Places, which is Facebook’s new geo-location service, is "both cool and creepy," says ZD Net Bwtween the Lines blogger Sam Diaz. Writes Diaz: "There were a few instances when the execs on-hand today made this service sound creepier than it…
In a recent survey by Comcast about which of the shows set to debut this fall is most anticipated, CBS’ "Hawaii Five-O" came out as the number one pick, says the Washington Post’s Lisa de Moraes. However, on the creepy…
Vanilla Ice, the rapper who became popular in the 1990s with the hit "Ice, Ice Baby," will be starring in a DIY Network show, reports Multichannel News. The 10-episode series, called "The Vanilla Ice Project," will debut on Oct. 14…
"Access Hollywood Live" has tapped Billy Bush and Kit Hoover as co-hosts, reports B&C. The show is a spinoff of the long-running "Access Hollywood." Bush, 38, had joined "Access Hollywood" in December 2001 and was promoted to co-anchor. Hoover, 40,…
Verizon is planning to allow its FiOS TV customers to watch live television shows on Apple’s iPad, an expansion of a service that allows them to view on-demand shows such as rented movies, reports Bloomberg News. The additional service will…
The MTV Video Music Awards has tapped Chelsea Handler of the E! network series "Chelsea Lately" as its host, marking the first woman to emcee the event since Roseanne Barr in 1994, reports the New York Times. “If there’s one…
Research in Motion (RIM) the maker of the popular BlackBerry PDA’s, is looking to buy a mobile advertising unit, The Wall Street Journal reports. [Since the WSJ is behind a firewall and may charge you to read this story, a…
The director of Apple’s App Store has a side company which sells fart apps, Wired reports. According to the article, "Phillip Shoemaker, director of applications technology at Apple, who runs the App Store process, sells iPhone apps in the App…
PBS’ "Nightly Business Report" has been sold to a private company headed by a former mixed martial arts manager, reports our friend Elizabeth Jensen in the New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The show had been owned by public station…
Kevin Spacey, through his and Dana Brunetti’s Trigger Street Prods., is taking his cult-leader drama "The Crux" to HBO in a first-look deal, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. There isn’t a pilot order, the story adds. The project was shopped…