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The second season of Pushing Daisies, ABC’s most visible wound from the Writers’ Strike, finally bowed last night. If you like it I hope you had a DVR handy – its sojourn on your screen may be painfully brief. The four-month strike caused weeks of repulsive reality re-runs and left [...] Last night, this country was subjected to one of the most boring, incompetent, ego-saturated intellectual vacuums in the history of this or any other sentient race. When you’re sixty you’re expected to be a little slow and forgetful. After fifty-nine years of unfettered practice, aided by the cream of this glorious nation’s performing community, the [...] After her recent efforts to help the nation become sufficiently inebriated to endure her singing – if not the mere fact of her unbidden existence – Jessica Simpson’s latest musical pop-up book, a loose assemblage of atonal discord known to the three people who could care as, “Do You Know?” was released today. Or should [...] In an interview that appears today on Forbes.com, ten-time Emmy Award-winner Steven Bochco becomes the latest witness to Network greed. He’s decided to take his new drama series, “Raising the Bar,” to the cable station TNT, instead of to one of the Nets. Mr Bocho accuses the Networks of devolving into purveyors of programming he [...] General Motors announced yesterday that it’s dropping the Oscar and Emmy ad campaigns that have been a fixture of those ceremonies for over ten years. Personally, I couldn’t be happier. The Oscars are a glittering celebration of a uniquely American industry that brings enjoyment and fun to every being on Earth, supports thousands of American [...] In news that hits rather too close to home for my taste, and which may also be a harbinger of oncoming doom for the US market, the news is coming in that the British commercial broadcast network, ITV, might be acquired by one of the largest names in ‘Reality’ programming – Endemol. Shares in the [...] It seems that pop ‘”hunk” turned Actor, Justin Timberlake, is being seriously considered for the role as Host of the 2009 Academy Awards, according to a report in the National Enquirer. Those in charge at AMPAS [Oscar's Dads] were reportedly “wowed” by Timberlake’s natural, funny performance hosting the ESPY Awards last month, and [...] It seems that pop ‘”hunk” turned Actor, Justin Timberlake, is being seriously considered for the role as Host of the 2009 Academy Awards, according to a report in the National Enquirer. Those in charge at AMPAS [Oscar's Dads] were reportedly “wowed” by Timberlake’s natural, funny performance hosting the ESPY Awards last month, and apparently [...] After the AMPTP’s petulant withdrawl from last week’s talks there comes the disconcerting news that NBC’s ratings are being so affected by the [even poorer than normal] programming they are using to fill the gaps, they’ve been driven to refunding the Advertisers for low-rated commercials. They’re paying an average of $500,000 each for missing the [...] That grinding noise you can hear in the background is the suits in charge of American TV scraping the bottom of an already over-mined barrel in a desperate effort to fill the airwaves and make people watch. Their latest blend of peerless stupidity and collective intellectual bankruptcy is to be called “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. [...] |
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