It’s our 50th official podcast! In celebration, we decided to start doing something we should have done at least 30 podcast ago… provide timestamps. In a week where most of the TV news was not made by any regular shows, there was still a lot to talk about:
- We talk about the Hurricane Isaac coverage and why local news broadcasts — even those well away from the storm — are hyperventilating over the coverage of it (and why local news has gone weather crazy) (3:00 – 11:00),
- Then we talked about the GOP convention and what the political parties can do to make their conventions more TV-friendly and less predictable (11:00 – 22:00),
- We then start talking about actual shows, starting with the big events that happened on the next-to-last episode of Breaking Bad until 2013 (22:00 – 45:05),
- We then talk about the season finale of True Blood and why shows like it and Grey’s Anatomy are no longer on critics’ radars (45:05 – 54:30),
- People are talking about The Newsroom, of course, and we talk about the controversial show’s interesting but frustrating finale (54:30 – 1:08:00),
- Then we briefly talk about some news items like Eddie Murphy and Shawn Ryan teaming up for a Beverly Hills Cop series, Abby Elliott leaving SNL, Anger Management getting 90 more episodes, and why The Burn and Totally Biased get right a format that Russell Brand got very wrong (1:08:00 – 1:19:00),
- We talk about The Mindy Project and Ben and Kate debuting on Hulu and if this will at all move the needle for either show (1:19:00 – 1:21:00),
- We give a quick preview of the upcoming season of Doctor Who, and Jason praises the show’s teaser webisodes (1:21:00 – 1:25:00),
- Finally, we discuss our challenge show, Lifetime’s The Week The Women Went, and wonder if the producers make it tongue-in-cheek dramatic because they didn’t really have any interesting footage (1:25:00 – 1:35:00).
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By the way, the bumper music is “Trevor Trailer Trash” from the late, great band Cropduster.
Joel Keller
Joel Keller is one of the co-founders of Antenna Free TV and co-hosts the weekly AFT Podcast. A long time ago, he left a career rebooting servers to write about TV and other fun stuff (though his ulterior motive was to write off his cable on his income taxes). At the time, he was writing for the late, great site TV Squad, where he eventually became editor-in-chief. Since those heady days, he's written about TV and other topics for The New York Times, The A.V. Club, TheAtlantic.com, Fast Company's Co.Create, Vulture, Zap2It and elsewhere.
