Podcast appearances and mentions of brian lowry

Here's another podcast we think you'll like. It's called "Wisdom and Practice" and it's hosted by one of Brian Lowry's guests this season, Simran Jeet Singh. Wisdom & Practice uncovers what insights we can gain from our ancient and modern traditions. Simran explores the different means of practice his guests have taken to discover new awareness of themselves, and how we can all cultivate more meaning, purpose and growth in our everyday lives.This episode of Wisdom and Practice features Katherine May, author of "Enchantment" and host of "How We Live Now". She and Simran discuss the loss of our sense of play, the power of attention, and how we can reconnect with a sense of wonder. You can find out more about "Wisdom and Practice" at Simran's website - simranjeetsingh.org - and subscribe to the show on all your favorite podcast platforms. Hope you enjoy!

Politico's executive editor Dafna Linzer discusses the decision to publish the Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade. Plus, interviews with Montse Alvarado, a host on the Catholic TV network EWTN, and Kate Smith, a former CBS reporter who now works at Planned Parenthood. Also: Some of the week's top media stories with Elahe Izadi, Brian Lowry, Eric Deggans, and David French. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for March 22, 2022 is: henchman • HENCH-mun • noun A henchman is a trusted follower who may perform unpleasant, wrong, or illegal tasks for a powerful person (such as a politician or criminal). // The play opens with the main character, a gangster, onstage surrounded by his henchmen. See the entry > Examples: "However resourceful Batman is, Riddler actually drives the story…. As clues pile up, more and more of Gotham's power players get drawn into that web, with the Penguin (an unrecognizable Colin Farrell), the top henchman to mob boss Falcone (John Turturro), adding to the Rogues Gallery of villains." — Brian Lowry, CNN, 28 Feb, 2022 Did you know? The earliest known examples of henchman show it being used as a term for a squire or a page, but the word may have seen earlier use with the meaning "groom." It first appeared in Middle English and is a combination of Old English hengest ("a male horse") and man. One of the duties of a groom, squire, or page to a person of high rank was tending horses, and such a person was relied upon, which influenced the broader senses of henchman including "right-hand man."

Previously on I Want To Rewatch: An X-Files Podcast... Mulder orders an alien autopsy tape from a magazine (as one would do in the '90s), and after viewing it thinks he's found real footage of an alien autopsy. But as he and Scully try to learn more about the tape's origins, they find themselves uncovering a conspiracy... of alien abduction and recovered UFOs... or is it something even more sinister? Emphasizing that “it *might* be aliens…” feels really apt here. Originally recorded on 16 October 2021. Originally released on 05 November 2021. References: Trust No One: The Official Third Season Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry “731” — X-Files Wiki | Fandom Music: “Dark Science” by David Hilowitz “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians You can find links for everything I Want To Rewatch related here! https://linktr.ee/iwtrw

Does fall TV "premiere week" still exist and if so, how much does it matter? Are the streaming services squeezing out old-school outlets and are the broadcast networks merely "managing decline?" Brian Stelter talks with two of CNN's entertainment experts: reporter Sandra Gonzalez and critic Brian Lowry. Gonzalez describes what she calls the "This is Us" test. Plus, a preview of Sunday's Emmy Awards! To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

What's this? What's this? There's pustules everywhere! Mulder and Scully are brought in on a manhunt for escaped convicts, but once they arrive, they learn there's some kind of viral outbreak at the prison - and the escaped men may be infected and spreading the contagion. Mulder works with the marshals to track the men down, while Scully tries to determine the nature of the outbreak. It's probably just the flu... (Episode originally recorded: 10 July 2021) References: The Complete X-Files: Revised and Updated Edition by Matt Hurwitz & Chris Knowles The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Brian Lowry wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman Music: “Dark Science” by David Hilowitz “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians You can find links to all our episodes, ways to subscribe, social media, and more here! https://linktr.ee/iwtrw --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sadly, Killer Croc, he was not. After “The Alligator Man” in a sideshow is murdered, Mulder thinks his death is one in a long line of serial killings. He and Scully head to a small town in Florida inhabited by sideshow performers to see if they can find the killer. But when they arrive, Mulder's prime suspect turns out to be the Fiji Mermaid, a hoax creature that never existed. Unless… Bah… Humbug! (Episode originally recorded: 19 June 2021) References: Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen & Emily Todd Vanderwerf The Complete X-Files: Revised and Updated Edition by Matt Hurwitz & Chris Knowles The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to The X-Files by Brian Lowry wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman Music: “Dark Science” by David Hilowitz “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians You can find links to all our episodes, ways to subscribe, social media, and more here! https://linktr.ee/iwtrw --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Writer/director/producer Travis Andrade chats about his current live-action film WESLEY, which is currently screening at the Beverly Hills Film Festival (www.beverlyhillsfilmfestival.com);  Patricia DiSalvo Viayra and Mike Viayra, founders of the Lady Filmmaker Film Festival, chat about the launch of the new streaming channel Film Festival Flix, that will launch on May 1st visithttps://filmfestivalflix.com/festival/lady-filmmakers-channel/. And Brian Lowry, senior writer for CNN Media/Entertainment, chats post-Oscar/Academy Awards.    

Brian Lowry -- Senior Writer, CNN Media and Entertainment does post-Oscar talk about the 93rd Academy Awards 2021.

"I am the Candyman. Coming from Bountyland!" A man calls 9-1-1 to report a fire in his apartment building. He’s found dead in the apartment with a fire extinguisher at his feet - but there’s no sign of a fire. Mulder gets Skinner to assign him the case except there’s a problem: another agent, Alex Krycek, opened the same case two hours earlier. Now Mulder must work with this eager agent to figure out what’s killing people, while Scully helps at a distance. Fire! Maybe Cecil and Phoebe are back for more? Links: The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Mỹ Lai massacre (and, yes, Nic pronounces it incorrectly the entire episode) Mister X Russian Sleep Experiment 21 Jump Street References: X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Companion by Ted Edwards X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Louisa Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson The X-Files Declassified by Frank Lovece The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman Music: "Dark Science" by David Hilowitz "The Truth Is What We Make of It" by The Agrarians You can find links to all our episodes, ways to subscribe, social media, and more here! https://linktr.ee/iwtrw --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

For years, award shows have grappled with a problem that likely dwarfs all others when it comes to sagging ratings: An abundance of nominees that most people haven't heard of, much less seen, sapping the incentive to tune in.If the Golden Globe nominations announced Wednesday are any indication, the 2021 awards season -- coming amid the coronavirus pandemic that has deflated movie-going -- will put that problem on steroids, while significantly shifting the balance of power toward streaming.The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which presents the awards, as usual reached far and wide for nominees -- with a customary emphasis on big stars and international talent -- many of them quite worthy, others not so much. The main takeaway scanning the list, however, was the weirdness of it in terms of movies especially that either haven't premiered yet or seemingly came and went with scant notice.If you're not familiar with some of the nominees, in other words, don't worry, you're not alone.In a year without box-office hits, entities like Netflix and Amazon moved to fill the movie void. And in a TV landscape that has already seen widespread fragmentation among traditional channels, new streaming services have splintered the audience's attention even further -- exactly how much no one really knows, since Netflix and its competitors don't regularly provide reliable data regarding how many people watch them.Because Netflix is widely available and enjoys vast distribution, it creates a showcase for prestige fare, and the pandemic has likely eroded resistance that the service faced on the movie front. Notably, its 22 nominations in film categories actually exceeded the 20 the service amassed in television, leading the way in both.Netflix landed three of the nominations for best drama and musical or comedy, as Disney+, Amazon and Hulu brought the streaming total to six out of 10. In television, streamers accounted for 34 of 55 Globe bids, with only one nomination for a traditional broadcast network, for Jane Levy in "Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist" on the Globes' host network, NBC.The nominations themselves don't address the lingering challenge and logistics of how awards will be presented. The Emmys pulled off an impressive virtual ceremony in September, but saw viewership dip to record lows, in what could well be a harbinger for the awards season to come, with Oscar ratings having already been a downward spiral.Optimists will scan the Globe categories and find plenty of meritorious work, a wide cross-section of diverse talent, and the knowledge that the awards process will help bring attention to deserving projects. That translates not only into prestige for the honorees but, practically speaking, into more viewing of their work if people are inspired to go out and find it.Additional nominations will come with this week's Screen Actors Guild Awards, in a year that has seen the jumbled award calendar expanded into 2021, and the Oscars -- traditionally the cherry on top -- pushed back until April.Events like the Globes still provide reason for those recognized to celebrate, and ammunition for that friend of yours who has been urging you to watch "Ted Lasso" or "The Flight Attendant," even if that means anteing up for a subscription to Apple TV+ or HBO Max.Mostly, though, the nominations underscore that whatever the new normal will look like for the entertainment industry after the pandemic, "normal" won't be a term that applies to this year's awards season.text by Brian Lowry, CNN

"You can fool with your brother, but don't mess with a [miracle] man." The FBI wants Mulder and Scully to look into the mysterious deaths of people that follow a faith healer’s attempt to heal them. The healer, a young man, all but confesses to the murders but Mulder suspects there’s something else going on. Uh… where are the aliens? We were promised aliens. References: X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Companion by Ted Edwards X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Lousia Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson The X-Files Declassified by Frank Lovece The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman Music: "Dark Science" by David Hilowitz “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians iwanttorewatch.com @iwanttorewatch on Instagram @RewatchXFiles on Twitter iwanttorewatch.tumblr.com iwanttorewatch@gmail.com voicemail @ anchor.fm/iwanttorewatch/message merch @ teespring.com/stores/iwanttorewatch --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

No “cocoons” or old people in swimming pools here! A note is left for Fox Mulder at a crime scene in the same style as notes left by a previous suspect Mulder had a hand in arresting. Only that man died in prison in 1989. Or did he? Mulder is convinced the suspect is alive and well, despite a death certificate on file. Scully thinks it might be a copycat or someone hired to do his bidding. Or maybe it’s just aliens… Or both…? Will we ever get the option of both…? References: Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files by Zack Handlen & Emily Todd Vanderwerf The X-Files Declassified by Frank Lovece The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman (if only because he is also a fan of flirty Agent Henderson and thinks she should be a recurring character) Music: "Dark Science" by David Hilowitz “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians iwanttorewatch.com @iwanttorewatch on Instagram @RewatchXFiles on Twitter iwanttorewatch.tumblr.com iwanttorewatch@gmail.com voicemail @ anchor.fm/iwanttorewatch/message merch @ teespring.com/stores/iwanttorewatch --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Things just keep getting weirder. A man is murdered by exsanguination and the only witness is his 8-year-old daughter. Mulder thinks there may be a connection to the exsanguination of cows across the country, which are often tied to UFO phenomena. Then a second murder done using the same method across the country sends Mulder and Scully searching for answers. Blood-sucking aliens? Vampires? Or... References: X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Companion by Ted Edwards X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Lousia Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman Music: "Dark Science" by David Hilowitz and “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians. iwanttorewatch.com @iwanttorewatch on Instagram @RewatchXFiles on Twitter iwanttorewatch.tumblr.com iwanttorewatch@gmail.com voicemail @ anchor.fm/iwanttorewatch/message merch @ teespring.com/stores/iwanttorewatch And yeah, 23 pairs, so 46 chromosomes... you win some, you lose some. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Travel back with us to a time when the U.S. government (sort of) supported manned space exploration... When a NASA employee comes to Mulder and Scully with the suspicion that someone at NASA is sabotaging the shuttle launches, they head to mission control in Houston to figure out who, if anyone, is the imposter. Maybe it’s an alien? Or a ghost? Or... References: The Unofficial X-Files Companion by N.E. Genge X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Lousia Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman NASA photos of the Cydonia Mensae JPL Caption for “Face” Release Direct link to processed version of “Face” image (be aware, we’re talking 1976 image resolution here) Music: "Dark Science" by David Hilowitz and “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians. iwanttorewatch.com @iwanttorewatch on Instagram @RewatchXFiles on Twitter iwanttorewatch.tumblr.com iwanttorewatch@gmail.com voicemail @ anchor.fm/iwanttorewatch/message merch @ teespring.com/stores/iwanttorewatch --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Ice. Ice. Baby. Sorry... A crew drilling ice cores near the Arctic Circle drops all contact with the outside world after a disturbing final transmission. Mulder and Scully, along with a small crew, go up to find out what happened. It seems they might have pulled something sinister out of the ice… Something like aliens! References: X-Files Confidential: The Unauthorized X-Philes Companion by Ted Edwards X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Lousia Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson The X-Files Declassified by Frank Lovece The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman Music: "Dark Science" by David Hilowitz and “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians. iwanttorewatch.com @iwanttorewatch on Instagram @RewatchXFiles on Twitter iwanttorewatch.tumblr.com iwanttorewatch@gmail.com voicemail @ anchor.fm/iwanttorewatch/message merch @ teespring.com/stores/iwanttorewatch --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Funnily enough, this episode is not about the album by The Police, nor about Cartesian mind-body dualism… weird. Instead, when a man is killed in a smart building under mysterious circumstances, a former partner of Mulder’s comes to him for help. The most obvious suspect is the company’s disgruntled computer genius founder, who might have used the company’s smart operating system to commit murder. Mulder and Scully need to figure out if this scruffy programmer is an evil genius or if his AI has a life of its own. We know it’s totally reverse-engineered alien technology, right? References: Wikipedia: Ghost in the Machine (The X-Files) X Marks the Spot: On Location with The X-Files by Lousia Gradnitzer & Todd Pittson The X-Files Declassified by Frank Lovece The Truth is Out There: The Official Guide to the X-Files by Brian Lowry wanting to believe: a critical guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen by Robert Shearman Music: "Dark Science" by David Hilowitz and “The Truth Is What We Make of It” by The Agrarians. iwanttorewatch.com @iwanttorewatch on Instagram @RewatchXFiles on Twitter iwanttorewatch.tumblr.com iwanttorewatch@gmail.com voicemail @ anchor.fm/iwanttorewatch/message merch @ teespring.com/stores/iwanttorewatch --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Five years after the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag triggered controversy, the group behind the awards has made inclusion a requirement to be considered to win them.In what represents the most direct link between the movie industry's top prize and efforts to promote diversity and address systemic issues, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that movies must meet certain criteria in terms of representation in order to be eligible for the Academy Award for best picture beginning in 2024.Introduced under an initiative called Aperture 2025, the organization said the goal was to "encourage equitable representation on and off screen in order to better reflect the diversity of the movie-going audience."Films must meet at least two of four benchmarks. They include featuring actors from underrepresented groups in significant roles or accounting for at least 30% of the cast; similar criteria in terms of those working on the film behind the scenes; a significant commitment to paid apprenticeships, internships and career development; and significant representation among the teams devoted to marketing, publicity and distribution.During the Oscar campaigns in 2022 and 2023, movies will have to submit a confidential "inclusion standards" form, but that won't prevent eligibility until the 96th Academy Awards. Next year's awards, encompassing movies released in 2020, have already been delayed by two months due to the disruptions to film distribution caused by the coronavirus.The change was made in consultation with the Producers Guild of America, and adapted from standards developed by the British Film Institute that must be met to earn funding for certain projects in the U.K.The latest announcement follows a concerted push by the Academy to expand its membership ranks, admitting more women and people of color. In June, an additional 819 new members were invited into the group, 45% of them women and 36% people of color. Representation among the latter has more than doubled since the membership initiative began in 2016.The Oscars made history earlier this year when "Parasite" was anointed best picture, becoming the first non-English-language film and first South Korean film to receive that prize.text by Brian Lowry, CNN 

We were so excited to talk about the new film released on HULU featuring Andy Samberg and Cristin Miliotti, Palm Springs.Both Nate Stone and Seggie Isho saw Palm Springs before The Avid Indoorsmen and raved about it so much that it inspired us to watch it and decide to do an episode on it. Since they inspired us to check this out initially, we thought it was only right to have them on and give us their hot takes. SPOILER ALERT: It was a super good time.We ended this episode with an Imitation Game and our Patrons get to hear us draft our Top 5 Films with a City in the Title! If you're not a patron of ours, get on it!We hope you all enjoy checking out some new cinema even though we're not getting any in the theaters for a while. This can tide you over until we can get back to the big screen. Stay healthy and safe out there!3:00 Forgetting Sarah Marshall4:50 The Old Guard6:37 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia8:50 We Are Freestyle Love Supreme11:28 Buegs' Favorite Meal13:01 Origin by Dan Brown 16:12 Plugarooni's 16:49 Patreon.com/theavidindoorsmen 19:06 @SNCSeggie @nathanrodes21:39 Palm Springs Plot Synopsis22:07 Rotten Tomatoes22:30 Brian Lowry from CNN.com23:35 Peter Travers from The Rolling Stone24:18 Buegs' Hot Take27:17 Rob's Hot Take30:08 Nate's Hot Take32:18 Seggie's Hot Take33:40 The Dude Award39:28 The Tucci Award46:18 The Dingus58:58 Show Me The Money1:06:19 Buegs Boo Hoo Moments1:11:28 Movie Trivia1:15:30 Judgement Day1:18:08 The Imitation Game1:34:17 Top 5 Films with a City in the Title

Plus, Mark Lukasiewicz on the 'deliberate deception' of conspiracy theories; Tara Dowdell on the 'powerful forces' supporting Trump; fact versus fiction in Clint Eastwood's new movie 'Richard Jewell;' and how the Afghanistan Papers reveal 'the truth about the war.' Masha Gessen, Mark Lukasiewicz, Tara Dowdell, Jim Lehrer, Gretchen Carlson, Kevin Riley, Brian Lowry, and Craig Whitlock join Brian Stelter.

In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. What are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and how can organizations implement sustainable business practices? Here, Brian Lowry, deputy general counsel at Bayer Crop Science U.S., gives his take on sustainability and the broad impact it can have on people, animals and the environment.

May 19, 2019: Joe Lockhart, Irin Carmon, Jane Coaston, Oliver Darcy, Suzanne Craig, Catherine Hadro and Brian Lowry join Brian Stelter.

Brian Lowry joins Brian Stelter to dissect this year's TV "upfronts." Which networks are launching the most interesting new shows? What does this year's conservative approach say about the state of TV? Lowry says the surplus of reboots is a "programming solution to a marketing problem." Stelter and Lowry also discuss the Moonves vs. Redstone corporate battle.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

This week Kevin talks to Brian Lowry of the Midland Tribune about the start of the Offaly hurling championships, and Coláiste Choilm's All Ireland final.

Lindsay Wise of the McClatchy DC Bureau, Brian Lowry of the Kansas City Star, and Dave Helling of the Star's editorial board discuss the many issues Congress must confront in September — with little time to do it.  A lively discussion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew discusses the Purpose and Process of venturing at Caterpillar with Brian. We hear about the technology and business model approaches, including autonomous vehicle developments. Find out more about effective venturing at www.aimava.com and CV Academy at www.gcvacademy.com

AMC's hit zombie drama returns this Sunday with the FIRST half of season FIVE. Brian Lowry of Variety gave the fifth season premiere a positive review, saying "After the (rather too) long and winding road to Terminus, “The Walking Dead” opens its fifth season in spectacular fashion, a dazzling adrenaline rush filled with suspense, righteous violence and, before it's all over, genuine emotion. Imbued with cinematic touches, the only downside to this breathtaking episode is pondering what the creative brain trust can do for an encore. Still, AMC's megahit finds itself in a very good place, from the current makeup of its ever-evolving cast to the latitude it has earned to take unexpected detours. Given the hype surrounding the series, it's still impressive to see the producers deliver such a feast." Join Casey Shapiro and Marc B. Lee's party as they RETURN to view The Walking Dead on AMC!   We'll host our weekly Viewing Party as well as one in our chat room during the show.  

AMC's hit zombie drama returns this Sunday with the FIRST half of season FIVE. Brian Lowry of Variety gave the fifth season premiere a positive review, saying "After the (rather too) long and winding road to Terminus, “The Walking Dead” opens its fifth season in spectacular fashion, a dazzling adrenaline rush filled with suspense, righteous violence and, before it's all over, genuine emotion. Imbued with cinematic touches, the only downside to this breathtaking episode is pondering what the creative brain trust can do for an encore. Still, AMC's megahit finds itself in a very good place, from the current makeup of its ever-evolving cast to the latitude it has earned to take unexpected detours. Given the hype surrounding the series, it's still impressive to see the producers deliver such a feast." Join Casey Shapiro and Marc B. Lee's party as they RETURN to view The Walking Dead on AMC!   We'll host our weekly Viewing Party as well as one in our chat room during the show.  

AMC's hit zombie drama returns this Sunday with the FIRST half of season FIVE. Brian Lowry of Variety gave the fifth season premiere a positive review, saying "After the (rather too) long and winding road to Terminus, “The Walking Dead” opens its fifth season in spectacular fashion, a dazzling adrenaline rush filled with suspense, righteous violence and, before it's all over, genuine emotion. Imbued with cinematic touches, the only downside to this breathtaking episode is pondering what the creative brain trust can do for an encore. Still, AMC's megahit finds itself in a very good place, from the current makeup of its ever-evolving cast to the latitude it has earned to take unexpected detours. Given the hype surrounding the series, it's still impressive to see the producers deliver such a feast." Join Casey Shapiro and Marc B. Lee's party as they RETURN to view The Walking Dead on AMC!

AMC's hit zombie drama returns this Sunday with the FIRST half of season FIVE. Brian Lowry of Variety gave the fifth season premiere a positive review, saying "After the (rather too) long and winding road to Terminus, “The Walking Dead” opens its fifth season in spectacular fashion, a dazzling adrenaline rush filled with suspense, righteous violence and, before it's all over, genuine emotion. Imbued with cinematic touches, the only downside to this breathtaking episode is pondering what the creative brain trust can do for an encore. Still, AMC's megahit finds itself in a very good place, from the current makeup of its ever-evolving cast to the latitude it has earned to take unexpected detours. Given the hype surrounding the series, it's still impressive to see the producers deliver such a feast." Join Casey Shapiro and Marc B. Lee's party as they RETURN to view The Walking Dead on AMC!

AMC's hit zombie drama returns this Sunday with the FIRST half of season FIVE. Brian Lowry of Variety gave the fifth season premiere a positive review, saying "After the (rather too) long and winding road to Terminus, “The Walking Dead” opens its fifth season in spectacular fashion, a dazzling adrenaline rush filled with suspense, righteous violence and, before it's all over, genuine emotion. Imbued with cinematic touches, the only downside to this breathtaking episode is pondering what the creative brain trust can do for an encore. Still, AMC's megahit finds itself in a very good place, from the current makeup of its ever-evolving cast to the latitude it has earned to take unexpected detours. Given the hype surrounding the series, it's still impressive to see the producers deliver such a feast." Join Casey Shapiro and Marc B. Lee's party as they RETURN to view The Walking Dead on AMC! We'll host our weekly Viewing Party as well as one in our chat room during the show.  

AMC's hit zombie drama returns this Sunday with the FIRST half of season FIVE. Brian Lowry of Variety gave the fifth season premiere a positive review, saying "After the (rather too) long and winding road to Terminus, “The Walking Dead” opens its fifth season in spectacular fashion, a dazzling adrenaline rush filled with suspense, righteous violence and, before it's all over, genuine emotion. Imbued with cinematic touches, the only downside to this breathtaking episode is pondering what the creative brain trust can do for an encore. Still, AMC's megahit finds itself in a very good place, from the current makeup of its ever-evolving cast to the latitude it has earned to take unexpected detours. Given the hype surrounding the series, it's still impressive to see the producers deliver such a feast." Join Casey Shapiro and Marc B. Lee's party as they RETURN to view The Walking Dead on AMC! We'll host our weekly Viewing Party as well as one in our chat room during the show.  

#doctorwho #tindogpodcast   from wiki   "Deep Breath" is the first episode of the of the British television programme , first broadcast on  and released in cinemas on 23 August 2014. It was written by showrunner and executive producer  and directed by . The episode stars  in his first full episode as the , alongside as his  . It also features ,, and  reprising their roles as . Capaldi's predecessor, , also appears in a cameo.   Contents   []    Plot A dinosaur materialises in Victorian London and spits out the  onto the banks of the river Thames, from which emerges the freshly regenerated —suffering from post-regenerative trauma—and . They are greeted by the , comprised of  Madame Vastra, her human maid and wife Jenny, and  butler Strax. The Gang instruct the police on how to calm and contain the dinosaur and take the Doctor and Clara to their residence, where the Doctor rests and Vastra confronts Clara about her prejudiced attitude to the Doctor's changed face. Clara admits that she is struggling to adapt to the new Doctor, due to his stark difference to the , particularly his apparent age. The Doctor awakens to hear the dinosaur's pleas for help before it spontaneously combusts. The Doctor joins Clara and the Paternoster Gang at the river and learns from Vastra that this is not the first incident of spontaneous combustion recently. The Doctor spots an unfazed man across the river and jumps in to investigate. Clara returns home with the others to start their own investigations, hoping they will cross the Doctor's path. The Doctor roams back streets for answers the next morning, questioning how his body chooses a new face during regeneration. Both Clara and the Doctor find a message reading "" in a newspaper, directing them to a restaurant where they reunite but learn that neither planted the message for the other, as they had both assumed. They realise that the room is filled with robots to prevent them leaving. They are descended into a lair where they see the man from the river surrounded by other idle, human-like robots. The Doctor surmises the man is a long-lived cyborg, but in the unusual sense that it is a robot trying to make himself human by replacing his parts with biological ones taken from the victims of spontaneous combustion, including the dinosaur. The Doctor leaves Clara as the robots and the cyborg begin to awaken after escaping himself. Recalling his earlier advice, Clara holds her breath to hide herself from the robots, but she is soon captured and taken to the cyborg. He states that he is trying to reach the "promised land" by prolonging his life via parts replacements and questions her on the Doctor's whereabouts. The Doctor returns with the Paternoster Gang to fight the robots with Clara whilst the Doctor chases the cyborg back to the restaurant. The cyborg releases a hot-air balloon made of human skin, lifting the restaurant into the sky with him and the Doctor inside. The Doctor interrogates the cyborg, who reveals that he and parts of the restaurant are from the SS Marie Antoinette, the sister ship to the SS Madame de Pompadour (""). The Doctor warns the cyborg that he will either have to kill himself, or he will kill him to protect the humans. Moments later, the cyborg falls from the balloon and is impaled on the spire of . Clara and the Paternoster Gang see the other robots go lifeless after his death. After regrouping, Clara finds that the Doctor and the TARDIS have vanished. Vastra assures her that the Doctor will return, pointing out that Clara as the person that knows the Doctor the best is already prepared to leave. The Doctor reappears, planning to take Clara home, but instead arrives in Glasgow, where a phone call from the  to Clara moments before the regeneration from his perspective encourages her to stay. In the epilogue, the cyborg awakens in a beautiful garden, and meets Missy, a mysterious woman who claims the Doctor as her boyfriend. She tells him that he has reached the promised land at last. Continuity Towards the end of the story, the Doctor speculates on the identity of the person that wrote the Impossible Girl newspaper article; the Doctor postulates if this person was the same one that gave Clara the number for the TARDIS phone on the claim it was a computer help line as shown in "". The Doctor, while confused about his new look, recalls how it appears similar to another that he's seen. The  met a man named  in "", played by Capaldi. The call from the  to Clara is shown from the Eleventh Doctor's perspective from his final moments before regeneration on the planet Trenzalore, which reused some footage from "" and included new footage with a surprise cameo by . The closing dialogue between Clara and the Doctor about chips, and the Doctor's inability to pay for them, recalls a similar exchange between the  and  at the conclusion of "". Production Filming Matt Smith's cameo as the Eleventh Doctor was filmed on 5 October 2013, the last day of shooting for "". Moffat had written Smith's scene prior to the rest of the episode. The readthrough for the episode was held on 17 December 2013, and shooting began at the Maltings in  on 7 January 2014. Shooting later took place at Mount Stuart Square on the 13th, Scenes were also filmed on  and on the 28th. The shoot finished on 18 February 2014. Promotion  has said that this episode would be a "big introduction" for  as the . He said that there will be "plenty of action and nonsense and jeopardy, as there ever is in ." On 11 August 2014 a 30 second trailer for the episode was released on . Cast notes Brian Miller, who plays the tramp Barney, was the husband of  who portrayed long-time companion . He had previously appeared in in , as well as playing Harry Sowersby in , an episode of , and providing Dalek voices for both and . Broadcast and reception Pre-broadcast leak On 6 July 2014, the scripts for the first five episodes of the series (including "Deep Breath") were inadvertently leaked online from 's Latin America headquarters, prompting a plea from BBC Worldwide to keep the storylines of the five episodes secret.Also leaked was a black-and-white rough cut of "Deep Breath", missing most of the visual effects but otherwise mostly complete. The BBC blamed the leak on the fact that the files had been stored on a publicly accessible  in its new -based headquarters. , speaking at the , called the leak "horrible, miserable and upsetting". Television The episode was a  in the United Kingdom and many other countries on 23 August 2014, and was broadcast later that same day in other locations such as on . On 31 August 2014, the episode was broadcast on  in New Zealand. Cinemas The episode had its world premiere in  on 7 August 2014 as part of the . As part of the tour, advance screenings were also held at other destinations on the tour. As with "", "Deep Breath" received a worldwide cinema release at participating cinemas on 23 August 2014. The episode received a midnight screening in 12 cities across the United States on 23 August, and a larger showing in 550 cinemas on 25 August. The cinema screenings of the episode were accompanied by a five minute prequel. Ratings Upon airing in its 7.50pm timeslot, the "Deep Breath" simulcast entertained an average audience of 6.79 million in the United Kingdom. The episode reached a peak of 6.96 million viewers, watched by nearly a third of all viewers on the evening of broadcast with a 32.5% audience share. The final ratings for the week, which include  viewers and others who watched the programme within a week of its transmission, showed 9.17 million viewers, making it the second highest rated programme for the week on British television. In the United States, the premiere airing on  had an audience of 2.2 million viewers, the highest Saturday ratings for the network and just under the highest viewership from the "" special, and a significant increase from the 1.5 million that had watched the Series 7 premiere in 2012. In Australia, the episode had a total of 858,000 viewers on : 148,000 watched a simulcast at 4:30am, and 710,000 watched a primetime replay at 7:40pm. Critical reception The episode received positive reviews, with many critics praising Moffat's script, the introduction and stylisation of the new Doctor, and the performances of Capaldi and Coleman.  responded well to the episode, labelling Capaldi's performance as "intimidating, bold and unsettling", and praising Ben Wheatley's direction in the episode's tenser moments, calling it "the stuff of true terror and wonderment". Matt Smith's cameo as the  was criticised by The Mirror. However, it ultimately labelled the episode "impeccable" and stating that Capaldi "has all the hallmarks of a great Doctor". Brian Lowry of Variety praised Moffat's script, stating that it "emphasizes storyline continuity and easing faithful viewers into the regeneration transition" and closed his review by saying "It's a skillful tonal balance that defines the best of “Doctor Who,” and exemplifies the ethos that keeps the series going strong, nodding to the past with all eyes on the future".David Wiegand of San Francisco Chronicle heavily praised the episode, particularly Moffat's writing, saying that his script "masterfully manipulates audience expectation". He ultimately awarded the episode a perfect 4/4 stars. However, not all reviews were positive.  panned the story as "strangely recessive, unheroic, [and] dull" calling both Capaldi and Coleman's characters "insipid". Home media "Deep Breath" will receive a standalone DVD and Blu-ray release in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2014, the United States on 9 September, and Australia on 10 September. Thereafter, it will be released in the Complete Eighth Series DVD and Blu-ray boxset in the United Kingdom on 17 November 2014, and Australia on 19 November.

The BC team recently announced several large upcoming platform improvements and features due to release in beta later this summer: Liquid Rendering, JSON, New Editing Capabilities and Increased Performance New Module/Tag Syntax, Liquid Templating and Improved Rendering Performance Access All BC Data: JSON Output Everywhere, More REST APIs New Admin Editor I decided to grab two of my senior developer minds to get a read on what all is possible once these features hit the platform. Without ruining the podcast—the answer is: a lot, lot more. Between these developments and the release of Open Platform earlier this year, BC is truly becoming one of the most flexible hosted platforms. Don’t forget that this month, Bootstrap Builder is the App of the Month and Scott over at Thrise has been so kind to offer a limited time discount. Get it while you can. Tune in for Episode 38 of the Business Catalyst podcast! In this episode we talk about Liquid, JSON, modules, rendering engines, and a deep dive into a few technical rabbit holes around what’s going to soon be possible. Simply click the play button below to stream the podcast via your browser. player AudioPlayer.embed("player-nov13", {soundFile: "http://www.businesscatalyst.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=126644", noinfo: "yes" }); Alternatively, you can download the podcast in .mp3 format for offline listening. In this episode: Brian Lowry explains Liquid in plain english (well, at least as much as a developer can) Erick Stubbs admits that this might be the biggest release he’s seen in his 6 year BC tenure (yeah, he’s an old timer) And much more Join the Podcast! Do you have something you want to announce to the BC community? I want to hear about it (brent@bcgurus.com). Until next time, Brent Weaver

Tune in for Episode 34 of the Business Catalyst podcast! In this episode we announce the winners of last month’s Story Challenge, talk about the Open Platform Beta launch, get an interview with Director Alexandru Costin, and much more. Don’t miss out, listen below. Listen to this month's podcast: Simply click the play button below to stream the podcast via your browser. player AudioPlayer.embed("player-nov13", {soundFile: "http://www.businesscatalyst.com/_literature_126640/BC_Podcast_E34.mp3", noinfo: "yes" }); Alternatively, you can download the podcast in .mp3 format for offline listening. In this episode : Brent Weaver and Brian Lowry announce the Story Challenge winners Brian Lowry gives Javascript book recommendations to get ready for Open Platform Brent Weaver interviews Alexandru Costin about Open Platform and other developments with Business Catalyst Reminder about v2 UI being discontinued Learn about this months challenge Get Interviewed! If you want to make your debut on an upcoming BC Podcast, contact Brent (brent@bcgurus.com) Win big by answering the Project Challenge! Leave a comment below with a link to a recent BC project you completed and a couple of sentences describing the project and you’ll be entered in next months contest. The top three projects will receive a FREE BC Gurus premium template credit worth $149 each. Until next time, Brent & Brian

Tune in for Episode 33 of the Business Catalyst podcast! In this episode, we announce the winners from the big Holiday Giveaway, listen to an interview with long time partner Karim Ardalan, get an update from Brent’s recent trip to Romania to visit the BC engineering team, and then get this month’s Story Challenge. Don’t miss out, listen below. Listen to this month's podcast: Simply click the play button below to stream the podcast via your browser. player AudioPlayer.embed("player-nov13", {soundFile: "http://www.businesscatalyst.com/_literature_126639/BC_Podcast_E33.mp3", noinfo: "yes" }); Alternatively, you can download the podcast in .mp3 format for offline listening. In this episode : Brent Weaver and Brian Lowry announce the Holiday Giveaway winners by doing a drawing from all the entries Learn about Karim Ardalan’s company MIS and his BC-specific projects AidBC.com and BackupBC.com Get an update from Brent Weaver on his recent trip to Romania to visit with the BC engineers about upcoming developments and features Learn what the Story Challenge is and how you can win a free install of the Homepage Slider or Client Trainer Apps Get Interviewed! If you want to make your debut on an upcoming BC Podcast, contact Brent (brent@bcgurus.com) Win big by answering the Story Challenge! Leave a comment below with your answer to the story challenge and you will get the free Apps mentioned above. Until next time, Brent & Brian