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Just watched another BBC America show I Love...

I just watched "Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares" on BBC America. Sure he's arrogant and gets in the restaurant owner's face but so what. He's successful as a chef/owner and it makes for great television. I just watched a really great episode about a mother and her two daughters and they all three own and run the restaurant. As usual when Gordon came in the place had it's issues the biggest of which is the mother daughter triad had never defined who's responsible for what management tasks. Suffice it to say he got to the root of the problem. Anyway, it's another fun, informative BBC America show starring successful . Check it out you'll enjoy I'm sure. Happy reading.
I just watched "
Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares" on BBC America. Sure he's arrogant and gets in the restaurant owner's face but so what. He's successful as a chef/owner and it makes for great television. I just watched a really great episode about a mother and her two daughters and they all three own and run the restaurant. As usual when Gordon came in the place had it's issues the biggest of which is the mother daughter triad had never defined who's responsible for what management tasks. Suffice it to say he got to the root of the problem. Anyway, it's another fun, informative BBC America show starring successful . Check it out you'll enjoy I'm sure. Happy reading.


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So I watch all this fantastic programming...

...on a SONY HDTV. We have the 50" SONY SXRD high definition rear projection (not the bulky old style this TV is only 18 inches deep. We purchased it last fall from Amazon.com and they shipped it to our door FREE SHIPPING and their price was incredible. The picture is 1080p, or 1080i the TV switches to whatever setting it reads from the content when you change channels. I really love this HDTV obviously I have a history with SONY TVs, I have owned SONY Trinitrons over the years. Watching native HD programming like the VOOM Network channels or FOOD NETWORK HD the color and detail still stops me in my tracks and I work in Hollywood so I'm used to the best quality audio and video. We're really enjoying having HDTV at home. I dumped our cable company in favor of DISH NETWORK because they have more HD channels than any other provider right now that includes cable tv companies and DirecTV. I love those VOOM Network channels, more on that in a separate post. This signal from DISH NETWORK is so clean and sharp and vibrant compared to the mushy signal from our local cable TV company. Even the standard definition (SD) programming is better from DISH NETWORK and looks amazing on our SONY SXRD HDTV. In a future post I'll tell you about this really cool SONY DVD player I have hooked up to our new HDTV...

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It's Not TV It's HBO...

Well, it's Sunday evening and for me that means curling up on the sofa with my dogs and watching HBO. The new lineup this season includes this compelling, thought provoking show entitled, "John From Cincinnati" by the creator of the now cancelled HBO show, "Deadwood." "John From Cincinnati" is an existential journey through the lens of surfing. The story centers around this southern California dysfunctional family with a surfing legacy that started with the father whose surfing career was ended prematurely due to a surfing accident, his son, Butchie was also a surfing prodigy but now he's a drug addict and Butchie's son, Sean is a child surfing prodigy. Sean ends up getting seriously injured in what should be a fatal surfing accident but...

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