Good news for fans of absurd science fiction! Fox has picked up J.J. Abrams’ Fringe for a full season order. After an iffy pilot and slack ratings, Fringe has become a moderate hit since being paired with House on Tuesday nights. Its audience has grown and stabilized, two good signs for a network show, and Read More
New York’s Morgan Spurlock, the indie doc film director who gave us Super Size Me and the upcoming Sundance entry Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, has just signed a deal with Fox to develop both "scripted and nonscripted" fare with Fox, according to Variety.
Series "30 Days," which is hosted Read More
David Cross has no wife and no kids. The comedian and actor, best known for his role as Tobias Fünke on the little watched, but much lamented FOX sitcom Arrested Development and as co-creator (with Bob Odenkirk) of Mr. Show with Bob and David, an HBO sketch series that ran for four seasons back in Read More
Fox and ABC came to opposite conclusions about what to do with two popular shows with seasons left incomplete when the writers’ strike begain. Fox is postponing the premiere of its popular series, 24, rather than begin to air a season that isn’t finished; but ABC will go ahead and air episodes of Lost, which Read More
Yesterday, Alpha Media Group–the name for the investors backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners who bought Maxim, Blender and Stuff from Dennis Publishing yesterday for more than $240 million–announced plans to fold Stuff, the shopping-centered T&A men's magazine, and resurrect it as a regular section in its lad mag, Maxim.
Maxim and Blender will be the Read More
In April 2006, celebrity publisher Judith Regan began working on what she called "Project Miami." It would be a book by O. J. Simpson in which he would not not confess to the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Four months later, with the book well underway, Ms. Regan began to shop Read More
By any measure, Oct. 6 was a bountiful and tricky day for television news.
In the morning, the President gave a speech outlining the terrible things that could happen if the U.S. military were to leave Iraq too soon. Several hours later, word came that Karl Rove, his top advisor, was not yet clear of Read More
By any measure, Oct. 6 was a bountiful and tricky day for television news.
In the morning, the President gave a speech outlining the terrible things that could happen if the U.S. military were to leave Iraq too soon. Several hours later, word came that Karl Rove, his top advisor, was not yet clear of Read More
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
Dreaming of John Woo
Director Wong Kar-Wai is worried about forgetting, and he makes movies that are fuzzy and luminous so he can remember exactly how he remembers things. Themes of memory, love and obsession move recurrently through his work like weather patterns.
The Wong Kar-Wai Collection is almost entirely devoid of extras but Read More
