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Tag Archives: Television

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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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