Dissonant Housewife Hatcher does her Carrie Underwood imitation, backed by James Denton. / Ray Mickshaw / FOX
Idol Gives Back returned for a second year last night. Though a massive national charity show is never exactly going to be a political statement, I continue to be impressed that Idol chooses to focus on poverty issues, abroad …
Continuing with the theme of my last post: maybe people get such a thrill from watching YouTube videos of bad things happening to TV news reporters because TV news gets such a kick out of endlessly replaying videos of bad things happening to other people. I’ve had cable news on in the background all day while taking care of other …
If you haven’t seen it yet, Gawker has posted a three-minute clip reel that may be the last word in bad-things-happening-to-local-TV-reporters videos. Please, treat yourself; you won’t regret it.
The embarrassing local news clip has become such a popular mainstay of YouTube that one of them became a plot point in the pilot of Back to …
According to the Hollywood Reporter, HBO may be close to naming Sue Naegle of United Talent Agency to replace Carolyn Strauss as its chief of entertainment. [Update: HR confirms the hire.]
Now all the pay channel needs to do is finds some, well, entertainment. Says TV Guide, the cupboards are sufficiently bare—post-strike, post-12 …
Michael Johns rocks the ascot again with an Aerosmith cover. / Frank Micelotta / FOX
My reviews of last night’s Idol Gives Back week performances are now up on time.com. Just because this is a charity week does not obligate me to go all Paula on the contestants, so I’ll say upfront that “inspirational” songs did not really inspire the …
Today, Corporate Press Release Theater™ makes equal time for a non-corporate press release. The Parents Television Council has lodged a new decency complaint, this time against America’s Next Top Model:
LOS ANGELES (April 8, 2008) – The Parents Television Council ™ filed an indecency complaint over CW’s “America’s Next Top
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This week’s edition of American Idol will attempt to raise consciousness about, and propose solutions to, one of the most tragic problems afflicting our planet: that there are not enough hours of American Idol already programmed on Fox every week.
Last year, you’ll recall, Idol Gives Back week ended with a surprise non-elimination …
So over here you’ve got CNN, which has a big international newsgathering organization, but whose corporate daddy (and mine), Time Warner, is like, too totally cheap to buy it a sibling broadcast network, like all the other kids have, which is, like, totally unfair.
And over here, you have CBS, the network that has a decades-long …
The Illinois, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1956 / Photo: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION
Or whatever you would call it when the urge to put up very tall buildings won’t go down. Saudi Prince al-Walid bin Talal is proposing to build a mile high tower near Jeddah. Actually, word of this project has been kicking around for a while. The engineering …
Yamaguchi: skating without the blades and the triple lutz. / ABC
“Now I’ve seen everything.” You say that, every now and again, right, but of course it’s a joke, since if you fiddle with the random premutations enough there are always things you haven’t seen. An elephant in a cocktail dress playing Scrabble, for instance. You haven’t …
It’s out! / BRAVO
Well, I wasn’t expecting this one. Project Runway—not the reruns, mind you, the actual series—is moving from Bravo to Lifetime. Yes, that Lifetime. The one with Army Wives and the Nora Roberts movies.
Excerpts from the Weinstein Company press release and a few thoughts after the jump:
Kiele Sanchez on tonight’s episode of Expose Samantha Who? / ABC
The show: Samantha Who?
Returns: Tonight, ABC, 9:32 p.m. E.T.
Episode description: “‘The Girlfriend’ – Samantha is forced to move back into the apartment when she discovers that she could be evicted for subletting it to Todd – who has just invited his new girlfriend, …
