| DMG adds TV oldies to catalog | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 11:35:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | Seeking a foothold in the nascent business of selling downloads of popular TV shows, Sacramento-based Digital Music Group International said Thursday it has acquired the rights to distribute 4,000 hours of oldies, including "I Spy," "My Favorite Martian" and "The Gumby Show." The announcement came the same day that DMG reported a third-quarter loss of $848,797, or 10 cents a share, compared with a loss of $297,112, or 13 cents per share, a year earlier. The move into video is a natural extension of DMG's core business of distributing music to online music stores such as iTunes, said Mitchell Koulouris, the company's chief executive officer. .... | |
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| | | Creating, hosting TV show | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 1:49:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Emi Schaufeld, a sixth-grader at Great Neck South Middle School, created and hosted a television program for Great Neck/North Shore Public Access TV channel 20. Her show, "Round Town 30 Minutes," featuring topics of interest to kids, ran twice a week through July. Production is starting up again for airing later in the year. "I do interviews and introduce my friends who discuss and rate things like books, movies and video games," Emi said. .... | |
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| | | Ashes tour gets mobile TV show | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:30:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | England cricketers Freddie Flintoff and Michael Vaughan are to feature in an exclusive made-for-mobile TV show that will be available during England's Ashes tour of Australia. The show, 'Ashes Down Under', will allow fans to send in questions by text or video and Flintoff and Vaughan will reply to them during the series. Ex-Sky Sports presenter Mark Durden-Smith is to host the show. The mobile series will be made up 14 three-minute shows available over the course...Article continues below .... | |
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| | | Emmy-winning TV comedy writer | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 3:13:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES -- Jerry Belson, an Emmy-winning comedy writer for ''The Tracey Ullman Show'' whose wit graced many other films and TV shows, including ''The Odd Couple'' and ''The Dick Van Dyke Show,'' has died. He was 68. Mr. Belson died of cancer at his Los Angeles home Tuesday, said friend and writing partner Garry Marshall. A ''writer's writer,'' Mr. Belson inserted into his scripts what was funny to him, even if he thought only four others in his television audience would join him in laughter, said Marshall, who directed ''Pretty Women'' and ''The Princess Diaries.'' ''He added dark, wild thoughts and lines,'' Marshall said. Mr. Belson and Marshall worked together on some of the most celebrated sitcoms of the 1960s and '70s, including ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,'' ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' and ''The Odd Couple.'' A signature scene that Mr.... | |
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| | | 'Friday Night Lights' TV Show Debuts | | Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:19:14 AM by Blog57 Team | | It's one of the most talked about TV shows in Central Texas. NBC's "Friday Night Lights" makes its debut Tuesday on KXAN. The show has been shooting all over Central Texas. Only on Firstcast, KXAN takes you behind the scenes. Del Valle stadium on a Friday night, a rowdy crowd cheers on the home team, but there's no game here. It's a shoot for the "Friday Night Lights" TV show. KXAN went behind the scenes to meet the cast. "I play Jason Street. He's the star quarterback of the Dillon Panthers. He's a very honest, very genuine, very humble character, which is different from most quarterbacks," actor Scott Porter said. "Lila Garrety is the head cheerleader. Her boyfriend is the star quarterback. And she's the all-American girl, and they're the all-American couple.... | |
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| | | 'This Life' Cast Reunites for Holiday Show | | Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 7:12:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | A decade after their TV show stopped airing in Britain, the cast of the BBC comedy This Life is set to return with a 90-minute holiday special. The Mirror reported that the special, entitled This Life -- Ten Years On, will reunite former cast members Jack Davenport, Andrew Lincoln, Daniela Nardini, Jason Hughes and Amita Dhiri in the roles they made popular in the short-lived comedy. .... | |
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| | | Barrett-Jackson hits the road for TV show | | Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 5:33:50 PM by Blog57 Team | | SCOTTSDALE - The Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction folks are rolling another new product off the line, Barrett-Jackson: On the Road, a TV show cross between Antiques Road Show and Star Search. Auction owner Craig Jackson and his team of experts will pop into the Food Lion Auto Fair at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., starting Thursday, offering unsuspecting car owners on-the-spot evaluations of their cars. "There is nothing like sharing stories and details about vintage cars with other enthusiasts during a special automotive weekend. Finding owners who are as passionate about their vehicles as we are is the focus of the search," Jackson said. .... | |
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| | | Federline lands role in TV show after bad performance | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 3:29:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | London, Aug 31: Kevin Federline, pop singer Britney Spears' husband, was distraught after receiving bad reviews at the Teen Choice Awards, but it has fetched him a role on the hit TV show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". According to contactmusic.com, Federline put on a brave face after the devastating reviews and friends reveal that he was crushed. A source said: "He was actually crying." "Spears was also crying for him and did not leave him all day," added the source. But CSI writer Dustin Abraham saw the performance and loved it and went on to write a character for Federline in the show.Abraham said: "He has this cockiness and confidence that I like. But I told him -- he needs to be the guy that you hate. It's the perfect role. There wasn't a lot of acting - more beating (people up). I thought he was awesome!" .... | |
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| | | New county TV show gives government insight | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 1:16:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | Toting a tax bill in one hand and a speech in the other is how hundreds of Charlotte County residents stormed county commissioners in mid-July, demanding lower taxes. The massive turnout shows that most residents are only concerned with dollars and cents, and can miss what goes on behind the scenes. A new, county-produced TV program could help solve the reoccurring problem. "Charlotte Showcase" displays the function of various county departments -- such as Public Works, which apportions the MSBU tax rate. The 30-minute segment will air at 10 p.m. today on CCTV-20. This episode will follow the premier show that aired Wednesday. The show's host, Elizabeth VanIderstine, kicks off the 30-minute segment in the commission meeting room -- the same place disgruntled residents filled to overflowing at the commission's July 12 Municipal Services Benefit Unit hearing.... | |
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| | | Haylie Duff juggles stage, TV duties | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 7:26:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Haylie Duff describes simultaneously acting in the TV show, "7th Heaven," and the Broadway musical, "Hairspray," as an intense, but satisfying experience. "I love it," the 21-year-old singer/actress told reporters in New York recently. "('Hairspray') is exhilarating and different than anything that I'd done before and I'm doing the new season of '7th Heaven,' at the same time. So, it's a little intense," she said. "But the show ('Hairspray') itself is so much fun. You can be so tired and worn out and then, at the end of the day, the minute that music starts, there is this energy that is undeniable. Anyone who has seen that show gets what I'm talking about. It's a really special group of people and the whole show is really magical." Duff plays Amber Von Tussle in the musical and can also be seen now in the big-screen comedy, "Material Girls." .... | |
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