Just as a note to my readers, if you want to head over to my YouTube, I did a livestream yesterday with Alex Howard from the dark Room where we talked for the length of a feature film (or an episode of The Last Nights On Tremore Beach) about the Best Supporting Actress race, and other stuff. We got off track a lot. But, he’s also got a zoom experience where the Dark Room boys are going to be working with a class to give feedback on the audio description they created. So, they’ve got that stuff on their Insta. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/17/24

Congratulations to all the winners last night at the ACB’s Audio Description Awards Gala. Kathy Bates? Wow. That’s super awesome of her. love her. I thought the whole shindig went off without a hitch, and the audio description for the audio descritpion gala was excellent. If there’s an inception version of audio description, this was it. Audio Description describing Audio Description. Where is DiCaprio? Is the top sobbing or not? Questions unanswered. And, kudos to all who won. I never realized I had no idea what Joel Snyder looked like until he was described. it really is the little things … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/14/24

TV Shows Watched: Where’s Wanda?: S1E8 (Apple Plus) with audio description, High Potential: S1E7 (Hulu) no audio description, American Sports Story: S1E10 (Hulu) with audio description, Bad Sisters: S1E5 (Apple Plus) with audio description, and St. Dennis Medical: S1E1 (Peacock) with audio description. podcasts: The Dead Meat Podcast (Review: It’s What’s inside) YouTube: Sydney Vulpe (Review: Gladiator 2) Movies: Emilia Perez (Netflix) no English Audio Description, and larger Than life: Reign of The Boy Bands (Paramount Plus) with audio description There’s a lot to cover today. So, let’s get to it. Kicking it off with at least one elephant in … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/13/24

TV News: R.I.P. FreeVee. Amazon, which now has a tier for its Prime video subscription service that is “with ads”, has put a date of termination on its free streaming service, long ago remembered as IMDB TV. So now your life really will be consumed by Tubi. TV Shows Watched: 911: lone Star: S5E7 (Hulu) no audio description, Whaat We Do in The Shadows: S6E5 (Hulu) with audio description, Papa’s House: S1E4 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Shrinking: S2E5 (Apple Plus) with audio description, The Last Nights On Tremore Beach: S1E6 (Netflix) with audio description, Happy’s Place: S1E4 (Peacock) with … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/12/24

TV News (Kinda): So, this is a whisper out there to HBO/MAX/Warner Bros. Discovery, and that is that giant promo you ran before The Penguin sounded super cool… I don’t know any of it. I have no idea what to be hyped for. In comparison, as this was obviously a huge show for you, and I can’t see the Series Finale of Somebody Somewhere with a teaser like that, Disney Plus also had a big show in Agatha All Along. They did the same thing, which was to run a promo for what was coming in 2025 from Marvel. It … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/11/2024

TV News: A few big drops this week. In the world of film, Deadpool and Wolverine hits Disney plus on Tuesday, the Oscar-bait Amelia Perez hits Netflix on Wednesday, and Twisters lands on Peacock on Friday. in terms of major shows, both the next five episodes of the final season of Cobra Kai (Netflix) and the second season premiere of Silo (Apple plus), drop on Friday, while Amazon tackles James Patterson’s legendary detective in cross, which drops all eight season 1 episodes on Thursday. I believe that show has already been renewed for a second season. TV Shows Watched: Fight … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/10/24

TV Shows Watched: Ghosts: S4E4 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Krapapolis: S2E5 (Hulu) no audio description, Shrinking: S2E4 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Matlock: S1E4 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and The Lincoln Lawyer: S2E3 (Netflix) with audio description Podcasts: none YouTube: Adam Does Movies (Review: heretic), Breakfast All Day (Review: Heretic), Deep Focus Lens (review: Heretic), Luke here field (review: Queer) movies: Doc Of Chucky (AMC Plus/Shudder) No Audio Description First. My only aforementioned film became such because the damn thing was 5 hours long. So, if you were excited for it, it isn’t audio described, and it is … Continue reading the Small Screen Diaries- 11/09/24

TV Shows Watched: Disclaimer: S1E7 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Before: S1E4 (Apple plus) with audio description, Queens court: S1E9 (Peacock) with audio description, 911: S7E? (Hulu) with audio description, the Legend Of Vox Machina: S3E8 (Amazon) with audio description, Are you Smarter Than A celebrity: S1E3 (Amazon) with audio description, and Abbott Elementary: S4E4 (Hulu) with audio description Podcasts: the Dark room. I had no idea that sometimes the writers got incomplete versions of a product. i get the need for security, but what a time crunch to expect someone to then fill in the gaps at the last … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/08/24

TV News: Really, shocking no one, NCIS Origins has been picked up for a full season, joining George and Mandy, and Matlock (which due to its structuring could only get a second season renewal, not an order of more episodes). TV Shows Watched: You Would Do it Too: S1E3 (Apple plus) with audio description, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory: S2E4 (Netflix) with audio description, The Last Nights On Tremore Beach: S1E4 (Netflix) with audio description, Fight Night: S1E1 (Peacock) finally with audio description, Monsters At Work: S2E1 (Disney plus) no audio description, and The Masked Singer: S12E6 (Hulu) no audio description. … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/07/24

TV Shows Watched: Where’s Wanda?: S1E77 (Apple Plus) with audio description, American Sports Story: S1E9 (Hulu) with audio description, Bad Sisters: S1E3 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Lioness: S2E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Colin from Accounts: S2E4 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and Have I got News For You (MAX) no audio description. Podcasts: None. YouTube: I cleared my notifications, so i watched way more reviews than I can remember. I’ll give one shoutout to a channel that does a really solid deep dive, and that is Deep Focus Lens (@deepfocuslens). I love her delivery, and she has a … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/06/24

TV Shows Watched: like Water For Chocolate: S1E1 (MAX) with audio description, 911 Lone Star: S5E6 (Hulu) no audio description, Shrinking: S2E3 (Apple plus) with audio description, papa’s House: S1E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, What We Do In The Shadows: S6E4 (Hulu) with audio description. I always seem to get international traffic. So, let me know why I should live in your country in the comments. Asking for a friend. I suppose I managed to do this today, because I did want my readers to know that there’s an International show on MAX with audio description. this is very … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/06/24

Well, it is the day. It’s that day every year where I think to myself… “Fuck. I forgot to review V For Vendetta, so I could release that on November 5th.” No matter how hard I try, I can never “Remember remember the 5th of November.”, although technically, this column is what I saw the day before, on November 4th, so in could watch it on the 5th, and then tell you about it on the 6th? Why? Is something else happening today? Something more important than Guy Fawkes Day? TV Shows Watched: The Penguin: S1E7 (MAX) with audio description, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/04/24

TV Shows Watched: Daryl Dixon: S2E6 (AMC Plus) no audio description, What We Do In The Shadows: S6E3 (Hulu) audio description, Queens Court: S1E8 (Peacock) audio description, Happy’s Place: S1E3 (Peacock) with audio description, Tulsa King: S2E? (Paramount Plus) with audio description, and Elzabeth (S2E2) with audio description. Podcasts: Americast (Politics) YouTube: Perry Nimarovv (Best Picture Predictions) Movies Watched: Martha (Netflix) with audio description, Music By john Williams (Disney Plus) with audio description My audio description wish, is that before the next season of a Walking Dead show, that AMC Plus realizes how much audio described content they likely already … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/03/24

TV Shows Watched: before: S1E3 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Ghosts: S4E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description, Krapapolis: S2E3 (Hulu) no audio description, Bad Monkey: S1E10 (Apple Plus) with audio description, The Lincoln Lawyer: S3E2 (Netflix) with audio description, and Matlock: S1E3 (Paramount Plus) with audio description. Podcasts: none YouTube: The Oscar Expert (Director and other category predictions), breakfast All Day (Review: Juror No. 2) Movies: Hundreds Of Beavers (FreeVee/Roku/Pluto) no audio description, Harold and the Purple Crayon (Netflix) with audio description there’s a nice little twist at the end of this week’s Before, which is a show I’m very … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries- 11/2/24