Oprah Winfrey’s OWN project received $46 million from its parent company, Discovery, in the last quarter of 2010 and will get $50 million over 2011–on top of their initial $189 million investment. Oprah’s network has suffered from a great number of reruns–and lack of original programming–that have kept its earnings relatively depressed. As new Read More
A hostage situation that began around 1 p.m. in the Maryland offices of the Discovery Channel ended with gunfire late today when police shot and killed eco-crusader James Lee, age 43, freeing 3 hostages taken by Lee when he stormed the building. Lee’s actions–an armed assault with a handgun and what Read More
1:30 p.m. Tim Gunn will screen his new video short: "Fashion Victims," followed by Q&A with P.E.T.A. senior vice president Dan Mathews. At the Bryant Park Hotel screening room, 40 West 40th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
6 p.m. Film presentation on psychiatrist, philosopher and author Frantz Fanon. At Founders Auditorium, 1650 Bedford Read More
As you may have deduced from the amount of TV-related content that crawls down this page each day, we at O2 spend a lot of time in front of our respective tubes. This time of year, we especially love watching those hokey paranormal reality shows about topics like haunted castles, wacky ghost hunters, weird bird-beasts Read More
During the summer, many New Yorkers try to spend as much time outdoors as possible, whether that involves booze-fueled rooftop barbecues, baseball games at Yankees Stadium, obnoxiously overcrowded concerts in Central Park or McCarren Park Pool, or—depending on one’s level of Metropolitan snobbery—day trips to the Hamptons, Coney Island, or the Jersey Shore. But there’s Read More
Monday, June 9
This week kicks off with a controversial documentary about the Oscar-winning filmmaker-cum-Humbert Humbert, Roman Polanski (9 p.m. on HBO). As you may recall, Mr. Polanksi, a Polish Holocaust survivor who was married to the eight-months-pregnant actress Sharon Tate when members of the Manson family murdered her in 1969, pleaded guilty to getting Read More
