TV and Movie News (page 1475)
After years on the air, "American Idol" has finally hit a long-awaited milestone - offering the option of online voting to fans watching at home. The show's producers have stated that they were waiting until they had a secure way to offer online voting, and Facebook apparently has the right solution for them.
Unfortunately, Facebook's solution is perhaps a little too secure.
If video killed the radio star, what happens when videos cause risks to your health?
That’s a question that was asked while Kanye West’s song “All of the Lights” was temporarily taken down from YouTube, after the British group Epilepsy Action complained the video’s strobing lights and visual effects had caused seizures. The video has since been given an advisory notice.
Just last week, we learned that "Friday Night Lights" star Adrianne Palicki will be playing Wonder Woman in the upcoming NBC pilot. Well, the star-spangled heroine now has a villainess: Elizabeth Hurley.
Earlier today, Hurley (who is known to most as the leading lady in the first "Austin Powers" movie or as the devil in the Brendan Fraser comedy "Bedazzled") tweeted that she is "Thrilled to be doing the NBC pilot Wonder Woman.
Potato Chips. Ice Cream.
The two, standing alone, can make a perfect snack for television watching.
But together? Well, that’s just crazy – enough to be awesome, and right up Jimmy Fallon’s alley.
In honor of the second anniversary of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Ben and Jerry have developed a new ice cream flavor that combines potato chip clusters (covered in fudge) and fair trade vanilla bean ice cream with a salty caramel swirl.
This is the closest you'll get to a major figure admitting failure - a sort of "eh, what'll you do?"
In a story in The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Sherak, President of the Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, admitted that the reach for younger viewers didn't work, that the hosts' chemistry wasn't what it could be, that they never should have been hired, and that come on, we're trying the best we can! We still got 38 million viewers!
The viewership was actually down from last year's ceremonies, which garnered nearly 42 million viewers
If this was 1994 and you saw that headline your head just might explode.
FIrst, that angry guy from Nine Inch Nails is doing movie scores now? Just how awesome have movies gotten anyway? And he's going to PLAY a vampire? And, wait, at some point he won an Academy Award? I thought they only gave that to Disney movies and John Williams? And why in holy hell is Abraham Lincoln hunting vampires?
Welcome to 2011.
Ashton Kutcher’s famous Twitter account was “punk’d” by hackers Wednesday while Kutcher attended TED 2011, ‘The Rediscovery of Wonder’ conference in Long Beach.
The incident gave Kutcher and his nearly 6.4 million followers even more reason to ponder one specific topic: online security.
The first tweet, taunted, “Dude, where’s my SSL?” and the second proclaimed the act was an homage to young protesters throughout the world whose social media accounts had been hacked by governments.
"Glee" has covered Michael Jackson before: the show featured "Thriller" and "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" in the past couple of months. But that isn't enough for Amber Riley, who plays young diva Mercedes in the hit FOX show.
"We did a mini tribute to Michael Jackson, but we really want to do a full tribute to Michael Jackson because his music is so timeless," said Riley.
Lady Gaga proved she was born for the runway in Paris Wednesday while debuting a new song during Theirry Mugler’s women’s fall 2011 fashion show.
Lady Gaga slithered across Mugler’s runway. As her new song played, she smoked a cigarette while wearing a sheer black top and pencil skirt with massively thick blond pig tales on her head.
The models strutted to her new track, “Government Hooker.
Bravo’s “Top Chef: Masters” knows the secret ingredient that keeps foodies coming back for more.
One heaping dose of fresh surprise.
The show returns on Wednesday, April 6 for season 3 with a new format and 12 new master chefs “hungry to compete.” Just like the restaurants that mix-it-up per season with new menus and specials, TCM is making a game change.
