This writers’ strike has gone too far! Sure I sympathize with their original motives, to get residuals from the newer forms of media such as dvd rentals and online viewing, but enough is enough! When one group of people can convince a whole industry that they cannot continue to function, despite the fact [...]
Amid the uncertainty of the writers’ strike, FX continues business as usual. They have announced that production will start in New York early next year on Season 2 of their highly-acclaimed new series, Damages, the one with Glenn Close. Along with that, FX has ordered an additional 13-episode season for a total of 26 episodes [...]
Ken Osmond, best known as Eddie Haskell on Leave it to Beaver, a 1960’s family sitcom, is suing SAG, The Screen Actor’s Guild, for more than $8 million in residuals collected from foreign markets that have not been passed along to the actors involved. He has filed his suit as a class action in [...]
The Emmys were announced last night and the results are highlighted below:
Nominations:
Outstanding Comedy Series
Entourage
The Office
30 Rock
Two And A Half Men
Ugly Betty
my pick of these was The Office
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Outstanding Drama Series
Boston Legal
Grey’s Anatomy
Heroes
House
The Sopranos
my pick of these was Heroes
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Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
Ricky Gervais, Extras
Tony Shalhoub, Monk
Steve Carell, The Office
Alec Baldwin, [...]
I tried Amazon’s Unbox when my dvr missed a couple of “The Closer” episodes. I got a pretty good deal and figured it’s about the next best thing to getting them free, whether on tv or the web.
The contract NBC has with iTunes ends this year and they are moving to Amazon’s Unbox to make [...]
Lauren Upton, Miss Teen USA South Carolina contestant and 3rd runner up, got her chance on NBC’s Today show to “re-answer” the question she so terribly muffed at the pageant. She is quoted as saying:
“I would love to re-answer that question,” Upton said. “Well personally, my friends and I, we know exactly where the [...]
Rumors have been flying lately that Johnny Depp is interested in playing Barnabas in a screen version of the 1960’s soap opera, Dark Shadows. The beloved television show has been remade once in the 1980’s and a pilot was shot, with no success, in recent years.
For those interested, the annual Dark Shadows convention is held [...]
Tired of setting up your favorite shows or tuning in and finding out you missed the beginning or ending because it started early or late? Well CBS feels your pain and they are instituting a service whereby you can get an email or a text message if a program will be delayed. It [...]
So many things in the news these days:
No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, you gotta admit that Ann has kept the spotlight on herself and her books’ sales must be going through the roof!
Perhaps Paris should write a book – I’m sure it would soar to the top of the best sellers [...]
I knew it was raining here a lot lately but didn’t know just how bad the area was taking it – according to CNN, lots of bridges are out to the north and in the Hill Country and since the rain hasn’t stopped yet, there’s no telling how bad it’ll get. Thank goodness I [...]
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