Tag Archives: Video

NBC’s Dateline will do what we did here in early December, follow the twists and turns of Michael Jackson’s face over the last twenty years, a grim undertaking for sweeps week Feb. 17: An NBC News publicist later told Reuters the “Dateline” special would trace “the rise and fall of …

Online video wherein a squirrel sing/speaks very quickly about the adrenaline rush of “Weeeeee!” before slowing down for a philosophical assessment of childhood – moving.

I haven’t seen the Rolling Stones on this tour, nor have I seen them live since, I think, ’89: just haven’t had the heart the take the chance that they would seem old and feeble. Since they are performing live, as in really live at the time of the performance, …

Jackson Browne doesn’t like the way he was portrayed in the TBS JFK Jr. biopic. According to Reuters: Browne’s attorney, Lawrence Iser, said that he demanded in a letter to TBS that it “cease and desist” airing the program again “until false and defamatory scenes accusing Mr. Browne of assaulting …

Spike Lee has kind of drifted off from my attention sphere over the last 10 years or so, but man, does he hit the nail on the head regarding the fantasy world of “reality” TV, and I would apply his very sensible reasoning to the lottery as well: Spike Lee …

MTV’s TRL has been featuring punkish rock bands performing live all week under the banner of “Spankin’ New Bands Week.” They’ve already run through the Donnas (if ten years is “spankin’ new”), The Used, Simple Plan, New Found Glory, and tomorrow Good Charlotte storms the stage. I don’t know Simple …

Is there anything to the search for instant love behind the reality mating shows on TV? Um, maybe: On The Bachelorette (Wednesday, ABC) a reverse of the network’s dating show The Bachelor, attractive young adults profess an ability to fall in love virtually within the time it takes to make …

TiVO may be even more of “God’s machine” than the FCC’s Powell or anyone else realized. Richard Shim reveals all in CNET: A hidden feature on remote controls for TiVo digital video recorders lets viewers skip ads more easily. The “Easter egg” –industry jargon for a feature that is revealed …

The tectonic conflict between the defenders of intellectual property (and its defense mechanisms – copyright, DRMs, etc.) and the forces of free expression is generating news headlines almost daily (just scan our front page) and will shape our vision of knowledge into the next digital era. Every citizen should be …

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 …