Archive for June, 2008“The President's Own”United States Marine Band The President's Volunteer Service Award president: Definition and Much More from Answers.com The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod - President's Office The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports - You're it … Welcome to the President Casino St. Louis Riverfront Website CityNews: Money Money Speaks | Discussion money news blog - Just another WordPress weblog KNX - Money 101 On the internet - Flash Player ITN - Money News About Money News - Money News MoneyNews - America’s Money News Page arizona business news - phoenix business news - consumer news FDIC: Money Smart News - Current and Past Issues Money.org | Coin News Cnn money news - ♦ Smart Casheers ♦ Business | kgw.com | News for Oregon and SW Washington KCCI.com - Money WWW.MONEY.WS — get your .ws “website” address for life Filed under: Industry, Celebrities, Weeds, Reality-Free
Malco described Tijuana Jackson as an ex-convict living under house arrest. Under a strange, “only on TV” legal arrangement, T.J. stays out of jail by supporting the three women that live with him. The women also happen to be prostitutes and T.J.’s employees. Continue reading Romany Malco’s new show is coming to YouTube
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The graph posits that by 2010 music videos will be nonexistent on the channel. Also, interesting is the rise of what the graph calls simply “other crap” that coincides with the rise of shows like The Real World and Road Rules. I assume “other crap” refers to shows like The Hills, My Super Sweet Sixteen, and Made — shows that have replaced music videos in primetime (and replaced music videos with their incessant reruns in daytime). Continue reading Proof that The Real World caused the downfall of MTV
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Malco described Tijuana Jackson as an ex-convict living under house arrest. Under a strange, “only on TV” legal arrangement, T.J. stays out of jail by supporting the three women that live with him. The women also happen to be prostitutes and T.J.’s employees. Continue reading Romany Malco’s new show is coming to YouTube
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Interesting piece over at Nikki Finke’s site. While everyone is concentrating on a possible actors strike (the deadline is Monday for SAG to make an agreement), there’s another tiny controversy going on. The Writers Guild of America West has asked the FCC to look into the ever-increasing habit of product integration in network shows. Not only does the WGA want to see the use of products on television eased up, which the FCC is already looking into, they also want to go one step further and make viewers fully aware that they are seeing an ad. And how would the networks do that? Continue reading Should viewers be told about product integration in shows?
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The graph posits that by 2010 music videos will be nonexistent on the channel. Also, interesting is the rise of what the graph calls simply “other crap” that coincides with the rise of shows like The Real World and Road Rules. I assume “other crap” refers to shows like The Hills, My Super Sweet Sixteen, and Made — shows that have replaced music videos in primetime (and replaced music videos with their incessant reruns in daytime). Continue reading Proof that The Real World caused the downfall of MTV
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Interesting piece over at Nikki Finke’s site. While everyone is concentrating on a possible actors strike (the deadline is Monday for SAG to make an agreement), there’s another little controversy going on. The Writers Guild of America West has asked the FCC to look into the ever-increasing habit of product integration in network shows. Not only does the WGA want to see the use of products on TV eased up, which the FCC is already looking into, they also want to go one step further and make viewers fully aware that they’re seeing an ad. And how would the networks do that? Continue reading Should viewers be told about product integration in shows? Filed under: Late Night, Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Speak Show, Reality-Free
That’s one of the options listed in this handy Hollywood Reporter guide to what Leno will do after his stint on NBC is over in 2009. The other options are going to ABC at 11:35, going to FOX at 11:35, a syndicated show with Sony, he stays at NBC and does some other primetime show, he takes over for Larry King on CNN, or he goes back to doing standup full-time. Taking over for Letterman would happen if (and when - he could extend his contract) Letterman retires in 2010. Continue reading Leno’s options: Could he replace Letterman at CBS?!
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My day at the first school in the world dedicated to art of appearing on reality TV shows. (Yes, this actually exists)Posted by: in Industry & NewsFiled under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, OpEd, Watercooler Speak, Huge Brother (US), Hell’s Kitchen
I wish I could tell you that the New York Reality TV School fought the good fight, and that the students in attendance were not a collection of mostly desperate people whose desire for fame burned more strongly than their sense of dignity. I wish I could tell you that, but the entertainment industry is no fairy-tale world. Thanks Red. Now, if you, the reader, would be so kind as to click through to the article, it would mean a lot to me. Not because I get paid more for click-throughs (I don’t; AOL pays me a flat rate of 60 cents plus a pound of corn husks for every post I make, regardless of the number of clicks), but because I spent three hours attending the inaugural class of the NYRTV school last Saturday. I just couldn’t take it if the end result of that’s an article no one reads…
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You know how people say stuff like “if CBS cancels Moonlight, I’m never watching that stupid network again!”? I think those proclamations are usually silly, but I might be in that group if the following happens: CBS replacing David Letterman with Jay Leno.
As an intro to my article about The New York Reality Television School, I’ve asked Red from The Shawshank Redemption to narrate my opening paragraph:
