"Mister Owl" or "Meneer De Uil" without SuperB reading from his 'Little Fables Paper".

The legendary Owl and his Troupe sending Dutch kids to bed in the 60's till 80's.
( Yes, Sesame Street was the other).

Phrases and names of characters are still used in conversations in The Netherlands.
Mister Owl always ending with "Close your eyes and beaks ¨.
{ Some here on Mastodon are maybe still before midnight while posting this 🙂 )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabeltjeskrant

#owl #fabeltjeskrant #TV #Netherlands

"Mister Owl" or "Meneer De Uil" without SuperB reading from his 'Little Fables Paper".

The legendary Owl and his Troupe sending Dutch kids to bed in the 60's till 80's.
( Yes, Sesame Street was the other).

Phrases and names of characters are still used in conversations in The Netherlands.
Mister Owl always ending with "Close your eyes and beaks ¨.
{ Some here on Mastodon are maybe still before midnight while posting this 🙂 )

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabeltjeskrant

#owl #fabeltjeskrant #TV #Netherlands

RE: https://mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/116031926464919934

saw on CBC (Canada) and RTVE (Spain) similar clips to the one NBC showed here in USA, and the NBC one DOES NOT feature the boos. the oligarchy are absolutely manufacturing an alternate reality.

#tv #media #fascism #WinterOlympics #Milano2026

Wow. Ep 5 of Starfleet Academy is by far my favorite. Should I be shocked it was the first with Tawny Newsome on the written by?

The characters feel more grounded. Dialog is funny, revealing, and urgent. SAM is not my fav character but this is the first time a focus on a single character works for me.

This ep seems to have twice as much character development as other episodes.

More of this!

#startrek #tv

uh-oh… i have columbused Top Of The Pops.

grew up religiously watching Soul Train every Saturday, so am sitting here fascinated. this is such a different aesthetics and mood.

#music #tv #uk

RE: https://mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/116031926464919934

saw on CBC (Canada) and RTVE (Spain) similar clips to the one NBC showed here in USA, and the NBC one DOES NOT feature the boos. the oligarchy are absolutely manufacturing an alternate reality.

#tv #media #fascism #WinterOlympics #Milano2026

#QuestionOfTheDay you can re-experience a piece of media all over again as if you've never read/watched/etc it before, like you get to experience it for the first time again, what do you choose?

#fiction #comics #comicbooks #videogames #gaming #musicals #music #ttrpg #CCGs #books #TV #television #movies #film #manga #anime #poetry

#QuestionOfTheDay What's something (a trope, plot point, character type, twist, technology, magic, decision, conceit of the genre/world, whatever) in fiction that you just can't buy.

i.e. you get that it's fiction, & that it's a thing that happens, or that in the fictional world it's accepted, justified, or explained, or fans love it, etc. It's not that you don't understand it, it's just that you don't buy it, it doesn't work for you, you just can't accept it or take it seriously, etc...

This is a judgement free zone (at least from my end) so if you're like "when space magic shows up I can't take it seriously" or "ppl being able to fly makes no sense to me" etc that's totally fine.

#fiction #Television #TV #manga #anime #film #movies #books #CCGs #ttrpg #videogames #comics #comicbooks

I've been around Star Trek long enough to know that every new iteration gets a lot of hate. Starfleet Academy is no different, unfortunately.

For me, so far I've enjoyed it ... mostly. I did not care for episodes 3 and 4, 1 and 2 were good, but as a huge fan of DS9, I loved episode 5. I can tell that Tawny Newsome co-wrote it.

There were other bits to it too, but I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't watched it. (The DS9 bit is not a spoiler.)

#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #TV #SciFi

I've been around Star Trek long enough to know that every new iteration gets a lot of hate. Starfleet Academy is no different, unfortunately.

For me, so far I've enjoyed it ... mostly. I did not care for episodes 3 and 4, 1 and 2 were good, but as a huge fan of DS9, I loved episode 5. I can tell that Tawny Newsome co-wrote it.

There were other bits to it too, but I don't want to spoil it for those who haven't watched it. (The DS9 bit is not a spoiler.)

#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy #TV #SciFi

The printing press was invented in 1440 and freed humanity from intellectual enslavement.

500 years later #TV was invented and we obligingly refastened shackles.

They won’t come off again until we stop consuming the #billionaire priest’s #propaganda.

Here, on #mastodon, in the #fediverse, we begin the #revolution.

The printing press was invented in 1440 and freed humanity from intellectual enslavement.

500 years later #TV was invented and we obligingly refastened shackles.

They won’t come off again until we stop consuming the #billionaire priest’s #propaganda.

Here, on #mastodon, in the #fediverse, we begin the #revolution.

I just stumbled on an intriguing UK doco from 2016 about AI, hosted by Gemma Chan, who at the time was playing an android (or "synth") called Mia on the Britain version of Humans;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfIRktTGKdU

It opens with the usual 'saviour of humanity or harbinger of destruction' false dichotomy, which has been the dominant way of thinking about AI for decades. But the creation of the "Gemmabot" is a fun gimmick;

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/scientists-have-built-a-real-life-gemma-chan-robot-for-a-new-channel-4-ai-documentary/

#AI #documentary #GemmaChan #TV #Humans

#QuestionOfTheDay you can re-experience a piece of media all over again as if you've never read/watched/etc it before, like you get to experience it for the first time again, what do you choose?

#fiction #comics #comicbooks #videogames #gaming #musicals #music #ttrpg #CCGs #books #TV #television #movies #film #manga #anime #poetry

We've been rewatching The Secret Life of Us on ABC iView; what a great show that was. Still holds up well, though we've been jokingly talking about creating a Bingo card for elements that tell you it's set in 2001 - Nokia phones, answering machines, cheques, etc.

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/why-the-secret-life-of-us-is-still-winning-new-fans-25-years-on-20251230-p5nqox.html

#TV

Voice assistants ought to be like Orac from Blake's 7; rude but helpful, mostly harmless. LLM chatbots with text-to-speech-to-text are exactly the opposite; polite but unreliable, and often harmful.

#MOLE #AI #TV #SciFi #Blakes7 #Orac