Michael Prescott's Blog
Archived blog focusing on the paranormal
Category: Television
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. This essay was originally posted in 2004. — Hits and Misses: A Crossing Over Transcript After three controversial years on…
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. This essay was originally posted in 2004. It has been slightly abridged and reworded. —- Talking to the Dead – Live…
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. This essay was originally posted in 2003. — Unreality TV: "Psychic Secrets Revealed" Recently, NBC aired an hour-long prime-time special called…
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NOTE: I used to have several older essays on the paranormal posted on my author site. When I recently updated the site, I removed all this material and decided to post it here. Here's one of those essays, originally posted in 2003. —- 20/20 Blindside: John Edward Takes a Hit John Edward…
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Lately I’ve been binge-watching the old Perry Mason TV series, which started in 1957 and continued until 1966. Right now I’m on season five, which seems to be the last one offered for free on Amazon Prime, so it’s probably the last one I’ll watch. Given that there are roughly thirty episodes per season, I…
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I've now watched five of the six episodes of season 1 of Catastrophe, an Amazon TV series available via streaming (free to Prime members). It's an intelligent single-camera sitcom about two strangers who hook up for a six-day fling, which results in an unplanned pregnancy – the catastrophe of the title. I like the show…
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There's a Kickstarter campaign scheduled to launch on January 28 which can be previewed here. It's a fundraising drive for a documentary mini-series (a pilot and 12 half hour episodes) on Electronic Voice Phenomena, or EVP. I don't know anything more about it than what's presented on the Kickstarter preview page, but it looks like…
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Nice little video from a Muppets Christmas special featuring a character named Emmet Otter. The video is from that show, while the audio is the version of the song performed by John Denver on a subsequent Muppets album.
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I was watching the Fox News Channel late-night program Red Eye the other night, when for some reason the topic of the is-ought dichotomy came up. As you probably know, the is-ought dichotomy was first identified by the 18th-century philosopher David Hume, who observed that it's impossible to derive a value judgment — an ought…
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There’s a lot of buzz about the AMC dramatic series Mad Men, so I finally decided to rent the first three episodes on DVD. The show is well acted and well produced, and certainly captures the look of 1960. It can be funny and smart, though the pace is rather slow. Overall, though, I found…