MeTV launching 24/7 classic cartoon network — on TV + ad-supported streaming.

Including: Looney Tunes, ROCKY & BULLWINKLE, Hanna-Barbera, UNDERDOG, Popeye, Woody Woodpecker, Tom & Jerry, SPEED RACER, Betty Boop + more.

This is so nice: A YouTube channel which features vintage content from WPIX in NYC has posted 7 minutes of the late Bobby Rivers hosting a pair of HONEYMOONERS specials the station did in the 1980s. It’s classic Bobby—he loved movies and TV so much. youtu.be/_LVb25PSQjE?si…

Tonight in 1974 — Agnes Moorehead’s final performance aired on NBC.

She starred opposite Lorne Greene in REX HARRISON PRESENTS...STORIES OF LOVE, a pilot for an anthology series.

Moorehead died the day before the broadcast at age 73.

YouTube: youtu.be/XFb6ggqpLGc?t=…

Terrific movie, with certain elements in common with an American pre-code. Especially Yumeko Aizome; she has a small part but I adored her.

Cinema Unbound:
The Creative Worlds of Powell and Pressburger

June 21-July 31

The landmark BFI retrospective comes to America!

50+ programs!
All 13 'quota quickies'!
All the classics and many rarely screened films!

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'My pictures don’t work at all unless they work my way.”

Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE premiered in New York City tonight in 1941.

(3/3) hit around the world and won a Grammy. Eddy was one of the musicians most responsible for popularizing the electric guitar in America, and his impact on artists like the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Bruce Springsteen is incalculable.

(2/3) sound came to represent a walk on the wild side — a soundtrack for revved-up hotrods and rebels with or without a cause, and an echo of the Wild West on the frontier of rock and roll. In 1986, the remake of his hit “Peter Gunn,” recorded with Art of Noise, became a Top Ten

(1/3) In Memoriam: 1994 Inductee Duane Eddy was a rock & roll guitar god who invented twang. He created a distinctive sound and recorded a string of instrumental hits in the late 1950s that proved hugely influential on countless musicians. Eddy’s reverberating, bass-heavy guitar

Streaming update: The 2004 Battlestar Galactica series that was oddly not streaming for the last few years has been added to Prime Video today, as has fellow SyFy Channel hit Warehouse 13.

I can't believe this is sitting right in front of us and we might let it happen.

I realize I am not part of Columbia. I realize that campus situations are usually more nuanced that they appear in the news. That said, I am hard-pressed to think of any university president who has handled things worse than Minouche Shafik.

Happy birthday to Al Lewis, who hit on my girlfriend when I was in college (and he was in his late 60s).

My gf was flattered and I respected his game. #RIP

4/30/39: First regularly scheduled TV programs begin in the US, with NBC's experimental W2XBS covering the opening of the New York World's Fair. Feature films will start airing in July.

** NEW US TITLE ON BLU-RAY **

UNTOUCHED (Sombra verde)
(Roberto Gavaldón, 1954)

Release date: 23 July 2024

I experienced both thrill and agony as an athlete fortunate enough to have the iconic Jim McKay on the call, and I thank my lucky stars to have 'spanned the globe' the final eight great years of ABC's Wide World of Sports w/ my dear friend and broadcast partner, Bart Conner!

I miss Mr. McKay sooooo much! He played a huge & important part in mine & Randy’s skating career and was truly in league all his own! 🙏🏽🕊️❤️ #gratitude #jimmckay #wideworldofsports #abc

'The thrill of victory ... and the agony of defeat!'

ABC's WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS debuted on this day in 1961.

Jim McKay hosted for the entire 37-season run.

'65% of Americans would rather watch a movie at home than see it in a theater.' 💔

vulture.com/article/whats-… from TVMoJoe

What determines the long-term success for most streamers? How bad is 'churn'? And how many consumers prefer seeing movies at home vs. in theater? Some exclusive insights from NRG, the company best known for tracking new movie releases. Up now at Vulture: vulture.com/article/whats-…