In its new issue. Esquire profiles compulsively quotable NBC perfect storm Ben Silverman, who apparently has not been too busy monitoring the foreign airwaves for lowbrow, easily importable reality TV formats he can plug into the holes the writers strike will soon blow in his network’s schedule to publicly invite his favorite rivals over for […]
Nov
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NBC’s Ben Silverman Thinks Network Rivals Reilly And McPherson Are ‘D-Girls,’ But Not Hot And Fun Enough To Party With [Hollywood Feudwatch]
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Nov
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Today’s most popular headlines are Former Writer’s Assistant Calls Bullshit On Ellen DeGeneres’s Crocodile Tears (6,277 views today), The Strike, Day Four: March Of The Governator (2,418) and Barbara Walters Gets Her Sass On At ‘The View’ (2,196). Today’s most discussed stories are.
Nov
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Ellen DeGeneres Slits The Throat Of Her Baby Monologue As An Offering To The Striking-Writer Gods [Stands]
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Since the ghost of a writer’s room presence from Ellen DeGeneres’s past has come back to haunt the picket-line-circumnavigating chant-target–and in doing so, reopened the age-old debate about how much writer-abuse is too much writer-abuse when your name’s in the title–the first new episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show has aired.
In it, the comedian […]
Nov
8
Ween, Remembering UPN, Barker [To Do]
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· Music round-up: Of Montreal at Avalon; Ween at the Wiltern; Robbers on High Street at the Echoplex, Mason Jennings at the Troubadour.
· With all of network TV on the brink of strike-hastened extinction, there’s never been a better time to revisit the glorious failures that were The WB and UPN, the two netlets whose […]
Nov
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Breaking! Could bite-sized–but volatile–DreamWorks … [Strikewatch]
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Breaking! Could bite-sized–but volatile–DreamWorks Animation head Jeffrey Katzenberg be a secret WGA sympathizer? An operative reports from the Warner Bros. picket line: “Funny story today from the WB Gate 2 strike lines. Jeffery Katzenberg was pulling into the lot in his black Prius right in front of a bunch of us. Someone recognized him right […]