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CBS News has decided to make some changes that could finally raise its perennially last-place morning program to a more competitive location in the ratings. The plan is to abandon the current format that lets Affiliate stations interrupt with local news between 7 and 8 a.m. NBC’s “Today” and ABC’s “Good Morning America” both include [...] I would expect to read something like this in a novel by Dickens, but apparently it’s rather more recent… It seems CBS are so obsessed with the precious ‘bottom line,’ they decided to indulge in a little child labor. A production crew recently stranded 40 children in a New Mexico ghost town for over a [...] Variety is reporting that only weeks after being fired, former NBC Entertainment President, Kevin Reilly, has been hired by Fox to do the same job for them instead. For the second time. On the upside, part of Mr. Reilly’s duties will involve finding new ways to use Fox’s considerable output online. Given Mr. Murdoch’s seemingly [...] Oscar Wilde once said, “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” And this view is reinforced in a sickening trend that’s developing in the media, of which both those who perpetrate it, and those in the media who enable it should be ashamed: Negative Hype. Not long ago, performers [...] Hot, or at least luke-warm, on the designer heels of Ms. Jolie’s repulsive efforts to neuter the very press on which her entire notoriety was built and depends comes news that the faded, lip-syncher Victoria Beckham is doing the same thing. Anyone misguided enough to want to experience monosyllabic discourse with this C-List egocentric is [...] After 20 years of good-humored silence, 7-Eleven have decided to join in on the joke and will be redecorating twelve of their stores as Kwik-E-Marts, as part of the promotional campaign for the Simpsons movie that opens on July 27th. The decorated stores will sell KrustyO’s frosted cereal, Buzz Cola, Kwik-E-Mart Squishees and even comics [...] In case you thought American Network TV couldn’t possibly get any worse, news is coming in that VH1 are preparing a reality show based on the ABC monster hit, ‘Ugly Betty.’ The idea is to find out what would happen if unattractive women were allowed into the narcissistic snake pit that is the sad reality [...] British media stalwart, The Guardian, is reporting that Viacom are making final preparations to launch a European version of their ‘Black Entertainment TV’ network. Due to begin later this year, the channel will be based in London and have original content, supplemented with American shows including College Hill, 106 and Park, and Lil’ Kim. One [...] NBC announced today that its online video player has served a third of a billion video streams since launching last October. Never one to be outdone, Mr. Murdoch’s ‘MySpace’ just launched the Minisode Network. Shows such as T.J. Hooker, Charlie’s Angels and Diff’rent Strokes culled from Fox’s vast archives, condensed into about ten minutes and [...] The Courts have made their judgment: The rights to O.J. Simpson’s autobiographical re-telling of Nicole Simpson’s brutal and untimely death, which was due to be called, “If I Did It,” are to be transferred to the Goldman family. The family then apparently intend to rename the book, “Confessions of a Double Murderer,” and publish it. [...] |
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