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Oprah Cans Columbine Episode
Oprah Cans Columbine Episode
Apr 20, 2009 2:18 PM CDT

Oprah Cans Columbine Episode

10th anniversary show set for today 'focused too much on the killers'

(Newser) - Oprah Winfrey canceled an episode of her show commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Columbine shootings, set to air today, the New York Post reports. “After reviewing it, I thought it focused too much on the killers,” Winfrey said of the scrapped show in a Facebook posting. “...

Odd Duck Boyle Is Talk of Her Tiny Town

Small world rocked by YouTube popularity

(Newser) - Everyone knows Susan Boyle in her Scottish village—she’s the odd loner who does killer karaoke at the local pub. Now, she’s the topic on everyone’s lips in the community of 5,000 where she’s lived in the same house all her life. And though the...

Real Housewives' Kelly Hit With Bling Suit

She stole jewelry design, claims former colleague

(Newser) - Headline-grabbing former model Kelly Bensimon has been slapped with a lawsuit claiming she stole a design for a jewelry line that she's been hawking on the hit show Real Housewives of New York City. A former colleague of Bensimon says she created the owl pendant that's the basis for the...

Actors Board Narrowly Backs Contract Deal

Pact bumps pay 3.5% but nixes bucks for online reruns

(Newser) - A two-year contract narrowly approved by the board of the Screen Actors Guild board would boost pay 3.5% a year, but dodges payment for most online reruns. The pact, which would cover film and TV actors, was passed by just 53% of the newly elected moderate board, and now...

Actors Union, Hollywood Studios Make Tentative Deal

(Newser) - Nearly 10 months after their previous contract expired, the Screen Actors Guild and Hollywood’s major film and TV studios have a tentative agreement for a 2-year deal, the Los Angeles Times reports. Few details of the deal, which must be ratified by the union’s 120,000 members, were...

Grey Gardens a Grim Retelling of Odd Duo's Life

Latest incarnation has its 'flaws'

(Newser) - The riches-to-rags story of an eccentric mother and daughter—relatives of Jackie O, no less—who gained fame for their destitute existence in a 1975 documentary gets another retelling in HBO's Grey Gardens. Critics aren't overly excited:
  • The movie "fills in bittersweet blanks” left by the original documentary, writes
...

Colbert Fights 'Gay Storm'
 Colbert Fights 'Gay Storm' 
Apr 17, 2009 11:32 AM CDT

Colbert Fights 'Gay Storm'

(Newser) - Stephen Colbert has taken up the cause against gay marriage, the Huffington Post reports. A recent web ad from the National Organization for Marriage—which apparently was serious—featured a “rainbow coalition” of actors solemnly declaring, “A storm is coming.” That, and New York's move toward legalizing...

YouTube Edging Closer to Hollywood
YouTube Edging Closer
to Hollywood
Apr 16, 2009 8:00 PM CDT

YouTube Edging Closer to Hollywood

Site to offer authorized Hollywood content, may start charging

(Newser) - YouTube's latest move to add Sony as a partner highlights the delicate balance it's trying to strike between Hollywood and its own roots in "homegrown video," writes Chris Snyder in Wired. The deals with Sony and others authorize the site—under pressure to curb unauthorized uploads—to show...

With Madden Exit, Less BOOM! in NFL
 With Madden 
 Exit, Less 
 BOOM! in NFL 
OPINION
Apr 16, 2009 4:58 PM CDT

With Madden Exit, Less BOOM! in NFL

(Newser) - John Madden’s outsize presence in the world of football will be hard to fill, Alex Marvez writes for Fox Sports. Personality aside, the Hall of Fame coach—who announced his retirement today—was meticulous about preparing for his TV commentary. “Madden made football fun for the casual fan...

Viral Marketing Stunt Puts TV Actor on ... TV

(Newser) - A mysterious bald audience member turning up on various live Fox broadcasts is a viral marketing plant—as well as an actor on the show he’s subtly promoting. Michael Cerveris, in character as “The Observer” from the sci-fi drama Fringe, has so far been spotted, well, observing football,...

Ferrell Tests His Mettle on Man Vs. Wild

Man vs. Wild appearance will air in June

(Newser) - Will Ferrell fans can watch the funnyman eat reindeer eyeballs, drink his own urine, and rappel down frozen waterfalls in a June episode of Man vs. Wild. Ferrell joined host Bear Grylls in Sweden—where the pair also improvised snow shoes and foraged for food—to tape the popular Discovery...

New Shows Offer NBC Ray of Hope

Southland , Parks and Recreation lead upturn

(Newser) - After years of poor ratings, NBC may be on the rebound with the help of two new series: cop show Southland and Amy Poehler’s comedy Parks and Recreation. Parks scored only 6.9 million total viewers, but it maintained 88% of The Office’s coveted young-adult audience. Southland topped...

Foxx Apologizes for Miley 'Sex Tape' Rant

(Newser) - Jamie Foxx has apologized for telling 16-year-old Miley Cyrus to “make a sex tape and grow up” and “get like Britney Spears and do some heroin” on his weekend satellite radio show, OK! reports. “You guys know that whatever I say, I don't mean any of it,...

LA's Film, TV Shoots Hit Record Low

Commercial production falls; local TV shoots up after strike

(Newser) - Hit hard by the recession and amped-up incentives to shoot elsewhere, on-location filming in Los Angeles has plummeted 56% in the first quarter to a record low, says the group that processes shooting permits. Commercial production, meanwhile, dropped 34%, the Los Angeles Times reports. TV shooting has surged, but that’...

Guest Passes Out on Glenn Beck

Columbia prof announces he's passing out before doing so

(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s live show had an unexpected twist yesterday: a guest passed out early in the program, TVNewser reports. As Beck chatted about a chart, David Buckner of Columbia University whispered “I’m passing out.” Beck asked if Buckner wanted to sit and took his hand, but...

NASA to Reveal Module's Name on Colbert Tomorrow

(Newser) - The name of the new life-support node for the International Space Station will be announced tomorrow night on The Colbert Report by a NASA astronaut, InformationWeek reports. At the host’s urging, Colbert fans stuffed online ballot boxes to name the unit, though NASA doesn’t have to comply. “...

Pirate Hunters Coming to TV
 Pirate Hunters Coming to TV 
Apr 13, 2009 9:35 AM CDT

Pirate Hunters Coming to TV

Series will follow warship involved in recent standoff

(Newser) - Yesterday's daring rescue of Captain Richard Phillips seems like made-for-TV drama—at least to Spike TV. The network has greenlighted a pilot for a series documenting the US Navy’s fight against pirates in the Gulf of Aden, where Phillips’ rescue took place, Variety reports. One of the warships at...

CNN Loses Ground in Primetime
CNN Loses Ground in Primetime
Apr 10, 2009 11:02 AM CDT

CNN Loses Ground in Primetime

Fox, MSNBC are pushing longtime rival into 3rd place

(Newser) - The oldest cable news network is starting to lag behind both of its main rivals in primetime, Variety reports. In the first quarter of this year, CNN saw a 23% drop in the key 25-54 demographic and a 10% drop overall from 8 to 11pm. In particular, Campbell Brown's show...

Oprah's Not Giving You $1M, FBI Warns Marks

Bogus email asks for cash payment to attend Oprah 'giveaway'

(Newser) - The FBI has warned that Oprah Winfrey isn't really giving anybody $1 million, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Scamsters have been sending people emails about a supposed "Oprah Winfrey Millionaire Contest Show." Recipients are told they have been nominated to attend a special show where the host will hand...

Can Amy Poehler Save NBC&#39;s Bacon?
 Can Amy 
 Poehler Save 
 NBC's Bacon? 
glossies
Apr 6, 2009 5:50 PM CDT

Can Amy Poehler Save NBC's Bacon?

(Newser) - Wallowing in a muddy fourth place among major networks, NBC is betting on Amy Poehler to clean up its ratings with Parks and Recreation, Will Leitch writes in New York magazine. A mockumentary style sitcom “from the people who bring you The Office”—as NBC ads are trumpeting—...

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