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The death of cable TV is happening and it is messy

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Comcast is moving forward with selling off most of their cable networks including MSNBC, CNBC, Universal Kids, USA, E!, Oxygen and Syfy, but not Bravo, because it provides popular content on Peacock, which will also stay. Comcast intends to keep NBC, NBC News, and NBC Sports, so I’m not sure how a split with MSNBC and CNBC will work. The death of cable will be messy.

Netflix and Meta have been sued for colluding to kill Facebook Watch — which competed with Netflix — in exchange for Netflix funneling its customers’ data to Meta.

And it’s been a busy legal week for Netflix: Someone has filed a class action lawsuit against Netflix for the shitty streaming quality of the Paul/Tyson fight.

Speaking of the Paul brothers, Logan Paul sent an impersonator to an interview with BBC, but the interviewer wasn’t stupid and called them out for their nonsense pretty quickly, only to be chased away by Paul supporters. Cool guys.

Cher dropped an F-bomb on The Today Show, and to be fair to her, Hoda did sorta give her permission.

The Golden Bachelor will begin filming this summer, between June and August, so it sounds like it will be debuting in September-ish? Maybe October? And no, they haven’t cast the lead yet.

Is it time to retire this The Price is Right game?

Urkel had to change pants to avoid a distracting … situation.

Even Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen’s friends thought they were getting divorced thanks to Curb Your Enthusiasm.

The Bachelor‘s Maria Georgas has managed to find a new way to stay in the news.

Jay Leno is becoming comically unlucky.

PolUGHtics

Today’s clown appointment to cabinet: WWE executive Linda McMahon, wife of disgusting human being Vince McMahon (although they announced their separation yesterday, conveniently enough) to head the Department of Education. This does bring up an inevitable question: will Former President Adjudicated Rapist-Elect pardon Vince for the federal sexual assault and trafficking crimes he’s being investigated for? (YES. OBVIOUSLY.)

In other nomination news, the transition team might be getting wobbly on Pete Hegseth for Department of Defense: some sources are apparently pissed that he wasn’t fully forthcoming about the sexual assault allegations against him. Of course, what’s paying off a woman you allegedly raped in comparison to all the shit that Matt Gaetz is accused of and you don’t see them backing away from him, so.

ABC News has obtained Venmo records showing that Matt Gaetz paid over $10,000 to the two women who testified before the House Ethics Committee abcnews.go.com/US/gaetz-10k…

— Nikki McCann Ramírez (@nikkimcr.bsky.social) 2024-11-20T14:49:01.063Z

When does Dummy Jr. get appointed the head of the DEA?

 

 
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The View ladies are never going to survive another four years of this man. Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sunny Hostin have repeatedly gotten into very heated arguments over the past two weeks, and he hasn’t even taken office yet.

Meanwhile, CNN’s John Berman is reading his fellow cable news hosts for filth:

 

 
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And if you’re looking for a little bit of hope in what feels like the darkest timeline, here’s a good thread to read about little these idiots are likely to actually accomplish. (That said, it doesn’t lessen the fear of millions of people being deported/put into camps; nor does it alleviate the fear of reproductive rights being stripped from women across the country; nor decades of progress for the LGBTQ community being erased; nor the abandonment of our allies around the world in favor of autocrats and Putin; nor the destruction of our economy; nor, God forbid, what might happen in the face of another pandemic or catastrophic weather event; nor does it make me feel any better about the fact that THIS FUCKING CRIMINAL WILL JUST GET AWAY WITH ALL OF IT, but I will take what I can get right now.) H/T Pajiba.

a lot of people on here are acting like trump has just become God Emperor and we're all about to be starring in a dystopian YA novel. but here's the thing: history teaches pretty clearly that actually implementing totalitarianism is really hard. few people have ever done it!

— Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li (@sjshancoxli.bsky.social) 2024-11-19T14:45:46.703Z

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Mark Your Calendars

NBC has released their mid-season premiere dates:

 

R.I.P.

Dan Hennessey, Voice actor on Care Bears and Inspector Gadget

Saafir, Rapper and actor in Menace II Society

WATCH THIS

Our Oceans: THEY BETTER TELL US ABOUT THE ALIENS. Premiere.  Netflix

Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy: Over on Prime Video, they are debuting a new game show where people compete to win everything on their Amazon wish list. I find it ironic — but not — that Netflix is debuting on the same day (and a week before Black Friday) this documentary that exposes the tricks and tools major brands and sellers use to lock us into the cycle of consumption. Premiere. Netflix

The 58th CMA Awards: I hesitate to mention this thanks to the outrageous snub of Beyonce, but this is the world we live in now.Luke Bryan, Peyton Manning, and Lainey Wilson host.  7 p.m., ABC

Late Night:

WEDS. 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30
ABC The 58th Annual CMA Awards
(live)
CBS Survivor
(new)		 The Summit
(new)
CW Sullivan’s Crossing
(new)		 Inside the NFL
(new)		 Local
FOX The Masked Singer
(new)		 The Floor
(new)		 News/Local
NBC Chicago Med
(new)		 Chicago Fire
(new)		 Chicago P.D.
(new)
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