I have some disjointed and uninformed thoughts about Venezuela but let’s talk about a meaningless awards show instead

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Venezuela. Ugh. I feel like Andy Cohen summed up how all of us felt Saturday morning:

I could get into this Venezuela mess more if you really want me to, but you’re better off relying on real news sources for this one. But my unhinged takeaway: Maduro is bad! But we did not have the right or authority to kidnap him or bomb his country (which led to the deaths of at least 40 civilians) especially without Congressional approval or oversight, or any sort of international consensus, and there’s clearly no plan for what happens next for Venezuela (but that’s always worked out JUST GREAT for us, when we have invaded other countries with no plan for the aftermath) except OIL!!!!11!!1! but even the oil companies here are like, “I don’t know, man, I mean, sure there’s a lot of oil, but it’s kinda gross, dirty oil and we’re not sure it’s worth the investment,” but also IT’S NOT OUR OIL, and maybe if we were looking for regime change or “restoring democracy,” we should, I dunno, change the regime and put into place the team who probably did democratically win the election, except President ThinSkin doesn’t want to do that because part of that ticket is Machado, the woman who won the Nobel Prize, which he was pretty sure was his despite no one else thinking that (WHICH, A FRIENDLY REMINDER: BOMBING COUNTRIES, KILLING THIER FISHERMEN, STEALING THEIR OIL AND KIDNAPPING THEIR LEADERS IS NOT EXACTLY THE PATH TO WINNING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, MY GUY) and there’s no chance he’s going to put her in charge, so instead he’s leaving the rest of the Maduro regime in place even though they are, according to his dumbass adminstration, associating with narcoterrorists and stealing “our” oil, so maybe this is also part of an excuse to deport more Venezuelans and use Venezuela as a place to send other deportees (think Poland in World War II) and also maybe this is just the first step in taking over other countries in our supposed “sphere of influence” because Marco Rubio is already licking his lips over Cuba and Katie Miller is out here threatening Greenland and President Baby Aspirin is openly talking about attacking Colombia and I AM OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN THIS SAME MOTHERFUCKER RAN ON A PLATFORM OF “NO MORE INVADING OTHER COUNTRIES AND NATION BUILDING” SO REMIND ME, WHAT DOES “AMERICA FIRST” EVEN MEAN?

Anyway. They also found more than 5 million more documents in the Epstein Files, so don’t lose focus.

Tony Dokoupil wants y’all to know that Bari Weiss did NOT write his weird little message about how CBS News will not be relying on academics and “elites” anymore, essentially promising to dumb down the news for folks because facts and science are inconvenient these days.

But don’t worry, you guys, CBS News “loves America” so it’s all good, I guess? (This is fucking insane.)

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How to spot a network in crisis. 🚩 Behold the CBS Evening News “We Work Cor You” PR campaign. Is this working for you?

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The Critics’ Choice Awards were last night. You can find all winners here (no big surprises, honestly). But the takeaway for TV is The Pitt, The Studio, and Adolescence. (Speaking of, I did a “best of” list, if you haven’t checked it out yet. The Studio didn’t make it, but only because of the stupid way I make my list. If I did a traditional one, it absolutely would have made the cut.)

In terms of the ceremony, the only speeches really worth mentioning are Jimmy Kimmel winning Best Talk Show, where he tanked “Donald Jennifer Trump,” and Noah Wylie who thanked Warner Bros., “that grand old lady, Warner Bros., long may she stand; she’s been so good to me my whole life. I owe this to her.”

Vanity Fair has all the lewks from the event. But the only one you MUST see is Hacks stars Paul W. Downs and Meg Stalter giving their best Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner. Genius genius genius, no notes.

William H. Macy is suggesting that the upcoming Dan Fogelman NFL series on Hulu will be called The Land and is about the Cleveland Browns. 

Netflix wants to release Warner Bros. films in theaters — for 17 days. Theater owners are not chill with this idea.

Amazon is trying to make its Fire TV user interface easier to use.

In honor of tonight’s premiere of Best Medicine, the U.S. adaptation of Doc Martin, here is a list of the worst U.S. adaptations of British TV shows. (I am passing no judgment on Best Medicine, having not seen it yet.)

For my TV historians out there, here are a bunch of old TV ads as run in Variety over the decades, including for I Love Lucy, NBC explaining what The Today Show is, CBS explaining why it’s the “Eye” network, The Brady Bunch, The Twilight Zone, Saturday Night Live, The Facts of Life, ER, Law & Order, The Sopranos, and many, many more in between.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for James Austin Johnson to do his “best” impersonation on SNL. 

Ego Nwodim basically said (again) that she left SNL when she did because she wanted to leave on a high note. 

Get well soon, Colin Mochrie!

Best of luck on your health journey, Steven W. Bailey!

Oh no! Get better quickly, Evangeline Lilly!

Congratulations to Este Haim and Jonathan “Johnny” Levin!

Matthew Langford Perry
August 19, 1969 – October 28, 2023
Much Loved
— Friend —

Cancellations

Casting News

Mark Your Calendar

  • The Rip debuts on Netflix on January 16.

  • The Beauty debuts on FX/Hulu on January 21.

  • One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 debuts on Netflix on January 12.

  • Red Eye is now streaming on Hulu.

  • Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision will premiere on Prime Video on February 6.

R.I.P.

Jon Korkes, Actor on All in the Family, Law & Order, All My Children, Oz, The Larry Sanders Show, among others, and on Catch-22, The Day of the Dolphin, The Front Page, Cinderella Liberty, and Two-Minute Warning

Bret Hanna-Shuford, Broadway actor and influencer

Ahn Sung-Ki, Star of more than 100 Korean films

Dean Williams, Set photographer on over 160 films

WATCH THIS

St. Denis Medical: Ron and Matt try to convince a child to get his shot. Good luck with that. Winter premiere. 7 p.m., NBC

Stumble: This is not the premiere of this delightful little comedy, but it’s the first time it will air on something other than a dead Friday night. If you missed it the first go-round, give it a shot. 7:30 p.m., NBC

The Wall: A 9/11 hero and his son take on The Wall in the season premiere. 8 p.m., NBC

Brilliant Minds: One of Dr. Wolf’s team fights for their life. Winter premiere. 9 p.m., NBC

Name That Tune: Season finale. 7 p.m., Fox

My Life is Murder: Alexa dives into the world of elite cheerleading to solve the mystery of a fitness influencer’s sudden death. Season premiere. Acorn TV

Late Night:

  • Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Sadie Sink, Josh Charles, AJR
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers: Kristen Stewart, Wagner Moura
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: Ethan Hawke, Julia Ioffe
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live: Ben Affleck, Erin Doherty, Molly Tuttle
  • The Daily Show: Sen. Mark Kelly, host Jon Stewart
  • Watch What Happens Live: Aesha Scott, Cathy Skinner
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