This was a great example of why I love being able to program my DVR from afar. I'm visiting my mother this weekend. No problem with the last minute announcement. The show will be waiting for me when I get home.
Sent from my iPad > On Apr 24, 2016, at 10:12 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > To be fair, while the After-Party performance may not have been Prince at his > best, what makes it cool is the context, and people like Fallon, Rock and, at > one point, JZ hopping up on stage to sing back-ups. It is amazingly cool in > the way it might be if Prince suddenly appeared on stage to jam at your > friend's wedding or bar mitzvah party. > > I guess it is too easy to add that SNL has long been 60 minutes of content > poured into a 90 minute slot (at its best), so I don't think that is too > negative a review of last night's Prince Tribute show. I was glad to see all > the performances, and I have always loved "The Prince Show" sketches, so I > was happy to see them too. I was glad too that my DVR somehow tagged it as a > new episode rather than a re-run and recorded it so I could watch it this > morning. > > I am sure Fallon made sense to host it, with his SNL and music connections, > and to cross promote for this Tonight Show, but man, he still so does not do > it for me. He is nice enough, and I am sure sincere, but I just find him so > inarticulate, superficial, and cloying. > > >> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:13 AM, JW <[email protected]> wrote: >> > “The Prince Show,” with co-host Beyoncé – for example: >> >> The SNL tribute was a classic example of fitting 60 minutes of content into >> a 90-minute program. It's not a spoiler to point out that the last half-hour >> or so was several episodes of "The Prince Show", when one would have been >> more than sufficient. And, no, there's no last musical performance as a >> reward for sticking around. >> >> They did include the SNL 40 afterparty performance, after host Jimmy Fallon >> meandered his way through a long setup. >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
