Category Archives: daytime
I Think I’ll Move into a Cave…
Enjoy your Thursday, folks – For those of us who find sports less than irresistibly transfixing, this is the last day of freedom we’ll see for two weeks. NBC’s coverage of the Olympics begins tomorrow and will continue at levels … Continue reading
This is Unbelievable !
By now most of you should be re-entering society after finally subduing the boundless depression induced by news of the ‘Celebrity’ rehab show I mentioned last week. Well, it just got worse… A company called Morusa Media is currently pitching … Continue reading
WGA – Day 5….TGIF !!
After yesterday’s malevolent demands by the AMPTP that every word a Writer has even contemplated committing to paper belonged to them and must be surrendered immediately or incur a Fatwah, we reach another low-point in the course of any strike; … Continue reading
WGA – All The Way !…
Well, it’s official; The Writers will go on strike from early Monday after their negotiators recommended a walkout over royalties. A move that could shutter late-night TV shows immediately. The WGA vote was unanimous and the strike starts from 12:01 … Continue reading
Twinkle, Twinkle….Faded Star….
Hard on the Cuban heels of that Sequin-encrusted festival of mind-crushing banality commonly referred to as ‘Dancing with the Stars’ comes news that ‘The Donald’ is at it again. There is to be another ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’ I’ll give you a … Continue reading
And now, a word from our Sponsor!…
In another example of the curious dichotomy that is American television, “Grey’s Anatomy,” which has the most expensive commercials of any show on broadcast TV, has once more emerged as the highest rated show of Fall’s first week among TiVo … Continue reading
Here’s the News…Ten years late??
In what it pompously labels ‘a response to shifting viewer habits,’ WNBC in New York City will become the largest TV station to end its 5pm newscast. From September 10th it will be replaced by an Entertainment news show.Dan Forman, … Continue reading
Oh, F***….orget It !
Because, of course, they have nothing more pressing to attend to, Congress is now making moves to repeal the major Networks’ recent court victory over the FCC’s “fleeting expletive” ruling. A week after a Senate panel rejected one anal attempt … Continue reading
CBS – Cardigan Broadcasting Service
CBS News has decided to make some changes that could finally raise its perennially last-place morning program to a more competitive location in the ratings. The plan is to abandon the current format that lets Affiliate stations interrupt with local … Continue reading
Child labor should never be reality…
I would expect to read something like this in a novel by Dickens, but apparently it’s rather more recent… It seems CBS are so obsessed with the precious ‘bottom line,’ they decided to indulge in a little child labor. A … Continue reading
