By Drew Grant 5/22 4:14pm

60 Minutes

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60 Minutes Rebroadcasts Two Year Old Segment on Taylor Swift and No One Notices

If anyone missed Lesley Stahl’s segment this weekend on 60 Minutes (though come on, how unlikely is that?), you might not have noticed that her profile of Taylor Swift, “A Young Singer’s Meteoric Rise,” was actually just a re-aired interview from 2011.

Which is fine–Ms. Stahl tells the audience that “we first met Taylor Swift in 2011, during her Speak Now tour,” and on the 60 Minutes website, they disclose “The following is a script of “Taylor Swift” which originally aired on Nov. 20, 2011 and was rebroadcast on May 19, 2013″–except that it says something about Taylor Swift’s “meteoric rise” that most people would have no idea that this interview was two years old. Or that on Twitter, 60 Minutes gave no clue that this would be a rebroadcast episode. Read More

By Drew Grant 11/26/12 3:06pm

Celebrities and religion

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Angus T. Jones (CBS)

Two and a Half Men Star Turning Into the Next Kirk Cameron? (Video)

Angus T. Jones, the 19-year-old currently starring as the former adorable pudgester Jake Harper on CBS’s Two and a Half Men has turned out, unsurprisngly, to have a pretty weird vision of how the world works.

On the vlog of religious website Forerunner Chronicles, Mr. Jones today released a video in which he calls the show that has made him and his co-stars a truckload of money “filth.” Read More

By Benjamin-Emile Le Hay 9/10/12 4:00pm

Fashion Week

NANETTE LEPORE Fall 2012 Fashion Show

Kristin Chenoweth Back on Her Feet and Front-Row at Fashion Week

Broadway star and Tony winner, Kristin Chenoweth was badly injured on the set of popular primetime CBS show The Good Wife in July. The petite star told the LA Times in September that she “had a skull fracture, rib issue and neck issue and a hip issue,” and had to be carried off in a stretcher after a lighting rig fell on her.

But this week, she has back in action for the first time, attending several runway shows in New York.

“This is my big night out after seven weeks,” the giddy and tenacious Ms. Chenoweth told The Observer at the DL 1961 fashion show last week in West Chelsea. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 6/20/12 5:11pm

Annals of PR

Thanks to Sassy PR Department, CBS Battle Over Glass House Gets Interesting

In the wake of a judge’s ruling that ABC can go ahead with its voyeur reality show The Glass House despite its similarities to CBS’s Big Brother, CBS’s press department published a mock press release today announcing a new “ground-breaking and completely original new reality program”: Dancing on the Stars.

It states:

“This very creative enterprise will bring a new sense of energy and fun that’s totally unlike anything anywhere else, honest,” said a CBS spokesperson, who also revealed that the Company has been working with a secret team for several months on the creation of the series, which was completely developed by the people at CBS independent of any other programming on the air. “Given the current creative and legal environment in the reality programming business, we’re sure nobody will have any problem with this title or our upcoming half-hour comedy for primetime, POSTMODERN FAMILY.” Read More

By Drew Grant 5/02/12 5:50pm

Crime

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Patrica Krentcil (CBS)

Did This New Jersey Mom Put Her Six-Year-Old in a Tanning Bed? (Video)

You know, they say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but in this case we’re pretty sure that the charred shell speaks for itself. Patricia Krentcil of New Jersey stands accused of putting her 6-year-old daughter, Anna, into a tanning bed after teachers at her school discovered burn marks on the child’s body. Ms. Krentcil, who faces charges of child endangerment, says that the burns come from her daughter playing around in natural sunlight, something which the 44-year-old obviously know a lot about. Read More