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Couric Draws Smallest Audience Yet
Among the nightly newscasts, NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams took a strong lead, capturing an average of 8 million viewers a night, far better than most primetime programs on any network. ABC's World News...
New Digital System May Challenge Imax
IMAX may soon have a new competitor in the field of supersize movie exhibition, according to the website NewTeeVee.com. A high-definition digital projection system boasting a whopping 8,000x4,000 pixels has reportedly been developed by Evans...
Comcast Extends Video-on-demand Service To Two Days
Warner Bros., Walt Disney Studios, Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment have agreed to allow customers of Comcast's video-on-demand service to have two days, instead of one, to view the movies they have rented on cable. Video...
Bbc1 Won't Air Any U.s. Tv Shows
British television, one of the most reliable markets for U.S. television shows, is cutting back drastically on its spending abroad -- and BBC1 may not air a single U.S. TV series next season, BBC1 comptroller...
Movie Reviews Dance Flick
The latest comedy from the Wayans brothers (well, actually mostly younger cousins, too), Dance Flick, has received mostly mixed reviews. While Carrie Rickey of the Philadelphia Inquirer calls it a "gigglefest," John Anderson of Newsday...
Universal Confirms Scorsese Will Direct Sinatra Biopic
Martin Scorsese, whose films about musicians have previously been limited to documentaries ( Shine a Light, No Direction Home, The Last Waltz ), has agreed to direct an as-yet untitled drama about the life of...
Abc News Fires Its Muse
ABC reporter Bob Brown, famous for his inspirational features for the network -- particularly on its magazine shows, Primetime and 20/20 -- has been fired by the network after 22 years but told that he'll...
Movie Reviews Hannah Montana The Movie
Critics are giving generally good marks to Hannah Montana The Movie , starring Miley Cyrus, but their generally bland reviews appear to reflect the fact that they expect few of their readers to go see...
Jackson Says He's "Heartbroken" Over Wolverine Piracy
Hugh Jackman, who plays the title character in X-Men Origins Wolverine and is one of its producers, said Tuesday that he felt "heartbroken" when he learned that a workprint of the movie was leaked on...
E.r. Expires
After 15 years, E.R. was taken off life support Thursday night with a two-hour episode that featured former cast members Noah Wyle, Eriq La Salle,Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, and Alex Kingston and was written by...
Brady Bunch Mom Says Family Values Missing From Tv
Florence Henderson, who played the mother on The Brady Bunch, has chastised television executives for failing to include shows with family values in their lineups. "I think you'd be hard pressed to find a show...
Movie Reviews The Haunting Of Molly Hartley
Like most horror movies aimed at teenagers, The Haunting of Molly Hartley was not screened for critics. They did get a look at it with everyone else over the weekend and have now turned in...
How To Make Money With Hulu?
Despite a huge surge in online viewers, Hulu has been unable to convert its popularity into profitability, with one analyst estimating that 40 percent of its ad inventory is being used for public service announcements....
Harry Potter Stunt Double Told He's A Quadriplegic
David Holmes, a 25-year-old stunt double for Daniel Radcliffe in the Harry Potter movies, has been told that he'll likely remain a quadriplegic for the rest of his life following a accident on the set...
Movie Reviews Street Fighter The Legend Of Chun-li
Not screening Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li for critics did not protect the film against failure at the box office this past weekend. The film eventually took in just $4.6 million. Sam Adams, who...
When Was The First Basketball Game Televised?
The U.S. Census Bureau, promoting the Famous First Facts area of its website at www.census.gov, has observed that today (Friday) marks the 68th anniversary of the first televised basketball game. The bureau noted that it...
News posted in Movies / TV / Theatre on 27th February 2009
New Dispute Wracks Sag
The Screen Actors Guild has found itself embroiled in yet another brouhaha following a report that its new national executive director David White recently shut down his consulting company, Entertainment Strategies Group, after it was...
Asian Gays Angered By Oscar Censorship
STAR-TV, an Asian satellite TV service controlled by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, censored Academy Awards speeches by Sean Penn and writer Dustin Lance Black when they referred to gays and lesbians, the Associated Press reported...
Rip Torn Tears Up Berlin News Conference
Rip Torn, who plays the cantankerous father of Parker Posey and Demi Moore's sibling characters in Mitchell Lichtenstein's upcoming Happy Tears , told a news conference at the Berlin Film Festival, where the film had...
Nba Finals Telecast Draws Huge Crowd For Tnt
Thursday night's NBA finals contest between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers drew the biggest audience TNT has seen since a February 2, 1996 match between the Chicago Bulls, then led by Michael...
Movie Reviews The Pink Panther Ii
Roger Ebert suggests that the best thing about the latest Pink Panther movie starring Steve Martin is the credits. "They made me miss the gold age of credits, when you actually found out who the...
Latest Time Warner Quarter A Horror
In the latest horror story passing for a quarterly report, Time Warner reported a net loss of $16 billion for its fourth quarter compared with a profit of $1 billion during the comparable quarter a...
Broadband Won't Replace Hd Discs Soon, Says Report
Although many experts are predicting that the ability to "rent" or buy movies via the Internet will result in the demise of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, new research by Media Central GFK International indicates that...
Sag Hands Out Awards, Is Quiet About Strike
At Sunday night's SAG awards, Tina Fey was the only performer who alluded to the stalemated dispute with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers when she accepted the "best female actor" award in...
Tmz Website Ridicules Actor-turned-rapper Phoenix
Joaquin Phoenix, who was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line, has now adopted the persona of a rap artist, and his recent performances in Las Vegas,...
Coming Computer-generated Actors
Silicon Valley is on the verge of producing sophisticated software that will allow motion picture companies to create actors on a computer who are visually indistinguishable from real people, San Jose's Mercury News reported today...
Movie Reviews Defiance
Daniel Craig, in a wrenching departure from his James Bond character, and Liev Schreiber are receiving fine notices for their portrayals in Defiance of two Jewish brothers training others who have escaped into a Belarus...
Ailes Reups With Fox
Roger Ailes, creator of Fox News Channel, has renewed his contract with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp amid speculation whether the channel will adopt the newfound hospitable tone of the New York Post , another News...
The Full Monty (Python) On Youtube
In the latest example of an "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" strategy, the members of the '70s satirical group Monty Python have launched their own YouTube site, where they have posted dozens of...
Heroes Weak On Tv, Super Online
Although the season debut of NBC's Heroes was a disappointing bust Monday night with ratings plummeting 23 percent from last year's season starter, the episode turned out to be an enormous hit among those who...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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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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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