TV News: Steve Martin will not be playing Tim Walz on SNL next season. I didn’t know this was a thing we were thinking about. i can also confirm, without asking them, that thousands of other actors and comedians won’t be either. I guess now I know who Tim Walz looks like.
TV Shows: Time Bandits: S1E5 and S1E6 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Women In Blue: S1E3 (Apple Plus) with audio description, Sonny: S1E6 (Apple plus) with audio description, The Golden Girls: S7E? (Hulu) with audio description, and The Daily Show: Tuesday Night’s Edition (Paramount Plus) no audio description.
Podcasts (All through Apple Podcasts using speed modification): Pod Meets World (fans ask questions over zoom), Consider This (a world wealth tax), Magical Overthinkers (celebrity worship), and The Excerpt (News/Politics).
YouTube: Breakfast All Day (Movie Review: Cuckoo) and Movies And Munchies (A Good Girls Guide To Murder Series Review)
Films: Double Jeopardy (with audio description)
i don’t really have a feature, but I’d really like to thank the existence of audio description for The Golden Girls. This was something I caught in syndication when I could see. Yes, new episodes aired while I was alive… as a little kid. I was too busy watching Nickelodeon. Later, I saw this often in reruns, and a while back I started through the whole series which has audio description on Hulu. I think, much like we do with film, we should be describing classic shows. The Golden Girls should prove there is a demographic for it, so we can hit some of the heavy hitters. All In the Family, MASH, Cheers, Home Improvement, and Frazier all come to mind as shows that should have it, but I could cut broader and add in the Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Jefferson’s, Good Times, Happy Days, The Brady Bunch, and even some older dramas. I’m sure people would love to watch classic shows like Colombo with audio description, but even some really obvious 90s and 00’s shows are missing it, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, lost, Desperate Housewives, and even as recent as glee. People still watch older shows, which help bring people in. HBO has done some really excellent work going through their back catalog of shows and audio describing older shows. They also have added audio description to older sitcoms like Family Matters and Friends, as well as TV dramas like One Tree hill.
There is a market for this.