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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (season 3)

 * Nominator(s): MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 11:07, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

And now, season 3! This season contains probably the most famous of LWT episodes, Donald Trump, which broke the HBO viewership record for any piece of content. Also, why not forgive $15 million in medical debt just to beat Oprah? MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 11:07, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Pseud 14

 * a second Peabody Award -- for the lead, since the first win seems to be for the previous season, and you are listing all awards won this season, perhaps only mention it as a Peabody Award.
 * that the show is "makes people dumb" -- that the show "makes people dumb"
 * 62 million views on Facebook -- worth linking Facebook
 * Great job as usual. Pseud 14 (talk) 15:41, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @Pseud 14, all fixed- thank you so much! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 21:12, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Pseud 14 (talk) 21:29, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Comments by Epicgenius
Reserving a spot for later. Hopefully this is of similar quality to the season 2 list, which was very good.

Briefly: – Epicgenius (talk) 21:09, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Lead section, paragraph 2: "Episodes in the season were credited with influencing US law and culture, a phenomenon dubbed the "John Oliver effect": the main segment of episode three, titled "Donald Trump", set an HBO viewership record and received widespread media attention; in episode fourteen, which covered debt buyers, Oliver forgave almost $15 million in medical debt for 9,000 Americans." - Perhaps this should be two sentences.


 * Fixed- thanks! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 00:28, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Production:
 * Paragraph 2: Not really an issue, but I remember seeing these blurbs a lot on NYC buses. Are there any other examples of blurbs, though?
 * Paragraph 3: It might be worth noting that Oliver did end up going into depth into Trump, though I'm not 100% sure. After all, Last Week Tonight segments about Donald Trump mentions that there are multiple episodes in this season specifically about his campaign.
 * Reception:
 * Critical reception: "others found that these quips are what made the show compelling" - I'd change "are" to "were" to match the tense of the rest of the sentence.
 * Ratings: "Donald Trump" set an HBO viewership record, according to a spokesperson from the network" - Would it be sufficient to say ""Donald Trump" set an HBO viewership record", or is the spokesperson mentioned since it's disputed? (The main article on this episode says By the end of March, the segment had been viewed 23.3 million times on YouTube and 62 million times on Facebook, for a total of 85 million times on the two social media platforms, making its viewership "a record for any piece of HBO content".)
 * Awards: "for the segment "F*ck 2016"" - What episode was this?
 * Influence: ""Donald Drumpf" (a joke about the surname of Trump's ancestors)" - The parenthetical seems unnecessary since it's already described in "Critical reception".
 * Influence: Would it be worth splitting the medical debt segment into another paragraph?
 * That's it from me. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:01, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Para 2: I didn't want to add more than one quote just because they're all essentially the same message: "LWT bad". Besides, one could look at the poster in the infobox to see other quotes
 * Ratings: the "according to" is because it's a quote from a spokesperson in the episode's own article. To my knowledge, HBO (like many other streaming services) doesn't release data reports, so this is all according to that one spokesperson.
 * Influence point 2: The other season articles just have it in one paragraph, and splitting it would result in a three line para. IMO, doesn't look very clean
 * @Epicgenius: replies above, everything else was fixed, thank you! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 21:38, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
 * These are fair points. Regarding the quotes, I was just wondering if more existed; that wasn't meant as a request to add more of them. Anyway, I support this nomination. – Epicgenius (talk) 21:43, 15 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Made a couple of tiny changes which it was easier to just make than list here - more than happy to Support -- ChrisTheDude (talk) 06:55, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

NØ
I'm seeing three supports so I'll get the other stuff done
 * Image review - pass: The poster image is appropriately licensed with a source link provided.
 * Source review - pass:
 * I haven't heard of The Mary Sue but it does not appear to be used for any controversial claims here.
 * Other sources appear reliable for the purposes they are used. Spotcheck upon request.--NØ 09:41, 20 September 2023 (UTC)


 * Many thanks! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) <small style="font-size:45%;">(still no) 11:05, 20 September 2023 (UTC)


 * AK
 * Did some copy-editing that was too minor to mention here.
 * "Last Week Tonight aired on Sundays at 11 pm, totaling 30 episodes in season three" These two clauses aren't logically connected, and "Totaling 30 episodes" sounds weird. I'd suggest "and had a total of 30 episodes".
 * "average high" sounds weird.
 * All I got. AryKun (talk) 15:09, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
 * @AryKun, thank you very much- all fixed! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) <small style="font-size:66%;">(also not me) <small style="font-size:45%;">(still no) 22:47, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Okay, support on prose. AryKun (talk) 13:27, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

GWL
That should be it! Relatively short article so there's not much to talk about; the list looks fine to me.  Gerald WL  05:07, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * , all fixed, with some replies above. Thank you very much! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) <small style="font-size:66%;">(also not me) <small style="font-size:45%;">(still no) 11:21, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Supporting~ :)  Gerald WL  07:45, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Comments

 * Support A Thousand Doors (talk &#124; contribs) 09:31, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Giants2008 ( Talk ) 22:29, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
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