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Daily Archives : Apr 4, 2016

Dame Judi Dench Breaks Her Own Record

Dame Judi Dench, a fixture at awards ceremonies whose long list of honors includes seven Academy Award nominations (with one win, for “Shakespeare in Love” in 1999) and 11 Golden Globe nominations (with two wins, for “Mrs. Brown” in 1998…

‘Car Talk’s’ Ray Magliozzi Visits the Cars of His Baby Boomer Youth — in Cuba

Former “Car Talk” co-host Ray Magliozzi, whose brother and longtime co-host Tom Magliozzi died in 2014, recently visited Cuba and found that Cubans are still “car crazy” — and still driving American cars from before the Cuban revolution in 1959….

Why Barron’s Is Bullish on Time Warner

Barron’s is forecasting a big return for media giant Time Warner in the coming year. Reuters reports that Barron’s is saying the company could return 25%. The report credits the $400 million worldwide box office for “Batman v Superman: Dawn of…

NBCU and Vox Media Raise the Bar in Digital With ‘Concert’

Vox Media and NBCUniversal are partnering on today’s launch of “Concert,” which the companies are calling “the largest premium quality content and audience inventory available to advertisers.” Concert is the first major partnership initiative since NBCU’s strategic investment in Vox…

After the Gawker Trial: Drawing the Line on Gossip?

The recent ruling that the gossip site Gawker must pay $140 million for publishing the Hulk Hogan sex tape has industry watchers posing the question of whether the limit on gossip has finally been reached. The New York Times explores…

New HBO Doc, Premiering Tonight, Takes an Uncensored Look at Robert Mapplethorpe

Even as HBO’s “Vinyl” presents a fictionalized look at the music and drug scene in New York in the 1970s, the pay-cable channel’s new feature documentary “Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures” presents the real-world art and drug scene of the…

ABC Announces May Sweeps Programming and Season Finale Dates

Press release from ABC Entertainment, April 4, 2016: The ABC Television Network announces upcoming May sweeps programming, featuring season finale dates for “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “black-ish,” “Castle,” “The Catch,” “Dancing with the Stars,” “The Family,” “Fresh Off the Boat,”…

‘The People v. O.J. Simpson’ Producer-Director Opens Up About ‘Getting It Right’ — and Making It Human

Just as it was more than 20 years ago during the so-called Trial of the Century, the nation appears to still be riveted by the case of O.J. Simpson and the accusations that he murdered his former wife Nicole Brown…