Category: media

“Two large television distributors, DirecTV and Time Warner Cable, reported second-quarter subscriber losses on Thursday while keeping overall revenues growing.”

“Once the TV is compromised, a hacker has full control and can spread its attack to the victim’s contacts, effectively becoming a full-fledged Smart TV virus.”

“It might be the cleanest Mexican soap opera around. The passionate love scenes that are a staple of the genre were reduced, bowing to conservative local sensibilities, to a few pecks on the cheek and hand-holding as innocent as junior high schoolers on a first date.”

The portrayals aren’t exactly flattering, though; Nollywood’s a long way from its own Brokeback Mountain.

“Aamir Liaquat Hussain, a bespectacled 41-year-old with a neatly trimmed beard, gave away two abandoned infant girls to childless families last month and plans to give away a baby boy this week. ‘If we didn’t find this baby, a cat or a dog would have eaten it,’ Hussain proclaimed during one broadcast.”

Alex Kaufman bravely clicks on them so we don’t have to.

DogTV’s “stated goal is to provide your four-legged friends with relaxation and stimulation – just like human TV! – for that portion of the day when owners aren’t around to take their dogs on car rides or bat-watching. … There’s only one problem: It won’t work.”

“There’s no shortage of talented actress to go round, but women screenwriters and directors are relatively thin on the ground. And that’s the real root of the problem.”

“Film studios have figured out that, all else being equal, it’s better for a movie to appear toward the top of the A-to-Z listings where people increasingly pick what they’re going to watch next.”