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Leno's Ratings Plunge Deeper
Dismal ratings for Monday night's Jay Leno Show on NBC seemed to indicate that the late-night talk-show host has a rough road ahead of him to repair his image before he returns to the Tonight...
Companies Taking Out Tiger Woods Insurance
The Tiger Woods scandal has sent companies who use celebrities to endorse their products scrambling to purchase insurance that would protect them from potential losses in similar cases, the New York Times reported on Sunday....
Violent Film Raises Ire At Sundance
Michael Winterbottom's ultra-violent The Killer Inside Me has attracted a swarm of criticism at the Sundance Film Festival, with some viewers predicting that it will never find a distributor. One of them, Christopher Kelly, the...
Avatar Now Beats Titanic Overseas
James Cameron's Avatar has become the No. 1 box-office hit of all time at the overseas box office, 20th Century Fox boasted on Sunday. Its foreign total now stands at $1.288 billion, surpassing Titanic 's...
Journalism Ethics Scholars Decry Haiti Medical Coverage
Several media ethics scholars have criticized the broadcast and cable news networks for allowing their medical correspondents to be shown performing emergency treatment in Haiti. Dr. Steve Miles, a physician-ethicist on the faculty of the...
Murdoch Hails Ailes, Distances Himself From Son-in-law
A spokesman for Rupert Murdoch has disputed comments made by the News Corp chairman's son-in-law in a Sunday New York Times profile about Fox News chief Roger Ailes. "I am by no means alone within...
Spider-man 4 Stuck In Production Web
Sony executives are awaiting a new version of the script for Spider-Man 4 before committing to a new date for the start of production, Nikki Finke reported on her DeadlineHollywood.com website on Tuesday. She quoted...
Rtnda Chairman Blasts Cnn For Checkbook Journalism
The chairman of the Radio, Television and Digital News Association (RTDNA) has joined the chorus of criticism of CNN's decision to pay a reported $10,000 for an interview with Jasper Schuringa, one of the airline...
Will Nine Finish Off The Weinstein Co.?
The numbers don't look good for Nine , the star-studded musical produced by The Weinstein Co. that expanded into 1,400 theaters last weekend. While the box office in general set records for the week, Nine...
Avatar Reaches New Heights
Avatar continued to tear down box-office records in its second weekend. Dropping just 2 percent from its opening weekend, the James Cameron film earned $75.62 million, substantially upsetting the previous second-week record set by The...
Jersey Shore Gets More Flack From Italian-americans
New Jersey's Italian-American lawmakers are stepping up their campaign to wash up MTV's Jersey Shore. After dispatching a complaint to MTV, which airs the reality show, and getting little satisfaction, Sen. Joseph F. Vitale, chairman...
Shocker Alvin Beats Avatar On Wednesday
In their first day of head-to-head competition Alvin beat Avatar by a wide margin. Early reports indicate that on Wednesday, Alvin and the Chipmunks The Squeakquel with a first-day estimated total of $20 million bested...
Another Super Bowl Uproar -- This Time Over The Who
The Super Bowl halftime show has found itself embroiled in another controversy that could end up rivaling surrounding Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction two years ago. Several anti-child-pornography groups have demanded that The Who be barred...
Will A New Rental Kiosk Spell Blockbuster's Doom?
A new video-rental kiosk capable of providing consumers with an unlimited number of movies, TV shows or videogames that can be downloaded onto thumb drives or video discs in a matter of seconds has been...
"Classic Nerd" Arnold Stang Dies At 91
Arnold Stang, the actor who was blessed with the features of a classic nerd and the voice to go along with it -- attributes that brought him roles in hundreds of films, radio and TV...
China Loses Appeal On Foreign Movie Quota
The World Trade Organization has rejected a Chinese appeal of an August decision striking down China's policy of restricting the number of foreign films and DVDs that can be distributed in that country and forcing...
Blu-ray Manufacuturers Agree On 3d Standard
Manufacturers of Blu-ray disc players on Thursday reached an agreement on a standard for next-generation players capable of showing 3-D videos. Although several movies have already been released that allow 3D viewing with current players,...
Blu-ray Players Replacing Settop Boxes
It could just turn out that Blu-ray disc players may end up providing movies to viewers even when the discs themselves become obsolete. According to research from The Diffusion Group and reported on Home Media...
Top-rated Tv Shows Of 2009 Named
Nielsen today (Friday) released its annual list of top-rated TV series, with Fox's American Idol once again taking the top-two positions. Two new shows also made the list, CBS's NCIS Los Angeles at No. 6,...
Loser Makes Leno A Winner
Suggesting that ratings for The Jay Leno Show might be a whole lot stronger if its lead-in shows were as well, Tuesday night's episode drew 8.40 million viewers after it followed the season finale of...
Movie Reviews Up In The Air
Not a few critics are calling Up in the Air a film for our times while at the same time comparing it with the classic romantic comedies of the '30s and '40s by Billy Wilder,...
Lots Of Extras For Potter, Jackson Videos
With home-video sales well off their pace from a year ago, producers of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince have decided to load the DVD package with a plethora of extras, including detailed descriptions of...
Boyle's Cd Achieves An Undreamed Of Record
I Dreamed a Dream , the first record album by Britain's Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle sold 410,000 copies in the U.K. last week, setting a record for first-week sales of a debut album in...
Larry King To Interview Alleged Gate-crashers
CNN's Larry King has landed an interview with the Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, who managed to slip through security on November 24 to attend President Obama's first state dinner without an invitation. They...
Fox Chief Calls For "Three Strikes" Law In U.s.
Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairman Jim Gianopulos has urged the U.S. to pass a law similar to France's "three strikes" rule that would allow a judge to order Internet service providers to disconnect users who download...
Ama Awards Challenge Football
ABC's telecast of Sunday night's American Music Awards averaged 14.16 million viewers and beat out NBC's Sunday Night Football from 9 00 p.m. to 10 30 p.m., according to overnight Nielsen ratings. The football telecast...
Nbc's Brian Williams Praises Daily Show 'S Jon Stewart
Writing in Newsweek, NBC' anchor Brian Williams suggests that Jon Stewart and The Daily Show have had a profound influence on television news in general and his own newscast in particular. "On occasion, when we've...
Martha Stewart Says She Has Lost More Than $1 Billion
Martha Stewart claimed Wednesday that her conviction and prison sentence in 2004 following a stock-trading scandal cost her more than $1 billion. Appearing on ABC's Nightline show, Stewart said she was "pissed" when she realized...
Deaf People Riled By Caption-less Go Dvd's
Deaf and hard-of-hearing people are angered by Disney's decision to remove closed-captioning from DVDs of the animated Up that are being distributed to online, brick-and-mortar, and kiosk rental outlets. The website consumerist.com quoted a reader...
Scorsese Touts Wonders Of Blu-ray
Director Martin Scorsese attempted to perk up public enthusiasm for the Blu-ray high-definition home theater system Monday by declaring that "it creates a completely different experience" from conventional DVDs. Viewing restored versions of older movies,...
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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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