The 2016 Oscar Nominations

Oscars 

    The 88th annual Academy Awards  nominees have been announced  ,the Oscars air February the 28th at 7pmet on ABC,   Here is the list of nominees:

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Bryan Cranston in Trumbo
Matt Damon in The Martian
Leonardo DiCaprio in The Revenant
Michael Fassbender in Steve Jobs
Eddie Redmayne in The Danish Girl

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Cate Blanchett in Carol
Brie Larson in Room
Jennifer Lawrence in Joy
Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years
Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn

Best motion picture of the year
The Big Short
Bridge of Spies
Brooklyn
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Revenant
Room
Spotlight

Achievement in directing
The Big Short, Adam McKay
Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller
The Revenant, Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Room, Lenny Abrahamson
Spotlight, Tom McCarthy

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
“Earned It” from Fifty Shades of Grey -- Music and Lyric by Abel Tesfaye, Ahmad Balshe, Jason Daheala Quenneville and Stephan Moccio
“Manta Ray” from Racing Extinction -- Music by J. Ralph and Lyric by Antony Hegarty
“Simple Song #3” from Youth -- Music and Lyric by David Lang
“Til It Happens To You” from The Hunting Ground -- Music and Lyric by Diane Warren and Lady Gaga
“Writing’s On The Wall” from Spectre -- Music and Lyric by Jimmy Napes and Sam Smith

Achievement in cinematography
Carol -- Ed Lachman
The Hateful Eight -- Robert Richardson
Mad Max: Fury Road -- John Seale
The Revenant -- Emmanuel Lubezki Sicario Roger Deakins

Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hateful Eight
Rooney Mara in Carol
Rachel McAdams in Spotlight
Alicia Vikander in The Danish Girl
Kate Winslet in Steve Jobs

Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Christian Bale in The Big Short
Tom Hardy in The Revenant
Mark Ruffalo in Spotlight
Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies
Sylvester Stallone in Creed

Best documentary short subject
Body Team 12
Chau, beyond the Lines
Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Last Day of Freedom Dee Hibbert

Best documentary feature
Amy
Cartel Land
The Look of Silence
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

Achievement in costume design
Carol -- Sandy Powell
Cinderella -- Sandy Powell
The Danish Girl -- Paco Delgado
Mad Max: Fury Road --Jenny Beavan
The Revenant -- Jacqueline West

Achievement in sound editing
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Mark Mangini and David White
The Martian -- Oliver Tarney
The Revenant -- Martin Hernandez and Lon Bender
Sicario -- Alan Robert Murray
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Matthew Wood and David Acord

Achievement in sound mixing
Bridge of Spies -- Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Drew Kunin
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Chris Jenkins, Gregg Rudloff and Ben Osmo
The Martian -- Paul Massey, Mark Taylor and Mac Ruth
The Revenant -- Jon Taylor, Frank A. Montaño, Randy Thom and Chris Duesterdiek
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Andy Nelson, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Lesley Vanderwalt, Elka Wardega and Damian Martin
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared -- Love Larson and Eva von Bahr
The Revenant -- Siân Grigg, Duncan Jarman and Robert Pandini

Best live action short film
Ave Maria
Day One
Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
Shok
Stutterer

Best animated short film
Bear Story
Prologue
Sanjay’s Super Team
We Can’t Live without Cosmos
World of Tomorrow

Best animated feature film of the year
Anomalisa
Boy and the World
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
When Marnie Was There

Adapted screenplay
The Big Short -- Screenplay by Charles Randolph and Adam McKay
Brooklyn -- Screenplay by Nick Hornby
Carol -- Screenplay by Phyllis Nagy
The Martian -- Screenplay by Drew Goddard
Room -- Screenplay by Emma Donoghue

Achievement in production design
Bridge of Spies -- Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo and Bernhard Henrich
The Danish Girl -- Production Design: Eve Stewart; Set Decoration: Michael Standish
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Production Design: Colin Gibson; Set Decoration: Lisa Thompson
The Martian -- Production Design: Arthur Max; Set Decoration: Celia Bobak
The Revenant -- Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Hamish Purdy

Achievement in visual effects
Ex Machina -- Andrew Whitehurst, Paul Norris, Mark Ardington and Sara Bennett
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Andrew Jackson, Tom Wood, Dan Oliver and Andy Williams
The Martian -- Richard Stammers, Anders Langlands, Chris Lawrence and Steven Warner
The Revenant -- Rich McBride, Matthew Shumway, Jason Smith and Cameron Waldbauer
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Neal Scanlan and Chris Corbould

Achievement in film editing
The Big Short -- Hank Corwin
Mad Max: Fury Road -- Margaret Sixel
The Revenant -- Stephen Mirrione
Spotlight -- Tom McArdle
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- Maryann Brandon and Mary Jo Markey

Best foreign language film of the year
Embrace of the Serpent - Colombia
Mustang - France
Son of Saul - Hungary
Theeb - Jordan
A War - Denmark

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
Bridge of Spies -- Thomas Newman
Carol -- Carter Burwell
The Hateful Eight -- Ennio Morricone
Sicario -- Jóhann Jóhannsson
Star Wars: The Force Awakens -- John Williams

Original screenplay
Bridge of Spies -- Written by Matt Charman and Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Ex Machina -- Written by Alex Garland Inside Out Screenplay by Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve, Josh Cooley; Original story by Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen
Spotlight -- Written by Josh Singer & Tom McCarthy
Straight Outta Compton -- Screenplay by Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff; Story by S. Leigh Savidge & Alan Wenkus and Andrea Berloff

Al Jazeera America shutting Down

Medialine News 

       The Cable news channel , Al Jazeera America,announced Wednesday that  it will be shutting down on April 30th.  After almost 2 1/2 years and 3 years after the big announcement that they were buying Current TV from Al Gore.

   The reasoning per Al Jazeera America's website:

        Al Jazeera America will shutter its cable TV and digital operations by April 30 of this year, the company announced Wednesday. The decision by the AJAM board was “driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace,” said AJAM CEO Al Anstey.

   The Network attracted alot of journalists to join it  such as John Seigenthaler (former NBC News anchor) , Ali Velshi (former CNN) , and others , but it's ratings were never as strong  as it's competitors.  It also had problems with carriers at the very start and recently a controversy over a report about  sports players alleged doping, which they defended as accurate.    The Company says they will expand digital operations in the U.S .  It is unknown what happens to the channel space: if it is removed all together, sold  One  America News seems to want it , or Al Jazerra English takes it's place.

2016 Golden Globes winners list

Golden Globes 

  The Winners have been announced  , they are highlighted in gold and Italicized 

Best Motion Picture -- Drama
"Carol"
"Mad Max: Fury Road"
"The Revenant""Room""Spotlight"

Best Motion Picture -- Musical or Comedy
"The Big Short"
"Joy"
"The Martian"
"Spy"
"Trainwreck"

Best Actor -- Motion Picture, Drama
Bryan Cranston, "Trumbo"
Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Revenant"
Michael Fassbender, "Steve Jobs"
Eddie Redmayne, "The Danish Girl"
Will Smith, "Concussion"

Best Actor -- Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Christian Bale, "The Big Short"
Steve Carell, "The Big Short"
Matt Damon, "The Martian"
Al Pacino, "Danny Collins"
Mark Ruffalo, "Infinitely Polar Bear"

Best Actress -- Motion Picture, Drama
Cate Blanchett, "Carol"
Brie Larson, "Room"
Rooney Mara, "Carol"
Saoirse Ronan, "Brooklyn"
Alicia Vikander, "The Danish Girl"

Best Actress -- Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Jennifer Lawrence, "Joy"
Melissa McCarthy, "Spy"
Amy Schumer, "Trainwreck"
Maggie Smith, "The Lady in the Van"
Lily Tomlin, "Grandma"

Best Supporting Actor
Paul Dano, "Love & Mercy"
Idris Elba, "Beasts of No Nation"
Mark Rylance, "Bridge of Spies"
Michael Shannon, "99 Homes"
Sylvester Stallone, "Creed"

Best Supporting Actress
Jane Fonda, "Youth"
Jennifer Jason Leigh, "The Hateful Eight"
Helen Mirren, "Trumbo"
Kate Winslet, "Steve Jobs"
Alicia Vikander, "Ex Machina"

Best Director
Todd Haynes, "Carol"
Alejandro González Iñárritu, "The Revenant"
Tom McCarthy, "Spotlight"
George Miller, "Mad Max: Fury Road"
Ridley Scott, "The Martian"

Best Screenplay
Emma Donoghue, "Room"
Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, "Spotlight"
Charles Randolph and Adam McKay, "The Big Short"
Aaron Sorkin, "Steve Jobs"
Quentin Tarantino, "The Hateful Eight"

Best Original Score
Carter Burwell, "Carol"
Alexandre Desplat, "The Danish Girl"
Ennio Morricone, "The Hateful Eight"
Daniel Pemberton, "Steve Jobs"
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto, "The Revenant"

Best Original Song
"Love Me Like You Do" (from "50 Shades of Grey")
"One Kind of Love" (from "Love & Mercy")
"See You Again" (from "Furious 7")
"Simple Song #3" (from "Youth")
"Writing's on the Wall" (from "Spectre")

Best Foreign Language Film
"The Brand New Testament"
"The Club"
"The Fencer"
"Mustang"
"Son of Saul"

Best Animated Feature Film
"Anomalisa"
"The Good Dinosaur"
"Inside Out"
"The Peanuts Movie"
"Shaun the Sheep Movie"

 TV stuff  after the Jump 

The Lookback: The Charlie Brown Lookback : It's the Girl in the Red Truck

Peanuts the  Lookback 
                                          

    Happy New Year, and welcome back to our Charlie Brown specials Lookbacks  this is our 12th installment. "It's the Girl in the Red  Truck , Charlie Brown"  It's the 32nd special related to the Peanuts specials   it aired on CBS on September 27 , 1988.
       The first noticeable difference to this special is that you see a live action desert and  a live-action pick up truck .
                                                       

                                            Did we pick up the wrong special ?/ copyright Peanuts
          Then we see Spike , Snoopy's brother, and this will be about him  he is not a live-action dog it's back to cartoon world for this. Spike  lives inside a live-action catcus. ( words we never thought would be uttered in the English language)  and that brings us back to the live-action world.   This was all before the name of the special was introduced.   With Charlie Brown and Snoopy (ok so we will see them then?)  Back in Charlie Brown land , Snoopy gets a letter from his brother Spike.  Where Spike writes what he does on his days like take a long desert walk,  Spike, also learns French daily by cassette (aww the 80's).  One day , the highlight of this day was he waved at a girl driving  a red truck and she waved back. (awww middle school)  He sets alarm for early to make sure he can see her again.    Her truck brakes down in front of  Spike and the French tape very conveniently asks the right questions.  She talks to Spikes , fixes her truck and asks Spike if he would like to come with her.
                                                         

                                                   Comes fully loaded with cartoon seat belts / copyright peanuts

  She takes  Spike to a restaurant   that Spike apparently is the best customer at the restaurant (Snoopy has an interesting family) says the owner, Molly.   Also the girl's name is Jenny and she wants to be  a  jazz dancer , she is an aerobics instructor.   They go to her place ,when her boyfriend , Jeff, comes over, he sees Spike and thinks he's a wild animal. (unphased by the cartoon thing though, and very causal if a wild animal is around you)  Jeff tells Jenny that he set up a Jazz dance audition in a movie. for her , but it clashes with her aerobics teaching this upsets Jenny.  She says she not ready to leave everyone she teaches  and the area itself.  Jeff talks with Spike (honestly, they need these folks to keep some sound , since Spike doesn't talk)
                                                   

       
                                         Sitting on the dock of the bay/ copryight peanuts

more after the jump

The Lookback : Nickmas and Disney's One Saturday Christmas :Doug

The  Lookback 

   To keep our ratings ummmm we have ratings? This time we look at Doug (if your name is Doug we aren't looking at you , don't worry). Our title gives away a clue but we'll get to that later. Let's star.
"Doug's Christmas Story" is  a season 4 episode of Nickeloden's  series Doug and honestly , it's  a very unorthodox Christmas episode.
  Doug  starts with telling us that something bad happened starting two days before Christmas. The other kids are playing on a frozen over pond when the ice starts to crack as thin ice does. Doug's dog ,Pork Chop, sees Bebe Bluff about to go near where the nice is cracking and he tries to stop her but it doesn't work and continues on when  he bites her leg to move her away. But instead of being hailed hero dog  , Pork Chop is accused of attacking Bebe . Even Doug  keeps with the accusation.
                                                              
                                          "Bad dog!, get into your ...igloo?, what?". copyright Viacom
        Porkchop tries telling Doug that it's not what it seems (the dog doesn't talk ... he more mimes it ... cartoon logic) but for now that doesn't work.   The former mayor (this show really does hold continuity well) is hosting  a radio show when he gets a caller who talks about the girl that got attacked. (This is before the internet messed up lives...radio did)   Doug comes back home and notices a circus of media and cops at his house.

                                                          
           We are tough on crime in this town, we arrested 8 1st graders yesterday and a hamster/ copyright Viacom 
  Just like a real life politician the former mayor is also their trying to score some publicity points (or a jerk) and having the dog put away for good.   Meanwhile Mr.Bluff, BeBe's dad, is pressing charges against Porkchop . (What the heck ...what kind of town is this ... I am not paying taxes in Bluffington ...nevermind)  Doug tires a petition to help save his dog  , and besides the current Mayor's husband (she's away) signs it and everyone else chooses not to because it's a town full of jerks.  Doug decides to see Bebe  who is in the hospital ,but her father is un reasonable. (and apparently hates dogs for not having money or knowing what money is )
            For Chirstmas eve , there will be a trial , (they took the whole ..right to a speedy trial literally) Porkchop tries again to  explain to Doug what really happened.   Bebe is hauled into the courtroom in   a wheel chair ,  Doug stands up for his dog  (silly Doug wants to do things the right way) .  At the lake Porkchop starts getting relied up when Bebe this time falls into the ice  and Porkchop leaps to save her.

                                                      
                              The media is fickle , copyright Viacom
     Pork Chop is acquitted and the next day the townspeople come over and apologized (as they should)  including the Bluffs.
  That's the episode  anyway it's umm the strangest thing ever ...it's more the episode itself took place at Christmas but Christmas is really not the full theme of the episode which is interesitng to say the least.
   Tune in next  time when... (ppsst whisper whisper) oh yeah that oh well ready for more?  Join me after the Jump.

METV announces their Winter schedule

Classics

 
   Last week , we had the Antenna TV schedule , winter schedule now METV has as well. If you missed Patty Duke from Antenna TV the show will now air on METV weekday mornings at 6amet/5c  and this show hasn't been on TV in a while  "Mama's Family" comes to weeknights at 6pm/5c.
   
     Weekdays   all times ET/PT
5:00am  Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C
5;30am  The Donna Reed Show
6am  The Patty Duke Show (new to line up)
6:30am  I Love Lucy
7amet      The Brady Bunch
7:30am  Petticoat Junction
8amet     The Beverly Hillbillies
8:30am  The Beverly  Hillbillies
9am    Perry Mason
10am    Matlock
11am   Qunicy, M.E
12PM   The Rockford Files
1PM   Gunsmoke
2PM   Bonzana
3PM   The Rifleman
3:30   The Rifleman
4pm    Emergency!
5pm    CHIPs   (replaces Emergency!)
6pm  Mama's Family
6:30pm Mama's Family (new to line up)
7PM   M*A*S*H
7:30PM  M*A*S*H
8PM    The Andy Griffith Show /Gilligan's Island (in areas where other station has rights to Andy)
8:30pm  The Andy Griffith Show
9PM   Happy Days
9:30   Laverne and Shirley
10pm   Hogan's Heroes
10:30pm  Hogan's Heros
11p  Carol Burnett and Friends
11:30pm Perry Mason
12:30am  Mystery Movie (new)
2:30am  Night Gallery
3am  The Alfred Hitchock Hour
4am  Thriller

Weekends after the jump

Antenna TV releases winter 2016 schedule

Antenna TV   Classics 

   Antenna TV has announced their winter schedule . Of note they have added reruns of the Tonight Show Starting Johnny Carson  full episodes, not the  highlights or best of.   That will air in late night at 11pmet  and  also at 2amet and weekends  10pmet and 1:30amet.  Other  shows being added are  : "Mork and Mindy" , "Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996) ,Dear  John , which gets a late night slot and Sundays . It starts January 1st  Full line up below:

Weekdays  all times ET
5AMET  Burns and Allen Show
5:30amet  Burns and Allen Show
6AMET  McHale's Navy (replaces  The Jack Benny Program)
6:30AMET   McHale's Navy (replaces  The Jack Benny Program)
7AMET  Mister ED
7:30amet  Mister ED
8amet   Father Knows Best
8:30amet Father Knows Best
9amet  Hazel
9;30amet Hazel
10amet  Dennis the Menace
10:30amet Dennis the Menace
11amet  Leave it To Beaver
11:30am Leave it To Beaver
12pmet   Bewitched
12:30pmet  Bewitched
1pmet    I Dream of Jeannie
1:30pmet  I Dream of Jeannie
2PMET  Green Acres
2:30pm Green Acres
3pmet   Three's Company
3:30pmet  Three's  Company
4pmet    One Day at a Time  (replaces  Mr.Belvedere )
4:30PM  One Day at A Time  (replaces Mr.Belvedre)
5PMET  Mork and Mindy (replaces Too Close for Comfort)
5:30pmet  Mork and Mindy (replaces Too Close for Comfort)
6pmet    Sanford and Son
6:30pmet  Sanford and Son
7pmet   Good Times
7:30pmet Good Times
8PMET   The Jeffersons
8:30pmet The Jeffersons
9pmet   All in The Family
9:30pmet All in The Family
10pmet   Family Ties
10:30pmet  Family Ties
11pmet  Johnny Carson 80's/90's  (replaces  One Day at A Time , which moved to 4et)
12amet  Barney Miller
12:30amet Barney Miller
1amet  Newhart
1:30amet Newhart
2amet  Johnny Carson  80's /90's  (replaces  Doogie Howser M.D)
3amet   Three's Company
3:30am Three's Company
4amet  Dear John (replaces Maude)
4:30am  Dear John (replaces Maude)

weekends after the Jump

The Christmas Lookback: A Chipmunk Christmas

Christmas  The Flashback 

   Today's  post must be read in a high pitched squeaky voice... ok we are a kidding (maybe)  we are doing a lookback at A Chipmunk Christmas . It first appeared on NBC , who also aired the 80's Saturday Morning cartoon (which we looked at before ) , actually this came out less than 2 years before the series started.  It was created by Ross Bagdasarian JR, the son of the creator of the Chimpunks.   Also animated by Chuck Jones.
        The special starts with a sick child named Tommy (who has  unnamed cartoon sickness ) where the doctor says the outlook is not good. Then it goes over to the Chipmunks (wait, do we capitalize them or not ? darn it )  where they are singing "It's beginning to Look A Lot like  Christmas".

 "Not sure you did that right, Dave"

      Alvin doesn't like the idea of having to work on Christmas (Dave was latter visited by 3 ghosts that night)  , but he is easily bribed by getting to play is harmonica. (Darn Union rules)  The Chipmunks (really is this capitalized or not?)  go window shopping . Alvin shows his harmonica another harmonica. (what?)  This is what connects  that boy who was introduced in the beginning to the Chipmunks. (capt... never mind)  When Alvin overhears the boy's sister talking about how much Tommy really wants that harmonica. He also overhears the mother saying that Tommy is very very sick.  Alvin follows to the two just in case he hears anymore , I guess. 

          

The kid seems to be an Alvin Fan. where are the Simon fans? / Copyright  

    Alvin  visits Tommy (that's why he kept following the mother and sister to see where they lived.. that makes sense in context)  and gives him his harmonica.  Now a Chipmunks Christmas song break. (Otherwise this wouldn't be a Chipmunks special)  Alvin says he has to save his money to get a new harmonica after Christmas.  But then fate takes over (or mean writers)  and Dave announces that they get to play for a sold-out audience at Carnegie Hall on Christmas Eve. (That doesn't sound so bad) They want Alvin to do a harmonica solo.  Alvin then decides he has to make money quick  to buy a new one. 

 Have your picture taken for 25 cents what a deal!/ Copyright 

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