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In news that may seriously depress most of you [And if it doesn't, it should,] NBC has announced they’ve ordered twelve more televisual insults from Howie Mandel. The show, ‘Howie Do It,’ is a US/Canadian co-production, organized between HDI Productions, Hallock Healey Entertainment, Suddenly See-More Productions, 3-Arts Entertainment, Canwest Broadcasting and [...]
In welcome [and long overdue!] news from the, ‘Yes, Scarlett, there is a God!’ department, we read that one of the most shameful insults ever visited upon the collected intellect of an innocent and unmedicated audience, has finally been put out of our misery – Knight Rider has been canceled. [...]
So it appears we are to be treated to two Turkeys this year? The one you’re all enjoying today, and the remorseless fiasco of unvarnished incompetence that will be known to those few who survived its infliction as, “Rosie Live.” Less than 5-million people bothered to watch, all [...] NBC Direct, the “free” service from NBC that lets you download full episodes of shows like The Office, 30 Rock, Las Vegas, Biggest Loser and more, has opened on NBC’s main site. Currently in that annoying cop-out known as “Beta,” and originally scheduled to open last month, the new video service lets you download [...] After yesterday’s malevolent demands by the AMPTP that every word a Writer may have even contemplated committing to paper belonged to them and must be surrendered immediately or incur a Fatwah, we reach another low-point in the course of any strike; The Opportunists. The picket lines on the East Coast are rapidly becoming clogged and [...] This should be titled, “Mediation Won’t Work…So Let’s Try Fear”… Members of the Western arm of the WGA whose unproduced scripts were shopped or bought by a Studio now have until tomorrow [Friday] to give those scripts to the Union for their ‘Script Validation’ program. This is an attempt to keep track of possible rogue [...] Now it’s getting ugly. When Writers don’t work, the shows don’t happen. And the fall-out is becoming depressing – All the folks who work the cameras, lighting, sound, make up, wardrobe, catering and a dozen other fields are getting caught in the net. And some are getting fired. The scripts might not come…but the mortgage [...] It seems the Writers strike is already bearing some fruit. First, the Producers are getting worried [That's good.] Second, some of the most mediocre examples of the television medium will vanish, or fade to re-runs as their scripts disappear. ‘Desperate Housewives,” “Back to You,” “‘Til Death,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Old Christine,” and others [...] Well, it’s on. As of 12.01am PT today, WGA members downed tools and formed a picket line. This could be long, and will certainly be both costly and acrimonious. But the political camps are already seizing on the strike as a platform for their own campaigns; Sen. Barack Obama, [D-Ill.,] already declared his position and [...] |
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