Some of Hollywood’s biggest stars gathered at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles tonight (January 11th) for the 2012 People’s Choice Awards, including Ian Somerhalder, Alyson Hannigan, Kelly Osbourne and Ewan McGregor.
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Nina Dobrev, Lea Michele & More At The 2012 Peoples Choice Awards [PHOTOS]
Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer Strikes Content Deals To Turn The Xbox Into A Home Entertainment Hub
Microsoft’s making progress with its effort to turn its Xbox gaming console into the central brain for home entertainment. The company said Monday that it has an agreement with News Corp which will provide apps this year to funnel content from Fox Broadcasting, Fox News, and The Wall Street Journal to customers of the XBox Live service — with security to ensure that only pay TV customers see the cable programming. In addition, Microsoft has an arrangement to offer video from Comcast’s Xfinity On Demand, and a deal with Verizon FiOS to create a program guide app. The announcements were part of Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer’s keynote presentation to the 2012 International CES — supposedly his last annual infomercial address to the consumer electronics gathering. With help from American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest, he used the occasion to lay out his vision of a home where people make voice commands to the Xbox to find and call up TV programs, and use its Kinect motion control sensor to interact with TV characters. “We invest for the long term and make exciting things happen,” he said. The company demonstrated its interactive TV capability with Kinect Sesame Street TV; for example, kids can pretend they’re tossing objects that the show’s characters catch, and view themselves on screen engaging with the action.
The entertainment features were only part of Ballmer’s effort to promote the idea that Microsoft is a cutting edge innovator. He talked up plans for … Read More
Will Keith Olbermann Control All Election Coverage On Current TV Or Won’t He? He Gets Channel To Blink – But It’s Just A Wink
EXCLUSIVE: This week there was a rift. Then tonight what looked like an outright win for Keith Olbermann over his current employer Current TV. But now the rift is back on after the channel is ”doing a complete 180,” sources tell me. Here’s what happened: Earlier tonight Olbermann was assured by Current TV that it was giving him ”carte blanche” to plan and program and book participants for the entire 4-hour block of New Hampshire GOP presidential primary coverage this coming Tuesday night. And that wasn’t all. “It can be said that Current has seen the light. It can be assumed that Keith will have control over election coverage going forward,” one of my sources assured me. But later tonight Current TV changed its mind and now is refusing to give Olbermann the time slot. Stay tuned. I have a feeling this is going to seesaw throughout the weekend between Current TV and its chief news officer/controversial liberal commentator.
It’s no coincidence that the channel’s waffling follows lousy reviews of what the Internet pundits called Current’s fiasco coverage of the Iowa Caucus on Tuesday night. It featured Current founder Al Gore as well as two new Current hires, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur. Now Current had a unique opportunity to make a splash by having the former VP as part of its election mix. So the channel should have ensured that Gore was surrounded by a deep bench. But one especially vicious media … Read More
Massive Increase For NFL’s TV Rights Throws Cablers For A Loss
Cable operators are gearing up for a brutal scrimmage with broadcasters over program licensing fees — and consumer pay TV rates — following this week’s agreement by CBS, NBC, and Fox to pay an estimated $27.5B to air NFL games from 2014 through 2022. The new figure is up 63% from the previous contracts. In order for all of the media partners to break even under the new contract, Miller Tabak analyst David Joyce estimates that the average pay TV subscriber would have to pay $11.23 a month — up $6.87 from the break-even number from the previous NFL contract that ends in 2013. Although nobody expects consumer bills to rise that much anytime soon, the estimates indicate how motivated broadcasters will be to press for higher retransmission consent fees from pay TV companies. Joyce says that the deals were probably cut now so the networks and affiliated TV stations can prepare for their negotiations with cable and satellite companies.
Distributors say they intend to hold the line at a time when many of their customers are looking for cheaper alternatives. “Congress and the Federal Communications Commission need to throw a flag, because rules and regulations shouldn’
E! Inks Talent Deal With David Burtka
Stage and TV actor David Burtka has signed a talent deal with E! Entertainment that will see the stage and TV actor (and Neil Patrick Harris’ longtime companion) join E! News as a correspondent as well as participate on the network’s Live From The Red Carpet and E! specials. He begins his new role in January. Burtka made his Broadway debut in Edward Albee’s The Goat, and played Tulsa opposite Bernadette Peters in Sam Mendes’ Gypsy. He also has TV credits that include CSI: NY, How I Met Your Mother, Steven Spielberg’s On The Lot and Crossing Jordan.
CAA TV Lit Agent Roy Ashton Joins Gersh As Partner And Head Of TV Lit Division
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran CAA TV literary agent Roy Ashton is joining the Gersh Agency as Partner and Head of the Television Literary Department. The recruitment of Ashton, who has been at CAA for more than 13 years, is part of an expansion plan by Gersh, which has been bringing in experienced agents in different areas as partners over the past year, including Bob Hohman, Bayard Maybank and Devra Lieb in the Motion Picture Lit department and Jay Cohen in the Film Financing and Distribution division. At Gersh, Ashton will be tasked with leading the current 6-agent TV lit department and grow it. The agency, which is very strong in TV on the talent side, has now made beefing up its TV lit roster a priority. ‘
Jessica-Jane Clement Bikini Pics From Thailand! OW!
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These were snapped during a vacation UK TV star Jessica-Jane Clement took last year to Thailand with her fiance. These pics look somewhat staged, but it’s not like any of you guys give a shit. Here’s some more info about Jessica:
Jessica-Jane Clement (born 24 February 1985 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) is an English glamour model, actress and TV presenter.
In 2009 she appeared in Doghouse, a British zombie themed comedy, in which she played the leading character’s girlfriend,[5] and the long-running British hospital drama Casualty, playing Jackie, a new member of the ambulance/paramedic crew.[6]
In 2011, November 9th. It was announced that she would be taking part in the 11th Series of the UK TV Series I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! (UK TV series), which will be aired from Sunday the 13th of November. [Source]
And also, just in case some of you bastards missed the Flabber link from a couple days ago, they had a Jessica-Jane layout that might be worth checking out.
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Carlos Slim’s Broadcast Rivals Protest His Web TV Delivery In Mexico
Rivals of Carlos Slim are protesting to government regulators his delivery of TV programming over the Web in Mexico, Bloomberg reports. Grupo Televisa CEO Emilio Azcarraga complained last month and TV Azteca has filed suit against Slim’s companies as well as complained to the nation’s phone regulator over Web broadcasts such as last month’
Red Band Trailer: ’21 Jump Street’
Some of us are not sure what to make of this red band trailer for 21 Jump Street with Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill and Ice Cube in the movification of a long-ago Fox TV series about young cops going undercover in high school. The late ’80s TV show starred Johnny Depp.
UPDATE: ICM TV Lit Agents Mickey Berman And Josh Hornstock Join UTA As Partners
UPDATE: UTA just officially announced that ICM agents Josh Hornstock and Mickey Berman have joined the agency as agents in television literary department. Additionally, both have been named partners. ‘
Silvio Horta To Develop Comedy Series For Fox Based on Texts From Last Night Blog
EXCLUSIVE: Just when we thought the trend of comedies based on blogs and Twitter feeds was cooling off, it’s back! Fox has tapped Ugly Betty creator Silvio Horta to develop a half-hour comedy based on the infamous blog Texts From Last Night. Happy Madison and Sony Pictures TV are producing. Fox has been high on the Web property. The network, Happy Madison and Sony TV first took a stab at developing a comedy based on the Web site two seasons ago with Steve Holland as the writer. Last season, it was redeveloped with different writers, Marc Abrams and Michael Benson. Now a new take will be written by Horta, who had been looking to branch out into half-hour comedies after creating 2 sci-fi dramas, The Chronicle and Jake 2.0 and a dramedy, 
ABC’s Ugly Betty. The user-generated TFNL blog posts “regrettable,” often embarrassing text messages usually sent late at night by people who are drunk or high. The Web site became an instant hit when it launched in February 2009, and landed a book and TV deal. This marks WME-repped Horta’s second sale under the overall deal with Sony TV he signed in June. The other one, also at Fox, is a Latino family dramedy, which he is writing and executive executive producing with … Read More
TV Land Picks Up ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’
TV Land has acquired broadcast rights to The Dick Van Dyke Show. The sitcom will premiere on Oct. 3, exactly 50 years after it debuted on CBS. TV Land is marking its anniversary by running episodes in a three-hour block from 6-9 PM Oct. 3-7, and giving it the marathon treatment the following weekend. After that, its regular spot will be weekdays at 7 PM. Starring Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore, the classic workplace comedy created by Carl Reiner ran for 5 seasons, from 1961-66. All 159 episodes of the series are also currently available on Hulu.
On the Set With Pan Am
Kelli Garner
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Actress Kelli Garner, dressed in a black 1960′s dress with pillbox hat and pocketbook, fools around between takes as she films a scene with a CIA agent in Riverside Park for the TV series Pan Am. Pan Am debuted on TV with 11 million viewers!
Global Showbiz Briefs: Russia, Canada, Italy
Did Kremlin Have Its Hands On Russia’s Choice For Oscars?
Russian critics are blaming the Kremlin and lamenting the country’s choice for the best foreign language film entry at the Oscars. The most expensive film in the nation’s history — Burnt by the Sun-2: Citadel– was chosen despite being a box office bomb. It was directed by Nikita Mikhalkov, a close friend of prime minister Vladimir Putin. Even the selection panel’s chairman, Oscar-winning director Vladimir Menshov, refused to sign off on the vote in protest. ‘
Kim Kardashian Shakes Her Moneymakers
Kim Kardashian and her sycophant sisters, Khloe and Kourtney, have been whoring their asses out all around New York City. Why? To promote a new season of their shitty reality TV show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians. Honestly, who watches that shit? Someone must: it keeps getting renewed. Anyway, Kim is doing what she does [...]
Tom Gormican/Jake Kasdan Ensemble Comedy Lands At CBS With Penalty
After a three-way bidding war, single-camera comedy pitch On The Verge of Greatness has landed at CBS with a significant penalty. The twentysomething ensemble comedy, from 3 Arts and 20th Century Fox TV, will be written/executive produced by feature writer Tom Gormican, with Jake Kasdan on board to direct and executive produce through his overall deal at 20th TV. Also executive producing are 3 Arts’
Courteney Cox, David Arquette Putting Humpty Dumpty Marriage Back Together?
Well, not exactly. Courteney Cox and David Arquette are reuniting … but only for TV…
Kim Kardashian 2011: Behind the scenes for Pussycat Dolls Reality Show!
Superstar Kim K is all set to feature as the executive producer to TV mogul…
Belen Rodriguez & Paolo Ruffini Promote “Colorado” TV Show in Milan
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Granted we’ll never watch an episode of Belen Rodriguez’s TV show, but I don’t anybody minds as long as she continues promoting the show wearing exactly what she’s wearing right now! The Argentinian-flavored beauty, who now lives and works in Italy, was with her co-host, Lucky Bastard Paolo Ruffini, promoting the Italian TV show “Colorado” at Mediaset Headquarter in fashionable Milan.
Here’s a clip of what we think might be a promotional video for the show:
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