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@fter Midnight on CBS is ending … and that’s a shame

@After Mignight, Taylor Tomlimson, late night TV

@fter Midnight, a funny, intentionally stupid, unpredictable and entertaining late-night show, has been following The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for the last couple of years – and it comes from the same shop. Sadly, the week of June 9 is the end of the line; there won’t be a third season. And that’s a damn shame.

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Random Number Generator Horror Podcast Number 9: Smart, Surprising, Intelligent (and fresh out of Night Vale)

Random number generator horror podcast, horror, Night Vale

Now, everybody knows about Welcome to Night ValeWhat started as a strange little fiction podcast a few years back has grown into an international business all its own, with best-selling books and after-shows and merch and live performances that travel internationally, and in all that time and expansion, it has never lost its edge.

Now two of the creative cornerstones of Night Vale, writer Jeffrey Craynor and the indispensable writer and performer Cecil Baldwin, the voice of Night Vale itself, have a little side-hustle going: a celebration  of horror movies with the charmingly ungainly title of Random Number Generator Horror Podcast Number 9.

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Gogglebox: UK TV at its … finest?

Here’s an idea…

Choose about a dozen absolutely normal people out there – couples or families, married folks or siblings or best friends – and you don’t bring them into the studio, and you don’t interview them on camera. No. You go to their houses and you install what I assume to be a small, unobtrusive and non-intrusive camera right near their TV. One that it only on a few hours a day, when they’re watching specific programs that you producer-type have chosen for them in that week. Then you take all the footage from all those dozen or more groups, ou stitch the base parts of their comments and reactions to the shows – not reviews, at all, but their experience of watching these shows – and you send it back out to the world in one hour of almost found footage. Think it’s work? It already does. Gogglebox is a huge hit in the UK and has been for years. You’ll need a VPN and a little initiative to grab it here in the States. but it’s not only entertaining; it offers some real insight into what Normal People the world round think of ‘us’ these days. And it’s not pretty…

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Slightly older but no less fascinating posts

Kennie JD: One of the Best Things About YouTube

YouTube has become too huge to truly comprehend, and most of the 'tubers that built their base from YT have either moved on, retreated, or sunk into scandal. But once in a while you stumble overcome with long-form content that is charming and insightful about its...

Henry Thomas and the sequel to E.T. (no, really)

Here, come on down the rabbit hole with me. I went looking for some background on Henry Thomas for a review of The Fall of the House of Usher… and found an entirely different little gem: a very short, very special sequel to E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, posing as an...

The Great Pottery Throw Down isn’t a competition. Not really.

You know … competition is a whole different thing in Great Britain. I mean, sports, yes – your soccer, your rugby, your Olympic events – in sports, the British are so competitive they’re downright dangerous. But when it comes to … what would you call it? Recreational...

Why I Gave Up On Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon After Only 40 Minutes

I know – God, we all know -- that Rebel Moon was supposed to be big, I mean big, for Zack Snyder. His break away from superhero movies that he now professes to be tired of, his chance to show his real vision. Yeah, about that. From where I was sitting, it took less...