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Well, it’s official; The Writers will go on strike from early Monday after their negotiators recommended a walkout over royalties. A move that could shutter late-night TV shows immediately. The WGA vote was unanimous and the strike starts from 12:01 a.m. PT on Monday. The walkout will be the first [...] It’s not even Thanksgiving but Fox has just announced that 90% of their advertising real estate for next year’s Super Bowl is already sold out. The game doesn’t start for three months, yet less than ten, 30-second spots are left…At a mere $2.7m a piece. The Super Bowl attracts what is arguably the largest single [...] I hate reality shows with the passionate intensity of a thousand imploding suns. When your carefully screened and selected cast are giving mind-numbingly inane tests in which their every slightest thought is provided by members of the WGA, and everything they eat, wear or touch just ‘happens’ to be smothered with the logo of a [...] Hollywood Reporter, June 13, 2007:“Veteran comedy director James Burrows, who helmed the pilot for Fox’s upcoming comedy series ‘Back to You,’ has come aboard the show as an Executive Producer and house Director. “Back to You,” from 20th Century Fox Television and Levitan/Lloyd Prods., stars Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton as co-anchors who reunite at [...] July 10, 2006: “LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter): A federal judge in Colorado has handed the entertainment industry a big win in its protracted legal battle against a handful of small companies that offer sanitized versions of theatrical releases on DVD.” The Judge said that companies who take a movie, cut out the swearing and any [...] July 8, 2006. Let’s begin by stating the obvious: American television is about money. First, last and always. Not art, not entertainment, and certainly not people. Actors and Audiences are treated with equal disdain and viewed only as pawns with which a Network can serve and placate its only true love — The advertising community [...] November 17, 2005 This situation is almost beneath parody. A group of overpaid, under-worked, pseudo-intellectuals in designer suits sit in gleaming tower blocks, dreaming up shows of such staggering inanity they wouldn’t challenge the intellectual powers of a hamster; Then another group of suits, suitably adorned with the prerequisite pony-tails, gleefully embark on countless hours [...] Thursday, June 23, 2005. “Said the Actress, ‘I don’t think that’s what needed to win an Oscar’ Actress Lindsay Lohan braved the sunshine to walk the red carpet at the “Herbie: Fully Loaded” premiere on Sunday. In an interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush, teen star Lindsay Lohan says she will “never” do a nude [...] |
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