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The family of TVWeek Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross had a personal connection to Robin Williams, and Chuck has written a blog post about his experience meeting the actor and comedian, who died Monday. Chuck’s piece, which you can read…
A popular Fox comedy series has landed a syndication deal involving two cable channels. In a scoop for Deadline.com, our good friend Nellie Andreeva writes: “TBS and MTV will share the basic cable syndication rights to Fox comedy ‘New Girl’…
The sadness most of us feel about the death of Robin Williams is palpable. I spent a few minutes with him at a family event a number of years ago and felt his warmth, generosity and sincerity. The occasion was…
It’s not just older commercial airliners that don’t have seat-back TVs. Many jets just coming off the assembly line don’t have them either, writes Zach Honig of Engadget. Honig writes that earlier this year he flew on a brand-new Boeing…
Superstar “NASCAR driver Tony Stewart hit and killed another driver who was walking on a track during a dirt-track race in upstate New York, authorities said early Sunday,” CNN reports. The story reports: “Kevin Ward Jr., 20, died from injuries…
“Menachem Golan, 85, the colorful, free-spending Israeli-born producer and director whose Cannon Films yielded hundreds of productions starring the likes of Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris before going bust, died Friday in Israel, according to Haaretz,” reports Richard Natale for Variety….
“News broke late Tuesday [Aug 5, 2014] that Russian hackers have acquired over one billion username and password combinations, the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials,” writes Sam Frizell on the website of Time magazine. He continues, “It’s a…
Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, has let the world know — in a posting on his Facebook account — that Netflix has finally overtaken HBO is a key category: “Minor milestone,” Hastings wrote, “last quarter we passed HBO [in]…
The halftime shows during the last two Super Bowls have featured such musical stars as Beyonce, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Bruno Mars. Now, if 50,000 petitioners have their way, the musician performing in the Super Bowl halftime show…