Topic: TV - on February 20, 2007 at 4:21:00 PM CET
Viacom announces deal with Joost
Just two weeks after ordering its content to be pulled from YouTube, Viacom Inc. announced a broad licensing deal with Joost, a new Internet service that specializes in commercial video content.
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Topic: TV - on February 19, 2007 at 9:51:00 AM CET
HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Filmmaker Byron Hurt, a life-long hip-hop fan, was watching rap music videos on BET when he realized that each video was nearly identical. Guys in fancy cars threw money at the camera while scantily clad women danced in the background. As he discovered how stereotypical rap videos had become, Hurt, a former college quarterback turned activist, decided to make a film about the gender politics of hip-hop, the music and the culture that he grew up with.
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Topic: TV - on February 18, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CET
1424
1424 is a parody of the 24 TV series, which sees Jack and the Los Angeles setting moved to medieval England in the 1400s. As big fans this is our tribute to the show and thought we would try something a little different. It was made for a college project with a few mates...and had to be shot quickly and cheaply, but was great fun to make. It has been split into 3 parts to keep small...
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Topic: TV - on February 16, 2007 at 1:14:00 PM CET
Photonovels - Doctor Who
Recreations of the classic 'missing' Doctor Who adventures, using images, sounds and video clips.
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Topic: TV - on February 14, 2007 at 3:28:00 PM CET
Switzerland moved by CNN
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Topic: TV - on February 14, 2007 at 11:27:00 AM CET
US military tells Jack Bauer: Cut out the torture scenes ... or else!
In the hugely popular television series 24, federal agent Jack Bauer always gets his man, even if he has to play a little rough. Suffocating, electrocuting or drugging a suspect are all in a day's work. As Bauer - played by the Emmy Award winner Kiefer Sutherland - tells one baddie: " You are going to tell me what I want to know - it's just a matter of how much you want it to hurt."
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Topic: TV - on February 11, 2007 at 2:14:00 PM CET
WHATEVER IT TAKES - The politics of the man behind “24.”
The office desk of Joel Surnow—the co-creator and executive producer of “24,” the popular counterterrorism drama on Fox—faces a wall dominated by an American flag in a glass case. A small label reveals that the flag once flew over Baghdad, after the American invasion of Iraq, in 2003. A few years ago, Surnow received it as a gift from an Army regiment stationed in Iraq; the soldiers had shared a collection of “24” DVDs, he told me, until it was destroyed by an enemy bomb. “The military loves our show,” he said recently. Surnow is fifty-two, and has the gangly, coiled energy of an athlete; his hair is close-cropped, and he has a “soul patch”—a smidgen of beard beneath his lower lip. When he was young, he worked as a carpet salesman with his father. The trick to selling anything, he learned, is to carry yourself with confidence and get the customer to like you within the first five minutes. He’s got it down. “People in the Administration love the series, too,” he said. “It’s a patriotic show. They should love it.”
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Topic: TV - on February 10, 2007 at 12:36:00 PM CET
Anna Nicole Smith And Our National Media Embarassment
The death of Anna Nicole Smith yesterday was a feeding frenzy for the national media, and coverage of the war was drowned out: NBC’s Nightly News devoted 14 seconds to Iraq compared to 3 minutes and 13 seconds to Anna Nicole. CNN referenced Anna Nicole 522% more frequently than it did Iraq. MSNBC was even worse — 708% more references to Anna Nicole than Iraq.
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Topic: TV - on February 10, 2007 at 12:22:00 PM CET
Cartoon Network boss quits over bomb scare
The head of Cartoon Network resigned Friday after the network's guerilla marketing scheme for one of its shows went bad last week and led to a bomb scare in Boston - a fiasco that cost its parent company $2 million.
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Topic: TV - on February 9, 2007 at 2:18:00 PM CET
Werner Mück will kein "Arschloch" sein
Der ehemalige ORF-Fernsehchefredakteur Werner Mück hat gegen Alexandra Binder, Redakteurin bei der Branchenzeitung "medianet", sowie gegen die Zeitung selbst Klage eingebracht. Stein des Anstoßes war ein Artikel vom vergangenen November mit dem Titel "Schwein sein", in dem die Autorin Mücks vielfach dokumentierten Führungsstil anhand des Buches "Arschloch-Faktor" analysiert und zu dem Schluss kommt, dass der Ex-Chefredakteur "einige Voraussetzungen" erfüllt, "um nach Robert Suttons Klassifizierung ein 'Arschloch' zu sein." Mück geht das zu weit: Er lässt die Redakteurin strafrechtlich verfolgen.
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Topic: TV - on February 8, 2007 at 3:54:00 PM CET
Cheddarvision TV
Cheese lovers can now watch cheddar mature 24 hours a day on the internet.
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Topic: TV - on February 7, 2007 at 1:24:00 PM CET
"Bud Bundy" Files for Divorce
Look out ladies, Grandmaster B is back on the market.
Actor David Faustino, aka Bud Bundy from the classic TV show, "Married with Children," is pulling the plug on his marriage to Andrea Elmer, and he's asking the judge to make sure she doesn't get any of his stuff.
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