12 Days of Christmas Television

December 2, 2007 at 10:42 pm | In Lists, holidays | 1 Comment
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Inspired by a Yahoo! Holiday Favorites Slideshow, I spent a few hours tonight researching this years’ primetime holiday television schedule. I think I was inclined to do this partly because I love Christmas, partly because I used to work at a television station, and mostly because I really really enjoy putting events on my Google calender. Since I felt like sort of a loser after wasting so much time on this purely for my own entertainment, I decided to share my findings here (including everything on the channels we have on our hotel cable). Enjoy!

Monday, December 3

Tuesday, December 4

Wednesday, December 5

Thursday, December 6

Friday, December 7

Saturday, December 8

Monday, December 10

Tuesday, December 11

Wednesday, December 12

Thursday, December 13

Friday, December 14

Saturday, December 15

There is also a daily assortment of Holiday and Classic movies on ABC Family Channel, a bunch of original Lifetime movies, and, of course, A Christmas Story all Christmas Day on TBS. Movies that I am missing so far this year are A Chipmunk Christmas, Mickey’s Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol, One Magic Christmas (which is actually showing on The Hallmark Channel at 1AM tomorrow morning , but I don’t get The Hallmark Channel, and I’m not awake at 1AM), and any version of Miracle on 34th Street. I will keep looking, though!

Tonight, since the only Christmas programming I could find was Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas (which was lame), we’re watching Christmas-themed episodes of sitcoms we have on DVD. This includes:

I’m happy fall is finally winding down, so I can enjoy all the festive cartoonery, and have something to watch as the writer’s strike goes on and on. It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Ticketless

November 29, 2007 at 11:32 pm | In Experiences | 1 Comment
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Mr. Andrews and I had tickets to a taping of The Daily Show today, but it was cancelled because of the WGA Writers’s Strike. Not really a big deal, since we are a lot farther from New York than we were when I booked the tickets, but it is the latest in a disturbing trend: TV shows clearly don’t want me in their audience.

I had tickets to On Air with Ryan Seacrest way back in May 2004, but it got cancelled the day I was supposed to go to the show. I had tickets to Montel this past August but they changed the show to an all teenage audience about a week before. I got in line too late for The Dr. Phil Show (couldn’t find anything to wear!), so the studio was already filled. Ditto with The Rachael Ray Show in September (it was pouring). The one shining exception is our trip to the Tonight Show with Jay Leno in July 2002 where Mr Andrews and I, as well as our two friends, Miss Smith and Mrs. Nelson, had front row seats. Of course, we sat outside NBC studios from 10 AM until the show started at 4PM. That should have been a lesson to me. Get there hours early! That’s the key!

Rachael Ray of Wax
My sister & I missed the real Rachael, but we did see her made of wax

 I supposedly get V.I.P. tickets to another taping of Rachael Ray because I got shut out last time, plus I’ve requested audience tickets to The Martha Stewart Show and will be calling The Oprah Show on December 4 to try against logic to get tickets for a January taping. If I get graced with tickets for any of these, you will find me on the sidewalk before dawn, because, by gosh, I’m going to get in! Unless, of course, it gets cancelled. Or I do not fit their demographic for the day.

Oprah & Me
Wax Oprah and Me (I didn’t see wax Jon Stewart)

Maybe I should stop trying to be in studio audiences. I could actually just watch this stuff on T.V. I don’t even need cable! But Miss Smith and our friend, Miss Brown, were in the audience at The Ellen DeGeneres Show once and got a new coffee maker and a new vacuum cleaner. And so I persevere. Maybe I should just start my own show. They probably couldn’t keep me out of that.

Ain’t No Party Like a Scranton Party

October 29, 2007 at 3:22 pm | In Experiences, Places | 2 Comments
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Our trip to Scranton this Saturday for The Office Convention was a good time. Although it was raining, and I seemed to be the only one without a Dunder Mifflin umbrella, there was lots to see and the cast was everywhere (especially Craig Robinson, aka Darryl from the Warehouse, who must have some sort of teleporter to be so many places in so little time). At the Steamtown Mall, we got our Dunder-Mifflin stock certificates (although, sadly, I bled all over mine from a cut on my finger that I don’t know how I got), plus they were giving out t-shirts that said “Schrute You.” Under tents downtown, there were autograph signings and tons of merchandise to be bought by fans. The Scrantones concert at the street fair included a few cast members, and the Q&A at the University of Scranton was really great. The gym was packed, they warmed up the crowd with an Office blooper video and some silly Scranton-made music videos, and it was really long, which gave all the actors ample time to talk and be hilarious. We took some video of some of the more enjoyable stuff. Click on the pic to see:

Ed Helms (Andy) singing & doing impressions at the cast Q&A

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Craig Robinson and the Scrantones cover Radiohead’s Creep

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Mr. Andrews even looked like a really big fan when we were shopping in the University of Scranton bookstore (I got a Scranton I.D. holder) and was able to recite some lines from the episode “Traveling Salesman”, which was playing in the store (“Fool me once, strike one. Fool me twice, strike three.”).The city of Scranton was extremely involved (a funeral home even got in on the action, advertising a funeral for Ed Truck on Sunday followed by a screening of the episode “Grief Counseling.”) and the locals really seem to love the show. After my two trips to Scranton, I am certain that if I ever create a T.V. show, I’ll set it in a place that doesn’t normally get television exposure. Why set it in New York or L.A. when you can set it in a small city with lots of character and really, really excited residents?

Thanks, Scranton, and Office employees. I will always remember ya!

That’s What She Said.

October 26, 2007 at 4:53 pm | In Experiences | Leave a Comment
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I like to think of myself as a television connoisseur. Some others may think I am a television junkie. After all, I recently watched all 10 seasons of Friends on DVD, searched high and low in San Francisco for the Full House house, cheered and had my picture taken when I stumbled upon the Buttercup Bakeshop straight out of How I Met Your Mother, and named my puppy after a character on Entourage.

Next up is The Office Convention this weekend in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Scranton Welcomes You

Scranton welcomes me.

Mr. Andrews and I had never even seen The Office until this summer when, curious about what all the fuss was about amongst many of my favorite indie filmmakers, I got the first (American) season from Netflix. We liked it so much that we binged and, thanks to iTunes, watched the other two seasons in about two days. Not long after that, I insisted upon a trip to Dunder-Mifflin’s hometown of Scranton (this was the counterpart to a trip planned by Mr. Andrews, to Holsten’s in Bloomfield, NJ, from the final scene of his favorite show ever, The Sopranos.)

Us at Holsten's

Holsten’s

We ate lunch at Cooper’s, found Poor Richard’s Pub (and bowled at the bowling alley in the same building), visited the Welcome to Scranton sign at Steamtown Mall, took a walk around Lake Scranton, and enjoyed Herr’s chips and Crystal Club soda (just like Jim). It was actually really fun.

Outside Poor Richard's Pub

Poor Richard’s Pub

So tomorrow, we are making the two and half hour trip to Scranton again, with our Assistant to the Regional Manager passes (the V.I.P. Corporate pass was way out of our price range), to see some Office Olympics (yay, Flonkerton!), a Q&A with most of the cast, and a Character Look-Alike/Halloween costume contest (Mr. Andrews will be Three-Hole Punch Jim, I am going as Pam in her black cat Halloween costume). Super nerdy? Of course. But as Super Nerds, I expect my husband and I will enjoy it. At the very least, we’ll probably come back with something overpriced from the NBC store, and that will make me happy. I am a souvenir junkie, too!

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