Had a very active holiday–Christmas Eve with some friends
Christmas Day–more friends–this time at my house
Day after Christmas–Lunch with a BFF I have known for a hundred years and dropping off some presents
Sunday–A second Christmas Celebrations with Neighbors-Friends and their kids (prior pictures are of their house). Hope you all had as good a holiday as I did.
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Featured Picture(s) of the Day—Sanford Home Tour Entertainers.
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There’s our 2016 WISH LIST:
http://www.eonline.com/ca/news/723325/our-wish-list-revealed-18-things-we-need-to-see-happen-on-tv-in-2016
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Still RAMBLING: Today a look at TV. Who ever called TV a vast waste land was being kind…..Don’t get me wrong. I have it on all the time, but seldom really watch it. Take what I have on now…1991 Time Bomb with Michael Biehn and Patsy Kensit—he of Alien fame, as well as the first Terminator to name a few. It’s been on for 2 hrs, but just catching glimpses between doing blogs, updating face books–I have a business updating people’s face books for small businesses that don’t have the time or skills—-and the other morning stuff I have to do–Anyway I can tell you the plot while I probably only saw 20 min. or less of it…..typical for TV.
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Take for instance a comparison of TV channels:
First Hallmark Channel: http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/schedule is an American cable and satellite television network that is owned by Crown Media Holdings, which is majority owned by Hallmark Cards. The channel’s programming is primarily targeted at families, and features a mix of television movies and miniseries, original and acquired television series, and lifestyle programs. As of February 2015, Hallmark Channel is available to approximately 85,439,000 pay television households (73.4% of households with television) in the United States.
The next movie coming up is: A Bride for Christmas….a man with a way with women bets his friends he can get a girl (their choice) to agree to marry him. The woman they pick is a young lady who’s dumped three previous beaus—the last standing at the altar.
The other station: LMN: http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/lifetime-movie-network (an acronym for its former name Lifetime Movie Network) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by A+E Networks, a joint venture between the Disney–ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation.[2] LMN carries movies and exclusive shows aimed at women, especially made for television movies. Many, though not all, of the movies that air on the network are Lifetime originals that were first shown on the flagship Lifetime channel; in turn, the network also premieres original films that are later broadcast on Lifetime. Other made-for-TV movies shown on LMN originally aired on broadcast networks.As of February 2015, LMN is available to approximately 82,031,000 pay television households (70.5% of households with television) in the United States.
Their movie at 2 pm is Accidental Obsession: A layer unwittingly becomes friends with an unstable woman who has a criminal history.
Now you’d think the programing wouldn’t be too far off—one being from Hallmark , the other from Disney….
One for family and the other for women…
Wrong: Just check out the movies:
The Hallmark one is a light romance on a girl and guy who can’t commit which eventually they do–as Hallmark wants happy endings so you’ll have something to send congratulation cards for. Don’t get me wrong during the holidays especially I watch Hallmark all the time…I love the Happy Ever After attitude and the fact that over 75% (just a guess no firm facts) feature Santa characters that turn out to be the real thing.
On the other hand The Disney owned channel feature appears to b dark and what would appear to be foreboding of no good coming of the situation. I also watch LMC, but not as often, I find the lack of positive plots from time to time and the twists to not only cheating but homicidal friends, bosses, husbands and lovers to get a bit too much a lot of the time. I do watch the Nora Roberts’ features which seems (but maybe it’s just me) a little bit more socially redeeming.
While Hallmark is said to be family orientated the fare (w/rare exceptions) is romantic and would seem to tend to be female orientated. There is no sexual references, kisses are never deep or lasting. Couples get married and as some characters have children we must presume that something happened some time or that there’s a lot of adoptions being negotiated.
On the other hand the LMC deals with sex, rape and all manner of items from today’s headlines.
Let’s look at the 8 m prime time offerings on both channels tonight:
Hallmark: CHRISTMAS LAND: (2015) After inheriting a Christmas tree farm, a woman’s plans to sell it changes when she falls in love with the townspeople and meets a charming lawyer named Tucker. Romance
LMC: COURAGE (2009) Premier, a writer and his family struggle to survive when their boat crashes during a storm. Suspense.
So this the general concept—While Hallmark says family their offerings are more Harlequin-type romances, while LMC ranges along the drama, suspense and the like.
Reality TV on Hallmark (I will not start raving on that, I promise) is: “Home & Family” — an original, two-hour lifestyle show that has appeared on Hallmark Channel on weekday mornings since October 2013, hosted by Cristina Ferrare and Mark Steines .Their regular original programing (they also re-run multiple other series):
When Calls the Heart
Last Man Standing
Starring Tim Allen & Nancy Travis
Good Witch
Starring Catherine Bell
When it comes to reality (and I don’t believe I’m saying this) LMC seems to have something promising: a new show called “Word of Mouth” on LMC-TV hopes to provide viewers with commentary on arts, literature and movies from the local artists, musicians and authors that have a passion for them.
and while that seems promising their on going series is just more of the negative.
So there you are; two cable stations with a distinct leaning towards women but with a very distinctive lean in the opposite directions.
Hallmark going for sweet, unrealistic romance with happy endings and real Santas etc. that lends on to think FAIRY TALES.
LMC on the other hand dipping deeply into the dark and evil side of life that we may well think of Medieval Morality Plays
And I’m not saying that I haven watched both of the channels and enjoyed the programing. Neither am I saying that they are bad. What I’m saying is that as a woman I would like to think that someone could find something better that would actually be a better reflection on woman’s interests and less superficiality–but it’s TV— what was I thinking??????
The rest of the pictures are from Clermont’s Historical Village
