The VFW is pissed about Kid Rock wearing an American flag as a poncho in the Super Bowl halftime show: The VFW is upset that media outlets are ignoring the poncho Rock wore during the Super Bowl halftime show, which was made by cutting a slit in an American flag. …
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Does Live TV Have a Future?
After the Great Super Bowl Breastation, Bono at the Golden Globes, this dustup with John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) in the UK, and congress coming down on the FCC for “indecency” (even before Janet) – does truly live TV have a future? The Lydon incident: ITV has apologised after John Lydon …
Read More »Blogcritics on Janet Jackson Breast Super Bowl Halftime Show
We watched the Super Bowl – who didn’t – and were paying a fair amount of attention to the halftime show, but never even had a hint that anything “peculiar” had happened until I ran downstairs and did a quick check of Blogcritics. We were getting 5,000 visitors an hour. …
Read More »BBC – Reuters Cautions Against Muzzlement
The latest on the BBC controversy, now flavored with updates!
Read More »Sharon Shown Door
Looks like “wacky” doesn’t work in the daytime: The wacky lady’s daytime talker–featuring Ozzy’s missus hosting in-bed interviews–has been axed by the Tribune stations, its main outlet. Sources close to the production confirmed the cancellation to E! on Thursday. No official statement has been issued by producers, but without the …
Read More »BBC Spanked Soundly
Here’s the BBC on the BBC: BBC governors are holding a crisis meeting on Thursday after Lord Hutton’s damning verdict led the corporation’s chairman to quit. Gavyn Davies resigned after the most serious claims in Andrew Gilligan’s BBC’s reports were branded “unfounded”. But he questioned some of the retired law …
Read More »Free Music: The Choice of a New Generation
We mentioned the other day that Pepsi is airing an ad on the Superbowl telecast that features teens sued by the RIAA for file sharing in order to promote their two-month offer of up to 100 million free – and legal – downloads from Apple’s iTunes. The RIAA said it …
Read More »Congress Pissed About Offensive Programming
Congressional hearing today on broadcast “indecency“: House lawmakers on Wednesday called on television and radio broadcasters to clean up their act by instituting stricter standards after renewed complaints about the coarseness of some programming. They expressed disappointment that big broadcasters were not represented at a Congressional hearing delving into the …
Read More »Talk-Show Pioneer Jack Paar Dies
Talk about a lengthy retirement: the guy basically hung it up 40 years ago: Paar, the smart-alec comic who pioneered late-night talk on “The Tonight Show” in 1957, died Tuesday at his home in Greenwich, Conn., after a long illness, said his son-in-law, Stephen Wells. Paar had suffered a stroke …
Read More »Fox TV: Sundays and Tuesdays
The only nights I really watch TV are Sunday and Tuesday, and it’s Fox all the way. Weekly, I am astonished by the level of inventive, subversive, satirical humor on the Fox Sunday lineup of The Simpsons, Bernie Mac, Malcolm In the Middle and the scabrous-yet-ingratiating Arrested Development – I …
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