Roger Friedman

Roger Friedman Sues News Corp. For $5.1 Million - Posted June 30, 2009
HuffPo reports former FoxNews.com entertainment columnist Roger Friedman has gone ahead with a lawsuit against News Corp. seeking $5.18 million in damages for wrongful termination, tortious interference and libel defamation. News Corp. fired Friedman in April after he reviewed a copy of 20th Century Fox's "Wolverine" that had leaked online. Friedman was a... [TVNewser]

Roger Friedman Sues News Corp. For $5.1 Million - Posted June 30, 2009
HuffPo reports former FoxNews.com entertainment columnist Roger Friedman has gone ahead with a lawsuit against News Corp. seeking $5.18 million in damages for wrongful termination, tortious interference and libel defamation. News Corp. fired Friedman in April after he reviewed a copy of 20th Century Fox's "Wolverine" that had leaked online. Friedman was a... [TVNewser]

Roger Friedman Sues Murdoch for Wrongful Termination - Posted June 30, 2009
From Huffpo: Fired Fox News entertainment columnist Roger Friedman filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against Fox News, News Corp, 20th Century Fox and Rupert Murdoch in New York State Supreme Court Monday, the Huffington Post has learned. In the suit, Friedman seeks $5,180,000 in damages for wrongful termination, tortious interference, and libel defamation. Friedman... [FishBowlLA]

Roger Friedman To File Wrongful Termination Suit Against News Corp. - Posted June 14, 2009
Fired FoxNews.com entertainment columnist Roger Friedman says it wasn't watching a pirated copy of the 20th Century Fox film "Wolverine" - and then writing about it - that got him fired, it was actress Kelly Preston, and other members of the Church of Scientology. That's the claim Friedman is expected to... [TVNewser]

Roger Friedman To File Wrongful Termination Suit Against News Corp. - Posted June 14, 2009
Fired FoxNews.com entertainment columnist Roger Friedman says it wasn't watching a pirated copy of the 20th Century Fox film "Wolverine" - and then writing about it - that got him fired, it was actress Kelly Preston, and other members of the Church of Scientology. That's the claim Friedman is expected to... [TVNewser]

The Ticker (FNC Edition): Gutfeld, Friedman, Beck... - Posted May 19, 2009
> The libertarian magazine Reason has posted a video of Red Eye host Greg Gutfeld's appearance during Reason Weekend. He talks about Bill Maher, The Huffington Post and his "surreal" FNC program. > Fired FoxNews.com entertainment writer Roger Friedman has joined The Hollywood Reporter, effective immediately. Friedman left Fox News... [TVNewser]

FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman Fired For "Promoting" Piracy - Posted April 5, 2009
DeadlineHollywoodDaily's Nikki Finke reports FOX has fired FoxNews.com entertainment writer, Roger Friedman. A column by Friedman, which has since been removed, seemed to endorse watching pirated DVDs in the wake of the "Wolverine" leak this week. According to Finke, Friedman wrote he had watched the upcoming movie by downloading it illegally, adding,... [TVNewser]

FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman Fired For "Promoting" Piracy - Posted April 5, 2009
DeadlineHollywoodDaily's Nikki Finke reports FOX has fired FoxNews.com entertainment writer, Roger Friedman. A column by Friedman, which has since been removed, seemed to endorse watching pirated DVDs in the wake of the "Wolverine" leak this week. According to Finke, Friedman wrote he had watched the upcoming movie by downloading it illegally, adding,... [TVNewser]

Around the Fishbowls: Obama, O'Reilly, Cruise... - Posted December 17, 2008
• FishbowlNY's Glynnis MacNicol reports today's shocking news — President-elect Barack Obama was selected as Time magazine's Person of the Year. Noticeably absent from the "people who mattered" section was any media figure. • FishbowlDC's Patrick Gavin has the video of a heated exchange between Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly during Monday's... [TVNewser]

Fox's Friedman Banned From Cruise's Comeback - Posted December 16, 2008
Fox News' Roger Friedman, an able-bodied film raconteur if ever there was one, has been banned from screenings of Tom Cruise's new film, "Valkyrie," apparently for...saying bad things. Now, Friedman has never been an ardent fan of Cruise or his Scientological leanings, but the Fox journo has long written about him,... [FishBowlLA]

FBLA Goes to the Party: Schnabel at Gagosian - Posted February 22, 2008
Julian Schnabel's paintings of bones (used in the credit sequence of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) are on view at Gagosian Gallery, with a preview party last night. Schnabel's at work on his next film, because he evidently needs no sleep. Tilda Swinton, Lauren Hutton, Ben Silverman, the Weinsteins, Brett Ratner,... [FishBowlLA]

Rosie: Proud As A Peacock? - Posted June 25, 2007
FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman "guesses" Rosie O'Donnell is going to NBC/MSNBC. Johnny Dollar has the audio "My guess is that she will get a daytime show on NBC with a package deal to do a night-time talk show on MSNBC." "What she wants is a daytime show with a night-time show mixed in. The... [TVNewser]

Rosie: Proud As A Peacock? - Posted June 25, 2007
FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman "guesses" Rosie O'Donnell is going to NBC/MSNBC. Johnny Dollar has the audio "My guess is that she will get a daytime show on NBC with a package deal to do a night-time talk show on MSNBC." "What she wants is a daytime show with a night-time show mixed in. The... [TVNewser]

Lunch at Michael's: Tina Brown's Bathroom Promise - Posted May 16, 2007
We were expecting a celeb sighting or two since it's Upfront time — the week the networks trot out their overpaid and underfed stars to shill for their supper — but alas, there were no signs of McDreamy or Matthew Fox anywhere. (Thankfully, we didn't see any cavemen either.) Disappointed, we... [FishBowlNY]

CBS Recruited Matthews, Stephanopolous - Posted May 2, 2007
From Roger Friedman: Sources say that Stephanopoulos' agents had more than just cursory talks with CBS about their boy switching networks. But at that point, they say, CBS couldn't offer George exactly what he was looking for either. For one thing, Stephanopolous is tied up at ABC through 2008. The talks didn't... [FishBowlDC]