Just when you thought that Hermain Cain’s presidential race drop-out speech quoting the Pokémon movie was the craziest shit you’ve ever seen… In Russia, Prime Minister Putin has just quoted the Jungle Book to call opposition “Bandar-log” ’cause he’s the motherfucking python! 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 »
Here’s the promo for MTV’s latest reality show ‘Russian Dolls,’ whose Brighton Beach immigranda looks a less trashier than expected and, judging by a split second glimpse of a nice apartment behind a sorta-fight (“GUYS STAAAHP!!!”), they’re well off and all fancy. Read more »
While we all cry our tears of Ted Williams YouTube-induced joy, let’s also shed one for Ted Haggard–the evangelical church man who fell from grace in 2006, when people discovered he’d been loving up his male masseuse/meth dealer. Haggard’s got a reality special about his new church coming out on TLC (check your TV Guide for details). Happy “Second Chances Week,” everybody! Read more »
The trailer for gansterriffic 1920′s Atlantic City HBO series Boardwalk Empire is out and it looks like they’re doing a wolf in weasel’s clothing thing with Steve Buscemi. Read more »
Kristine Eubanks, who plead guilty to a long list of shadiness in 2007, has been charged and sentenced to 7 years in federal prison. Selling fake art (Picasso, Dali, Chagall) for hours weekly on DirectTV and the Dish Network from 2002 to 2006, she made $20 mil from 10,000 fools who fell for this crap. Read more »
No amount of literary pretensions can ever make a plug of the Slav ‘Jersey Shore’ sound non-moronic, unless our preferences of dill, bumper stickers and non-translatable slang are somehow profound cultural revelations. Sorry, New Yorker. You fail. Read more »
Because who still wants “a couple of white middle-aged guys sitting around talking about movies”? Since the original duo of Siskel and Ebert, Disney’s ‘At the Movies’ had a partner-swapping go at “callow moronism” and “enlightening professionalism,” but ultimately proved inconsequential. Film criticism is niftier by way of YouTube DIY anyway, be you a Twilight-hating “Angry Black Man,” Burton-babbling Brit or horny Russian babushka.
Image: Roger Ebert’s memories.
There is no marriage more perfect than that of reality TV and porn, the coming together of TV’s trashiest medium and cinema’s crappiest productions. In this spirit, Fox Reality Channel, which is arguably the worst network in existence, will be launching “My Bare Lady 2: Open for Business” this November. The first season of “My Bare Lady” focused on four porn stars in London as they attempted to learn how to perform Shakespeare as well as they perform blow jobs. Sadly, they all sucked. (“There’s no personality there–at all,” one of their thespian peers observed.) The second season brings together Brooke Haven, Casey Parker, Sunny Leone and Veronica Rayne, sticks them in a house with some guy who’s supposed to be like Tony Robbins, and makes them wash some cars, all of which is supposed to teach them how to run a business but in reality is an excuse for Fox to pass off soft-core porn as mainstream programming.
Oh those crazy Brits. To promote a new show on ITV called ‘Afterlife’ this devilishly clever street marketing stunt was created to scare curious onlookers into submission. We don’t know if was more effective in getting people to crap their pants or watch the show, but either way it’s pretty funny to watch, especially the guy at the end who gets pissed of, UK-style. So enjoy the clip here and rest assured this shit will never go over well in NYC, as many hardened residents would most likely beat the shit out of the guy in the box.
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