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  • FAMILY GUY NOT TOO IFFY FOR WARNER BROS.,
  • THIS IS IT! BIGGER THAN ESTIMATED,
  • BUILD A BALLPARK AND THEY WILL COME,
  • SCANDAL FAILS TO HURT LETTERMAN,
  • CBS'S RATINGS JUMP ON DVR RESULTS,
  • JACKSON: IF ONLY HE HAD BEEN ALIVE TO SEE IT,
  • WEINSTEINS MAY BUY BACK MIRAMAX NAME,
  • NO MARVEL HERE: NO MOVIES, NO MONEY,
  • V DEBUTS WITH BEST NUMBERS FOR ANY NEW SHOW THIS YEAR,
  • WOMAN CHANNELS JACKSON ON L.A. NEWS PROGRAM,
  • LENO: HE'S HEARD THE NAYSAYERS BEFORE,
  • FRIDAY-NIGHT LIGHTS-OUT FOR NUMB3RS?,
  • SEX TAPE ABORTS MISS CALIFORNIA'S LAWSUIT,
  • ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS UNSEATS TRANSFORMERS 2,
  • "TV EVERYWHERE" IS NOWHERE TO SOME VIEWERS,
  • TV SERIES MAY BECOME "SEQUEL" TO 2012,
  • CHURCH GROUPS WANT DAVID CURBED,
  • WILL APPLE COMPETE WITH CABLE-TV?,
  • REPORTS: COMCAST, G.E. DEAL CLOSE AT HAND,
  • BEST BUY WILL CONNECT MOST ELECTRONIC ITEMS TO MOVIE SITES,
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    Friday, Nov 6, 2009
    MATLIN DEMANDS CLOSED CAPTIONING FOR "TV EVERYWHERE"
    Friday, November 6 2009
    Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin has accused broadcasters, online DVD renters, and other video-content providers of dragging their feet in developing technology that would enable programs broadcast online to be closed captioned. Matlin, who has been deaf since childhood and said she was devastated when she discovered that Netflix's free presentation of the newly restored Wizard of Oz lacked closed captioning when it was streamed on the Internet last October 3, told an FCC hearing (more)

    WILL OPRAH WINFREY MOVE HER SHOW TO CABLE?
    Friday, November 6 2009
    CBS TV Distribution says that it has not been apprised by anyone within Oprah Winfrey's Harpo organization that she plans to pull up stakes in Chicago and move her syndicated talk show to her Los Angeles-based cable network OWN in 2011. Winfrey's purported move was first disclosed by entertainment industry blogger Nikki Finke on her Dateline Hollywood website on Thursday. Winfrey's contract with CBS TV Distribution -- although CBS acquired King World, the company (more)

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    FORGET M*A*S*H*: SUICIDE IS PAINFUL -- ESPECIALLY TO THE OFFICE
    06-Nov-09
    Mental-health groups, including the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Suicide Awareness Voices of education, have condemned a Halloween episode of The Office in which the character played by Steve Carell slips his neck into a noose during a haunted house visit and tells a group of children, "Kids, just (more)

    A BAD WEEK FOR "CHRISTIAN VALUES"
    06-Nov-09
    "Christian values" suffered a setback on two fronts Thursday as Oprah Winfrey removed gospel singer BeBe Winans from her show and it was disclosed that sex tape featuring former Miss California USA winner Carrie Prejean was so salacious that even a porn website turned down an offer to buy it. (more)

    LEVI JOHNSTON VS WILLIAM SHATNER
    06-Nov-09
    Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's grandson, is finding himself being mocked about as mercilessly as the woman who nearly became his mother-in-law -- and he's fighting back. His lawyer, Rex Butler, has told the tabloid website TMZ that Johnston is taking on both the social-networking website Twitter and (more)

    MOVIE REVIEWS: DISNEY'S A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    06-Nov-09
    There's little harmony among critics assessing the latest cinematic version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. (Actually, this one is called Disney's A Christmas Carol.) Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, somewhat surprisingly, calls it "an exhilarating visual experience." Ebert, who has repeatedly denounced 3D technology in previous reviews (viewing a (more)

    MOVIE REVIEWS: THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS
    06-Nov-09
    We get more paranormal activity this week in The Men Who Stare at Goats, starring George Clooney, Jeff Bridges and Stephen Lang about a reporter's efforts to reveal the story of an Army unit (supposedly real) seeking to harness the parapsychology for the benefit of the U.S. The movie, writes (more)

    MOVIE REVIEWS: PRECIOUS
    06-Nov-09
    Precious is opening in fewer than 100 theaters this weekend, but most critics agree that it's the film to see. The movie's marketers are almost certain to plaster the Chicago Sun-Times's Roger Ebert's description of it as "a great American film" on their ads. But there are also similar hyperboles (more)

    MOVIE REVIEWS: THE FOURTH KIND
    06-Nov-09
    The film not to have a close encounter with this weekend, most critics warn, is The Fourth Kind, which is set in Nome, Alaska but which was actually shot in Bulgaria -- documentary style, like The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity -- about a supposed invasion of aliens who (more)

    21.15 MILLION WATCH FINAL SERIES GAME
    05-Nov-09
    The New York Yankees' 27th World Series victory was watched by an average of 21.15 million viewers on Fox Wednesday night -- nearly as many as tuned in to the other three networks combined. During the 8:30 p.m. half hour, 23.63 million were watching, according to Nielsen Research. Despite the (more)

    FRIDAY-NIGHT LIGHTS-OUT FOR NUMB3RS?
    05-Nov-09
    In a sign that the onetime hit series Numb3rs may soon be 86'ed, CBS on Thursday cut back the number of episodes ordered for the current season to 16 from the previously announced 22. While the series has generally performed better than its rivals in Friday-night competition, all shows aired (more)

    TV SERIES MAY BECOME "SEQUEL" TO 2012
    05-Nov-09
    While it may not be unusual for producers to be discussing a sequel to a blockbuster movie even before the original is released, it is unusual for them to suggest that the sequel ought to be produced for television. But that is the case with the disaster movie 2012, which (more)

    SEX TAPE ABORTS MISS CALIFORNIA'S LAWSUIT
    05-Nov-09
    Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has suddenly dropped her $1-million lawsuit against the Miss California USA Pageant organization after a pageant lawyer came up with a solo hardcore sex tape, which has never been released publicly, the website TMZ reported Wednesday. Prejean had claimed she was ousted for voicing (more)

    FOUNDER OF COMIC CON DEAD AT 76
    05-Nov-09
    Shel Dorf, founder of San Diego's annual Comic-Con gathering, died Tuesday of complications from diabetes, a spokesman said Wednesday. He was 76. Dorf's first convention in 1970 attracted about 300 comic-book fans. This year, it drew 125,000 and became the launch pad for an assortment of sci-fi and fantasy films (more)

    MORE GOOD NEWS FROM THE "CONGLOMS"
    05-Nov-09
    Media conglomerates News Corp and Time Warner each reported higher-than-expected quarterly results Wednesday, with their movie and cable businesses offsetting declines at their other -- mostly print -- businesses. Time Warner's Time Inc. unit, which publishes such magazines as Time, People, and Entertainment Weekly, took a particularly hard hit as (more)

    ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS UNSEATS TRANSFORMERS 2
    05-Nov-09
    Paramount/DreamWorks' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen fell off its top perch on the DVD sales and rental charts after only one week last week, unseated by 20th Century Fox's Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. The blow-'em-up movie fell to second place on both the Nielsen VideoScan sales chart and (more)

    OSCARS CO-PRODUCER DEFENDS DECISION TO BRING IN TWO HOSTS
    05-Nov-09
    Adam Shankman maintains that he was not brought in to co-produce next year's Academy Award show because of any desire by the motion picture academy to expand or enhance the production numbers. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shankman acknowledged, "There had been a lot of speculation surrounding the hiring (more)

    In Other News
    MPAA ASKS FCC FOR PERMISSION TO LAUNCH NEW TECHNOLOGY
    05-Nov-09
    The MPAA on Wednesday once again called upon the FCC to allow it to employ a technology -- called selectable output control (SOC) -- that can deliver movies to the homes of consumers while preventing piracy. In a statement, MPAA chief Dan Glickman said that the movie producers' object was (more)

    COMCAST SEES 22% RISE IN PROFITS
    04-Nov-09
    Comcast, which is reportedly in negotiations to take over control of NBC Universal, posted a 22-percent increase in third-quarter profits -- but made no mention of the negotiations in its quarterly report. The company said earnings reached nearly $1 billion in the quarter -- $944 million to be precise, versus (more)

    WILL APPLE COMPETE WITH CABLE-TV?
    04-Nov-09
    Rumors spread rapidly over the Internet on Tuesday that Apple is about to offer a $30-a-month service via its iTunes store that would effectively replace cable services. The rumor was apparently first reported on the Gizmodo website, which indicated that the service could be announced at about the same time (more)

    BASEBALL DOMINATES RATINGS
    04-Nov-09
    The national pastime dominated the national primetime last week as Fox's coverage of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies scored strongly with viewers. In USA Today, writer Michael Hiestand, sounding as if he was an escapee from Variety, observed that "this year's boffo TV (more)

    V DEBUTS WITH BEST NUMBERS FOR ANY NEW SHOW THIS YEAR
    04-Nov-09
    Aliens reinvaded America's living rooms again Tuesday night -- en masse. According to overnight Nielsen ratings, ABC's V attracted 13.9 million viewers, providing some unexpected competition for the usual winner of the 8:00 p.m. time period, CBS's NCIS. It was the best premiere for a new scripted series this year, (more)

    MARTIN AND BALDWIN TO HOST OSCARS
    04-Nov-09
    The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is doubling the number of films nominated for its Best Picture Oscar, has also doubled the number of hosts of the awards show. It announced Tuesday that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin will co-host the 82nd awards presentation. (The two are (more)

    NO MARVEL HERE: NO MOVIES, NO MONEY
    04-Nov-09
    Marvel shareholders were no doubt bracing for lousy news Tuesday when the superhero comics company issued its third-quarter results. After all,they realized that the company had not released a movie during the entire year. As it turned out, the company did indeed report a profits plunge of 60 percent on (more)

    SCORSESE TOUTS WONDERS OF BLU-RAY
    04-Nov-09
    Director Martin Scorsese attempted to perk up public enthusiasm for the Blu-ray high-definition home theater system Monday by declaring that "it creates a completely different experience" from conventional DVDs. Viewing restored versions of older movies, he told a Blu-ray convention in Washington D.C. was "like experiencing the film for the (more)

    INITIAL PLANS APPROVED FOR SHANGHAI DISNEYLAND
    04-Nov-09
    After nearly a decade of on-again, off-again negotiations, the Walt Disney Co. and the municipal government of Shanghai have settled on a plan to create a $3.59-billion Disneyland-type theme park in the model city, the Chinese government confirmed early today (Wednesday). "China is one of the most dynamic, exciting and (more)

    COMCAST MAY PROVIDE MOVIES ON DEMAND ON DAY OF DVD RELEASE
    04-Nov-09
    The movie industry, already warring with the likes of Netflix and Redbox over renting movies at kiosks and online as soon as they are released on DVD, may have a new foe to fight. Comcast said on Tuesday that during the next year it expects to release about 100 movies (more)

    SCANDAL FAILS TO HURT LETTERMAN
    03-Nov-09
    The scandal that followed allegations that David Letterman was being blackmailed by a CBS News producer who claimed to have evidence that he had been having sexual relations with female staffers has not hurt the Late Show's ratings, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The trade publication quoted Bill Carroll, head (more)

    CBS'S RATINGS JUMP ON DVR RESULTS
    03-Nov-09
    CBS suddenly found itself richer by an overall average of 1.12 million viewers and a half a ratings point following tabulation of 7-day DVR viewing for the week. The network's top-rated drama The Mentalist turned out to be its top playback performer as well, as DVR figures showed that it (more)


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