Fuse TV’s got a brand newish, street-based reality competition show “with some New York attitude,” you guys — hassling random strangers on NYC sidewalks for pop culture trivia. If this “Billy on the Street” gent didn’t have so much damn personality, I’d bah-humbug this thing so hard. Read more »
Remember those Simpsons’ helicopter gag gasps of insurgency against their FOX overlords? Yeah, barely. Now, after 23 seasons and almost 500 episodes, looks like News Corp is tightening its grip around the show’s throat, with the executives forcing the actors to take a draconian 45% pay cut or eat their shorts, presumably. Read more »
Watch as newspaper tycoon Alexander Lebedev furiously beats on former billionaire developer Sergei Polonsky mid debate on the global economic crisis. It’s an instant classic of Russian talk show awe-fulness… and a tradition! Read more »
Here at ANIMAL, we are dedicated to improving you as a human being. This Curb Your Enthusiasm supercut-esque vid brings you the Gospel according to Larry David. The more you listen, the less eccentric and more reasonable he seems. Read more »
As Curb Your Enthusiasm’s long-awaited New York season is getting better and, at the same time, approaching its end, another episode brings us a series of magical car rides wherein Larry David drives uptown and downtown simultaneously. Read more »
Today, BBC Two will screen a documentary with writer Terry Pratchett who is considering assisted suicide after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. In Choosing to Die, he travels to Switzerland’s Dignitas clinic where a 71-year-old motor-neurone sufferer drinks a cocktail of toxins and dies in his wife’s arms. Read more »
Continuing our accidentally buxom morning, ex-spy Anna Chapman is still famous in Russia. She just Facebooked some “blood sucker” themed promo stills for the next episode of Mysteries of the World — a show she hosts on one of Russia’s biggest private federal tv channels. Read more »
TV viewers want more blood, more bullet holes, more people playing dead and as “dead” as possible, lest their HDTVs catch a carcass eyelid fluttering. Since “corpse duty” demand is rising, background actors better start practicing their short, invisible breaths to cash in on those sweet $139 for eight-hour day gigs. Read more »
Jesus God, when will news shows stop asking this guy for his dopey opinions? Oh right, never, because he is America’s terror-mayor, and media organizations seem to feel obligated to check in with him to make sure he hasn’t developed abandonment issues. Read more »
13-year-olds in Jersey are all about CSI summer camp. Because dummy dead bodies and crushed noses are “oooh, cool.” So, let your spawn go on a field trip to the county jail to check out some shivs. Send them off on an exciting path towards a career in forensic science! At least they’ll know how to make choke rope from dental floss. That can come in handy on whichever side of the law they end up. |WSJ|
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