regarding recording television

Whadya’ think Gubes?

I still haven’t finished going through the program guide for this week, but I want to quickly mention that next Sunday morning at 11am you should direct your recording to AMC. They’ve got a show called SUNDAY MORNING SHOOTOUT hosted by producer Peter Guber and Variety Editor Peter Bart. I guess it’s been running for a few months now. I watched the show for the first time today and found it to be perfectly middle-of-the-road veering toward interesting. It only runs thirty minutes and that doesn’t allow for the development of super in-depth conversations, which is too bad because Guber and Bart could have a lot to say. They touch on various filmmaking issues for the first third of the show. That’s followed by an interview segment and the show closes with discussion about a particular film that was released during the previous few weeks.

Of course, one of the reasons to check out this show is to take a look at the set. It looks like it was pulled from some quickly cancelled early 90’s Canadian teen drama (with a touch of 90’s soccer mom Barnes and Noble thrown in for highbrow measure). The whole show is set in a café, with Guber and Bart sitting at a table covered by the Sunday morning newspaper. The background has extras, sipping coffee and presumably talking in hushed voices! It’s very weird and certainly a sight to behold, especially when you see Ben Kingsley, the guest on this recent episode, order a coffee and then join the hosts at their table.

Look for a rerun of this episode Wednesday at 3:40am.

(fyi, credit goes to mitch for reminding me to make sure i paid attention to the set)