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Big Screen
$US300M In Ticket Sales Puts Zero Dollars In Bono’s Pocket
3:18AM Richard Rushfield | The goblins taking over the big-screen for our annual, mandated block when Only Scary Movies Can Be Released. And in the counting house, the scarier news that even U2 may have money troubles. More »
Small Screen
Ben Silverman, We Will Miss You
4:23AM Richard Lawson | That NBC chair Ben Silverman is flying/being pushed out of the peacock coop isn’t really all that surprising. He’s always been kind of a disaster. A blowhard (in more ways than one) party boy with streaks of ego and irresponsibility. More »
Small Screen
Wunderkind Ben Silverman Out At NBC
12:43AM Richard Lawson | Once-celebrated, now-beleaguered NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman is leaving the company, it was announced on Ryan Seacrest’s Twitter this morning. (Yes.) Well, OK, the New York Times has confirmed. So what the heck happened? Is this good news or bad? More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
James Murdoch Paid Phone-Hack Hush Money
4:05AM Hamilton Nolan | In your drenched Tuesday media column: James Murdoch is directly implicated in the News Corp. UK phone-hacking scandal, the WSJ tells you how to get rich on NYT Co. bonds, The Wanted is unwanted, and more. More »
Small Screen
TV Networks Bravely Fight For The Right To Think You Can Dance
1:46AM John Cook | As the US plod through The Summer Americans Stopped Watching Network TV, said networks are making a fuss about Barack Obama’s insistence on holding press conferences because it temporarily prevents them from profiting from their endlessly looped last-gasp humiliation-based reality shows. More »
Small Screen
Handicapping The Bernie Madoff Interview Race
4:48AM Hamilton Nolan | Bernie Madoff’s only remaining purpose in life is to be exploited by the media. Which US network will land the first jailhouse TV interview with the villain? We handicap the possibilities, below. More »
Small Screen
William Shatner Mimes Masturbation, Flips Off Conan On Tonight Show
7:15PM the cajun boy | William Shatner, looking bloated, red-faced, sweating, and acting as though he was either high or drunk or both, was a guest for the ages on Conan’s Tonight Show tonight. God bless him. More »
Small Screen
Heidi Pratt’s “Hospitalisation” Is One Giant Reality TV Mess
9:00AM Foster Kamer | Heidi Pratt was rushed to a hospital in Costa Rica last night for some kind of stomach infection while filming/quitting I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here. Our source calls the entire thing out. More »
Small Screen
Heidi And Spencer’s War On Reality Continues From Jungle Hideout
5:19AM Richard Lawson | So we got duped. Heidi and Spencer, the prats from The Hills who supposedly quit the horrid reality trash barge I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Outta Here!, haven’t, in fact, been gotten outta there. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam
