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Tom Scharpling from ‘The Best Show’ tells Twitter if Pet Shop Boys is better than ...

Penn Live 12 Oct 2020

The above Pet Shop Boys phenomenon all started when Tom Scharpling, host of “The Best Show” podcast, announced to his followers that he would explain to inquiring minds whether Pet Shop Boys is better than any other band that pop up in their brains ... Real answers only, I promise.— scharpling (@scharpling) October 12, 2020.

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The Postal Service Audition Slash, Duff McKagan, Rick Springfield and More to Join Band

Spin 07 Oct 2020

... named “Dave” who was really comedian Jon Daly) hold Zoom auditions in the long-form PSA from director Tom Scharpling (who directed 2013’s The Postal Service Auditions).

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The Postal Service Hold Band Auditions For Anne Hathaway, Kenny G, Japanese Breakfast, & More

Stereogum 07 Oct 2020

The whole thing is directed by Tom Scharpling and it was made to benefit Headcount and their Make Your Vote Count campaign. Check it out below. .

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The Postal Service Audition Anne Hathaway, Kenny G, Slash, and More in Get Out the ...

Rollingstone 07 Oct 2020

The Postal Service sit through a slew of chaotic auditions in a new get-out-the-vote PSA for HeadCount’s Make Your Vote Count campaign. The video was directed by Tom Scharpling, who helmed a similar clip the Postal Service released in 2013 to mark the 10th-anniversary reissue of Give Up ... ....

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Watch The Postal Service hold Zoom ‘auditions’ for new bandmembers including Slash, Anne Hathaway and ...

NME 07 Oct 2020

Partnering with their label Sub Pop and HeadCount’s “Make Your Vote Count” campaign for the clip, the Tom Scharpling-directed video sees The Postal Service’s Benjamin Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello and Jenny Lewis reluctantly host auditions on Zoom for new bandmembers ... .

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Ted Leo’s 50 Best Songs

Spin 11 Sep 2020

Leo was born on Sept. 11, 1970 – perhaps a slightly symbolic date given that he’s written more than a few songs about the failures of post-9/11 American foreign policy ... 50. Ted Leo/Pharmacists – “Bottled In Cork” ... The track’s entertainingly silly music video was directed by WFMU’s Tom Scharpling and co-starred comedians Julie Klausner and Paul F ... 49 ... 48.

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The End of The Fictional Cop

The Atlantic 31 Jul 2020

Link Copied. Photographs by Devin Yalkin. Detective Elliot Stabler walks into an empty interrogation room with purpose ... With these tweaks, a confession is nigh ... On Twitter, Tom Scharpling, an executive producer for Monk, lamented that he had “contributed to the larger acceptance that cops are implicitly the good guys.” The former Law & Order ... Read ... .

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State of the Arts

The Independent 10 Jul 2020

The Independent employs reporters around the world to bring you truly independent journalism ... Then there are the more insidious portrayals, which present the police as soft and cuddly, or as Tom Scharpling, who produced four seasons of the San Francisco-set private detective show Monk, described as “lovable goofball[s]” ... .

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine Is Starting from Scratch After George Floyd’s Death

Vanity Fair 24 Jun 2020

“If you—as I have—worked on a TV show or movie in which police are portrayed as lovable goofballs you have contributed to the larger acceptance that cops are the implicitly the good guys,” wrote Monk executive producer Tom Scharpling ... Scharpling’s tweet was later echoed by Griffin ...

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‘Defund Paw Patrol’: Why protesters have turned against a kids’ cartoon

The Irish Times 15 Jun 2020

It was only a matter of time before the protests came for Paw Patrol. The American children’s cartoon about a squad of canine helpers is basically a pretence for placing household pets in a variety of cool trucks ... “Euthanize the police dog,” they said ... Last week Tom Scharpling, an executive producer of Monk, criticised his own show on Twitter ... C4 ... .

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The Wire’s Wendell Pierce Defends the Show As “A Forecast of the Protests of Today”

Vanity Fair 07 Jun 2020

Pierce defended The Wire in a multi-tweet thread ... Monk producer Tom Scharpling, wrote that his show portrayed police "as lovable goofballs" which has "contributed to the larger acceptance that cops are the implicitly the good guys." He implored others in Hollywood to "PAY UP."More Great Stories From Vanity Fair ... .

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Police TV show veterans donate to bail funds

The Hill 03 Jun 2020

If you currently play a cop? ... Tom Scharpling, who worked as an executive producer for USA’s “Monk,” wrote Monday that it was incumbent on people in similar positions to donate due to the part they played in presenting police as unambiguous heroes ... 2/3. — scharpling (@scharpling) June 1, 2020 ... I worked on MONK, that’s what we did,” Scharpling wrote ... ....

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TV Cops Donate Money to Fight Police Brutality

Vanity Fair 02 Jun 2020

On Monday, actor/writer/producer Tom Scharpling—an executive producer behind the long-running police procedural Monk—acknowledged his role in perpetuating this biased depiction ... to the larger acceptance that cops are the implicitly the good guys,” wrote Scharpling on Monday.

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TV cops urged to donate to bail funds for protesters

The Daily Dot 02 Jun 2020

The television landscape is full of fictional cops, and for decades, their depictions on the small screen have largely shaped how we see law enforcement ... Earlier Monday, Best Show creator Tom Scharpling highlighted a similar sentiment and what role his work writing on Monk likely played in shaping the narrative around cops that persists to this day.

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Ant Man 3 director Peyton Reed teases fans with behind the scene snap from the ...

Pinkvilla 05 May 2020

Replying to a question from actor Tom Scharpling on Twitter, about whether Scott Lang aka Ant-Man ever purchased lottery tickets in the first movie and who did he buy them from, Peyton Reed took the fans with surprise as he shared a glimpse of Ant-Man 3 ... Tom Scharpling is the ...