TV

DownCity Cameo In Lame New TV Show

There is really no reason to spend your life watching the pilot of New Girl, but if you did so, you may have noticed the intersection of Pine St and Peck St in an irrelevant, split-second shot. Check out the “Downtown Providence” street sign that looks like a Mondrian painting.

A Whole Bunch of Swedish People Pray For The Thunder And The Rain To Quietly Pass Them By

[youtube]GaSjnlCAWX4[/youtube] I don’t know how many of you remember the four-episode program Clash of the Choirs, where a bunch of pop stars went back to their hometowns to assemble choirs and then competed to see who was the best.  Anyway, it didn’t last very long, but the Swedish incarnation of the show, Körslaget, is already …

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Hillary Clinton on Indonesian TV

[youtube]PgAjAY6ERiI[/youtube] Maybe I’ve been watching too much of the horrendous/wonderful crime drama Lie To Me*, but watching dreamy Tim Roth use the facial expressions of politicians in order to catch criminals is maybe what made me so enamored with this, a Clinton appearance on what seems to be an Indonesian variety show for teens.  Without …

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Xpose Takes You To The Point Of No Return (Ah Ah Ah)

[youtube]GYGfSWHDdZs[/youtube] Tonight at 8, CoxSports is premiering Xposé, an eight-part documentary series focusing on a variety of people that could probably all beat me up should they ever feel like it.  Each episode focuses on a different local group: the Providence Roller Derby, the Newport Gulls baseball team, mixed martial artists, URI football coach Darren …

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Brotherhood either will, or will not, remain on air

For some reason filed away as a letter to the editor: Reports of the demise of Brotherhood, the Showtime series shot entirely in Rhode Island, are, at best, premature, according to the cable channel. On Monday, the Boston Herald reported in The Inside Track, a gossip column, that the show, now in its third season, …

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