Posts with tag time magazine
Posted Jun 11th 2008 9:59AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Sports, Programming, OpEd, Reality-Free

According to
Time magazine, there are various organizational problems occurring that could lead to the
Olympics not being broadcast on television. A series of unworkable conditions are being created for networks including limits on live coverage in Tiananmen Square and allegations that freight shipments of TV broadcasting equipment are being held up in Chinese ports.
The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing are scheduled to begin on August 8th. According to the minutes of a May 29th meeting, procedures which have been used by broadcasters in other Olympics are conflicting with China's authoritarian government. Some plans are months behind schedule, which could force broadcasters to compromise coverage plans.
Continue reading 2008 Olympics not on TV?
Posted May 5th 2008 2:03PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Celebrities, Reality-Free
Time's annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World is out, and for the third year in the row I just missed making the list (last year I was 103, this year I'm at 102, so I'm getting better!). The list is broken down into five different categories: Leaders & Revolutionaries, Heroes & Pioneers, Scientists & Thinkers, Artists & Entertainers, and Builders & Titans. This year, Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana herself, is #59. And the weird thing is, it's under the Scientists & Thinkers category.
OK, that's not true (she's under Artists & Entertainers), but it got me thinking that there must really be a shortage of influential people in the world today.
Continue reading Miley Cyrus is one of the 100 most influential people in the world
Posted Feb 1st 2008 8:33AM by Annie Wu
Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Episode Reviews

Everyone knows that CNN can be a bit of a sensory overload, especially with its fancy new
floating pie charts and whatnot. The flashiness took a huge jump when
Situation Room first came around and showed off its needlessly numerous screens. At least some fun finally came of it, in the form of a totally random mix-up during recent coverage of John Edward's concession. Apparently, dancing Spongebob Squarepants makes everything better. That's right, no context for you.
Continue reading A Daily Show: January 31, 2008
Posted Sep 7th 2007 3:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Industry, Programming
I like lists as much as the next guy, but I'm not sure how useful a "100 Best" list of anything is. Twenty-five best? OK. Ten best? That's good too, because you're really picking what you think are the best. But once your lists gets into three digits, it seems more like history than opinion. I mean, what wouldn't be on the list?
Time's James Poniewozik picks the 100 Best TV Shows of All-Time (or All-TIME, as the web site cleverly puts it). Since he picked 100 shows, all the usual suspects are here. The obvious ones (The Dick Van Dyke Show, All in the Family, Your Show of Shows, 60 Minutes, Cheers, I Love Lucy, M*A*S*H, etc) and the not-quite-so-obvious but certainly deserving (Mystery Science Theater 3000, The Odd Couple, Friends). And it includes a few surprises too (American Idol, King of the Hill, Oprah).
Continue reading Time picks the 100 best TV shows of all-time
Posted May 6th 2007 2:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
Posted Apr 16th 2007 3:02PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Late Night, OpEd, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, Celebrities

Because
Time magazine didn't want to waste a reporter resource to interview Chevy Chase, they decided to
have him answer questions sent in by readers. One of them asked what he thought of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, and he oh so humbly took credit for their success. "My ego tends to think that, you know, I started it with my Weekend Update," he responds, implying that the ideas for both
The Daily Show and
The Colbert Report came directly from WU.
In a way, he might be right, as his fake newscast came before theirs. But
TDS and
TCR are so different from Chase's newscast, that his claim of "starting" it is tenuous at best. Never let it be said that, despite a declining career, Chevy didn't still have his mid-career ego intact. At least he admits to it.
Continue reading A delusional Chevy Chase says he created The Daily Show
Posted Feb 21st 2007 8:34AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
Posted Dec 8th 2006 3:21PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: NBC, Industry, Programming, Animation, Children
Wow, that might be the oddest sentence I've ever written.
A while back it was reported that NBC was editing out the religious aspects of the Veggie Tales cartoons they were airing on Saturday mornings. But now, Time's James Poniewozik reports that the network has had a change of heart and will actually put the religious themes back into the shows. The Parents Television Council broke the news earlier this week.
Like Poniewozik, I'm not a fan of the PTC (I think some of their ideas are dangerous), but I agree that NBC is doing the right thing here. I mean, I'm not a big fan of editing or censorship, no matter what side of the political or social spectrum you fall on, and I thought it was bizarre when it was revealed that NBC was taking out the religious aspects of the episodes. I've never seen the show, but when they took the religion out, what was left? Was it just a bunch of vegetables running around?
Posted Oct 25th 2006 1:45PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: TV Royalty, Celebrities, Obituaries
Earlier this week we told you that actress Jane Wyatt had passed away at the age of 96, and now Time magazine's Richard Corliss writes a beautiful, long appreciation of the actress.
Most TV fans only seem to think of her as the mom on Father Knows Best, and even then, as Corliss points out, many of them are confusing her with the actress who married Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman. But she had an amazing depth to her body of work that not only spanned several decades in the movies, but an impressive stage resume as welll, including Clifford Odets' Night Music, Dinner At Eight, The Fatal Alibi (from Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden, where her costar was James Lipton from Inside The Actor's Studio(!)
But this isn't just a rattling off of her credits. Corliss had a personal connection to Wyatt after meeting her in 1987, where they got into a discussion of politics and race. It's well worth reading.
Posted Aug 28th 2006 12:32PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: NBC, News, Talent, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show
Even though former co-host Meredith Vieira doesn't watch the show anymore (she's too busy getting up early and working on The Today Show), she did watch Star Jones' final show, and feels that the show has become a joke and is now hard to watch.
This is one of the many things that Vieira says in a "10 Questions" interview with Time magazine. She also talks about women who were angry with her when she left 60 Minutes, how she was raised a boy, and what kinds of stories she wants to focus on when her gig on The Today Show starts in a couple of weeks.
Posted Jun 4th 2006 3:00PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, HBO, Premium Cable, News, Talent, Web, Celebrities

You can always count on Bill Maher to cut to the very heart of the matter. He's
interviewed at Time.com about his new Amazon.com show, his politics, where he gets his daily news, and about whether or not Katie Couric will do a good job as the new anchor over at CBS (side note: someone should tell the folks over at Time's site that there is a "bold" function in most web programs):
Will you watch Katie Couric?I think she'll probably read the teleprompter the same way the others did.Ha!
[via
TV Newser]
Posted Feb 6th 2006 8:58AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, American Idol, Celebrities

Kelly Clarkson just solidified her
standing as my favorite
American Idol (sorry Bo, you're #2). She has managed to escape from the strangle-hold
that
American Idol has on most of its contestants' careers. In an article that comes out in today's
Time magazine, Kelly says she didn't want to make
From Justin to Kelly with runner-up Justin Guarini
but she was contractually obligated. I never saw it, because it looked like some terrible version of
Beach Blanket
Bingo and it only got 8% on
Rotten Tomatoes.
She said, "I knew when I read the script it was going to be real, real bad...I could not get out of it."
Kelly eventually did get out of her contract with 19 Entertainment, the studio that manages all the
American
Idol winners, when folks in charge wouldn't allow her to write any songs for her new album,
Breakaway.
She ended up writing or co-writing six of twelve tracks and now is managed by a new company. Just call her Miss
Independent.
By the way, Kelly is scheduled to perform on the Grammy Awards this Wednesday. She is nominated
for Best Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album. Knowing that her personal stamp is on that album, I'm
definitely rooting for her!
Posted Jan 30th 2006 2:02PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Programming
Yes, that is a wiseass headline. I mean, is there anyone out there
who really thinks that what they are seeing on all these network reality shows are the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth, exactly how it happens?
James Poniewozik over at Time investigates some of the behind the scenes
goings on at some reality shows, including Laguna Beach, where they allegedly made up a love triangle that
didn't even exist; The Dating Experiment (an ABC show in the works) that took out the name of a celeb in a
girl's quote to make it seem like she liked a male contestant, who she really hated; and Paris Line being told what to
say on The Simple Life. This comes on the heels of Richard Hatch telling the judge at his trial last
week that people cheated on Survivor and producers covered it up. Plus let's not forget the controversies
from Joe Millionaire (editing that made it seem that Ethan and one of the girls were doing something in the
woods), Blind Date, and other shows.
I, for one, am SHOCKED. Shocked I tell you!
[via TV Tattle]