Well, it looks like my thoughts about Netflix just been improved (had some hard feelings with slow shipments and losing a week worth of service a while back: http://reflectedthought.com/RandomThoughts/archive/2008/08/18/Netflix-I-am-not-so-happy-anymore.aspx ). Netflix has made a deal with Starz! for 2,500 movies to be listed under their “Watch Instantly” streaming video on demand system.  While Netflix had 12,000 titles listed in the “Watch Instantly” section, much of them were older shows or really, really lame shows.  With this deal, Netflix has 1,000 of these new titles available now and the other 1,500 are supposed to be added soon.  Also, was...

Who said Hollywood does not have new ideas?  Oh, I guess they don’t or we are heading for a time warp.  Ghostbusters may be coming to a theater near your over the next couple of years. Back in 1984, you were hard pressed to find people that did not know the theme song to Ghostbusters and most of the youth had seen the movie.  If that where not enough, there was a video game put out for the Commodore 64 computer (yeah, those nice little machines you hooked up to your TVs ;) ).  ...

Priorities have taken over.  I have kept up with both of these, but those two hours have been dropped from my schedule!     

Well, this week we eliminated two more shows to watch. Ugly Betty: We have watched this show and some of the characters have grown on us although the show itself is a bit lame.  Still, we have followed the story until this week when one of the male characters that acted a bit feminine was validated as being homosexual.  The other story line about a mysterious woman who appeared to be recovering from plastic surgery, was shown to actually be the main character's dead brother who has had a drastic sex change (supposedly the only thing left unchanged is the eyes as...

This year, we have TiVo’ed most of the new TV pilots, trying to not miss any.  Quite a few new shows aired this fall so far, and already, there are a few hitting the road. The first show to get the boot is “Smith” where Ray Liotta and his crew are not to smart thieves.  The show was not too hot, it was better than some of the stupid evening shows, but not near the level of Invasion or Surface from last year which the cancelled. In addition to “Smith”, it looks like “Kidnapped” (good cast, bad story) and “Happy Hour” (good...

It was sad news to hear NBC is cutting “Three Wishes“ from thier lineup!  We finally had a reality show with a heart! We TiVo'ed every episode (as we do for CSI and Surface) because we did not want to miss one.  Now NBC is talking off something like “Three Wishes“ and giving the public a garbage show like “The book of Daniel“..  If it was not for CSI and Surface, NBC would never even be on in this household! I was surprised to find out that ABC's Night Stalker remake series was has already been cancelled.  It was even more surprising since...

I was a greatly disappointed in this new series.  The story started out pretty good but then fell into the same old "series" story line of trying to track down people.  Very similar to the Sci-Fi   series "The 4400", which had a strong start but by the time the premiere was over, it ended up just like all the others, the same old hunt and run story line. All this reminds me of the old Doris Day movie "The thrill of it all".  The company she worked with to promote their products produced a weekly TV show.  It appears that the...