Category: media

In case you did miss it, here’s the story of the origins of the “Ching Chong Ding Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever.” (includes video)

“The #CancelColbert push didn’t pick up steam until last Thursday, after Stephen Colbert had taped his final show of the week. That means we had to wait for what seemed like forever for the comedian to respond. It was, of course, worth the wait.” (includes video)

In the 1990s, as studios stockpiled scripts “they were buying so much material that they didn’t make that they began to think, why are we doing this?” By the mid-2000s, the spec market was in decline — with studios rolling the dice less often on screenplay purchases, relying instead on relatively safer projects.

This is not an April Fools’ joke. It is another of Norway’s experiments with “slow TV” – starring “a short tempered nuthatch, a blue tit with the memory of a gold fish, a happy-go-lucky great tit, and a depressed bullfinch.” The title: Piip-Show.

“The BBC has axed long-running culture programme The Review Show, in the week director general Tony Hall promised the corporation’s ‘strongest commitment to the arts in a generation’.”

“Most foreign films and shows are dubbed on Spanish television, and the strike by 250 actors” – now in its third week – “has delayed the broadcast of new episodes, leaving major networks showing reruns.”

“More than 60 per cent of 18-to-30-year-olds now prefer watching television or DVDs to reading, according to a survey for the charity Booktrust. A similar proportion of young people think the internet and computers will replace books in the next 20 years.”

“Some say Kaling is being unfairly singled out and held to a higher standard because of her ethnic background. Shows with predominantly white casts, such as CBS’ ‘The Big Bang Theory’ or HBO’s ‘Veep,’ are rarely asked about including multi-ethnic characters.”

“After World War I, many of the film companies in Europe had taken a big hit, and the U.S. government supported the film industry by helping to send over films overseas.”

The city’s only a hundred years old – and the land it’s on was a ranch where coyote and bobcats used to roam. But everything changed when two investors decided to look for oil.