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The year 2006, when all was said and done and televised, was a great one for TV. Here’s a tally of the year’s very best – and worst – with a lot of deserving contenders just missing the cut. BEST SERIES: “Deadwood” (HBO), “Dexter” (Showtime), “Entourage” (HBO), “Heroes” (NBC), “Lost” (ABC), “Studio 60 on the …
Wall Street ultimately shrugged off a report Wednesday that federal prosecutors are investigating whether former Apple Computer Inc. officials forged documents to maximize executives’ profit from stock options. The legal publication that detailed the federal probe also reported that CEO Steve Jobs has hired his own attorneys outside of the company’s legal team to represent …
Old-time audiophiles must be spinning in their soundproof graves. Thanks to hardware modifications and headphone amplifiers, the humble iPod is earning a place at the heart of the most expensive and exacting sound systems. read more | digg story This blog is part of the MethodShop.com Network
“Enjoy all of your movies, music, TV shows, video games, and even audio files stored on your computer’s hard drive in enveloping 360º surround sound. JVC’s RX-D702B sports 150 watts per channel of power and all the processing you’ll need for dynamic home theater sound. And JVC packs this slimline receiver with advanced technologies that …
We’ve made the media more democratic, but at what cost to our democracy? While the mainstream media were having lunch, members of the audience made other plans. They scattered and are still on the move, part of a massive migration. The dynamic driving it? It’s all about you. Me. And all the various forms of …
AOL unveiled a streamlined organizational structure Monday under its new CEO, Randy Falco. In his first major move since coming over from NBC Universal in November to run the Time Warner division, Falco shook up the management ranks and reassigned responsibilities leftover from the departure of five senior execs first reported Friday, including AOL programming …
How a couple of regular guys built a company that changed the way we see ourselves. Let’s say you’re in your 20s and you start your first Internet company. Let’s say 21 months later you sell it for $1.65 billion. What happens next? At first, not much. Some of the money is tied up in …
Joe Barbera, half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom & Jerry, Yogi Bear, the Flintstones and the Jetsons, died Monday, a Warner Bros. spokesman said. He was 95. Barbera died of natural causes at his Studio City home with his wife Sheila at his side, the spokesman said. …
Tens of thousands of fans of the NBC show “30 Rock” (or their friends or colleagues) have had the unusual experience over the last week of picking up their phones to hear the voice of Alec Baldwin addressing them by name and wishing them a happy holiday. While the messages – reminiscent of get-out-the-vote efforts …
1. THE WIRE (HBO) This sprawling social drama has dozens of characters and, really, only one–Baltimore, Md. The fourth, finest and most heartbreaking season focused on four inner-city schoolboys, serenaded by the drug trade, failed by every institution meant to protect them and facing choices that will make or doom them for life. Meanwhile, it …
As mentioned in this space last week, White House spokesman Tony Snow delivered a pretty hard shot to NBC’s David Gregory during a contentious briefing on the Iraq Study Group. After paraphrasing the group’s report and chairmen, Gregory asked: “Can this report be seen as anything other than a rejection of this president’s handling of …
LAUREN BERGERNBC has taken two gold and one silver medal in the Olympic Golden Rings, international kudos to honor Olympics coverage. Kudos, presented in Lausanne, Switzerland, by the Intl. Olympic Committee, is held every two years. NBC won gold for Olympic feature and athletes’ profiles for its coverage of the XX Olympic Winter Games in …
Sergey Brin, one of the founders of Google, was born in Moscow in 1973, and the first words out of his mouth were Russian. Yet neither Russian nor the Russian market has come easily to Google. Created in Silicon Valley by Mr. Brin and Larry Page, Google has adapted its search engine to dozens of …
Has “Casino Royale” revitalized the James Bond franchise? Just ask the USA Network, which has agreed to pony up a hefty $20 million for cable rights after spirited bidding by FX, Spike and TNT. Sony Pictures TV, which engineered the auction for “Casino Royale,” couldn’t have chosen a better time to come along with a …
A book can be judged by its cover, and appearances are not so deceiving. That is the lesson of “Identity,” an NBC game show that begins tonight and requires a contestant to match 12 occupations with 12 strangers entirely by how they look. The fat lady in a magenta ball gown does indeed turn out …
Comedy Central, IMG and Ken Marino are sending up the world of sports radio talkshows. Cabler has ordered a pilot presentation of “Out of Bounds,” a partially improvised laffer that will take a behind-the-scenes look at the genre, in the vein of workplace comedies “The Office” and “The Larry Sanders Show.” IMG’s Barry Weintraub created …
Every day, celebrity elves under the watchful eye of Antoinette Machiaverna are wandering outside NBC’s “Today” studio, collecting toys from viewers. The celebrity visits are part of the show’s annual toy drive, which last year, between corporate and viewer contributions, collected $36 million worth of products for very needy kids. “It’s very near and dear …
