Tag Archives: Video

I’ve always liked SNL’s Tracy Morgan but haven’t always been sure why: he has appeared sporadically over his seven years on the show and is sometimes hilarious and sometimes seems wildly out of place. I now think is the essence of his appeal is the contrast between his NYC streetwise, …

I like the one week break between the Conference Finals and the Superbowl: it keeps a lid on the hype, which really seems to pick up steam in the second week. This year it seems more like a big game than a Roman Spectacle, and since the weight of the …

Actress/singer was 54: Nell Carter, who played the sassy, matronly housekeeper on the 1980s sitcom “Gimme a Break!” and received a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway musical “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” died Thursday, her publicist said. ….Carter was in rehearsals at a Long Beach theater for “Raisin,” the musical …

American Idol 2’s debut Tuesday night drew the largest audience ever for a Fox non-sports show, 26.5 million viewers tuned in: It eclipsed the 22.8 million people who watched Kelly Clarkson win the first “American Idol” competition in September. “We’re having a very happy day at Fox,” said Entertainment President …

We have been hearing about the integration of television and the Internet for some time now. Where is it? We saw some of it at last year from NBC in conjunction with the Winter Olympics, as USA Today notes: During its coverage of last year’s Winter Olympics, NBC cleverly directed …

Why can't the music industry learn from the experience of drug dealers or porn magnates?

The Economist decides that entertainment is a difficult business, and that key to success to to strike the appropriate balance between creative and business impulses – duh: ONE by one, the men of extravagant vision and exaggerated showmanship have been toppled from the upper ranks of the world’s media giants. …

Via Glenn-omir, grim tidings from the Return of the King film front: why buy into EITHER the Star Wars OR the Lord of the Rings universe when you can have both? A recently leaked trailer for The Return of the King has Tolkien fans outraged over the apparent addition of …

Even though we got a lot of mileage out of the first go round of American Idol, I had no intention of watching the show’s return. What’s the point? But 24 comes on at 9 and we turned on Fox early just to make sure we wouldn’t miss anything. The …

Speaking of fjord-hoppers, this woman took the rack and ran: “It is crystal clear that she has tried to avoid paying for her breasts,” said Jennifer McShane of Sweden’s Channel 5 to newspaper Expressen. The first episode of the series produced by Strix offers the story of a 28-year-old Norwegian …