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Redbox Testing Higher Prices
Kiosk operator Redbox is conducting tests in at least five markets to determine customers' interest in videogame and Blu-ray rentals and whether they would be willing to pay more than the current $1.00 per night...
Comcast, Nbc Win Over Latino Critic
Comcast has won over at least one of the Congressional witness who had testified against its merger with NBC Universal. Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, who had told a hearing by...
Hulu Confirms Plans To Launch Pay-tv Online Service
As expected, Hulu, the very-distant No. 2 video website behind YouTube, announced on Tuesday that it plans to launch a $10-per-month subscription service that will stream hundreds of TV episodes and movies to its customers....
Actor/director/coach Corey Allen Dead At 75
Corey Allen, best known for his role as Buzz in the James Dean starrer Rebel Without a Cause , but who appeared in numerous movies and TV series in the 1950s and '60s before becoming...
Univision Records Its Highest Ratings Ever
Sunday's World Cup match between Mexico and Argentina, won by Argentina 3-1, attracted the biggest audience in the history of the Spanish-language network, Nielsen Research said on Monday. According to the ratings company, more than...
Cyrus Continues To Sell Out Theaters
In limited release, Fox Searchlight's Cyrus expanded from 4 to 17 screens and remained the top draw on a per-theater basis, averaging $17,600, for a total of about $300,000, bringing its ten-day total to $565,000....
Movie Reviews Grown Ups
Grown Ups stars Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Chris Rock and David Spade. That's probably all you need to know in order to make a decision about whether to see the movie, so reviews...
Fcc Delays Decision On Nbc-comcast Merger
For a second time, the Federal Communications Commission has stopped the 180-day "clock" limiting its review of the Comcast-NBC merger. The commission said on Thursday that neither Comcast nor NBC had used the correct electronic...
Abc Scores Decisive Ratings Victory With Nba
ABC's hoop dreams came true last week as its coverage of Thursday's seventh and deciding game of the NBA Finals, in which the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics, drew 28.2 million viewers --...
Toy Story 3 Burns Up The Box Office
Virtually all of the top films beat Sunday's estimates, final box-office results indicated on Monday. Toy Story 3 wound up with $110.31 million. The Karate Kid dropped just 46 percent to $29.88 million and crossed...
Sheen's Plea Deal Smoked Out
If a plea agreement between an Aspen, CO prosecutor and Charlie Sheen becomes undone, the production start date for Two and a Half Men could be delayed, the New York Post reported today (Thursday). The...
Protesters Beget Anti-protesters Over Dolphin Documentary
Following a decision by movie theaters in Japan to cancel their planned screenings of a documentary about the slaughter of dolphins in a Japanese village, a group of 55 Japanese journalists, academics and film directors...
Shrek Props Up Falling Box Office
Four new movies may have opened wide last weekend, but none of them could topple Shrek Forever After as the box-office leader. It was the third consecutive weekend win for the green ogre, who won...
Vampires Rule At Mtv Movie Awards
Vampires drew blood at the MTV Movie Awards Sunday night as Twilight New Moon won the best movie award and the prize for best male performance went to Robert Pattinson and the one for best...
Will "Sequelitis" Harm Summer Box Office?
Following the poor Memorial Day performance by the box office, some analysts are expressing concern that the summer could turn out to be a loser for the studios. Today's Hollywood Reporter suggested that the box...
Islam Vs. Tv
The clash of cultures represented by conservative Islam on the one hand and modern telecommunications on the other appears to be escalating. On Tuesday, five female news readers on the satellite Arab news channel al-Jazeera...
Summer Starts Off With The Blahs
The summer season got off to an inauspicious start on Thursday as Fox's summer powerhouse, So You Think You Can Dance, averaged 7.49 million viewers. While that was good enough to beat the competition, it...
Spanish-language Station Tops In L.a.
In yet another demonstration of the robustness of the Hispanic market, Nielsen reported on Wednesday that Univision's KMEX-TV was the top-rated station in the Los Angeles market among adults 18-49 during the May sweeps. The...
Report "Complicated" Relationship Killed Miramax Deal
The collapse of negotiations between the Walt Disney Co. and the Weinstein Brothers for the sale of Miramax is being attributed to the complicated financial relationship between the Weinsteins and their principal backer, billionaire Ron...
The 2009-2010 Season Is Over
The last full week of the 2009-2010 broadcast season was won by ABC, an also-ran through most of the season, among adults 18-49 and by CBS among viewers overall. ABC was helped by a full...
Robin Hood Saved By Overseas Audiences
Overseas, Robin Hood, titled in French Robin des Bois , meaning Robin of the Woods, found itself out of them -- the woods, that is -- after the movie prevailed as the top film of...
There She Comes, Miss America -- Back To Abc
The Miss America pageant is returning to ABC, the network that dropped it in 2004 because of low ratings. It has aired on cable since then, most recently on TLC, which earlier this year declined...
Report Abdul To Return To Idol For Next Week's Finale
Paula Abdul will return to American Idol next Wednesday for the series' season finale and Simon Cowell's farewell appearance, People magazine reported over the weekend. Meanwhile, the Hollywood Reporter reported today (Monday) that Abdul will...
Avatar Still Tops In Sales But Drops In Rentals
Avatar remained at the top of the video sales charts for the fourth week in a row last week, but three films that did mediocre business at the box office topped it on the rental...
Porky, Bugs, Road Runner, Et Al Returning To Tv
In the face of numerous unsuccessful attempts in recent years to update Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes characters, the studio is planning to debut a new half-hour Looney Tunes Show on its sibling Cartoon Network in...
Univision To Debut A Whopping 20 New Shows
While ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC all surprised advertisers with aggressive overhauls of their fall schedules, they were upstaged today (Thursday) by Spanish-language Univision, which said that it will launch a staggering 20 new shows...
Craig Kilborn Returning To Tv -- In A "Test"
Former Late, Late Show and The Daily Show host Craig Kilborn is returning to TV after a six-year absence with a new half-hour show that will be tested for six weeks this summer on Fox-owned...
Idol 'S Ratings Drop For Final 2 Elimination
American Idol revealed its final two contenders Wednesday night, Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze -- but "only" 18.5 million viewers tuned in. Any other television show would have been ecstatic to draw an audience that...
The Pirate Bay Sails Again
The victory of Hollywood's studios over The Pirate Bay website has proved to be shortlived. Although they had obtained an injunction against the German host site forcing it to cut service to TPB, the studios...
Nbc Station In L.a. Admits Not Living Up To "Journalistic Standards"
The NBC-owned television station in Los Angeles on Tuesday announced the departure of its "vice president, content" and simultaneously admitted that it had not lived up to "journalistic standards" when it aired a faked report...
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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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