Ok, so this has been floating around the series of connected tubes known as the interwebs for a while now but it took the elitist New York Times to draw my snooty nose around in it’s direction. This trifecta of head-slapping moments is a perfectly stormy tipping point that includes Are You Smarter Than a [...]
George Carlin must have been perking up his ears this morning when former Ted Turner workout machine Jane Fonda and Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler tore down our last barrier of decency on the airwaves at NBC’s Today. Poor Meredith Viera, no doubt she wrangled mightily to insert the word “vagina” into our usually prim, [...]
Starting today I will be posting the day’s best screen grab of sensationalist/dumb/exploitative/wtf? headlines from CNN.Com . The idea for this originated with Gawker, via Slate. Here’s Gawker’s hilarious rundown of endless bad CNN.Com headers. Their inspiration was a piece on Slate.com by Jack Shafer. The point is that CNN.Com is so tabloidy it makes [...]
Arnett responds to the loss of the prized role of KITT… In a conundrum worthy of his previous TV show Arrested Development, Will Arnett has had to drop the role of the voice of the talking car KITT on the new version of NBC’s 80s cheesefest Knight Rider. The role will now be taken by [...]
Throwing cold water on showrunning scabs Shield-style Attuned as we at POSAS are to all things Shield related I was especially interested in this post from Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily blog. In it The Shield creator/producer/ writer Shawn Ryan explains why his fellow showrunners (those writer/producers who oversee quality delivery of each episode of [...]
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