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A First: Ncis Beats American Idol
For the first time, CBS's NCIS beat Fox's American Idol in the ratings among both total viewers and the 18-49 age group Tuesday night. The special Tuesday edition of Idol drew just 10.9 million...
Pirate Bay Docking In N. Korea? It's All For Lulz
The Pirate Bay's admission that it had accepted an invitation from the leader of North Korea to route traffic to its cloud server from that country appears to have been a ruse. On Monday, a...
Breaking Dawn Video Breaks Big
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2 debuted over the weekend with a whopping 3.85 million DVD and Blu-ray Discs sold, Lionsgate's Summit Entertainment announced today (Tuesday). The weekend sales numbers -- ordinarily home...
Use Of Bbc's Iplayer Soaring
With sales of iPads and other tablet devices exploding over the Christmas holiday period in the U.K., use of the BBC's iPlayer app nearly doubled in just two months, according to the public broadcaster, citing...
Savile Scandal Affects Bbc's Credit
The child-abuse scandal involving former BBC host Jimmy Savile has now impacted the public broadcaster's credit ratings. As reported by today's (Monday) London Financial Times, Moody's Investors Services has downgraded the broadcaster's mortgage bonds where...
Nbc Says Report It Will Replace Leno Is "Categorically Untrue"
NBC has denied a Hollywood Reporter item that it is planning to replace Jay Leno with Jimmy Fallon, currently the host of NBC's Late Night, in the summer of 2014. The network has called categorically...
Studios Say Many Mobile Apps Are Infringing Their Copyrights
Movie studios are increasingly monitoring apps developed for smartphones and tablet devices that employ unlicensed content from their films, Reuters reported on Thursday, and they are often finding those bootleg apps available via top Internet...
Movie Reviews: 21 And Over
A lot of critics give movies that they hate a single star. Kyle Smith in the New York Post goes one step beyond and awards just half a star to 21 and Over from the...
Movie Reviews: Jack The Giant Slayer
Not all of the reviews of Jack the Giant Slayer are deadly. Some, in fact, are quite full of beans. Rafer Guzmán in Newsday writes that it is the kind of old-fashioned, entertaining fantasy-adventure you...
Hyundai's Oscar Ads Named "Most Effective"
Hyundai, which scored strongly on overall effectiveness for its Super Bowl ads at the beginning of February, drew much praise for its ads during the Oscars at the end of the month. The Korean automaker...
British Court Orders Pirate Sites Blocked
ritain's High Court, comparable to the U.S Court of Appeals (or Federal Court), has ordered Britain's principal broadband providers to block or at least impede access to three BitTorrent websites within 15 days. The order...
Comcast: Six Strikes And We Turn Off Your Internet Browser
Comcast, the nation's leading cable-TV and ISP provider, said on Wednesday that it will block Internet access to users who it believes have engaged in copyright infringement after it has received six complaints from copyright...
Sony Pictures Chief: Ultraviolet "Not Easy Enough To Use"
Sony Pictures chief Michael Lynton has told a media conference that although 10 million people have signed up to use the cloud-based UltraViolet system that allows DVD buyers to access their movies on computers or...
Fall Of The Guardians Results In Dwa Write-down
DreamWorks Animation SKG is taking an $87-million write-down on the failure of its holiday release Rise of the Guardians. While the film has earned $302 million worldwide, more than half that amount goes to the...
Daily Variety Goes From Red Ink To No Ink
After 80 years of publication, Daily Variety will cease to exist as a print edition. Weekly Variety, which first appeared in 1905 to cover vaudeville, will remain in print but will be published on Tuesdays...
Pirate Bay Sails For Norway And Spain
Threatened by legal action from the major motion picture and recording companies, the BitTorrent site Pirate Bay has pulled up anchor in Sweden and has headed for Norway and Spain. For the last three years,...
Reports: Labeouf's Apology To Baldwin Plagiarized
Shia LaBeouf's efforts to manage his public relations via the social media following his departure from the Broadway production of Orphans has apparently backfired. On Wednesday, LaBeouf published excerpts of his correspondence with fellow cast...
Video Sales Plunge At Walmart
Walmart, the leading retailer of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, is being hit by the rise of digital sales and rentals, it indicated in an FTC filing on Thursday. Although reporting an 8-percent rise in overall...
Movie Reviews: Snitch
While Snitch, starring Duane The Rock Johnson, is billed as an action thriller, several critics contend that the action is not as thrilling as the plot about a man trying to save his son from...
Will Identity Thief Steal The Box Office Again?
It is the annual weekend when movies are in conflict with themselves -- when the box office confronts competition from the Oscars. With six of the nine films vying for the Best Picture award boasting...
Televangelist Who "Cures Cancer" Targeted By Health Groups
A satellite TV channel, Faith World TV, that features a televangelist who tells viewers that he can cure their life-threatening illnesses with prayer has come under fire from health groups who call the program Miracle...
Smart Tv -- Bigger Than 3d-tv
With 3D-TV failing to become the next big thing in home entertainment, TV manufacturers are increasingly developing smart television sets capable of accessing video over the Internet -- ones that employ apps and remote devices...
Are Viewers Returning To Idol?
American Idol regained some of its viewers Thursday night after last week's additional slippage and even managed to edge out CBS in the 9:00 p.m. hour among viewers 18-49. CBS, however, continued to lead --...
The Worst Film In History?
Some writers are making the case that the British comedy Run for Your Wife, written by and starring comedian Ray Cooney, may be the worst film ever. It is certainly among the worst reviewed. The...
Imax Gets Bigger
IMAX reported strong fourth-quarter results today (Thursday), noting that revenue from its digital remastering business -- converting 35mm films into high-resolution digital formats, especially enhanced for the giant IMAX screens -- increased 56.3 percent in...
Skyfall Shakes Up Video Sales
It appears that Skyfall, which became the highest-grossing James Bond thriller at the box office in history, may repeat that accomplishment with DVD and Blu-ray Disc sales. Nielsen VideoScan First Alert, which tracks video sales,...
Disney Movie Channel To Launch In U.k.
The Walt Disney Co. has struck a deal with BSkyB, the News Corp-controlled British satellite service, to launch a pay-TV channel, Sky Movies Disney, that will show classic Disney films and also have first-run TV...
Oscar Is Golden For Abc
Expecting that this year's Oscar nominees will draw big audiences -- unlike previous years most of them were big box-office blockbusters -- advertisers have been willing to grab commercial time on the ABC telecast for...
Christian And Muslim Groups Join To Denounce Snl Skit
The Catholic League, America's largest lay Catholic organization, and The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) rarely see eye-to-eye on anything, but both organizations have now denounced last weekend's Saturday Night Live sketch, which depicted Jesus,...
Cbs Gets More Bang From Its Bang
The CBS comedy The Big Bang Theory exploded at the top of the weekly Nielsen primetime ratings charts last week as it averaged 17.89 million viewers. Two other CBS Thursday-night entries followed, with the one-hour...
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Leisure Festival - Dreamland in Margate
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Pretty Fierce talk to us about collaborating with Doja Cat, emetophobia, arena tours and staying "true to yourself" [EXCLUSIVE]
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Will Varley & Jack Valero - The Astor Theatre Deal Live Review
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
WYSE talks to us about her "form of synaesthesia", collaborating with Radiohead's Thom York and the prospect of touring with a band [EXCLUSIVE]
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
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Bay Bryan talks to us about being a "wee queer ginger", singing with Laura Marling and being inspired by Matilda [EXCLUSIVE]
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Keelan X talks to us about staying true to "your creative vision", collaborating with Giorgio Moroder and being "a yoga nut" [EXCLUSIVE]
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
![Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]](https://images.contactmusic.com/images/home/homepage/luke-de-sciscio-abof-a.jpg "Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]")
Luke De-Sciscio talks to us about having the courage to be yourself, forgiving that which is outside of one's control and following whims [EXCLUSIVE]
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Annie Elise talks to us about the challenges a female producer has to face and "going through a year of grief and sickness" [EXCLUSIVE]
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
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