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America's Got Talent Drops Below 10 Million Viewers
NBC's America's Got Talent remained the top-rated show of the night on Wednesday, but it fell below 10 million viewers for the first time this season (to 9.28 million), down 16 percent from a week...
By Lew Irwin in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15 August 2013
Frank Rich Blasts David Gregory
Former New York Times critic/columnist Frank Rich, who now writes for New York magazine, has become the latest to lay into Meet the Press host David Gregory for his accusatory question directed at Guardian reporter...
By Lew Irwin on 27 June 2013
Mike And Molly Sinks To Series Low As It Blows Out
CBS's Mike and Molly turned out to be another victim of the Oklahoma tornado as the delayed season finale of the show, titled Windy City, drew just 7.79 million viewers, a series low. That it...
By Lew Irwin on 31 May 2013
3d Movies Coming To Mobile Devices -- No Glasses Needed
The dream of being able to watch 3D movies without the need of glasses moved a step closer to realization on Tuesday with the endorsement of the Dolby 3D format by Cameron/Pace Group, headed by...
By Lew Irwin on 10 April 2013
Grammys Down But Still Tops For The Week
CBS's telecast of the Grammy Awards may have fallen steeply from a year ago when it aired one day following the death of Whitney Houston, but it was nevertheless the highest rated program of last...
By Lew Irwin on 12 February 2013
Jay-z Suing Former Chef For 1.5m
Jay-Z is suing his former personal chef for $1.5 million. The hip-hop mogul has filed a lawsuit against Mike Shand, who worked for both him and his wife Beyonce Knowles, on behalf of his restaurant...
By Bang Showbiz on 21 August 2012
Geri Halliwell's Daughter Is Embarrassed By Her
Geri Halliwell's daughter is embarrassed by her. The Spice Girls star admits her six-year-old child Bluebell Madonna - whose father is her former lover Sacha Gervasi - sometimes feels uncomfortable because of her mother's exuberant...
By Bang Showbiz on 20 August 2012
Cnn Reinstates Fareed Zakaria
CNN and corporate sibling Time magazine on Thursday reinstated Fareed Zakaria following the revelation that a paragraph of a recent commentary on gun control that he wrote seemed to have been plagiarized from an essay...
By Lew Irwin on 17 August 2012
Movie Reviews Ice Age Continental Drift
Critics have given the fourth Ice Age movie, Continental Drift , a mostly cool-to-cold reception. Sean O'Connell in the Washington Post , suggests that viewers are nonetheless likely to overlook its faults. "Logic [in the...
By Lew Irwin on 13 July 2012
Justin Bieber To Be Quizzed By Police
Justin Bieber will be quizzed by police over his alleged brawl with a photographer.The 'Boyfriend' singer - who is currently promoting his new album 'Believe' around the world - was reportedly involved in an altercation...
By Bang Showbiz on 14 June 2012
Movie Reviews Prometheus
Clearly, given the reputation that Ridley Scott's Alien had as one of the great classics of sci-fi film, his prequel, Prometheus , has fostered high expectations. Several critics have suggested that they have gone unfulfilled....
By Lew Irwin on 08 June 2012
Hatfields & Mccoys A Ratings Champ
A six-hour miniseries airing on the History Channel this week may wind up leveling the playing field used by cable and broadcast networks. The series, Hatfields & McCoys , set Nielsen records, winding up on...
By Lew Irwin on 01 June 2012
Cannes Road's End For On The Road
The film version of Jack Kerouac's famous beat-generation novel On the Road has finally made it to the screen after a decades-long journey. The film received its worldwide premiere at the Cannes Film Festival today...
By Lew Irwin on 23 May 2012
Mixed Reception For Ghost On Broadway
Another Hollywood movie has been recreated on Broadway as a musical, producing widely disparate reviews from critics. Charles Isherwood of the New York Times calls the music that was added to the movie's plot "rudimentary"...
By Lew Irwin on 24 April 2012
3d Movies Decline At Box Office
The latest revival of 3D may have turned out to be another flash in the pan. While a record 47 movies were released in 3D last year, revenue from 3D movies dropped 18 percent to...
By Lew Irwin on 23 March 2012
Seals Win Weekend Warfare
Led by a movie that set out as a training film for Navy SEALs (and which featured actual SEALs in the principal roles) and may wind up as the most effective recruitment film of all...
By Lew Irwin on 28 February 2012
Movie Reviews Act Of Valor
Film critics seem to be having difficulty getting a handle on Act of Valor -- understandable given the fact that the movie reportedly started out as a training and recruitment film for Navy SEALs. It...
By Lew Irwin on 24 February 2012
Hobbit Casting Call Canceled Over Safety Fears
An open casting call for women under five feet tall and men under five feet four inches to appear as extras in the Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, had to be abruptly canceled...
By Lew Irwin on 31 January 2012
First Movie Of 2012 A Cheap Horror Flick
The first film to open wide in the new year is one that was not screened for critics, a horror movie titled The Devil Inside . (It has to do with exorcisms. " Inside ,"...
By Lew Irwin on 06 January 2012
All-american Muslim To Deal With 9/11
In what is being billed as "the most nuanced and complex view about the [9/11] terror attacks from the American Muslim perspective ever seen on television," TLC's All-American Muslim series -- targeted by some far-right...
By Lew Irwin on 29 December 2011
Oscar The Grouch To Host The Oscars?
In a radio interview more than 35 years ago, the late Jim Henson and Frank Oz discussed the possibility of doing a Muppets sketch in which Oscar the Grouch would host -- what else? The...
By Lew Irwin on 10 November 2011
Plans To Bring Canceled Soaps To The Web Hit A Snag
Plans to bring the canceled ABC soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live to the Internet remain in limbo as the producers struggle to find enough financial backers who believe that such...
By Lew Irwin on 04 November 2011
Movie Reviews The Ides Of March
Several reviews of The Ides of March are putting first things first. While Ides of March is a political drama and director/co-star/co-screenwriter George Clooney is a card-carrying liberal Democrat, it is not a movie that...
By Lew Irwin on 07 October 2011
Movie Reviews Dream House
It's always a bad sign when a studio fails to screen a movie for critics in advance of its release. But how bad could a film starring the likes of Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz and...
By Lew Irwin on 03 October 2011
Sawyer Closing In On Williams
An excerpt from Diane Sawyer's interview with Jaycee Dugard that was included in last Thursday night's World News with Diane Sawyer not only gave the ABC newscast a rare win for the night over NBC...
By Lew Irwin on 13 July 2011
Olbermann's Debut Ratings On Current Are Electric
Some179,000 viewers 25-54 were able to find Countdown With Keith Olbermann on its first day on Al Gore's Current TV channel, placing him only slightly behind his former channel MSNBC with 237,000 viewers and Fox...
By Lew Irwin on 23 June 2011
Oscars Bring Abc First Victory This Season
It wasn't among the worst ratings results for an Oscar show nor was it among the best, but the 37.9 million viewers -- the final official tally -- who tuned in helped lift ABC to...
By Lew Irwin on 02 March 2011
Ticket Sales Soar Overseas -- But Not In U.s.
While theater attendance in North America was down and ticket sales were flat in North America in 2010, elsewhere the box office soared to record heights, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said in...
By Lew Irwin on 24 February 2011
Courtney Love Sued For Twitter Rants
Courtney Love is being sued over comments she made on twitter. The Hole rocker has become the first celebrity to have legal action launched against her over comments made on social networking sites - including...
By Bang Showbiz on 06 January 2011
Not So Funny Result For Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story had an unhappy ending at the box office this weekend. The Focus Features "dramedy," which opened in only 742 theaters, was not expected to be a big draw at...
By Lew Irwin on 11 October 2010
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