Presenting The 82nd Golden Globe Awards Winners

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Last night, winners of the 82nd Golden Globe Awards were revealed in a celebrity loaded ceremony by comedian Nikki Glaser. Though I had planned to watch the proceedings and do some kind of live reveal via the “X” social media account I have, I had other things to do with the time and find myself presenting the full winners list rundown and their categories for you down below. For this narrative I’ve also left the other nominations so you could compare and find them fueling your argument about who you felt should have won if you were unhappy with the decision.

82nd Golden Globes Winners: FILM

Best Motion Picture — Drama
WINNER – “The Brutalist”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Dune: Part Two”
“Nickel Boys”
“September 5”

Best Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy
“Anora”
“Challengers”
WINNER – “Emilia Pérez”
“A Real Pain”
“The Substance”
“Wicked”

Best Motion Picture — Animated
WINNER – “Flow”
“Inside Out 2”
“Memoir of a Snail”
“Moana 2”
“Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl”
“The Wild Robot”
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Rundown Of “The Odd Couple” New Year’s Eve/Day Marathon On WLNY 55 (12/31/2024-1/1/2025)

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“On November 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right. But he also knew that, someday, he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his childhood friend, Oscar Madison. Sometime earlier, Madison’s wife had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment, without driving each other crazy?”

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Such began the proceedings for the 1970 comedy series “The Odd Couple” which was an adaptation of the hit play by the legendary Neil Simon. While the play featured Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, the show starred Tony Randall and Jack Klugman as Felix Unger and Oscar Madison respectively. It ran for five seasons and some “114” episodes when all was said and done. It’s a favorite for many and while I also enjoyed the show, I cannot claim any level of dedication to it. It’s the kind of thing I would love to one day binge from start to finish which leads me to this particular post. Once I learned that WLNY was going to be doing a fairly comprehensive marathon I decided to add it. As my inclusion of this marathon was a bit of a last minute decision I mostly used their own network website as a reference. So please if there are any inconsistencies I direct you to their side of the fence and not mine. I have never included this show to my usual yearly rundowns of “The Honeymooners” and “The Twilight Zone” (the latter program being posted on PiercingMetal since it fits best there) but since it had so many episodes I felt that it might make for some good Google traffic and with this being the end of the year it will be nice to get some surges for the website. Now without any further adieu please take a look at the marathon that will begin later on tonight. If you plan on programming this onto the DVR you should start doing that now to get it out of the way.

Tuesday, December 31st:
9:00PM – The Laundry Orgy
9:30PM – Felix Gets Sick
10:00PM – The Jury Story
10:30PM – The Breakup
11:00PM – It’s All Over Now, Baby Bird
11:30PM – Felix Is Missing
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Rundown Of “The Honeymooners” New Year’s Day Marathon On PIX11 (1/1/2025)

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Greetings my friends and welcome again to what will pretty much amount to being the final post for this calendar year 2024 here on “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken”. If you’ve followed along with the website over the last few years and around this particular time, you know that we are here to talk about “The Honeymooners” because its time for the complete rundown of episodes that will be shown on PIX11 for their annual marathon. I’ve been doing this since 2020 and since its a longtime favorite show that has withstood the tests of time I’ve made this a bit of a year-end tradition. I remember the network doing this for many years even before we were publishing and a quick Google Search found that this has been done since 1996. I initially did this during the first year of the pandemic to help inspire people to remain inside but since so many in my circle aren’t doing too much and instead do mellow hangs I’ve kept it going. Now before I list the rundown, let me point out that the information on it was a little spotty and didn’t match up 100%. I used two resources to cull the data together and on the PIX11 website, the marathon shows as pausing from 4AM to 7AM to show local news and programming. On the other resource, the Spectrum TV Channel Guide, shows the marathon pausing from 4AM to 8AM for the same aforementioned programming. Then I saw a commercial on Channel 11 saying that there were “27” episodes to watch so I suggest just programming the whole time. Down below I’ve listed what can be found on the website listings. The other difference is that this year the marathon begins at 12:30AM on New Year’s Day as opposed to being the final hour of programming on the Channel before the New Year begins. We are also following Eastern Standard Time. If you’re in New York City like we are that means we are losing some five and a half possible marathon hours. IMHO, no one is that interested in regional and world news after partying and would likely rather spend the time with the Kramdens and the Nortons. Though I appreciate the fact that PIX11 does this marathon every year, they would serve their audience best by getting all the main important news into one broadcast for one hours time and leave the rest to the marathon. After the year that 2024 was, I would rather hear less about the things that are wrong since my regular news reminds me of that on a daily basis. The rundown is presented down below in full and please remember where it was sourced from if there should be any discrepancies. If anything is different when the broadcast happens do NOT yell at me in the comments and please instead send any gripes to the network directly via their social media profiles or website contact information. I think social media would work best in this case scenario and now onto the rundown.

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Presenting The 2024 “Christmas In New York City” Videos

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Greetings my friends and “Happy Holidays” to you and yours. I’m here to let you know that my annual “Christmas Tree Pilgrimage” is currently underway and the first in our series of videos has just premiered on the Official YouTube Channel for Piercing Ken. This year I started in Brooklyn Commons and headed so a few other locations in Downtown Manhattan on what amounted to being a very, very cold night. Please enjoy the first longish video for Phase One of this fun adventuring.

I tend to mentally document the journey in phases with each day that I do something becoming a different phase. Yesterday was a very productive Phase Three and my plan is to get a couple more on Friday for a Phase Four. Here is a rundown of the stops that have already been made for this year: Brooklyn Commons, New York Stock Exchange, South Street Seaport, Brookfield Place, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, Bryant Park, Fox News Corporation, 1221 Avenue Of The Americas, Radio City Music Hall, Lotte New York Palace Hotel, Bloomberg Headquarters, American Museum of Natural History, New York Public Library, Rockefeller Center, Penn Station, Penn Plaza, Madison Square Park and Gramercy Park.

Still on my list are Washington Square Park, Grand Army Plaza, Luna Park and a few in Bay Ridge if they are set up this year. A full Historical Playlist can be found below for those interested. This list helps the YouTube Channel but short videos also go to TikTok and Instagram with additional photos on Gram and the website when I can sit down and cobble another post together.

Full Christmas In NYC Historical Playlist

Wrapping up it’s my hope that you are enjoying this special slice of New York City during a truly amazing time. Please be sure to subscribe to those channel feeds and engage with some topical comments so I know you are out there and maybe even heading to some of the locations yourself.

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Presenting The 82nd Golden Globe Awards Nominations

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Earlier today, the 82nd Golden Globe Awards released their nominations in a press conference that was hosting by both Morris Chestnut and Mindy Kaling. Sadly I wasn’t able to view this myself but I culled all of the important information from a few sources to be able to present the full rundown of the nominations. The ceremony will be broadcast on January 5th and now without any further adieu, here are the nominations.

2025 Golden Globes Nominees:
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series — Drama
Donald Glover, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”
Jake Gyllenhaal, “Presumed Innocent”
Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”
Eddie Redmayne, “The Day of the Jackal”
Hiroyuki Sanada, “Sh?gun”
Billy Bob Thornton, “Landman”

Best Original Score — Motion Picture
Volker Bertelmann, “Conclave”
Daniel Blumberg, “The Brutalist”
Kris Bowers, “The Wild Robot”
Clément Ducol, Camille, “Emilia Pérez”
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, “Challengers”
Hans Zimmer, “Dune: Part Two”
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