Tag Archives: Television

New “dramality” show on UPN looking for next hip-hop star with Missy Elliott: We’re currently searching the U.S. for aspiring performers to go coast-to-coast with Grammy Award-winning artist Missy Elliott on one of her upcoming concert tours. A handful of selected men and women will travel, live together on the …

Are you concerned that you haven’t seen enough of Carmen Electra lately? Well fret no more: MTV’s original movie Monster Island premieres March 7 at 7:00 p.m. ET: Mutant radioactive bugs attack VJs, Carmen Electra and an island full of MTV contest winners in this tongue-in-cheek tribute to B-movies, monster …

Fox’s new reality show – if you consider Eden “real” – is Forever Eden, which debuts tonight and tomorrow at 9PM ET, and will assume its regular slot Thursday, March 18. Described as: a small group of real people willing to take an “indefinite break” from their everyday lives to …

After downplaying the glam – and isn’t that really what the show’s all about? – for the last two years due to 9/11 and then the war in Iraq, the Academy Awards promise to be in full glitz mode this year: Celebrities will be strutting the red carpet again after …

I like Crystal as host: he is quick on his feet, is enough of an insider to be “of” the industry, but as a comedian is enough of an outsider to not pull his punches: When he hosts the Oscars for the eighth time, he’ll serve as master of ceremonies, …

The Academy Awards are tomorrow night – are you “grippped by award fever” as this BBC story suggests? I didn’t think so. However, after taking many years off in my young adulthood, I do find myself interested in the results, to a certain extent, but moreso of the awards shows …

What if P2P was 3-D? Dave Chappelle asks – Ron Jeremy, among others, answers.

Ooh, the staff isn’t going to like this: A report commissioned by Britain’s opposition Conservative Party calls for the British Broadcasting Corp. to be broken up and gradually weaned away from dependence on license fees paid by television viewers. The BBC’s charter expires at the end of 2006, and the …

I am not a fan of the reject episodes of American Idol, being that they trade on cruelty, delusion, excrementitious talent, confrontation, and more cruelty. I think the reaction William Hung has received is due to his enthusiastic guilelessness in the face of rudely dismissive criticism from the AI judges, …

We watched Christina Aguilera host Saturday Night Live last night with a fair amount of apprehension. They allayed some of those fears in the monologue, confronting the skank issue head-on by having Jimmy Fallon telling her to, you know, “dress like Christina Aguilera,” and by showing a past Weekend Update …