guardian.co.uk Film:
Social networking sends $15,000 shocker inspired by Fawlty Towers into box-office hall of fameThere is nothing remotely scary about the beige library in the Soho Hotel. It's calm, quiet, bland. Yet towards the end of a low-ke (Read More)
Engadget:
Philips has just announced a new 9704 LED Pro line of televisions bound for the UK. The two sets promise a 5,000,000:1 contrast ratio, a 200Hz refresh rate, and a 1-ms response time. Philips promises both models -- the 40-inc (Read More)
New York Times:
The PBS mainstay Bill Moyers said he was retiring from weekly television and would end his Friday night public affairs show, “Bill Moyers Journal,” on April 30, 2010.
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New York Times:
Analysts and executives are wondering if the economic model of broadcast television, which is more heavily reliant on advertising than cable, is irreparably broken.
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New York Times:
The sides appear to be at least $500 million apart on how to value NBC Universal, which G.E. is hoping to sell to Comcast, the big cable television company.
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BBC:
Chef Jamie Oliver and television presenter Lauren Laverne are among the celebrities who donated items to a new charity shop in Edinburgh. (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
The England coach believes consistency, rather than creativity, is the way forward for his under-fire players"It's been a tough week, I can't deny it," Martin Johnson said yesterday, giving some hint of his response to the cr (Read More)
The Guardian:
He got his big break playing Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and now, 34 years later, John Hurt is at it againThere's something disturbing about John Hurt. That familiar Mount Rushmore face seems to have ironed itsel (Read More)
Bob Schwartz Online:
The women out pawning a book despite some not believing that she has ever read one is apparently sticking it to her supporters once again and her Sioux Falls fans looking forward to her appearance here on December 6th might w (Read More)
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There’s a big shake-up in daytime television on the way. After 25 years on the air, The Oprah Winfrey [...]Related posts:Dr. Phil: Syndicated Talk Show Renewed through the 2013-14 SeasonThe Mary Tyler Moore Show: Oprah Reunit (Read More)
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When, in late September, rumors surfaced that Comcast was trying to buy NBC Universal from General Electric, Wall Street reacted with dismay. Grandiose attempts to combine media production and distribution — programming and p (Read More)
BBC:
Chef Jamie Oliver and television presenter Lauren Laverne are among the celebrities who donated items to a new charity shop in Edinburgh. (Read More)
New York Times:
It’s a measure of Oprah Winfrey’s outsize stature that the news that she would shut down “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in September 2011 buckled the media world.
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www.guardian.co.uk:
Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who s (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
New injunctions against gangs and action on wheelclampers included in Alan Johnson's crime billNew antisocial behaviour injunctions – dubbed gangbos – aimed at tackling teenage gang members as young as 14 are to be introduced (Read More)
AKA William:
German Spy Leaks Secrets to Male Lover?Houston mayoral candidate ignores anti-gay attacksArizona LGBT Workers Sue to Maintain BenefitsVenezuelan president Hugo Chavez on marriage equality and anti-gay persecutionOklahoma City (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Bill Moyers is leaving weekly television.The New York Times' Elizabeth Jensen reports that the PBS newscaster is retiring from his Friday night program, "Bill Moyers Journal," on April 30, 2010."Bill Moyers Journal" launched (Read More)
queerty:
It's not even 2011 yet, when Oprah will go off the air, but the daytime queen is already tearing up at the thought of her exit.
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queerty:
ON OUR GAYDAR — News, notes, clicks, and quips from around the web.→ Oh Ru, how we've missed you! Season 2 of Drag Race arrives in January — with guest judges Kathy Griffin Cloris Leachman, and Debbie Reynolds — , but first i (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
C4 documentary drama to portray the monarch in key moments since the 1950sPlaying the Queen brought Helen Mirren international fame and enough awards to fill a trophy room. Now five more British actors are taking on the role (Read More)