press releases
Small Screen
‘Tune In To Find Out What 2 Vaginas Looks Like!’
4:00AM Hamilton Nolan | PR is a discipline that demands the delicate touch of a surgeon and the sober judgement of a sober judge. You can’t just wildly issue press releases like, “Hey, We Got a Lady With Two Vaginas Here!” Or can you? More »
People
Star Shamelessly Hyping Its Reporter’s Fling With Jon Gosselin
1:12PM the cajun boy | Today’s shameless press release of the day: Star Magazine issued a statement tonight touting the fact that one of their reporters, Kate Major, is getting boned by douche-y octodad Jon Gosselin. Yeah. More »
People
Shameless Press Release Of The Day: Farrah Fawcett
6:55AM Richard Lawson | Some people are wiling to seize on a press opportunity no matter what. Like these two flacks today, who sent us a ghoulish capitalisation on actress Farrah Fawcett’s death. More »
Radio
2:26PM Jess McGuire | The latest press release to dramatically flounce its way into my inbox and promise the world is form the folks at the St Kilda Festival, its headline excitedly screaming “CALLING ALL WANNABE MODELS AND FASHION DESIGNERS TO THE ST KILDA FESTIVAL. Merrick and Rosso, Charlotte Dawson, Samantha Downey, Henry Roth, Scott McGregor and AFL stars to attend Festival.”
For real? With such a glittering array of stars present, surely some of their charisma and talent will rub off on attendees and lead to a career in showbiz, specifically modelling and fashion design!
The St Kilda Festival is this Sunday, February 8 promising the return of Festival favourites such as live music, and kids and sports zones, the FOXTEL village, and a range of new activities and events for punters to participate in free of charge.
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Apparently If You’re A Model Or Fashion Designer Or Fan Of Comedy With An Expiry Date Marked 12-12-99, You May Want To Consider Heading To The St Kilda Festival This Sunday!
2:26PM Jess McGuire | The latest press release to dramatically flounce its way into my inbox and promise the world is form the folks at the St Kilda Festival, its headline excitedly screaming “CALLING ALL WANNABE MODELS AND FASHION DESIGNERS TO THE ST KILDA FESTIVAL. Merrick and Rosso, Charlotte Dawson, Samantha Downey, Henry Roth, Scott McGregor and AFL stars to attend Festival.”
For real? With such a glittering array of stars present, surely some of their charisma and talent will rub off on attendees and lead to a career in showbiz, specifically modelling and fashion design!
The St Kilda Festival is this Sunday, February 8 promising the return of Festival favourites such as live music, and kids and sports zones, the FOXTEL village, and a range of new activities and events for punters to participate in free of charge.
It continues. More » 
Sensitive Company Exploits Jennifer Hudson’s Tragedy in 24 Hours Flat
7:00AM STV | The murders of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew last weekend may be almost incomprehensibly tragic to you, us and most anyone with a functioning conscience, but we can’t all sit around and just grieve over a trio of senseless deaths. There are products to sell and memories to exploit, as with this uniquely evil (and authentic) press release currently making the rounds — perhaps the single worst piece of PR ever to slither over the transom at Defamer HQ: More »FremantleMedia Wants A Piece Of What Wilmer Valderrama Is Packing
4:39AM Jess McGuire | Is there any better way to start one’s day than with the discovery of a press release in one’s inbox trumpeting the marriage of the Venezuelan renaissance man behind MTV’s Yo Momma to the local outpost of the global TV production conglomerate responsible for popularising the phrase, “Seacrest, out?” (Answer: Yes. Many.) Still, we feel the need to note the latest baffling developments in Wilmer Valderrama’s death-proof career:
FremantleMedia North America (FMNA), producers of some of television’s most successful brands including “American Idol,” “America’s Got Talent” and “The Price Is Right,” has inked a first-look deal with Wilmer Valderrama and his WV Enterprises (WVE) to develop and launch future series concepts on a global scale. [...]
“We’re very pleased to be working with the talented tour de force better known as Wilmer Valderrama,” says [FMNA CEO Cecile] Frot-Coutaz. “He and [partner] Danny [Villa] are very gifted producers with a keen sensibility for entertaining content that appeals to their generation. We look forward to creating great projects together.”
Admittedly, we don’t share Valderrama’s impressive professional background of playing fourth-wheel characters on a longrunning Fox sitcom, so we aren’t even going to pretend to know what “future series concepts on a global scale” means. Franchising Yo Momma internationally strikes us as a logical place for FezMantle productions to start, however, as its hopeful, universal message of using hyperbolic statements regarding the obesity of the enemy’s mother – not guns – could lay the blueprint for world peace.
For those of you who just can’t get enough details about this exciting venture, the entire press release is after the jump.
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