There’s this comic, Don Friesen. Brilliant guy. He’s the only person to ever win the San Francisco International Comedy Competition twice. He’s been doing it for a little over 10 years. My wife and I saw him last night. And we both thought - why isn’t this guy more famous?
He’s got the chops. He’s got [...]

In an effort to go ever more granular in the TV ratings, the Nielsen people have released a report illustrating exactly how shows are doing when you factor in DVR viewing. Here’s a spoiler for you - overall, shows do better if you include DVR numbers. Sorry if you don’t like to skip ahead to [...]

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In todays show: market research is useless! Useless!! … Apple pounds the other PC makers into sauce… and in my commentary; tango dancing is a metaphor for life -or was it sex? No, it was life. All this and the environmental movement goes to [...]

“And I would gladly die, screaming in unspeakable agony, if it meant I could spend my last moments gazing into your eyes.” - David St. Hubbins, DIVA FEVER

According to Reuters, faux director Marti DiBergi has reunited with psuedo-band Spinal Tap for a short film to be premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. It is part [...]

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Dateline AP — Warner Music Group, said on Tuesday it will receive $110 million from Bertelsmann AG, after agreeing to settle claims related to Bertelsmann’s relationship with the original Napster in 2000/2001.
The companies said the settlement covers the resolution of the legal claims of Warner Music’s recorded music and music [...]

In-flight movies took another one on the chin recently with the premier of CASINO ROYALE on British Airways. Airlines often cut the entertainment to remove objectionable content (though for some reason entire objectionable movies like ALONG CAME POLLY and THE REAL MCCAW have managed to make it onto flights I’ve taken); once in a while [...]

PRODUCERS MAKE PLANS TO AVOID WRITER’S STRIKE
Concessions to include bigger share of DVD pie, higher miniumums, and the barest, tiniest sliver of respect.
SPIDERMAN BROADWAY MUSICAL PLANNED
Tom Leher said that he stopped writing political satire songs in the late sixties, because politics itself had rendered satire unnecessary. Why that popped into my head, I have no [...]

Curmudgeons of the world, unite and laugh: POPWORLD PULP magazine, a tie-in publication with a British music TV show, has hit the newsstands only to have them hit back. If you liked the first issue cherish it, because there won’t be a second.
According to vengeful Channel 4 rival, the BBC:
The first issue of the music [...]

Apropos of the show - I read story about Edward Norton being cast as Bruce Banner in the upcoming INCREDIBLE HULK sequel, replacing Eric Bana. So what’s Bana up to then? He’s going to be playing the lead in THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE, based on the popular novel about a Chicago librarian whose weird genetic [...]