VideoMusicAwards-related stories
Posted Sep 14th 2009 11:48PM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Talk Show, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
(S01E01) A lot is riding on this little NBC pet project. Like one-third of their primetime lineup. But despite all their promises and promotions that this was a comedy show, vastly different than Jay Leno's work on
The Tonight Show, I saw virtually the same exact show on a different set. That's not necessarily a bad thing if you're NBC. Leno was incredibly successful for a long time on that show. Just call it what it is.
The promise that it would stay topical was brought to fruition. In the opening monologue, just like those
Tonight Show monologues of yore, he drops a joke right away about the situation last night at the
Video Music Awards involving Kanye West and Taylor Swift. Conveniently, Kanye was a booked guest tonight, as well, so with a little shuffling, he wound up on the chair next to Leno to talk about it.
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Posted Jun 27th 2008 6:07PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Reality-Free
I'm one of the many people who laments the
"channel drift" that has affected MTV. A network that started out as, well, "music television" has clearly become "anything but music television." There's even a graph now on GraphJam the depicts how
The Real World caused the downfall of MTV. The graph shows how the airtime for music videos has decreased as
The Real World grew in popularity. Perhaps it should also measure how the cast of
The Real World became more attractive and subsequently less intelligent.
The graph posits that by 2010 music videos will be nonexistent on the channel. Also, interesting is the rise of what the graph calls simply "other crap" that coincides with the rise of shows like
The Real World and
Road Rules. I assume "other crap" refers to shows like
The Hills,
My Super Sweet Sixteen, and
Made -- shows that have replaced music videos in primetime (and replaced music videos with their incessant reruns in daytime).
Continue reading Proof that The Real World caused the downfall of MTV
Posted Jun 23rd 2008 3:04PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Industry, OpEd, Music and Variety, Awards, Reality-Free
MTV has decided that after a ten-year absence from the west coast, the
Video Music Awards will be held this year in Los Angeles. The ceremony will be held on Sunday September 7th at the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood.
What? No Kodak Theatre? No Nokia Theatre? So, why the choice to hold the ceremony at a Hollywood studio lot?
Entertainment Weekly says, "Expect executive producer Jesse Ignjatovic to make use of many of Paramount's stages, rooftops, and camera-ready city streets for the star-studded show, which will only air once in its original incarnation."
Continue reading VMAs go back to L.A.
Posted Sep 3rd 2007 2:55PM by Scott Johnson
Filed under: Celebrities, BewbTewb
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