getting the band back together
daily dos
thu 1/28/2010
ABC has announced the cancellation of the telenovela-inspired TV show "Ugly Betty."
matriculation and speculation
daily dos
wed 1/13/2010
Conan O'Brien says he won't host the "Tonight Show" if it is moved to 12:05 to accommodate a move by the Jay Leno show to 11:35: "I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is the [Tonight Show's] destruction."
Armisen, Raisa, Richie, Vélez and de Pablo
halfsie or fullsie
thu 1/7/2010
You may have wondered: are they? A little?
Well, yes. Yes, they are.
Fred Armisen
Age: 43
Comedian and actor best known for his impersonation of President Obama on "Saturday Night Live."
Halfsie: German-Japanese father and Venezuelan mother.
Francia Raisa
Age: 21
Actress known for playing Leti in Bring It On: All or Nothing and Adrian Lee in "The Secret Life of the American Teenager."
Fullsie: Honduran father and Mexican mother.
Nicole Richie
Age: 28
TV personality once known as Paris Hilton's BFF on "The Simple Life." Has two children with musician Joel Madden.
Halfsie: Mexican-African-American father.
Lauren Vélez
Age: 45
Actress known for playing tough cops in "New York Undercover" and "Dexter." Twin sister Lorraine also acts.
Fullsie: Both parents are Puerto Rican.
Cote de Pablo
Age: 30
Plays Israeli intelligence agent Ziva David in "NCIS." Once hosted a show called "Control" alongside Carlos Ponce.
Fullsie: Chilean.
Naya Rivera
whodat
tue 10/13/2009
Naya Rivera says she's good at everything. Seriously?
While most kids were getting ready for kindergarten, the California native was starring alongside comedy legend Redd Foxx and future star Larenz Tate in the TV sitcom The Royal Family. Produced by Eddie Murphy, the show was gaining popularity until tragedy struck: only a few episodes into the show's first season, Foxx died of a heart attack. The series was eventually canceled. Rivera recovered and continued to grow up on the small screen, earning guest roles on popular sitcoms like Family Matters, Smart Guy and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Once Rivera hit her teens, roles started drying up. "It was a bit hard to transition from a kid to a working adult just because it's so much easier to book jobs when you're cute and five," explains the Puerto Rican, German and African-American actress. As she searched for new roles, Rivera dabbled in music, a move that would pay off years later. Now 22, the flirtatious Rivera is combining her acting and singing talents on the TV show Glee, a hit comedy about a school choir that is part Mean Girls and part High School Musical.
Despite her confidence, Rivera, who plays the feisty cheerleader Santana Lopez on "Glee," reveals there's one thing she isn't good at: "Sports."
TV vs. The Web
versus
fri 10/2/2009
| medium | Television. | World Wide Web. |
| also known as | TV. | The web. |
| created in | 1927. | 1989. |
| created by | Philo Taylor Farnsworth. | Tim Berners-Lee. |
| regulated by the | FCC. | ICANN. |
| hours spent with per week (U.S.) | Thirteen. | Twelve. |
| average cost | $40.11 for cable TV. | $39 a month for broadband internet. |
| average age of viewer and user | 50 years old. | 37 years old. |
| not as fun without a | Remote control. | Keyboard and mouse. |
| average number of choices | 118.6 TV channels (U.S.) | 231.5 million web sites. |
| biggest new feature | HDTV. | Mobile web. |
| next big thing | 3D. | Artificial intelligence. |
| porn | Pay-per-view cable porn generates $128 million a year. | Online porn generates $1 billion a year. |
| side-effects | Epileptic seizures. | Computer viruses. |
| most viewed | Over 73 million people watched The Beatles' American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. | Over 127 million people have watched The Evolution of Dance on YouTube. |
| fiending | TV addiction. | Internet addiction disorder. |
| piracy | Stealing cable. | Filesharing. |
| music box | MTV, VH1, BET, mun2. | Pandora, Last FM, MySpace, YouTube. |
| music industry | Boon for sales. | Bane for sales. |
| most popular to date | NBC sitcom Seinfeld. | Yahoo.com. |
| crossover | Lazy Sunday: The Chronicles of Narnia Rap started on TV but blew up on the Web. | TMZ started on the Web before blowing up on TV. |
| shopping | Home Shopping Network and QVC. | Amazon and eBay. |
| for solving problems | Call-in and talk shows. | Google. |
| watch people do dumb s*** on | Reality shows. | Social networks. |
| recent sex scandals | Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during a Super Halftime Show. | Teen actress Vanessa Hudgens is topless in leaked photos. |
| annoying advertising | Commercials that are louder than the TV show you are watching. | Smileys, creepy laughs and "congratulations you won' banner ads. |
(images by William Hook and Silvio Tanaka via flickr)
special sauce
daily dos
mon 6/15/2009
Congress is considering a bill that would make TV advertisers keep the volume of their commercials at the same level as the show the ads appear in. (via digg)
grubbin'
daily dos
thu 5/3/2007
Salma Hayek hints that she will no longer make on-screen appearances on Ugly Betty.
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