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Creative Arts Emmys Add Three Interactive TV Categories

Richard Horgan — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 06:45:48 +0000

When the nominations for the 65th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards are announced at 5:35 a.m. on Thursday July 18, a big change will be the number of categories honoring interactive TV. From Variety awards editor Jon Weisman‘s Monday item:

Chief among the changes is the establishment of a competitive award for outstanding interactive program, saluting either a standalone experience or one that serves as a companion to a TV program. In the Emmy context, “interactive” denotes anything that encourages proactive engagement from the audience — not to be confused with video content delivered via broadband, such as Netflix’s House of Cards.

This category can have zero or multiple awards as determined by the Academy’s 12-year-old interactive media peer group, which currently counts 627 members. The other new interactive TV awards categories cover multi-platform storytelling and visual experience/visual design, to go along with the existing brackets of original interactive program (not tied to an existing TV show) and social TV experience.

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Jeff Garlin Interviews Lena Dunham

Richard Horgan — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:30:29 +0000

For Episode 2 of By the Way: In Conversation with Jeff Garlin, the talented actor-writer-host cues up the conversation he had with Lena Dunham at Largo right after the 2012 Prime Time Emmy Awards. (He’s up to eight episodes now, the latest being Conan O’Brien.)

It was during that crazy awards weekend crush that Garlin met Dunham for the first time in person. And it was also, at a Friday night bash catered by the restaurant Animal, that his guest found herself gorging on some cliched fried chicken:

“I was so happy, and then I had this thought where, ‘So here I am at this party, fulfilling everyone’s expectations of what they’d see me doing at a party, just f*cking eating everything!’ I was so bummed.”

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Conan Profiles Magazines That Outlasted Newsweek

Pandora Young — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:28:15 +0000

We each mourn the death of Newsweek in our own way. For Conan O’Brien, that meant taking a look at 10 improbable titles that somehow outlasted the once great news magazine.

To be fair, Racing Pigeon Pictorial International never ran a creepy, computer-generated image of an aging Princess Diana walking alongside the daughter-in-law she never met.

A slideshow of the magazines profiled can be viewed here.

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People Magazine Gifts ABC Sitcom with Sexiest Product Placement Alive

Richard Horgan — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:59:51 +0000

To playfully set the stage for this year’s “Sexiest Man Alive” issue, the folks at People are taking product placement to a whole new level. The night before the official announcement on November 14 of the 2012 SMA recipient, the storyline of ABC sitcom Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 will be all about the determination of this year’s honoree:

June (Dreama Walker) is obsessed with People magazine’s annual Sexiest Man Alive issue, though Chloe (Krysten Ritter) tells her she shouldn’t be such a sheep and let others dictate what’s hot and sexy. To prove her point, she swoops into the People offices in an attempt to coerce them to feature James Van Der Beek on this year’s SMA cover. James is thrilled by the prospect, and now June suddenly finds him irresistibly attractive.

“This just seemed like the perfect sitcom to do this with,” People executive editor Liz Sporkin tells FishbowlLA via telephone. “Especially since James Van Der Beek sends himself up every week on the show and he was a hot guy on Dawson’s Creek.” Returning the synergistic favor, People will have Van Der Beek pen for the 2012 SMA issue the latest edition of companion column “If I Were Sexiest Man Alive.”

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TBS Greenlights Pete Holmes Pilot

Richard Horgan — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:30:02 +0000

Rising comedian Pete Holmes has yet another reason to celebrate as he heads to Montreal this week for the prestigious Just For Laughs festival. According to an exclusive item on Vulture, TBS has given the go-ahead for a half-hour late night pilot starring Holmes, to be produced by Conan O’Brien’s Conaco.

From Margaret Lyons’ report:

Holmes definitely shares Conan’s goofy gregariousness, though he skews cynical where Conan skews silly. The show starts filming its pilot mid-August, but there’s no word yet on when TBS would have to render a final decision.

Last year, Holmes was voted one of Variety’s Top Ten Comics to Watch. This guy is indeed all over the map, drawing cartoons for The New Yorker, voicing those annoying e*trade baby commercials, contributing to collegehumor.com and writing episodes of FOX’s I Hate My Teenage Daughter.

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From The Tonight Show to Marie Callender’s

Richard Horgan — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:30:45 +0000

The last time Conan O’Brien dropped in on David Letterman, Y2K was topical monologue material. In the intervening years, the prize they both coveted also slipped right through O’Brien’s fingers.

The red-haired one did not sound entirely convincing when he insisted (at the top of the clip below) that he is 100% happy at his new TBS home. He then told a funny story about how, the Monday after the Friday of his last Tonight Show broadcast, he was forced to convene his staff at a Marie Callender’s. O’Brien located the restaurant in Burbank, but it’s actually Toluca Lake.

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Metta World Peace Visits Conan O’Brien

Marcus Vanderberg — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:34:20 +0000

With some free time on his hands, Metta World Peace finally sat down with Conan O’Brien Monday night.

The Los Angeles Lakers forward had to cancel a scheduled appearance last month following his elbow incident with Oklahoma City guard James Harden.

With his seven-game suspension winding down, World Peace admitted to O’Brien that he hasn’t called Harden to apologize but spoke with “third parties” to make sure he was OK.

Playoffs or no playoffs, World Peace should have picked up the phone by now to say, “I’m sorry.” But that’s Metta being Metta, I guess.

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Everyone’s Favorite San Diego Newscaster Stops by Conan to Announce Anchorman Sequel

Matthew Fleischer — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:02:53 +0000

Ron Burgundy made the trip up north from San Diego to Burbank today to announce that an Anchorman sequel is in the works. He also took the time to make reference to his “turgid penis” and to suggest Conan O’Brien get immediate plastic surgery. Good times.

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Triumph the Insult Dog Rips Golden Collar Awards

Richard Horgan — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:30:46 +0000

Behold the diametrical opposite to all that annual “it’s an honor just to be nominated” nonsense.

In a scathing YouTube video, Conan O’Brien‘s canine correspondent Triumph the Insult Comic Dog rips apart the six nominees for the first-year Golden Collar Awards category of Best Dog in a Television Series. Namely because he isn’t on the list:

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Development Drop Out Costs NBCUniversal Nine Million*

Richard Horgan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:30:26 +0000

CurbedLA started out the New Year by sharing a great reader tip. Someone pointed them to an SEC filing by Thomas Properties Group, which contained confirmation of a nine million dollar kill fee received by the developer from NBCUniversal.

Too bad Arrested Develpment ran on FOX, rather than NBC. Otherwise, the (still pretty good) headline chosen by CurbedLA would have been utterly perfect. From yesterday’s item:

On December 19, 2011, Thomas Properties Group, Inc. and NBC Universal Media LLC mutually agreed to terminate further work on the MetroStudios@Lankershim property that was planned for the Universal City area of Los Angeles. In light of NBCU’s changing requirements for office and post-production space, the planned MetroStudios@Lankershim project was not considered economically viable at this time.

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Conan O’Brien Officiates Gay Wedding in… Sigh… New York

Matthew Fleischer — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 10:30:31 +0000

Conan O’Brien officiated the marriage of Conan costume designer Scott Cronick and his partner David Gorshein last night on live TV. And it was actually quite beautiful. Conan toned himself down as much as we have ever seen and presided over a short but touching ceremony.

Conan may not have the mainstream audience of The Tonight Show anymore, but we’re pretty sure there are a whole lot of people in his fan base who have never seen anything like this live before. We’re guessing there are quite a few gay teenagers in Texas or Mississippi today who feel a whole lot more hopeful for their future thanks to this show. Too bad Conan had to go all the way to New York to do it. Wasn’t Prop 8 overturned? Can we speed up the whole legalized gay marriage in California thing already? We’re guessing Cronick can’t be the only gay costume designer here in LA who’s looking to get hitched in front of a nationally televised audience.

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Conan: Year One

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:18:44 +0000

Hard to believe it has been a year since Conan O’Brien launched his show on TBS. Team Coco put together a “convulsion inducing” mutha f’in montage to mark the occasion.

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Conan Goes on Fallon, Steals Back Triumph

Matthew Fleischer — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:54:03 +0000

Conan O’Brien is in New York this week and decided to swing by his old studio–now occupied by Jimmy Fallon. O’Brien made a brief appearance on the show, said hello, and left with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog under his arm. You may recall NBC claimed ownership of Triumph as part of Conan’s exit package from the network. Conan has subtly suggested he disagrees. Looks like he’s done being subtle.

Hooray, juicy intellectual property dispute!

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Anne Hathaway Premieres Anti-Paparazzi Rap on Conan

Pandora Young — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:08:53 +0000

Quintessential white girl Anne Hathaway can rap. No, really.

During the filming of The Dark Knight Rises, the actress was frequently harassed by the paparazzi. She channeled all her frustration at the lowest form of celebrity journalism into a Lil’ Wayne style rap, which she performed last night on Conan.

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Did Conan Steal a Bit From an Unheralded Cleveland Sketch Comedy Group?

Matthew Fleischer — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:13:51 +0000

The comedy world is in the midst of a debate about whether or not a recent sketch by Jon Dore and Rory Scovel on Conan O’Brien‘s show was actually ripped off from the Cleveland sketch comedy group Last Call Cleveland. The idea of two performers on stage at the same time talking on top of each other seems straight out of the 50′s, so we wouldn’t be surprised if neither party came up with the original idea. But, as the A.V. Club notes, this wouldn’t be the first time an LCC sketch found its way on to television without attribution.

The video above makes a side-by-side comparison of the two bits. What do you think?

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