Tucker Carlson, Putin’s useful idiot, should be forced to stay in Russia.

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

For the first time ever, CBS Mornings outperformed both The Today Show and Good Morning America.

Well, this is interesting: Paramount+ and Peacock might be eyeing a streaming partnership. Considering they are two of the largest players left out of that Disney/Fox/Warner Bros. Discovery sports app deal, this is hardly surprising.

The DOJ is doing an antitrust review of that proposed Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery sports streaming app. Stay tuned. 

The head of The CW would really like to be taken seriously. Good luck with that, buddy. 

The Good Doctor folks say they weren’t ready to end the series with this season, but ABC told them otherwise.

Alan Cumming is a blabbermouth.

This Is Us is getting the Netflix bump.

Oh, Vince Staples doesn’t mind his new Netflix show being compared to the two best shows about rappers (and one of the best shows of all time)? How surprising!

Hoping Outer Bank‘s Austin North gets the help he needs.

Thoughts for Brian Wilson and his family.

Ron DeSantis has some regrets.

This isn’t about television, but instead an important historic moment: Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s longtime opposition, vocal critic, and prisoner, has died in a Russian prison. Navalny, was a lawyer, a politician, an anti-corruption activist, and ran against Putin. In 2020, Navalny was poisoned (by Putin), and he escaped to Germany for treatment where he recovered. However, Navalny and his family voluntarily returned to Russia to continue to oppose Putin, where he was arrested on trumped-up charges, and sent to a gulag. We don’t know the details of his death as of yet — we may never know the full truth — but President Biden put his death at the feet of Vladimir Putin. Alexi Navalny was 47 years old.

Just last week, useful idiot Tucker Carlson traveled to Russia to “interview” Vladimir Putin where he praised the regime and allowed Putin to not just say whatever the hell he wanted with zero pushback, but actively allowed Putin to humiliate and mock him to his face. 

And a side note here: as part of his trip, Tucker was taken to a Russian grocery store, where he marveled at how less expensive the prices were compared to American groceries, and claimed that it “radicalized” him against American leadership. This was CLEARLY set up by the Russians as a counterpoint to the famous trip to a Clear Lake, Texas Randall’s grocery store that then Russian President Boris Yeltsin took in 1989 that helped end communism and ultimately dismantled the Soviet Union:

About a year after the Russian leader left office, a Yeltsin biographer later wrote that on the plane ride to Yeltsin’s next destination, Miami, he was despondent. He couldn’t stop thinking about the plentiful food at the grocery store and what his countrymen had to subsist on in Russia.

In Yeltsin’s own autobiography, he wrote about the experience at Randall’s, which shattered his view of communism, according to pundits. Two years later, he left the Communist Party and began making reforms to turn the economic tide in Russia.

Seems Putin’s still a little salty about it some 35 years later.

ANYWAY. After his rendevous with Putin, Tucker was asked about Putin’s tendency to kill his opposition and he blithely replied, “Every leader kills people. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people. Sorry.” He’s now trying to walk that back, saying that Navalny’s death is “barbaric and awful.”

We’re not going to forget so quickly, Tucker.

And here are a couple of posts made before Navalny died:

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Renewals

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Mark Your Calendar

The CW has released their spring premiere dates:

  • All American returns on April 1
  • Lovers and Liars premieres (sort of — it’s a rebranding of FBoy Island) on April 1
  • Walker returns on April 3
  • Sight Unseen debuts on April 3
  • Patti Stanger: The Matchmaker premieres on April 11
  • Penn & Teller: Fool Us returns on April 26
  • 100 Days to Indy returns on April 26
  • Police 24/7 premieres on April 30
  • Hostage Rescue premieres on April 30

 

  • The Sympathizer will debut on HBO on April 14.
  • Girls5eva returns on Netflix on March 14.
  • Animal Control returns on Fox on March 6.
  • Somebody Feed Phil returns on Netflix on March 1.
  • Invincible returns on Prime Video on March 14.
  • The Long Shadow will debut on AMC+ on March 21.
  • Friday Night Sext Scandal will premiere on Lifetime on March 16.
  • Hello Again will debut on Prime Video on March 26.
  • The Netflix Slam will stream live on Netflix on March 3.
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S.W.A.T.: The team goes to Mexico to collect a fugitive. Season premiere. 7 p.m., CBS

Fire Country: Bode is back in prison. Season premiere. 8 p.m., CBS

Blue Bloods: Jamie goes undercover. Season premiere. 9 p.m., CBS

Life & Beth: Season two. Hulu

Oppenheimer: It’s good! It’s long. Streaming premiere. Peacock

SATURDAY

Selena & Yolanda: The Secrets Between Them: The woman who murdered Selena speaks out. Whether or not anyone should listen is a whole other question. Premiere. 7 p.m., Oxygen

NBA All-Star Saturday Night: The Skills Challenge, 3-Point, and Slam Dunk contests, and Stephen Curry vs. Sabrina Ionescu 3-Point Challenge 7 p.m., TNT

Silence of the Lambs: As part of the Jodi Foster appreciation era. 8 p.m., Sundance TV

SUNDAY

American Idol: Let the auditions begin. Season premiere. 7 p.m., ABC

What Would You Do?: Sara Haines and W. Kamau Bell join the ethical dilemma series. Season premiere. 9 p.m., ABC

The Equalizer: McCall races to save the team. Season premiere. 7 p.m., CBS

CSI: Vegas: A respected colleague is arrested. Season premiere. 9 p.m., CBS

True Detective: Season finale. 8 p.m., HBO

Last Week Tonight: A week that begins with the return of Jon Stewart, ends with the return of John Oliver. Praise be. Season premiere. 10 p.m., HBO

People’s Choice Awards: In case you were wondering what the “people” care about. 7 p.m., NBC

NBA All-Star Game: Sportsball. 7 p.m., TNT

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