- Looks like they will drop it as a perk for me on Comcast. -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 18:18
- oops -- nm* - .☕ Jan 31, 17:38
- All I ever got was the ads. -- nm - .☕ Jan 31, 17:38
The Sundays "Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic" and Throwing Muses "The Real Ramona" were like gateway drugs for my eventual indie music habit -- (edited) - rollo Jan 31, 17:25
Josh Allen formally withdrew his name from this week's NFL Pro Bowl due to injury. Instead, he's playing in the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. -- (link) - budice Jan 31, 17:18 2
- Good decision. -- nm - zunk takes things literally Jan 31, 19:30
- Golf stresses a whole difference set of muscles than football. - Beryllium Jan 31, 18:07
"also their mother's maiden name, name of their first pet and the 3 digit code on their CC" -- (link) - Reagen Jan 31, 17:14
Chicago school worker charged with stealing $1.5M worth of chicken wings from district -- (link) - budice Jan 31, 17:12 13
- I know a guy who was fired for stealing toilet paper. he'd take like three of the giant rolls home from the mine every swing. -- nm - mafic Jan 31, 19:21 1
  - Like Johnny Cash's 'One Piece at a Time' -- nm - Meg Jan 31, 19:26
- Chicken wings were about twice the cost of drumsticks per pound last time I was at Costco. -- nm - psilotum Jan 31, 19:19
- Denies having visited any zoos lately. -- nm - Mop Jan 31, 19:00
- What happened to the $1.5M of hot wings. did she eat them? sell them? -- nm - Peglegpete Jan 31, 18:31
- There goes the greatest superbowl party -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 17:51
- they wouldn't have caught him except for stealing $600k worth of Buffalo sauce. -- nm - Reagen Jan 31, 17:39 3
  - "*Literally* caught you red-handed. You're an embarrassment to the Coyotes and everything this school stands for." "I am what I am." -- nm - In the principal's office Jan 31, 18:24
  - It's always the coverup that gets you in the end. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 18:08 1
    - Go sit in the corner and think about what you did! -- nm - Qale Jan 31, 18:20
- I’ve never seen a man eat so many chicken wings. -- nm - znufrii Jan 31, 17:26
- That's almost 7 cases of chicken wings for every child in the district. -- nm - Ender Jan 31, 17:22
- Held on 1,100 cases of chicken wings bond. -- nm - Ender Jan 31, 17:20
I took advantage of the bonuses when sports betting via app became legal in NY last year, came out ahead by a few hundred, deleted the apps. - Tim Jan 31, 16:47 8
- Legally, yes you have to report gambling winnings even if you don’t get a tax document. -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 17:03 2
  - also we can totally narc on him now for the bounty. -- nm - Reagen Jan 31, 17:12 1
    - Woohoo! We're going to Sizzler, er *does math* getting a Happy Meal! -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 18:08
- I didn't earn it, I won't report it, but if my neighbor doesn't file according to the honor system I'll raise hell! -- nm - Grampa Simpson Jan 31, 17:02
- You have to make (profit) $600+ to generate a tax document -- nm - Flavorize Jan 31, 16:59 2
  - my total winnings were spread out among 3 different apps, which is probably why. -- nm - Tim Jan 31, 17:04
  - It’s actually way more complicated now (I just looked this up for someone else the other day) -- (link) - spamlet Jan 31, 17:04
- Usually ignored unless you do receive a tax form for them -- nm - budice Jan 31, 16:58
Netflix's new password-sharing rule: Every 31 days your device must log in from your home network — or it will be blocked. -- (link) - budice Jan 31, 16:46 9
- *opens a Netflix Bar & Grill at the Max Hotel* -- nm - Max Jan 31, 18:04
- So time to binge Netflix before we cancel. -- nm - JaxSean Jan 31, 17:49
- How does it know which network is the home network. -- nm - Dano Jan 31, 17:34 2
  - I assume you would have to indicate it on signup/renewal/when it kicks off -- nm - Beaker Jan 31, 17:44 1
    - My mom uses my account way more than I do. -- nm - Dano Jan 31, 17:49
- Lovely. No way for a college kid to continue to use their parent’s account. -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 17:00 3
  - College kids will split/share accounts locally -- nm - rollo Jan 31, 17:31 2
    - I feel like this is kind of crap. -- nm - Kellyanne Scrabblestats Jan 31, 17:42 1
      - Especially because Netflix doesn’t have a student account. - spamlet Jan 31, 17:47
Rupert Murdoch (who's still alive) wanted to re-merge News Corp and Fox Corp but has changed his mind. Instead he's selling Move Inc. for $3 billion. -- (link) - Mop Jan 31, 16:43 2
- i don't think he changed his mind so much as the shareholders say fuck no, dude -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 16:44 1
  - real Succession shit tho: "James Murdoch, Rupert’s other son, wrote letters to the boards of both companies raising questions about the proposed deal" -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 16:47
Michael Burry just now: "Sell" -- (link) - budice Jan 31, 16:28 5
- My accountants name is Burry, and when Burry says we sell, we sell -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 17:55
- hilarious that he's tweeted once in 11 years and follows nobody. -- nm - mafic Jan 31, 17:50 2
  - or does he just delete all his tweets after like a week? -- nm - mafic Jan 31, 17:51 1
    - This is quite common. -- nm - psilotum Jan 31, 19:44
- "Investing legend Michael Burry has predicted 17 of the last two crashes." -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 16:32
Denver Broncos Super Bowl odds -- (link) - Beaker Jan 31, 16:20 1
- Are they dumping Russell Wilson? -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 17:49
“UK and EU reach customs deal for N Ireland” feels like half a headline -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 16:08
This is the "allow myself to introduce my...self" of taglines. -- (link) - Reagen Jan 31, 16:03 [Image] 5
- I wonder if they kill him. -- nm - mafic Jan 31, 17:49
- Fun theater audience to work. Then again, I am from Inglewood -- nm - con_carne Jan 31, 17:30
- “Wait’ll you see the outlandish s#it we came up with for this one.” -- nm - Volnelk Jan 31, 16:15
- Not much off from "the beginning of the end". -- nm - TWuG Jan 31, 16:10
- Pretentiousness thinks he needs to calm the f down. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 31, 16:09
2,000 employees laid off at PayPal surprises me, despite all the other layoffs. It shouldn't. -- nm - Beryllium Jan 31, 15:32 4
- it ain't about the demand -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 15:34 3
  - Investors and shareholders are driving the bus. The rest is a side benefit. -- nm - Dark Callisto Jan 31, 16:36
  - Soooo....Apple's current non-layoffs are just a long game to scoop up talent and then Apple will get around to their 1000s of employees layoff? -- nm - JD Jan 31, 15:38 1
    - Apple didn’t staff up like Meta, Google et al did. -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 16:04
Of the 100 most recent email messages that I have received today, how many do you think are solicitations for campaign donations from Congressional - ReluctantCynic Jan 31, 15:23 3
- 3.14159 -- nm - Strongbad Jan 31, 16:36
- 101 Bob - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 15:32
- 94 -- nm - spamlet Jan 31, 15:27
La Brea's Season 3 renewal is for 6 episodes. It was influenced by the potential of the writer's strike. So get ready for a lot of this. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 15:02 14
- Adam ruins the WGA negotiations -- (link) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 18:13
- I'd bet recent polling would show a consumer shift toward shorter seasons anyway, compared to 20 years ago. -- nm - Max Jan 31, 15:19 4
  - What's the cutoff between a short season and a mini-series? -- nm - Meg Jan 31, 15:36 2
    - Whether they plan a Season 2. -- nm - Ender Jan 31, 17:25
    - Probably tied in to the likelihood of Emmy nominations. - the wrong element Jan 31, 15:41
  - i don't know that audiences prefer it so much as the network model has been dying a slow death since Sopranos - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 15:30
- meh. if there's a strike in May/June it will just delay the start of shows coming back (2007 happened in the middle of the season). if they wanted - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 15:16 2
  - (for network, ordering just six episodes of anything doesn't really make a lot of sense in any scenario) - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 15:18 1
    - It would make sense if it was to be filmed immediately after season 2 finished filming. - the wrong element Jan 31, 15:37
- Doing it BBC style -- nm - JD Jan 31, 15:04 4
  - Unrelated, halfway through the George Michael Pop Pantheon. Listened to Spice Girls last week. -- nm - MDH Jan 31, 15:06 3
    - I always look back and think: Well, I guess that was a time. Like how did I (don't think I was alone) think that George Michael in the Wham - JD Jan 31, 15:11 2
      - My biggest confusion was seeing a tv listing for George Michael's Sports Machine. - the wrong element Jan 31, 15:21 1
        
        I loved that show -- nm - JD Jan 31, 15:27
Ha! Richard Blade just played Here’s Where the Story Ends by The Sundays - released 15 January 1990. -- nm - Dano Jan 31, 14:54 2
- Great song. -- nm - Volnelk Jan 31, 15:31
- yessss! don't stop Dicky -- nm - hollywood big shot Jan 31, 15:00
Orangutans are skeptical Of changes in their cages And the zookeeper is very fond of rum -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 31, 14:46

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