Tag Archives: Television

ABC reality show survives legal challenge that it is imitation of Survivor: Nervous ABC execs breathed a sigh of relief yesterday after CBS failed to prevent its rival from screening “I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out of Here!” – the show the House of Mouse hopes will …

I wandered in to my sister’s living room Sunday night – she had the 29th Annual Lemming’s Choice Awards on the big screen. Tony Danza was playing the trumpet, which brought up more questions than my mind could handle: Why was Tony Danza hosting? Why was he playing the trumpet? …

Great Wall Street Journal story on two screenwriters who got a little more reality than they bargained for touring gangland with the police in East LA: There are a million stories in this town, and any one of them could end up as a screenplay. On a cool night last …

Although media deregulation would appear to have not served the public interest, almost incredibly, the FCC is considering EVEN MORE deregulation. The TV creative community, usually at odds with itself, has banded to fight further deregulation: The coalition combines directors, writers, actors and producers — groups more often known for …

I personally would hold God to a higher standard than a device that digitally records television, but that’s just me: The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is a new convert — to the personal digital video recorder faithful. “My favorite product that I got for Christmas is TiVo,” FCC …

Striking back at the ability of viewers to skip commercials via personal video recorders likeTiVO, a new WB variety show will build the commercials in: A leading television producer and two major advertisers have joined forces to present a live variety show with no commercial interruptions. Instead, the advertising messages …

A look at Season Two's premiere of The Shield

If you – like I – feel that daytime broadcast TV programming is a stinking morass of titilation, innuendo, mindless psycho-babble, self-debasement, and stupefaction, the nyou might be appalled that Judge Judy has new contract for $25M a year. I don’t really give a hoot – if she can get …

For at least the last five years, whenever my father-in-law and I start talking about computers and-or music, he always comes around to a statement something like this: why isn’t there a service where I can pick any song I want and have them make a CD for me? If …

Fortune looks at legality of TV show swapping: TiVo is a leading brand of personal video recorder (PVR) that saves shows to hard drives instead of cassettes. (Ironically, TiVo counts several of the plaintiffs in the SONICblue suit, like NBC and CBS, among its investors.) Consumers love TiVos for the …