Tag Archives: Television

And you can wear out your welcome very quickly. After twenty more episodes of Punk’d, his celebrity-Candid Camera show on MTV, no one in Hollywood will trust him, everyone will eye him nervously thinking they are about to get publicly douched, and he could easily become persona non grata: MTV …

It’s probably for the best that Pamela Anderson is single again – she has a new cartoon series: “I’m very proud of Stripperella,” Anderson says. “She’s my alter ego — strong, smart and sexy and, let’s face it, a bit of a slut.” The woman understands her appeal. the upcoming …

So here I found myself sucked into American Idol 2 this last season, watching intently and commenting inanely on the ins and outs of the competition, and really caring about the voting like millions of other boobs. I actually like Ruben AND Clay. And, to my astonishment, I found myself …

Ang Lee Hulks Out!

RIAA head Hilary Rosen to become talking head on CNBC: Rosen, who will officially step down from her powerful RIAA post at the end of the month, has inked a deal to be a commentator for CNBC, she recently told music industry executives in an e-mail, a copy of which …

Oprah Windfall’s book club is back – now she is focusing on classics to turn into instant bestsellers: Oprah Winfrey (news) was sitting under an oak tree in California last summer, reading John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden” and loving it, when she realized that just telling a few friends about …

The most remote country in the world? Bhutan, which didn’t have public hospitals, schools, paper currency, roads or electricity until the 1950s, no diplomatic relations with any other country until 1961, and the first invited western visitors came in 1974, for the coronation of the Dragon King Jigme Singye Wangchuc. …

TV news giant David Brinkley dies at 82: For nearly half a century, Brinkley was one of the dominant faces in American broadcasting, first as a co-anchor of NBC television’s evening news program and later as host of the Sunday current affairs program on ABC, “This Week with David Brinkley.” …

Fascinating copyright debate on the NewsHour between Larry Lessig and the RIAA’s Matt Oppenheim: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued four students on April 3 for allegedly operating music-sharing Web sites, accusing them of enabling large-scale copyright theft. Although the RIAA initially asked for $98 billion in damages, …

First AOL and Microsoft, now TiVo and Gemstar-TV Guide International are dismissing litigation and making nice: The two companies announced Monday that they have dismissed a lawsuit Gemstar filed against TiVo in early 2000, which alleged that TiVo’s digital video recorder service infringed on Gemstar’s patent for electronic programming guide …