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  • Blogs

    February 12, 2013

    Courtney Friel Froze When Hubby Carter Evans Got Pinned In Dorner Shootout

    With reporting from Jill Stewart You're taking care of your 10-month-old and 2-year-old at home when your friends reach out to just let you know that your husband " ... is in a gun battle!" Not only that, but the gun battle is on live TV. Such was the day of Fox News Channel and Fox 11 News ente ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2012

    Matt Groening Pulls Plug on 'Life in Hell,' Comic That Helped Inspire The Simpsons

    Matt Groening pulled the plug on the iconic comic strip, "Life in Hell," that helped give birth to The Simpsons on Fox. USA Today reports that the last of the syndicated comics was published June 15, but that reruns will be provided through July 13. The characters Binky and Sheba gave life to the " ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Gavin Smith, Missing Fox Executive, Gets Twitter Campaign From Son Evan, USC Basketball Player

    Updated at the bottom with some strange details about the last time he was seen. First posted at 7:05 a.m. Monday. Gavin Smith, a longtime Fox movie distribution exec, has been missing for nearly a week. His son, USC basketball forward Evan Smith, has taken to Twitter to publicize the plight of hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Here Is a Children's Cartoon About Snoop Dogg's Murder Trial

    See also: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre and Tupac's Hologram at Coachella, April 15, 2012 Before kids' programming was relegated to cable, the major networks competed for young viewers. With the relatively new Fox network's penchant for cutting edge programming, their block of '90s shows for kids was no exce ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Napoleon Dynamite Animated Series Panel at the Paley Center: Does the Show Make Fun of Ugly, Weird People?

    In 2004 when Napoleon Dynamite -- a low-budget indie film about the strange and awkward characters in a small Idaho town -- took mainstream America by storm, were we laughing at Napoleon, or with him? It's an interesting question to ponder as a viewer, but one even more fun to pose to Jerusha and Ja ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    August 11, 2011

    Glee: The 3-D Concert Movie Review

    In 2004 when Napoleon Dynamite -- a low-budget indie film about the strange and awkward characters in a small Idaho town -- took mainstream America by storm, were we laughing at Napoleon, or with him? It's an interesting question to ponder as a viewer, but one even more fun to pose to Jerusha and Ja ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2011

    MLB Rejects Dodgers' TV Deal, Proving Frank McCourt Is Delusional

    Running out of ways to hate this guy​Remember that fuss last week about the Dodgers' divorce settlement? Well, forget about it.According to the Times' Bill Shaikin, who's a good authority on this sort of thing, Major League Baseball has rejected the Dodgers' proposed TV contract.That renders the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Dodger Divorce Settlement Gives Frank McCourt A Narrow Path to Victory

    Frank McCourt​As we detailed earlier, the Dodger divorce settlement announced this morning is a bit of a fraud. Ordinarily, you'd expect a settlement to resolve the issues, put all the nasty litigation in the past, and allow everybody to move on.This does not do that. In the likely scenario that M ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    GLAAD Names CW and MTV As the Most Gay Friendly Networks

    ​ MTV and the CW are the most gay-friendly channels, according to an exhaustive study by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the Hollywood Reporter reports. GLADD noted in a press release that the survey reviewed 4,787.5 hours of primetime programming from the five major network ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2010

    THE TAO OF D'OH!

    ​ MTV and the CW are the most gay-friendly channels, according to an exhaustive study by the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the Hollywood Reporter reports. GLADD noted in a press release that the survey reviewed 4,787.5 hours of primetime programming from the five major network ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    More Food-O-Vision: CBS Orders Food Reality Show

    This morning comes news that network television is joining the ever-expanding (like with our waistlines) genre of food reality TV. Reuters reports that CBS has ordered Beat the Chefs, with Tom Forman (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Find My Family). The pilot would be the first in the genre for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 22, 2010

    TV Writers Get $70 Million In Age Discrimination Settlement

    ​One-hundred-sixty-five television writers jointly received a $70 million settlement Friday in their age-discrimination claim against some of Hollywood's biggest players, including ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC and more. " ... With years of disruptive litigation remaining, and all networks and major tel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Fox Headed For A Pull-Out From Time-Warner Cable

    FoxTan Stewie from an episode of Fox's 'Family Guy.'​It looks like Los Angeles Time-Warner subscribers will usher in the New Year with the subtraction of a major network from their cable boxes. Yesterday we told you how the Fox network was threatening to pull its programming from Time-Warner b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Fox TV Threatens To Pull Shows In L.A., Nationwide, Over Dispute With Time-Warner

    Fox​No Family Guy? No Simpsons? No American Idol? (Well, that last one we could do without). The Fox network is threatening to go dark by the end of the week on Time-Warner in Los Angeles and other cities if the cable company doesn't meet it's demands to pay about $1 per subscriber per month i ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2009

    FOR LOVE AND HOOFING

    Fox​No Family Guy? No Simpsons? No American Idol? (Well, that last one we could do without). The Fox network is threatening to go dark by the end of the week on Time-Warner in Los Angeles and other cities if the cable company doesn't meet it's demands to pay about $1 per subscriber per month i ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2009

    Hollywood Is All About Karma

    Movie studio moguls (Cook, Ross, Shmuger, Linde, Fogelson, Langley) came and went this week

  • News

    March 5, 2009

    Why You Leavin' (News Corp.), Peter Chernin?

    And what you earnin', Chernin?

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2008

    Colored Views

    The results of the Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition's eighth annual diversity "report cards" came out last week and they weren't promising. The reports covered progress made in network television  during the 2007-2008 season by writers, actors and producers who were Latinos, Asians and Native Ameri ... More >>

  • News

    November 20, 2008

    Twilight Freaks and Star Trek Geeks, Handcuffs and Honchos

    Just a typical week in Hollywood

  • News

    May 1, 2008

    What's Hot: Talks Between Actors and Producers Look DOA

    Meanwhile, pilots are vibrantly alive

  • Film+TV

    February 28, 2008

    Unhitched and quarterlife: TV's Cool Hunters

    Networks turn to webisode angst in their eternal quest for the fountain of youth

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2007

    Fox's Tail - Assistants March

    “Every place has a completely different personality, like, Sony is kinda angry, Fox is where all the really cool people hang out and [CBS] Radford gets started at, literally, 5 am…” Stephen Scaia said last Wednesday. The Jericho writer was giving picketing pointers to Joshua Jackson (the drea ... More >>

  • News

    October 25, 2007

    WGA's Biggest Enemy

    A fed up writers union hopes to appeal to a sense of fair play. In Hollywood

  • Film+TV

    September 6, 2007

    Film Reviews: 3:10 to Yuma, Exiled, Hatchet

    Also, In the Shadow of the Moon, The Hunting Party and more

  • News

    May 3, 2007

    The Blockbusters Cometh

    It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless...

  • Film+TV

    April 12, 2007

    Road Warriors

    High-velocity action in Foxs new series Drive and Sci-Fi's Painkiller Jane

  • News

    March 22, 2007

    Robert Greenwald's Modest Proposal

    How online activists fear of Fox News helped drag Democrats into hyperpartisan censorship

  • Film+TV

    March 15, 2007

    Andy Richter Controls the Spreadsheet

    But can his number-crunching P.I. conquer TV ratings top 10?

  • News

    January 11, 2007

    Phone Sex, Kiss-offs and Showmances

    Hollywood starts new year with a bang

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood's Frenzied Fall

    Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

  • Film+TV

    August 24, 2006

    An Idol's Story

    Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

  • Film+TV

    August 25, 2005

    Cutthroat TV

    Treachery, corruption and ambiguous alliances in Rome and Prison Break

  • Film+TV

    June 9, 2005

    Chefs Under Fire

    Is Hells Kitchens Gordon Ramsay merely the Simon Cowell of haute cuisine?

  • News

    April 7, 2005

    Trailer of Tears

    It’s gonna be a long, not-so-hot summer movie season

  • Film+TV

    March 24, 2005

    Saving the Laugh Track

    Is the sitcom drought coming to an end? The new contenders: Jake in Progress, The Office and Life on a Stick

  • News

    May 6, 2004

    Poker with The Simpsons

    Is the sitcom drought coming to an end? The new contenders: Jake in Progress, The Office and Life on a Stick

  • Film+TV

    February 5, 2004

    The Sopranos of the Renaissance

    And the idols of today

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Box Populi

    TVs top stories

  • Film+TV

    November 27, 2003

    This Peeping-Tom World

    Fleshy Las Vegas, sloughed Skin

  • Columns

    November 20, 2003

    Scaredy-Cats

    Fleshy Las Vegas, sloughed Skin

  • Film+TV

    July 31, 2003

    Paradise Glossed

    The loopy Paradise Hotel, plus queer make-overs for straight guys, and the demented new pseudo-Japanese series, Banzai

  • Film+TV

    June 19, 2003

    Americans are Broad

    Keen Eddie, The Amazing Race 4 and The Real World

  • News

    March 27, 2003

    Full Metal Jeer

    God, the Marines and American Idol

  • News

    March 6, 2003

    Fox Idols

    Who the network should worship for its sweeps month success

  • Columns

    October 31, 2002

    It's Only a Game, Goddamn It

    Who the network should worship for its sweeps month success

  • Film+TV

    February 15, 2001

    Unreal

    The creepy Fantasyland of Survivor, Temptation Island and The Mole

  • Art+Books

    March 23, 2000

    Vampire Slayers Arise!

    Buffy rebellion latest tangle in Foxs war on fan sites

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    Bad News

    L.A.'s Low-Definition TV Journalism

  • Film+TV

    December 16, 1999

    Filthy Lucre

    And stirring conscience

  • Film+TV

    January 14, 1999

    Cracks in the Screen

    And a little light shone in

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