Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:49:07 PM CET
The Simpsons to become longest-running TV comedy
Don't have a cow, man - you're going to be able to watch new episodes of "The Simpsons" until at least May 2005.
According to industry magazine Variety, Fox Entertainment approved the extension, making the Emmy-winning animated show the longest running comedy in U.S. television history.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 5:18:43 PM CET
Brussels to probe TV rights in Hollywood
Hollywood studios and European pay-television companies are being investigated by European Union antitrust regulators over the sale of TV rights to movies. Brussels investigators are believed to have asked seven studios, including Warner Brothers, Columbia Tristar and Walt Disney, to explain the television distribution contracts for their movies - one of their fastest growing revenue streams.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 10:29:51 PM CET
Interview with Simpsons creator Matt Groening
Matt Groening’s success as a cartoonist/animator may be the best counter we have to the old P.T. Barnum adage that no one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the public. From his early notoriety as the man behind the comic strip “Life in Hell” -- which he still produces weekly -- to his ongoing bastion of American satire “The Simpsons” and its skewed, sci-fi cousin “Futurama,” Groening has shown that the comedy of dysfunction and disrespect can pull in a wide, devoted audience. But much has changed technologically in the 20-plus years since “Life In Hell” made its first appearance in an alternative weekly -- even in the 13 years since “The Simpsons” first revitalized and revolutionized animated television. Here, Groening offers his views on Web cartooning, digital vs. hand-drawn animation, and how technology has changed the way we view comedy.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 10:24:39 PM CET
Simpsons shows will continue to 2006
CBBC Newsround can confirm that the Simpsons, probably the world's most popular cartoon series, will continue to be made until at least 2006. In the past few months there has been talk that the show could finish its run in the near future.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 7:03:25 PM CET
Show tries to outwit 'ad zappers'
Will incorporate ads into program content
No more "... and now a message from our sponsor"?
Striking a blow against viewers who skip through TV commercials, a new variety series will blend advertising messages into its program fare, offering a seamless hour of entertainment mixed with salesmanship.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 2:47:00 AM CET
Weather Channel Launching Reality Serie ???
You know reality TV is entrenched as a genre when The Weather Channel — the most conservative network this side of C-SPAN — is hopping on the bandwagon. The Weather Channel debuts back-to-back episodes of its new nightly series, "Storm Stories," Monday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 12:45:22 AM CET
MTV to play same 10 music videos over 300 times per week
MTV announces bold resolution for the New Year: to shorten its music video playlist and concentrate on playing the same 'Big Ten' videos in heavy weekly rotation.
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Topic: - on December 29, 2002 at 12:10:02 PM CET
Al-Jazeera Plans English Language Broadcast
The Arab satellite television channel is planning on starting an English website early next year and hopes for some English programming later in 2003.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 4:30:48 PM CET
ABC eyes record as ad biz blitzes Bowl
A revved-up marketplace is pushing the ad revenues of the 2003 Super Bowl on ABC toward a possible record $130 million.
That's the word along Madison Avenue, which is buzzing about the $2.2 million per 30-second spot ABC has extracted, on average, from such advertisers as Anheuser-Busch, Pepsi, Cadillac and Levi's. These sponsors have already bought 80% or so of the 61 available spots in the 37th annual Super Bowl, slated for Jan. 26 in San Diego.
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Topic: - on November 28, 2002 at 8:41:10 PM CET
Private TV-Sender kritisieren Marathon-Livestream des ZDF
Der Verband Privater Rundfunk und Telekommunikation e. V. (VPRT) hat das ZDF für die Internetübertragung der 26-stündigen Live-Sendung iDay scharf kritisiert. Nach Ansicht des Verbandes zeige der Fernsehsender in "erschreckender Art und Weise", wie die Beiträge der Zuschauer zweckentfremdet werden können. Der Umgang mit den Gebühren sei unverantwortlich, betonte VPRT-Sprecher Stefan Kühler gegenüber heise online.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 12:40:40 PM CET
TV advert banned for 'offensive' cartoon of Bush
A television advertisement has been banned for poking fun at George W Bush. Its creators have been told that they must get the American president's permission if they want to be irreverent about him. When the producer of the ITV animated comedy 2DTV, asked regulators what would happen if they wanted to ridicule Osama bin Laden or Saddam Hussein, he was told he would have to obtain their "authorisation" too.
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Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 1:48:57 AM CET
'Prime crime' beauties steal the show
The way Laurinas Sheshkus tells it, the creative types at LNK TV were searching for a gimmick to rise above the airwaves clutter of Lithuanian television when someone proposed staging a beauty contest in the women's prison.
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