Hugo Norbert Holland

Oct. 28, 2006

7:40 a.m.

6 pounds, 13 ounces

New York University Hospital

It’s a writ of baby-us corpus! Court TV copy editor Susie Felber endured 14 hours of unproductive labor before opting for a C-section. “At this point, I don’t care if you take him out of my nostril,” Ms. Felber, who is also Read More

Ta-Ta, Dull Do-Gooders: All Hail the New Virago

Great news: Bitches are back!

Being noble and self-denying and altruistic is totally over. Self-involved disco slags with flippy bangs are suddenly all the rage! The caring celeb—that gal who cannot accept an award without professing how “humbled” she is by it—is suddenly déjà vu. The era when even Ginger Spice became a Read More

Ailes Claims New Fox Turf

First Roger Ailes took over part of Lachlan Murdoch’s old job. Now, according to a News Corp. staffer, Mr. Ailes is taking Lachlan’s old office—on the eighth floor of company headquarters, one door down from Rupert Murdoch himself.

Even without the new digs, Mr. Ailes’ appointment earlier this month to head the Fox Television Stations Read More

Tabloid-TV Queen Broke Jacko Arrest, Beats the Networks

On Monday, Nov. 24, exactly 153 hours after the Michael Jackson media maelstrom swallowed the TV-watching populace whole-threatening to “suck all of civilization into its maw,” as a New York Times editorial had it-the woman who set the whole fracas into motion, Diane Dimond, a 51-year-old tabloid-news veteran, was sitting in the Third Avenue offices Read More

Lizz Winstead Returns … and So Does Marv

Wednesday, March 31

Program title of the week: Angry Beavers . [Nickelodeon, 6, 2 P.M.]

Thursday, April 1

“Where should we put the Urine Guy?” a Court TV producer asked Lizz Winstead, the creator of the network’s new show Snap Judgment . “Should we put him with the Marijuana Legalization Guy?” The Urine Read More

Can Henry Schleiff Rescue Court TV?

Court TV has been in ratings trouble since the end of the O.J. Simpson trial. With the start of the impeachment trial, it’s sure to make a comeback. Right? Not necessarily. This time, the networks and other cable channels will be getting in on Court TV’s act, leaving it just one of many channels willing Read More