Kara DioGuardi: ABC's Adam Lambert ban is all about ad money
"We're living in a pretty bad economic time, so they have to do what they have to do to keep their advertisers," DioGuardi tells E!. "Networks are doing what they think their viewers want and don't want, so it's just budgetary." PLUS: Jimmy Kimmel fought to keep Adam and Eminem disses Lambert.
Will Comcast dump Jeff Zucker, Conan, Leno?
Questions marks surround all three major NBC figures, despite Zucker being named CEO of the merged Comcast-NBC. PLUS: Press release ignores NBC, the broadcast network, until after 2,170 words.
Conan O'Brien is "Feelin' Comcastic"
Watch Conan mock the merger news with a "Kissin Ass-tic" song and dance routine that was reminiscent of his "Trouble at NBC" performance at the 2006 Emmys. PLUS: Leno ignores merger news.
Joss Whedon: Fox wouldn't let "Dollhouse" delve into sexuality and intimacy
His original plan was to focus on the sexuality of the "Dollhouse" encounters, but Fox was too "twitchy" about it, says Whedon, adding that "when the show turned into a thriller every week, it took something out of it that was kind of basic to what we were trying to do." But why would Fox turn down sex? "First of all," says Whedon, "network television has taken great treads backwards in terms of dealing with sexuality or the body or anything. I mean, now on cable everybody is prancing about naked and whatnot. On the networks, it’s gotten different since I was last making TV."
"Buffy" teaming up with Obama?
Check out the spoof comic cover from Dark Horse.
Complaint: Too many new holiday TV movies are "Christmas-ish"
From "Christmas in Canaan" with Billy Ray Cyrus to "12 Men of Christmas" starring Kristin Chenoweth, too many Christmas movies are of a "subgenre suited to a time of cutbacks and compromise," As Alessandra Stanley explains.
Watch Tina Fey & Jimmy Fallon's "Weekend Update" screen test
They look so young in September 2000.
"Jersey Shore": The best thing to happen at MTV since music videos!?
It isn't exactly "The Real World," but it sure is entertaining, says Amelia McDonell-Parry. She writes: "Will you remember where you were and who you were with the night 'Jersey Shore' premiered on MTV? I will, because the show was just that friggin’ awesome." PLUS: Lessons from "Jersey Shore" and the "Jersey" glossary and the "Jersey" name generator.
