The formula for the weekly REELZCHANNEL program Hollywood Uncensored with Sam Rubin is similar to that of Real Time with Bill Maher and no longer on-air The Best Damn Sports Show Period. Bring together a colorful panel of celebrity guests to address a grab-bag of juicy topics.
Here’s a recent clip featuring actors Adrianne Curry, Sam Jaeger and Alan Thicke. This particular panel does not exactly give a ringing endorsement to the basic premise of de facto 2011 Best Picture Oscar winner The Artist:
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KCET is beefing up their programming for the month of March with a slew of new shows featuring the likes of Roy Firestone and Holly Robinson Peete.
Firestone returns as host of LA Tonight With Roy Firestone, a weeklong half-hour interview series (March 12-17, 10 p.m. and midnight) that invites celebrities who live in Los Angeles to discuss their lives and current issues in today’s society. Firestone will be joined by Andre Agassi, Burt Bacharach, Chris Botti and Steve Tyrell.
Our cousins over at TVNewser dug up some interesting details today on Aaron Sorkin‘s new HBO show The Newsroom–about the cable news biz. Turns out a new name has been given to the fictional network at the heart of the show: Atlantis Cable News. Sorkin’s script originally called the channel UBS in honor of the great film Network. But for branding reasons, the change was made.
HBO has commisioned a fake news website back the new name: www.atlantiscablenews.com. The page is blank now, but TVNewser has a mock-up of the site-to-be.
The Newsroom will make its debut sometime this summer, possibly on Sunday, June 24th after the season premiere of True Blood.
It’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt thanks to one of Jimmy Kimmel‘s pranks.
His latest brilliant idea? Getting fans to turn off the TV before the last play of the Super Bowl — a Hail Mary pass by Tom Brady — and recording their reactions.
Whether it’s the beginning of the end or just some extra R&R, Los Angeles Dodgers play-by-play announcer Vin Scullywon’t be traveling with the team to Arizona for Spring Training.
Miguel Marquez has just signed on to become CNN’s latest Los Angeles correspondent. Marquez previously worked as an assistant to former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. He was most recently a London-based correspondent for ABC News. During his tenure at the network he covered the Iraq war and the Norway massacre, among other stories.
Marquez previously worked as an Los Angeles CNN correspondent from 2003 to 2005.
For the past three years, Willson and his two OC producers have cracked the finals of Doritos’ popular “Crash the Super Bowl” contest. In 2010, his “Casket” spot aired during the big game, and this weekend, once again, he was one of the top two vote-getters with a 30-second bit about a grandmother and grandson conspiring from a back porch to get hold of a prized bag of Doritos chips. Per Larsen’s piece:
“We have no idea every year,” Willson said by phone last week from Indianapolis [about which two of the top five Doritos finalists make it to air]. “You’re sweating it out and it’s very stressful and an incredible feeling.”
San Diego-based KPBS television and radio producer Megan Burke is tweeting up a storm about a proposed plan by San Diego Union-Tribune (we’re still not ready for U-T San Diego) CEO John Lynch to launch a new television network under the paper’s banner. The new network will apparently air on cable TV as well as the paper’s website and will be called UT-TV.
Memo to Lynch: There’s nothing more demeaning to a real journalist than being called a “content provider/contributor.” More to come on this story we’re sure.
Amanda Hess, lifestyle editor at GOOD, has a right to be upset. As she tweeted last night, Nightline on Thursday completely ripped off her November 2011 profile of rising male porn star James Deen:
Fun interview on the MLB Network with Dodgers star Andre Ethier. Especially because it was conducted by Kevin Millar at the outfielder’s five-acre Arizona compound.
Millar started off by joking that “if you follow GPS, you end up in a ditch.” To which Ethier agreed; while urging the reporter to keep the exact location secret, he admitted that personal guidance is usually necessary to ensure that visitors make it to the front door.
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