01/09/2009
TCA '09: Kattan’s ‘Hero’ Takes on Mumbai (MultiChannel News)
Los Angeles—It's hard to say what's more challenging about IFC's upcoming original mini-series: trying to generate interest in a Bollywood-themed story starring Saturday Night Live alum Chris Kattan as a leading man, or the fact the production will be shot in Mumbai, the site of deadly terrorist attacks in November.
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01/07/2009
Television - Entertainment (Scoop.co.nz)
Based on the BBC mini-series of the same title, a team of investigative reporters work alongside a police detective to try to solve the murder of a congressman's mistress.
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01/07/2009
AMC Website Goes Retro for The Prisoner Remake (The New York Observer)
With a third season of Mad Men still up in the air for 2009--hey Lionsgate, take your time in cutting a deal with Matthew Weiner--it is nice to see that AMC has planned ahead to fill the gaps in their programming slate. The network has recently wrapped shooting on its six-hour mini-series remake of the famed BBC show The Prisoner with the expectation that it will air sometime in 2009 ...
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01/06/2009
Discovering UMB's Cultural Diversity Mini-Series: Against All Odds: Despite life full of adversity, UMB student an ... (The Mass Media)
For 23-year-old University of Massachusetts Boston junior Viriato Monteiro, moving to Massachusetts from his native Cape Verde in September 2001 was simultaneously the hardest and best decision of his life. Monteiro, who moved to Brockton from his African island-nation two weeks after 9/11, said he and his family traveled across the Atlantic in search of the American dream-despite its ...
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01/09/2009
Neil Patrick Harris Says His Golden Globe Chances Are 'Nil' (Vh1)
Neil Patrick Harris talked to us about his upcoming stint as "Saturday Night Live" host and his Golden Globe nomination. "I don't think I have a good shot," the actor said of his nod.
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01/08/2009
Pop Will Cycle Itself: The Repeating Nature of Entertainment (Newsarama.com via Yahoo! News)
Call it the "20 Year Pop Cycle". For years, journalists, educators, critics and authors have pontificated on the tendency for pop culture to enter into a period of nostalgia or revivification roughly every twenty years. In his 1981 non-fiction work, Danse Macabre, Stephen King noted how this related in particular to the punk explosion, equating acts like The Ramones to the "dirty white boys" of ...
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01/09/2009
Golden evening: Let’s preview Sunday’s award show (New Haven Register)
What’s not to love about the Golden Globes? Unlike most other awards shows, attendees eat an elaborate dinner and consume plenty of alcohol before the telecast begins. That makes for some fine speeches and plenty of unintentional comedy. Plenty.
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01/09/2009
From the archives: Keepin' the FUNK alive! (Detroit News)
LIVONIA -- In the pine-paneled rumpus room of a nondescript brick house in a sleepy suburb, the world's greatest basement band is kicking some serious butt. You know these musicians, even if you never knew their names: the Funk Brothers, as they called themselves, were the uncredited studio band that laid down the intricate, funky grooves for Diana, Smokey, Marvin, Tammi, Martha and the rest of ...
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01/09/2009
Art Directors Guild Announces Nominations for 2008 Film, TV and Commercial/Music Video Awards; Ceremony to Take Place ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
The Art Directors Guild today announced nominations in eight categories of Production Design for motion pictures, television and commercials competing in ADG's 13th Annual Excellence in Production Design Awards for 2008.
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01/09/2009
Dancers bring 'the real Mexico' to Belcher Center (The Longview News-Journal)
Immigrants to Mexico's various regions created distinct cultures that are mirrored in the dances of a troupe bringing a matinee show to Longview next weekend.
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