MSNBC Bets on Cool, Wonky in Lineup Shift
If you think about it, MSNBC has been flying by the seat of its pants a bit for more than two years, since the abrupt exit of Keith Olbermann, whose combative style of liberal commentary had come to...
View ArticleNBC Pulls ‘Hannibal’ Episode in Wake of Violent Tragedies (EXCLUSIVE)
After several particularly violent months in America, NBC has decided to pull episode four of frosh drama “Hannibal” from its lineup due to the disturbing content involving children murdering other...
View ArticleUpfronts: What Are New Shows’ Chances for Survival?
Now that the major broadcast networks have announced which new shows will grace their fall schedules, what are their prospects?
View ArticleOprah, Tyler Perry: A Media Marriage of Their OWN
For Oprah Winfrey and her eponymous network, it’s a long way from “Live your best life” to “Throw on Tyler Perry shows and hope something sticks.” Winfrey might be a big fan of Perry’s work — she...
View ArticleIn Bid For Auds, CNN Stocks Sundays With Real-Life Shows
In a different sort of news break, CNN is devoting Sundays not to the programming for which it is best known, but to series and even films that will take viewers behind the scenes and around the world.
View ArticleFox Ties 2014 Super Bowl Ads to Fox Sports 1 Sponsorship (Exclusive)
The soon-to-launch cable sports outlet, Fox Sports 1, will not broadcast the Super Bowl next year. Yet executives behind the scenes are making a play for the new network to get its share of Super Bowl...
View ArticleMTV Cancels ‘Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous’
MTV’s scripted series “Zach Stone Is Gonna Be Famous” is being pulled after just one season. The show’s star Bo Burnham tweeted about the skein’s cancellation earlier this week: For those asking, MTV...
View ArticleGraphic Artist J.C. Suares Dies; Redesigned Variety in the 1990s
J.C. Suares, graphic designer and illustrator whose credits include the revamped look for weekly Variety in the early 1990s, died July 30 in Englewood, N.J., of heart failure after two surgeries to...
View Article‘The Canyons’: Why Paul Schrader’s Reviled Thriller Merits a Closer Look
What's interesting about Paul Schrader's controversial erotic thriller starring Lindsay Lohan is that the film's stunt casting and tabloid-trash allure also happen to serve its thematic ends.
View ArticleFilm Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’
This sprawling, highly fictional biopic of longtime White House butler Eugene Allen is at once gratuitously sentimental and genuinely rousing.
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