Author: Lew Irwin
Germany's Pirate Party Suffers Major Defeat
Germany's Pirate Party, whose platform calls for a far-reaching change in copyright laws, suffered a disastrous defeat in the country's parliamentary elections on Sunday, failing to win a single seat in Germany's Bundestag. Four years...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 23rd September 2013
Npr Responds To Critics Of Al Jazeera America Sponsorship
National Public Radio acknowledged on Tuesday that it had received numerous complaints from viewers over sponsorship ads by the recently launched Al Jazeera America. Some listeners are upset, accusing NPR of being unpatriotic or naive....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 18th September 2013
Now You See Me No. 1 On Home Video
Lionsgate/Summit's surprise hit Now You See Me, a low-budget thriller that took in nearly $120 million at the domestic box office, debuted at No. 1 on the home-video sales charts -- DVD and Blu-ray --...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12th September 2013
Football Tackles Ratings Records
All of that talk a week or so ago about how professional football may be inflicting permanent brain damage on most of its players seemed to have no effect whatsoever on the sports' ratings. The...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 11th September 2013
Journalists For Al Jazeera English Arrested In Cairo
Four journalists covering the current strife in Egypt for Al Jazeera English have been arrested in Cairo amid claims by the current government that their reports were biased in favor for ousted President Mohamed Morsi....
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 30th August 2013
Fox's Epic Debuts In First Place On Home Video Charts
20th Century Fox's animated Epic sold more DVDs and Blu-ray Discs than any other home video release last week, according to the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert chart. The studio's home entertainment unit said that 40...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 29th August 2013
Top Ten Shows Week Of Aug. 19-25
The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research: 1. Under the Dome, CBS, 6.6/11; 2. 60 Minutes, CBS, 5.7/11; 2. America's Got Talent (Wednesday), NBC, 5.7/9; 4. NCIS, CBS, 5.3/9; 5. NFL...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 28th August 2013
Fired Fox News Exec Threatens To Fight Ailes And Co.
rian Lewis, the former chief lieutenant to Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, will apparently not be making a quiet exit from the company as he first indicated. Fired last week for cause because of what...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 28th August 2013
Ken Howard Wins Sag-aftra Election
Veteran actor Ken Howard had overwhelmingly defeated a challenge by former NYPD Blue star Esai Morales to win another term as president of SAG-AFTRA. Morales is part of a group of members called Membership First...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th August 2013
Movie Reviews: Jobs
Most critics are expressing obvious disappointment that Jobs, starring Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs, didn't turn out better than it did. And they're primarily blaming Kutcher for that. Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune writes,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 16th August 2013
America's Got Talent Drops Below 10 Million Viewers
NBC's America's Got Talent remained the top-rated show of the night on Wednesday, but it fell below 10 million viewers for the first time this season (to 9.28 million), down 16 percent from a week...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15th August 2013
"Lost" Jerry Lewis Film Debuts On Youtube
Ordinarily it's a cause for celebration when a long lost film is found, but it won't be for Jerry Lewis, who has done his best over the years to keep his The Day the Clown...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 12th August 2013
Little Promotion For Al-jazeera America Launch
Although Al-Jazeera America is due to launch on August 20, the network has done little to promote its arrival as an alternative to Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, and HLN, Politico.com columnist Dylan Byers observed today...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 5th August 2013
Glee Plans Episode On Death Of Costar Monteith
Fox network executives and the producers of their hit series Glee said Thursday that they plan to devote the third episode of the new season to addressing the death last month of co-star Cory Monteith,...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 2nd August 2013
Chen To Grill Gries When She's Evicted From Big Brother House
ig Brother host Julie Chen is preparing to face down houseguest Aaryn Gries when Gries is eliminated as a contestant on the reality series, Chen said during an interview at the Television Critics Association summer...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 1st August 2013
First African-american To Head Movie Academy -- And She's A Woman
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the annual Oscar awards, has selected veteran film marketer Cheryl Boone Isaacs as its next president. Isaacs will become the first African-American to serve...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 31st July 2013
Movie Reviews: The Smurfs 2
Last time around The Smurfs got lousy reviews but managed to take in $563.7 million worldwide. This time around, The Smurfs 2 is getting even worse reviews but is still expected to win big at...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 31st July 2013
Check Out Movies Online Free From Your Public Library
Patrons of many public libraries are able to download ebooks on their smartphones or tablets, saving them the hassle of driving to the library and checking them out. Now a company called Hoopla wants to...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th July 2013
Catholics Upset With Letterman's Pope Jokes
Jokes about Pope Francis's visit to Brazil have got David Letterman in hot water with some Catholic viewers, including those in his own studio audience. Noting that the Pope had arrived in Rio as part...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25th July 2013
Movie Reviews: The Conjuring
It's certainly rare when a horror flick is even screened for critics in advance of its opening. It's rarer still when such a movie receives overwhelmingly positive reviews. But such is the case with director...
Rolling Stone Condemned For Boston Bomber Cover
The decision of Rolling Stone magazine to feature Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover has triggered widespread outcry. On the right, the conservative Breitbart.com commented, By using that once revered space for an...
Iron Man Makes Downey Highest-paid Actor
Landing the role of Iron Man has turned out to be as lucrative for Robert Downey Jr. as winning a national lottery. According to Forbes magazine, Downey became the highest-paid actor over the past 12...
Mlb's All-star Game Scores For Fox
Fox's coverage of Tuesday night's Major League Baseball All-Star game attracted an average of 10.26 million viewers, about the same as last year, according to overnight results from Nielsen Research. The final hour of the...
Pacific Rim: A Flop By Any Other Name?
It wasn't quite so big a flop as some writers had expected, but when a movie costs around $200 million to make and market and earns an estimated $38.3 million domestically in its opening weekend,...
Secretly Recorded Talk Embarrasses Rupert Murdoch
A secretly recorded talk to reporters working for his London tabloid The Sun reveals that Rupert Murdoch regretted the decision by News Corp's management and standards committee to hand over email and other documents that...
Protest Mounted To Remove Big Brother Contestant
The talent agency representing Big Brother contestant Aaryn Gries has dropped the actress following a flood of complaints about her remarks concerning blacks, gays and women during the reality show's live Internet feed (but removed...
The Heat -- Hotter Than Expected
Many moviegoers looking to escape the heat of summer found it in The Heat at their multiplexes. The Melissa McCarthy-Sandra Bullock comedy, which analysts thought would battle the Channing Tatum-Jamie Foxx thriller-comedy White House Down...
Canceled Soaps To Receive Test Run On Oprah's Channel
All My Children and One Life to Live will be given another life to live on television again following a deal between the two soap operas' producers, Prospect Park, and the Oprah Winfrey channel OWN....
Frank Rich Blasts David Gregory
Former New York Times critic/columnist Frank Rich, who now writes for New York magazine, has become the latest to lay into Meet the Press host David Gregory for his accusatory question directed at Guardian reporter...
The Dome Captures 13.14 Million Viewers
Some 13.14 million viewers tuned in Monday night for the opening episode of The Dome, the Stephen King/Steven Spielberg 13-week miniseries. By contrast, Game 6 of the Stanley Cup hockey championship on NBC attracted...
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Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
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Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
![Dekker talks to us about writing with Jose Gonzales, making headway in the U.S and the difficulties associated with wearing a hat! [EXCLUSIVE]](/images/home/homepage/dekker-abof-a.jpg "Dekker talks to us about writing with Jose Gonzales, making headway in the U.S and the difficulties associated with wearing a hat! [EXCLUSIVE]")
Dekker talks to us about writing with Jose Gonzales, making headway in the U.S and the difficulties associated with wearing a hat! [EXCLUSIVE]
Ahead of the imminent release of his second solo album - Dekker, aka Brookln Dekker, took time out to let us know about the musical project he...
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