The controversy over same-sex marriage checks into “Whoopi” on Tuesday when hotel owner Mavis Rae (Whoopi Goldberg) agrees to host her gay cousin’s wedding on the same weekend her brother Courtney (Wren Brown) is hosting a meeting of the Republican…
Infinity Broadcasting’s Howard Stern has been blaming the Bush administration on-air for a crackdown on indecent broadcasting, but it’s far from clear that a presidential win by Democrat John Kerry this fall would make a significant difference. Sen. Kerry was…
Special awards for writer Clive Barker and actress Megan Mullally will highlight this year’s San Francisco leg of the GLAAD Media Awards, set for June 5 at Union Square’s Westin St. Francis. The annual San Francisco event, which began in…
Executives at Starz! Encore said last week it is still full speed ahead for the second-largest pay TV network, the only one of the major premium services that depends solely on recent theatrical movies to attract viewers, despite reports about…
This year’s College Television Awards competition featured 395 submissions from 138 colleges and universities representing 35 states.Students entering the contest submit their work for recognition in one of nine categories: drama, comedy, music, documentary, magazine shows, newscasts, children’s programming, traditional…
Television ought to be a sure-fire cure for depression. After all, it’s a 24-hour entertainment machine with dozens and dozens of choices-shouldn’t that do the trick? Of course, some people would call it a 24-hour crap dispenser, those cranks. And…
IFC is inviting viewers to its version of dinner and a movie on Friday nights.The network, with about 40 million subscribers, is aggressively bumping up its original programming, and plans to showcase it on what it will call IFC Fridays….
Whoever said the wheels of democracy turn slowly didn’t anticipate the rush to judgment taking place in Washington on the indecency issue following Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl halftime incident.Lawmakers and regulators are speeding ahead not only on legislation aimed at…
Remember that girl in school who won the city science trophy with the volcano that spewed lava perfectly on cue? Who landed the cookie-sales prize for your scout troop by parking herself and her Thin Mints at the train station…
Liberty Media, once a major deal-maker in the media industry, has awakened from its slumber and is gearing up to make some high-profile moves.That became clear last week with the announcement that Liberty will spin off a separately traded company…