Tag Archives: Television

Dennis Kucinich is not going to win the Democratic nomination for president, although he HAS convinced around 1% of the voting Democrats that he’s their man. Perhaps his campaign should not be considered a “failure” however, as how else would such a rodential-looking middle-aged fellow from Cleveland snag a date …

Yesterday’s Senate and House broadcast indecency hearings saw the usual grandstanding and puffery, but the problem is real: At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., urged cable and satellite companies to offer viewers the ability to pick individual channels for purchase, blocking out violence, sex and profanity. …

The Oscars are imposing a five-second delay for the first time, the Grammys had a five-minute delay, and the networks are scrutinizing their shows as they haven’t in years: As executives from Viacom Inc. and the NFL head to Washington today to answer questions about sex and profanity on TV, …

A five-second delay in the Oscar broadcast has the Academy up in arms. The Grammys had a five-MINUTE delay and got a sterile show as a result: Oscar president Frank Pierson has attacked a planned five-second delay on the TV broadcast of the awards ceremony as “a form of censorship”. …

Mac Diva is on a roll: she called a spade a spade here, as it were, and predicted the attempted class action suit against Janet Jackson (and enablers) would not get very far. She was again correct: Less than a week after filing a class-action lawsuit because of her outrage …

There has been a vast amount of handwringing about the Hutton report on the BBC, including by some of our own fine writers, who seem to feel that the report is somehow a threat to the independence of the BBC. As far as I can tell, it just says the …

Nielsen and TiVO have signed a monitoring deal to see what the heck people are doing with those things, or something: Nielsen Media Research has signed a deal with TiVo that will allow the media-monitoring firm to track consumers’ digital video recorder use, according to the companies. DVRs are computer-based …

I had a good time watching the Grammys last night – I will do a detailed recap later – but I had a weird feeling throughout the show that something was missing. I slept on it for about four hours before getting up at 4:30am to get my thoughts on …

We have a welter of Grammy-related posts leading up to the biggest night of the year for the music industry. There is much to chew upon this year regarding the awards themselves and the television show around them on CBS: Grammys: Plenty of Mammys Grammy gossip from the New York …

Regardless of the “meaning” of the Grammys, or lack thereof, the show is interesting from a performance, sociological, and mass culture standpoint. I will be on The Weekend News on Radio 5 Live on the BBC today at about 3:55pm eastern talking previewing the Grammys. Check it out here if …