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Idol Is Again Tv's Most-watched Show
Heading towards the final competition showdown, Fox's American Idol regained its position as the most-watched television show last week, with Wednesday's results show drawing 19.57 million viewers and Tuesday's performance show, 19.17 million. ABC's Monday-night...
Cbs Making Bold Program Changes
CBS unveiled its fall schedule today (Wednesday), surprising advertisers with an aggressive overhaul that includes dumping several shows, adding four dramas and two sitcoms, and shuffling some shows to different nights, including its hit series...
Saban Buys Back Power Rangers For $100 Million
Power Rangers are morphing into Haim Saban characters again. The media mogul, who once cornered the market on kids shows aimed at young boys -- many of them American versions of popular Japanese productions --...
Avatar Adding Dvd Sales Records To Its Achievements
Predictions that sales of the DVD and Blu-ray version of James Cameron's Avatar would be weakened by the current lack of 3D home video have not only not come about but, it would seem, sales...
Betty White Shines As Snl Turns Golden With Girls
Betty White brought Saturday Night Live its highest ratings since last year's pesidential election as she co-hosted the late-night show and appeared in virtually all of its satirical sketches. The episode scored an 8.8 rating...
Shandling Says He Held Iron Man 2" Together
Comedian Garry Shandling has been enlisted in the Iron Man 2 promotional cause. He plays a U.S. senator in the film -- a relatively small role, some might say, but not Shandling himself. In an...
Horror Film Gets No Rating From Mpaa, No Star From Ebert
The horror film The Human Centipede is opening in a handful of theaters this weekend. It was not submitted to the MPAA for a rating. The Chicago Sun-Times 's Roger Ebert is awarding it no...
A Record Year At European Box Office
The total European box office grew 12 percent in 2009 to $8 billion (EUR 6.27 billion), establishing a new record, according to the Strasbourg-based European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO). Attendance surged 6 percent, with 981.1 million...
Samsung Says It Fixed Non-playing Blu-ray Players
Samsung has released two new firmware updates for its Blu-ray disc players that it says address the problem of Avatar not playing on two of its models. Although several other Blu-ray manufacturers had received similar...
Consumer Reports 3d Tv Works Great -- But Don't Buy One
Consumer Reports magazine has tested three of the new 3D television sets, two from Samsung and one from Panasonic, and found each of them ready for primetime. The problem it suggested is that primetime is...
Warner Bros. To Boost Output Of Imax-formated Films
In what amounted to a tacit acknowledgement of IMAX's importance to its bottom line, Warner Bros. announced Wednesday that it had agreed to release up to 20 films in the IMAX format over the next...
Cbs Chief No Plans To Convert Shows To 3d
CBS Les Moonves is not about to join the 3D revolution -- at least not for now. Speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills Wednesday Milken said that he had seen old...
Many Blu-ray Players Won't Play Avatar
Although 20th Century Fox has been boasting this week about record-breaking Blu-ray Disc sales for Avatar , it has also been fending off complaints from many buyers that they are unable to play the discs....
Avatar Sets New Blu-ray Record In Four Days
Until this weekend, Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight had held the record for the most Blu-ray discs sold -- 2.5 million over the past 16 months. That record was shattered in just four days with...
South Park Edits Spark Free-speech Debate
Comedy Central's decision to censor a South Park episode following a thinly-veiled death threat by the fundamentalist Islamic website RevolutionMuslim.com against the show's creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker continued to have repercussions over the...
Jay's Ratings Fall Below Conan's
For the first time, Jay Leno's average weekly ratings among 18-49-year-old viewers has fallen below Conan O'Brien's, departing TheWrap.com TV analyst Joe Adalian observed on Thursday. Adalian noted that Leno averaged only a 1.0 rating...
Hulu's Free Ride May Be Ending
Hulu, the online site that offers shows from NBC, Fox, and ABC -- and is owned by the corporate parents of those networks -- may have attracted a sizable number of viewers after its launch...
Cameron Planning To Revive Avatar In August
James Cameron has disclosed that 20th Century Fox plans to rerelease Avatar in August with an additional six minutes of special-effects scenes. Cameron told the website HeroComplex.com that he believes the film would have continued...
Samsung Issues Health Warning About Its 3d Sets
Electronics manufacturer Samsung has issued a health warning about its new 3D television sets two months before they are due to go on sale. On its website, the company warned that pregnant women, the elderly,...
Nbc Says It Lost Less Than It Thought From The Olympics
While NBC had forecast that it would lose $250 million in its Winter Olympics telecasts, the actual loss came in at $199 million, according to an SEC filing by parent General Electric today (Friday). The...
Now It's Alvin Tailing Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks The Squeakquel reversed positions on the Nielsen VideoScan First Alert sales chart last week, with Sherlock taking over the top spot, followed by Alvin in second place. A...
Dancing Again Tops Idol
For the second week in a row, an episode of ABC's Dancing with the Stars drew bigger ratings among overall viewers than either episode of Fox's American Idol -- the first time ever that Idol...
Redbox Hints It May Slash Rental Rates
A price war may be about to break out between kiosk operator RedBox and online renter Netflix. The website HighDefDigest.com disclosed on Tuesday that RedBox has sent out a survey to its users asking them...
Movie Reviews Clash Of The Titans
Most critics seem to figure that Clash of the Titans is nothing to get worked up over. They're writing mostly witty reviews, discussing it like a food writer might discuss a cheesy desert. In fact,...
Report Hollywood Reporter Publisher To Be Ousted
Eric Mika is expected to be ousted as publisher of the Hollywood Reporter in the latest shakeup at the trade publication, which has been bleeding subscribers and advertisers, Sharon Waxman reported on her TheWrap.com website...
Gay Mag The Advocate To Launch Nightly Cable News Show
The pioneering but relatively moderate gay-oriented magazine The Advocate, which in recent years has found itself on the outs (no pun intended) with more militant gay activists, plans to launch a cable and Internet news...
24 The End Of Days
After eight "days," time has run out for 24 . Confirming widespread rumors, the producers of the Fox drama, regarded as one of the most expensive to produce (the Hollywood Reporter , citing unnamed sources,...
Amazon Offers Cheap Blu-ray Player
In what could accelerate the adoption of Blu-ray high-definition technology, Amazon.com on Thursday began offering a Sylvania Blu-ray disc player for $59.99, the lowest price ever asked for a Blu-ray player. The player lacks many...
Satellite Operator Directv May Lose Stations In Retrans Fight
Cable subscribers hoping to avoid getting caught in the crossfire between their providers and network affiliates over retransmission-consent fees by switching to satellite may have to rethink their strategy following word that three stations owned...
Cablevision Airs First 3d Sports Coverage
New York's Cablevision cable system and its MSG Network hailed Wednesday night's 3D coverage of the NHL contest between the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders, which they said was the first 3sports...
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Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
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