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The Writers Guild of America East has selected “Saturday Night Live” creator and exec producer Lorne Michaels to receive its Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence.Nod will be presented at the 59th annual WGA awards Feb. 11 in New York. James Brooks won the inaugural Sargent award last year. Michaels has won 10 Emmys and …
Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything. Apple, a company known for innovation, has been very fortunate in this regard. In 1984 they introduced the world to the first Macintosh and changed personal computing forever. Then in 2001 Apple introduced the first iPod and redefined the music industry. Today …
Jim Cramer from CNBC Mad Money picked Apple as his #2 growth stock of 2007 over Microsoft. To show his disapproval of Microsoft's stock performance, he decided to destroy Microsoft's Zune media player with a baseball bat.
A "wardrobe malfunction" during a 2006 New Year's Eve broadcast apparently exposed the Japanese public to a little more than they were expecting. Several showgirl-style dancers performing with DJ Ozma unexpectedly went "topless" during his song "Bounce With Me."
The SNL skit, Dick In A Box, was too raunchy for NBC's censors, which bleeped parts of it. But an uncensored version of the skit is breaking records on YouTube.
Dan Aykroyd remembers his thoughts moments before he went on stage for the first time in 1975 on Saturday Night Live. “I remember standing under the scaffolding, thinking these next five minutes are going to be experience- and existence-altering, because if I die out there, this is basically my one shot at coming down to …
NBC is mulling broadcasting Friday night rehearsal sessions of “Saturday Night Live” on the Internet. It’s just one of the many scenarios the digital future could deliver, according to NBC Universal chief digital officer George Kliavkoff, who openly mused about the possibilities Wednesday at the Digital Entertainment Media & Marketing Excellence conference at the Hyatt …
Spanish-language TV network Telemundo apologized to Mexico President Vicente Fox on Thursday after airing offhand comments made by Fox before an interview.
While repeatedly trying to say "top cop," Jane Skinner slipped up and kept saying "top cock." Skinner ends saying "YouTube me! Just YouTube me! Do it now."
The fourth quarter is the biggest quarter for shopping, and all hi-def eyes will be watching HDTV sales figures closely as they roll in during the next two months.
Jeff Zucker has worked his way from the bottom up at NBC for the past 20 years, but given the U.S. television network’s unimpressive ratings in the last year, this season could well have been his last. That was until Zucker, chief executive for NBC Universal Television Group, found himself some heroes, including a blockbuster …
Another highly anticipated — at least by critics — new series fizzled Wednesday night. “30 Rock,” Tina Fey’s much-ballyhooed “SNL” -ish comedy series, scared up only 8.1 million viewers in the third week of the new TV season. NBC’s other “SNL”-ish series, Aaron Sorkin’s “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” opened during Premiere Week to …
Maybe a good place to start is to attack the notion that “30 Rock” is a satirical take on “Saturday Night Live.” If that’s what you want, visit “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” which also has some of the best and smartest acting and writing on TV. “30 Rock,” though written by and starring …
NBC is shutting down production of its low-rated series "Kidnapped" midseason. Remaining episodes will be available on NBC.com.
In a scene from Heroes, a woman sticks her hand into the disposal to retrieve a ring. When she removed her hand from the disposal, it's a mangled and bloody mess. The Heroes garbage disposal scene has upset the makers of the In-Sink-Erator garbage disposer, and they are suing NBC.
Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live's new Weekend Update anchors, make their debut this weekend.
With the premiere of season 3 of Battlestar Galactica just two weeks away (October 6, 2006), the Sci Fi Channel (US) has released a free retrospective episode of the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica on iTunes. They hope to entice new viewers to the show, as well as remind current fans just where the …
