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Is Matt Lauer In Jeopardy? Maybe
On the same day that the New York Times featured a front-page report indicating that some NBC executives believe that Matt Lauer's declining popularity may be at the root of the Today show's ratings plunge...
Phil Spector Hbo Movie Caught In Critical Crossfire
Charging that the HBO film Phil Spector amounts to an insidious propaganda effort to rehabilitate the image of the onetime record genius who in 2009 was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of actress...
Veronica Mars To Debut In Theaters
Veronica Mars, the cult TV drama that aired on the now defunct UPN and on the CW for three seasons beginning in 2004, is about to become a movie -- thanks to the Kickstarter site....
Warner Bros. Confirms It Won't Delay Gatsby Premiere
Warner Bros. has confirmed that it will not alter its planned release of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, on May 10, in advance of its screening as the opening film at the...
Scam Movie Lands Producers In Jail
ringing to mind the plot of Mel Brooks's The Producers, about two men who aim to bilk investors in a Broadway play that the producers know will flop, a group of men have been convicted...
New Pope's First Appearance Lost In Translation By Bbc
The BBC, plagued in recent months by a sex scandal, charges of a cover-up, and complaints that it has been rewarding executives with outsized pay packages, is facing a new chorus of squawks after viewers...
U.k. Telephone Hacking Scandal Spreads
ritain's telephone hacking scandal, which previously had involved only employees of News International, News Corp's U.K. newspaper subsidiary, has now spread to the rival Mirror Group. Four current or former reporters for the London Sunday...
Netflix Hopes To Make A Killing With The Killing
Netflix has made another expensive acquisition -- buying the rights to offer the entire third season of AMC's serialized drama The Killing to its subscribers beginning three months after it airs in the U.S. The...
Dallas Ratings Climb For J.r.'S Funeral
Some 3.56 million people turned out for J.R. Ewing's funeral on TNT Monday night. The Dallas episode, which was devised following the death last November of Larry Hagman, who played the reprobate oilman, was up...
Viewers Join Exodus To Cable On Sunday
There's now an answer to the question, where did all the broadcast network viewers go Sunday night? They went to cable TV, that's where, Nielsen numbers would seem to indicated. The second week of History...
Kurtz Blasts News Media For "Greatest Failure In Modern Times"
Howard Kurtz, host of CNN's Reliable Sources, who spent 29 years at the Washington Post, 20 of them covering the media, has accused his former employer of failing to question the Bush administration's evidence or...
Vimeo To Allow Video Makers To Charge For Their Videos
If you think that people might pay to see your video, there's now a place where you can sell it -- and cut out the middleman (almost). At the SXSW conference in Austin, TX, the...
Cbs To Challenge Idol Finale With Bang Finale
Ordinarily rival TV networks give the season finale of Fox's American Idol a wide berth -- as wide a one as they give the Super Bowl or the Oscars. But this year, CBS will be...
Grauman's Chinese Theater To Become Tcl Chinese Theater
Hollywood's iconic Grauman's Chinese theater, the site of more movie premieres than any other theater in Hollywood, is not going to become Chinese but will be named after a Chinese company. TCL, a Shanghai-based TV...
Stringer To Leave Sony -- But Won't Retire
Sony Chairman Howard Stringer, who stepped down as CEO last year, said on Friday that he will leave the company in June. However, he indicated that he has no plans to ride off into the...
Oz Has Great And Powerful Opening
In advance of the weekend debut of Oz the Great and Powerful, starring James Franco in the title role, some box-office gurus had predicted disaster for it, while others forecast that it would earn $90-100...
Ratings: Sunday Cruddy Sunday
Sunday night, which used to vie with Thursday as the most popular night for TV viewing, is continuing to struggle, with blah ratings coming in week after week for shows that have been mainstays. CBS's...
Cards May Become A Loaded Deck For Netflix
Analysts who have argued that Netflix is spending more money than it can ever hope to recoup from subscription fees were given new ammunition by a report in Variety quoting a CAA literary agent as...
Movies To Be Distributed To Theaters Via Satellite
Time was when it cost $4,000 or more to process a film print and ship it to a theater. With the arrival of digital projectors showing digital prints, that cost has been whittled down to...
Analyst Warns Of Netflix Bubble
Even as many other analysts depict Netflix as a company riding the wave of the future, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter continues to warn advisers that the online video rental company is flirting with disaster....
Lucas Confirms Star Wars Stars To Return In "Episode Vii"
George Lucas has apparently jumped the gun and disclosed that the three original Star Wars stars, Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) and Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) will reprise their roles in Episode...
Movie Reviews: Oz The Great And Powerful
It's as if many critics want to be the first to pull the curtain hiding the wizard and reveal him as a fake. More than half the major reviewers are suggesting that Oz the Great...
Return To Oz
Will Oz the Great and Powerful pack enough wizardry to lift the box office as high as some analysts are forecasting? According to quite a few, the film is likely to become the first big...
Officials Plead Guilty To Accepting Bribes From Murdoch Journalists
Laying the potential foundation for a challenge to News Corp's broadcast licenses in the U.S., two former London police officers, an ex-prison official and another public official pleaded guilty today (Friday) to charges that they...
Close Ratings Races In Morning And Late Night
February sweeps ratings are in for the early-morning and late-night network TV shows, and each of the networks had something to boast about. ABC could trumpet the news that its Good Morning America won a...
China Lifts Ban On Internet Movie Database
Without explanation, China has reportedly lifted a three-year block of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the South China Morning Post reported today (Thursday). Although no official explanation was ever offered for blocking both the English-...
Will Time Warner Become Warner Bros. Again?
Acknowledging that its deal to sell its Time Inc. publishing division to Meredith Corp. had come undone, Time Warner said on Wednesday that it will spin off the struggling unit. In a statement, Time Warner...
Rupert Murdoch Is Not Roger Ailes's Bff
Despite his continued success at building the Fox News network into a cable-TV behemoth, Roger Ailes's relationship with his boss, Rupert Murdoch, remains rather distant, Ailes indicates in a new book, Roger Ailes: Off Camera....
Imax Alters One-film-in-all-theaters Policy In China
Following a public furor over the decision to screen The Life of Pi on IMAX screens in China for just one week, IMAX has decided to end its policy of screening only one film at...
James Franco Comes To Defense Of Gay-themed Movie
James Franco has taken to YouTube to post a video message decrying the recent decision by the Australian Classification Board to ban the screening of the gay-themed I Want Your Love at Australian film...
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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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