Why I watch Ancient Aliens – NBC has been slammed for its New Year’s Eve coverage in New York’s Times Square with angry viewers describing it as a ‘train-wreck’ after the network failed to show the entire countdown and aired Chrissy Teigen talking about vaginal steaming.
Yes, we were stuck at home last night, as friends from previous years were at the US vs Sweden game, so we endured the excreble tube coverage. All of it was awful, on Fox, Ryan Seacrest, and yes, the NBC mess. Tiegen was awful, screeching away, for the little we watched, between her, boring Carson Daly and Leslie Jones (not funny). Yes, she has TDS too.
All the “music” was not NYE material, either slow ballads, bland youth pop, or……Snoop Dogg.???? Ugh………
I actually missed Kathy Griffin, for her ginger crazy nutbar show, trying to goad AC into some hetero action…….
We’re going out next year.
I read This during my egg omelet breakfast, after seeing her in that white face beauty mask, and getting her vagina steamed, what the hell does that have to do with New Years Parties?
Poor person that made that picture and endured the sight and smells.
Anyway….
It could help with your New Year weight loss resolution.
Excuse me, while I go call on ‘MYRTLE’ and ‘BUICK’ to puke again.
And I thought the CNN coverage was lame and insipid; I guess it rose to penultimate!
Yeah, well, we also had to endure the stories of frontline audience members, soaked to the gills (HA), describing how they were wearing diapers so they wouldn’t lose their spot on the frontline………the Stupid was strong there last night!
I like Ancient Aliens — for its unintended campy humour — and go to be early on New Years Eve. Never miss anything on TV on New Year’s Eve. P.s., have a happy 2019 everybody at SDA.
“the network failed to show the entire countdown and aired Chrissy Teigen talking about vaginal steaming.”
Do you smoke after sex?
Watched “Hellfire Heros” through midnight. Apparently didn’t miss anything. Learned my lesson a couple of years ago, we in the central time zone on the local CBC, CTV, and Global channels, had a choice of two 1 hour later repeats from the east, or a movie. All of us “western farmers” are supposed to be in bed long before midnight?
Happy New Year!
Stayed home, watched Netflix. Don’t have cable or even rabbit ears. Broadcast TV? Why would you watch that? It’s horrible.
Really, the holidays have become so relentlessly commercialized that I just don’t participate in them anymore. Its actively abusive, at this point. Due to get worse I’m sure, as retailers try to make up for zero sales all year long with a last rabid scramble at the holidays.
Its not Christmas, its the Festival of Mammon.
Update: On Drudge we see this- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/new-years-eve-tv-ratings-monday-dec-31-2018-1172083
“The primetime portion of ABC’s telecast averaged a 2.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 7.92 million viewers from 8 to 10 p.m. and a 3.5 and 11.47 million from 10 to 11 p.m. For all of primetime, the network is down 30 percent versus New Year’s Eve in 2017 (2.6 versus 3.7) and 25 percent in viewers (9.1 million versus 11.21 million). ”
ABC had the best ratings of the night. You better believe the suits in the corner offices noticed that.
Many years ago, when I was still an active shortwave listener, I liked to tune in to certain stations to hear how they brought in the new year.
For example, the BBC World Service always made a point of broadcasting the chimes of Big Ben at the stroke of midnight Greenwich Mean Time. I also listened to Deutsche Welle on the first New Year celebrations after reunification, and that was quite a party.
For a long time, the former Radio RSA out of Johannesburg (since re-named, I think, Channel Africa) used to have a worldwide call-in show. Listeners were invited to telephone the station from whichever country they were in and share comments and greetings.
One year, the host, who might have been a bit tipsy, brought his dog along and one could hear the critter barking in the background. Another time, the show was hosted by two women and that was hilarious. It was obvious that both of them had sampled a bit too much of the bubbly and they kind of pushed things. I remember one of them propositioned one of the callers, but it was still within the limits of good taste, though barely so.
The South African shows were well before this current age of excruciatingly irritating PC. Grand times, they were…..
There’s a reason New Years Eve is called Amateur Hour. The networks are proving it. Even Fox was unwatchable. I was in bed at 11 pm so I “missed it”.
All the best in 2019 everyone.
People were watching NBC..Why?
What a way to ensure every part of the New Year is better than the end of the old.
I suspect banging your head against the wall for the last minute of 2018 would have been less awful.
Presstitutes gotta do what they trained for.
Anything to keep your attention.
If this keeps up, New Year’s Eve programming will be as popular as the Oscars:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/viewers-slam-nbc-nye-coverage-no-ball-drop-but-trump-hater-chrissy-teigen-discusses-vaginal-steaming-video/
In my opinion, it started going downhill right after Guy Lombardo died. It was a family tradition to watch him and his band performing in New York when the CBC showed it. (Why did we watch it on CBC? Because we could get only one TV channel in town and it was a CBC affiliate, plus we lived in a remote part of B. C. that didn’t have cable back then.)
And then CNN rose to the occasion….
**Anderson Cooper talks about his mom’s sex life, says she “hooked up with” Marlon Brando**
Tell the world more about good ole Mom Anderson.
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1080017267155320839
You people are all LOSERS. You are paying for cable and wasting your time watching it. Your money is supporting this dreck. Hypocrites. let this be a lesson to you all and as a New Year’s resolution, cut the cord and be free!
Thankfully, we were with friends playing Rock Band … and never had the TV switched on to this crap … had to read about it with my morning coffee. Puke. How vile and disgusting. But let me suggest that it is the EXACT narrative NBC wanted – a “female-centric” narrative. Their own SICK version of the vagina monologues. “See men! We’re gonna stick it in the camera and MAKE you look at our cooch!” Gawwd.
Where’s the Vomitorium?
Have no opinion. Have a question.
Why would that be important or upsetting.
jeezuz murphy. try . . . to . . . get . . . . image . . . . . out . . . . . of . . . . .
and I didnt even watch 1 *second* of the ‘ball dropping’ !! is that a metaphor now for what passes, er, *pisses* for telebision?
they couldnt even get the YEAR right in aussieland:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/blunder-sees-wrong-new-years-eve-message-projected-in-sydney-a4027996.html
talk about living in the past !
p.s., when I was a kid, I once plotted a way to cut the guy wires on the local broadcast station, but saw just how secured they were . . .
p.p.s., I do NOT ‘have’ netflix, do not ‘stream’ anything, exclude about 90% of the channels on Shaw (which I subscribe for my tenants)
etc etc
I figure I wasted my quota of telebision in my teens, 20s and 30s or thereabouts.