Simon Cowell? Has insight into inventing and product design? Simon Cowell? This makes no sense.
By JFB, Archived in
Television
Awesome: Mtv's The State's Michael Ian Black analyzes his own odds of late-night-talk-show-hostability.
By JFB, Archived in
Television, via Neil.
Rapist captured when victim spies him as contestant on Blind Date.
By JFB, Archived in
Television
Here's why American commercials suck.
By GMH, Archived in
Television
Everyone wanted to have Oprah's babies when she gave cars to all those people. I am sure they really needed them. But it turns out you still have to declare gifts like that as income. And $30,000 in additional income can bump you into the next tax bracket. It is going to cost each of them about $7000. Sure, it's a "good deal" to get a $30K car for $7K, but can these families afford that kind of "gift?" It's worse than when she made people in Africa walk for 3 days so she could give them blanket for them to carry back home, because at least that highlighted the African AIDS crisis. I despise publicity stunts that masquerade as selfless philanthropy.
By JFB, Archived in
Television
The New York Times has an article about the resurrection of Family Guy. Not only is it coming back (thanks to strong DVD sales and Cartoon Network ratings), but it is being joined by another show called "American Dad" about a conservative CIA agent.
By GMH, Archived in
Television
Curb Your Enthusiasm: tastes great and saves lives.
By JFB, Archived in
Television
England is so cool they can have commercials like this on TV. Use headphones if you're at your place of employment. Audio is not safe for work.
By CNE, Archived in
Television, Thanks, Hillary
Some people have way too much time on their hands. Jerry Lerma and Terry Hogan derived a complete map of Springfield from information gleaned from all the episodes. They also have the Springfield Yellow Pages. This must have taken forever!
By CNE, Archived in
Television
perhaps you saw this on BoingBoing, but a mysterious Dept of Education panel has re-allocated the money to be spent on closed-captioning. the new rules? officially unreleased. but clearly they are protecting the deaf from shows that might be too intense and give them nightmares. like law and order. and the simpsons. Oh, and no witchcraft: bewitched and scooby doo are out. here's the only article on google about it, but check back later, in case someone pickes this up.
By JFB, Archived in
Television
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