Rolling Stone-related stories
Posted Sep 3rd 2009 3:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Celebrities, Reality-Free
The Colbert Report is in vacation right now (it returns on September 14), so how about we look at the career of Stephen Colbert to get us through these weeks?
Rolling Stone has a new
cover story on Colbert and an interesting feature up at their site that gives an overview of
what Colbert has done over the years. Not just the stuff we've all seen (like
The Dana Carvey Show and
Strangers with Candy), but also his work on the short-lived sketch show
Exit 57, a dramatic turn on
Law and Order: CI, and voiceover work for a really terrible-looking video tennis game.
Continue reading Before his own show, Stephen Colbert did Good Morning America
Posted Jun 9th 2009 6:07PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: American Idol, Celebrities, Contestants
American Idol runner-up
Adam Lambert is on the cover of the new Rolling Stone, and he reveals a lot of information. Eight things I learned:
1. He's gay.
2. He's "glamboyant." (To quote Liz Lemon, that's a thing now?)
3. He doesn't tuck.
4. He had a crush on Kris Allen.
5. He has only dressed in drag three or four times.
6. He's not a civil rights leader.
7. He had a "psychedelic experience" at Burning Man
8. Seriously, he's gay.
Posted Nov 5th 2007 2:23PM by Jen Creer
Filed under: Industry, The Daily Show, Celebrities, WGA Strike
By now, you've surely heard about
the writers' strike currently in full swing across the television and film industry in New York City and Los Angeles. And apparently, the writers are not the only ones getting in on the act.
The Huffington Post is reporting that Jon Stewart of
The Daily Show has committed to pay the salaries of his own writers and those of
The Colbert Report for the next two weeks, so his writers won't be harmed financially by the strike during that period.
Continue reading Jon Stewart to pay writers himself for two weeks
Posted Sep 14th 2007 12:01PM by Liz Finn-Arnold
Filed under: OpEd, NYTVF
I sometimes look around the internet and am amazed by the sheer volume of content. People can write about almost anything -- especially when they're obsessed with a specific topic. And a lot of people seem to be specifically obsessed with television.
Not that I can judge. I'm TV addict who writes for
TV Squad. But I sometimes wonder if it all really matters. Is anyone listening to any of us? And more importantly, do we have any influence on the television world at large with our opinions and criticisms?
As a devoted TV addict, I headed out last week to cover the
New York Television Festival (NYTVF) and listened in on a panel discussion which looked at the explosion of blogs and TV fan sites and questioned their impact (if any) on the industry.
Continue reading NYTVF: TV Criticism on the Web
Posted Feb 28th 2007 6:37PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, HBO, Programming, The Wire
HBO has given the greenlight to
Generation Kill, a seven-hour miniseries based on the true stories of Marines fighting in the Iraq war. The series will focus on the early movements of the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. The series is being co-written by David Simon and Ed Burns of
The Wire and is based on Evan Wright's nonfiction book of the same name. Wright was embedded with U.S. troops during the war's first phase in 2003.
Expect to see nothing but Iraq war films, miniseries and television shows coming out of Hollywood over the next couple of years. Enough time has passed since the war's inception to see all manner of first person narratives and analysis published and snapped up by production companies. What distinguishes
Generation Kill is its look at the war's earliest days, the specificity with which it addresses military bueracracy and its characterization of today's soliders. They are not their WWII and Vietnam counterparts. As Wright described them, Marines are "on more intimate terms with videogames, reality TV shows and Internet porn than they are with their own parents." Different generation. Different war.
Posted Jan 25th 2007 3:04PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Web, Celebrities, MTV
I guess the confidentiality clause that reality TV participants sign only cover the show's results and not how the participants
feel about the show's proceedings. If you're in the market for some meta-commentary on currently airing reality programs, look no further than the dozens of MySpace pages, blogs and Face Book entries kept by various shows' competitors.
You can read about why
Dasit skipped out of the
Egotrip White Rapper Show's 16-bar challenge ("...had to step before it got too corny...") or what
Beauty and the Geek's Neils Hoven thinks of the show's editing ("...if anything, people's personalities have been rather
understated so far..."). Despite the wealth of competition, the hands-down best blog entry by a reality show competitor on a currently airing program has to be this
Tuesday's screed from I'm from Rolling Stone's Krishtine de Leon.
Continue reading Reality stars hate on the haters online
Posted Jan 11th 2007 6:31PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Web, MTV
Cops hate cop shows. Doctors hate doctor shows. Comedy writers hate
Studio 60, and the media is loving to hate
I'm from Rolling Stone. Everyone from
Idolator to
Salon is lining up to spank
Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner and his ridiculous charges, but that's just because they're jealous. When they started out as interns back in the day, they didn't get to rock the red carpet events and see their bylines the next day. They chose the path of hard work to achieve their journalistic dreams when they should have chosen the far more lucrative and entertaining path of reality television.
You don't have to repeat those bitter journalists' mistakes. You can choose a path somewhere in between.
I'm from Rolling Stone has started an
online writing contest.
Continue reading I'm from Rolling Stone's online writing contest
Posted Dec 21st 2006 1:01PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Cable, OpEd, The Colbert Report, Celebrities, Comedy Central
Last night's episode of
The Colbert Report, the heavily promoted "shred-off" between Stephen Colbert and The Decemberists' guitarist Chris Funk, was an amazing way to wrap up the show's 2006 run. It was a star-studded affair and, although I was a little disappointed in Colbert (read on and you'll see why), I quite enjoyed it. By the way, did anyone else expect the actual "shred-off" to be a few rounds of Guitar Hero?
Continue reading The Colbert Report: Countdown to Guitarmageddon -- VIDEO
Posted Dec 14th 2006 8:03PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, MTV, Pickups and Renewals
MTV, a network that can no longer claim to be the "music authority," and
Rolling Stone, a magazine that lost its counterculture credibility when Hunter S. Thompson and Lester Bangs pulled up stakes over twenty years ago, have
teamed up for a reality series -
I'm with Rolling Stone - that follows six young writers vying for a full-time contributing editor slot at the magazine.
The series, which
TV Squad reported on earlier this year, will make its debut on January 7th at 10PM for a ten-episode run. The six contestants were chosen from a pool of several thousand applicants. They spent this past summer fielding writing assignments from
Rolling Stone's editors - including artist profiles, political coverage and event reviews. Some of the artists that turn up in the series include Ghostface Killah, We Are Scientists, The Roots and Band or Horses.
Continue reading I'm with Rolling Stone premieres in January
Posted Oct 31st 2006 9:09PM by Annie Wu
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, TV Royalty, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Celebrities, Comedy Central
The cover story for the latest issue of
Rolling Stone magazine is all about America's favorite go-to fake newsmen, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I don't think I've ever read an interview featuring the two of them together, so this was an interesting read. The magazine's official site has two new photos and
an excerpt of the interview. My favorite bit is the part where the reporter asks Jon and Stephen whether or not they will miss the Bush administration's fodder for satire...
ROLLING STONE: But wouldn't, say, a President Obama be harder to make fun of than these guys?
STEWART: Are you kidding?
COLBERT and STEWART in unison: His dad was a goat-herder!
I normally don't buy magazines off the rack, but I'll definitely pick up this one... if only for the awesome cover photo. The issue will be out until November 12th.
Posted Jun 6th 2006 10:05AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: TV Royalty, Talent, Celebrities, Talk Show
It's pretty common knowledge that
Rolling Stone, a magazine that used to be about the counter-culture and rock 'n' roll, hasn't been about either in quite a long time. From what I've heard, they've gotten back to their musical roots a little, but except for their recent 1,000 issue, I haven't read it since my subscription ran out five years ago.
That being said, they do have a
very interesting profile of television legend Merv Griffin in the latest issue. The profile, written by John Colapinto, mostly examines Merv's entertainment career, discussing the various versions of
The Merv Griffin Show, which ran for over twenty years. Of course, Colapinto also talks to Merv about his two creations that live on to this day,
Jeopardy! and
Wheel of Fortune (he wrote the famous
J! theme; Merv recounts opening a big royalties check for a
J! ringtone, even though he had no idea what a ringtone was). The article follows Merv around to meetings and to his sprawling house in La Quinta, CA. And Colapinto goes the extra mile, interviewing everyone from Pat Sajak to good friend Nancy Reagan.
Continue reading Rolling Stone takes break from Britney coverage to talk to Merv Griffin
Posted Mar 22nd 2006 8:46PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable
MTV and Rolling
Stone magazine are teaming up for a reality show about amateur journalists competing for a coveted writing position on
the staff of the magazine. The show is going be taped this summer in New York and will most likely air in the late
fall. Camera crews will follow around young music journalists as they interview bands and celebrities and try to weave
their experiences into an entertaining tale fit for print.
You can still apply to be on the show at the
Rolling Stone website or at
MTV.com. The
deadline is April 7.
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