| Minnesota (4-6) At Michigan State (4-6) | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 7:19:29 PM by Blog57 Team | | FACTS & STATS: Site: Spartan Stadium (72,027) -- East Lansing, Michigan. Television: ESPNU. Home Record: Minnesota 3-2, MSU 2-4. Away Record: Minnesota 1-4, MSU 2-2. Neutral Record: Minnesota 0-0, MSU 0-0. Conference Record: Minnesota 1-5, MSU 1-5. Series Record: Michigan State leads, 25-15. GAME NOTES: Two of the schools tied for last place in the Big Ten Conference try to settle their differences this weekend in East Lansing, as the Michigan State Spartans play host to the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Both squads are a mere 1-5 in conference play and are tied with Northwestern and Illinois for the worst league mark so far this year. After winning three straight games to open the 2006 campaign the Spartans have gone on to drop six of the last seven outings, including two in a row.... | |
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| | | Sundance Channel Hires SCOUT PRODUCTIONS to Create 13-Part Series ... | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 3:55:04 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, Oct. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Laura Michalchyshyn, Sundance Channel EVP and GM Programming and Creative Affairs announced today that SCOUT PRODUCTIONS has been hired to create and produce a 13-part series that will feature the innovators and innovations on the cutting edge of the environmental revolution. The series will anchor Sundance Channel GREEN, a weekly primetime destination focusing on environmental topics that is due to launch in early 2007. "SCOUT has a proven track record of producing very entertaining television programs as well as tackling serious topics," said Michalchyshyn. "We are confident that they will create for Sundance Channel, an upbeat, inspirational series about all the new and fascinating environmental initiatives." Tentatively titled "Change Agents," this high energy, character-driven documentary series presents the innovative designers, products and processes that are on the front lines of a new green world.... | |
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| | | MIKE DUFFY'S TV TODAY: World Series could do with a lot less talk in the Fox booth | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:10:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | "World Series Game 4" (8 p.m., WJBK-TV, Channel 2, Fox). Most Irritating Female Sportscaster in the History of Network Television? My vote goes to noisy Fox pregame and postgame chatterbox Jeanne Zelasko. I run from the room screaming at the sound of her braying voice. Meanwhile, go Tigers! But who's watching? "30 Rock" (8 p.m., WDIV-TV, Local 4, NBC). The ratings are rotten. But Alec Baldwin raves on with irrepressible comic energy as pushy network boss Jack Donaghy. Wack Jack adds love counselor to his executive job description tonight as he sets up "Girlie Show" producer Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) on a blind date. Uh-oh. Bombs away "Jericho" (8 p.m., WWJ-TV, Channel 62, CBS). Renewal boogaloo. The nuclear nightmare thriller got the green light for a full season, joining such rookies as "Ugly Betty," "Shark," "Heroes" and "Brothers & Sisters" in the small circle of new shows that were assured an entertainment life through next spring.... | |
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| | | Tigers keep roaring, take 3-0 series lead | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:11:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | The big-screen television in the middle of the clubhouse was tuned to the scoreboard feed, a spinning graphic with a simple, repetitive message: Tigers Win. Tigers Win. Tigers Win... Which only told part of the story. Detroit actually won yesterday for the sixth straight time this postseason. The final score at Comerica Park was 3-0 over the suddenly impotent Athletics and when it ended there was a sense that Oakland would have continued to hit weak ground balls and popups if they had played until Tuesday. By which point, by the way, this American League Championship Series could well be over. Detroit has now taken a commanding lead of three games to none in the best-of-seven series with two chances to close it out at home. And they won because a week after 41-year-old lefthander Kenny Rogers pitched by game of his life, by darn if he didn't do it again.... | |
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| | | "Friday Night Lights" Series Comes to TV | | Posted Tuesday, October 03, 2006 3:20:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The young actor Gaius Charles is standing on the sidelines of a football field just outside of Austin, while a crew films a scene for Friday Night Lights, the NBC series making its debut Tuesday at 7pm on WOAI. Charles' character, a cocky running back named Brian "Smash" Williams, is one of the players in a practice session that takes much of the afternoon to film, but Charles is letting his stand-in take most of the bumps and hits. It's not that Charles is soft or pampered; he already has suffered a minor injury and wants to save himself for scenes where his character has more to do. "I just banged up my knee a little bit, so I'm taking it easy right now," Charles concedes. "Everyone says, 'Are you really out there? Are you playing football? Because you've got all your stunt people...' Yeah, we're out there.... | |
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| | | London writers 'confess' on Bravo television series | | Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 5:11:39 AM by Blog57 Team | | London writers Joan Barfoot and Emma Donoghue are among 55 international writers featured in the second season of the television program Writers' Confessions. Airing Thursday nights on Bravo, beginning tomorrow, Writers' Confessions gives viewers a glimpse of what it's like to make a living writing fiction. Barfoot and Donoghue are seen in one episode, talking about subjects such as rewriting and the relationships with their editors. Barfoot discusses the narrative voice in her novels. "Finding the voice is at first easy," Barfoot says on the show. "Holding onto that voice for several years and several hundred pages is a challenge, an interesting challenge." Donoghue shares with the viewer her thoughts on rewriting and reveals all of her novel-writing goes through at least three drafts.... | |
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| | | DIRECTV's CD USA Launches Global Invasion; Original Concert Series Explodes Across the World With Added Distribution | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 7:09:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | DIRECTV, Inc., the nation's leading digital serviceprovider, achieves universal dominance in live music television with aseries of recently added international distribution deals for itsoriginal weekly concert series, CD USA. The DIRECTV original programhas featured performances by Kelly Clarkson, The Goo Goo Dolls, Jewel,Ashlee Simpson and the Pussycat Dolls, among other top acts, since itsJanuary debut. DIRECTV, in association with Blaze Television, will expand the CDUSA brand through News Corporation's international offerings. CD USAcurrently airs on Fox8 in Australia and will soon be seen on Star TV(Channel V) in Asia, Russia and China; DIRECTV Latin America in Mexicoand the Caribbean, and MBC in the Middle East. The brand has alsogiven birth to a new variation, CD LIVE, a customized version of themusic showcase that will air on Rai Television in Italy, Fox8 inAustralia, and HRT in Croatia.... | |
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| | | Korean Animation on Britain's BBC | | Posted Friday, August 25, 2006 5:27:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | Korean animators continue to diversity their approach to television programming and the globalization of the animation industry as production group Imagestone, Inc. will be partnering up with international distributors and property rights holders to create and disseminate what will be the first Korean animation ever aired on Britain's BBC. Now, one of the world's largest source for international news and entertainment will broaden the boundaries of the animated medium as the animated television series RocketBoy & Toro goes into production. The story of RocketBoy, the fastest intergalactic delivery boy there is, and his guard sheep; RocketBoy & Toro is a children's adventure series that has sparked the interest of the international community. Jimmy Hiebert, writer for the hit stop-motion animated children's program Bob the Builder, will write the script for this new series.... | |
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| | | 'Vanished' kicks off Fox television season | | Posted Saturday, August 19, 2006 11:12:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | One of Fox's most touted new series, "Vanished," debuts Monday night as the first new show of the fall television season. It's in the tradition of Fox's other hits "24" and "Prison Break" with a little "Da Vinci Code""thrown into the mix. Find out more about the series Friday in The Bulletin's TV Book. .... | |
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| | | The Great 'Homeland Security Series' Swindle | | Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 9:12:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | What would it take to crown the biggest scumbag in Hollywood history? It would seem a task of Sisyphean dimensions; a single floor of any Century City highrise at any given moment could provide a handful of deserving candidates at least. So again what would it take? How about a guy who ahem, allegedly fleeces $5.5 million dollars mostly from churchgoers like "Rosa Valdez, a widow who invested almost $100,000 through her pastor at Desert Bloom Ministries church in Whittier," in exchange for the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a very make-believe "riveting television series based on the newly created U.S. Department of Homeland Security." Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to a one Joseph M. Medawar. I'm readying the sash and tiara as we speak. From the LA Times: [O]n Friday, in an ending that might have been foretold by anyone with a healthy skepticism of the Hollywood pitch, Medawar was arrested by FBI and IRS agents on charges that he bilked at least 70 investors many of them from local churches out of more than $5.5 million.... | |
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