A Place Where Everybody Knows Your Superpower [No Heroics] (3)
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Here's the first trailer for No Heroics, the sitcom about superheroes hanging out in a bar that we mentioned the other day. It looks like a lovely mix of Mystery Men and The Specials, with genuinely funny, neurotic characters. I like the fact that the characters are funny for other reasons besides their superpowers, including their healthy supply of sexual neuroses. Let's hope No Heroics does for supers what The Office did for office-based comedies. ...
Good Ratings (1)
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Lots of people watched Barack Obama: Day four of the Democratic National Convention featured the acceptance speech by nominee Sen. Barack Obama. The convention was carried live during prime time on ten networks – ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo. Coverage varied by network, all ten aired live coverage from approximately 10-11PM (ET). The final night drew the largest audience so far for the Democrats (24.5% of ...
New DVD Offers History of Star Trek Comics (1)
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While fans wait for J.J. Abrams's Star Trek reload next spring, they can revert to childhood for as long as they choose with a collection of just about every Trek comic book ever printed. Star Trek: The Complete Collection includes 500 issues of comics with annuals, articles and advertisements from Western, Gold Label, Marvel, DC, Malibu and Wildstorm. The DVD-ROM runs on multiple platforms and allows readers to print their favorites. The volume is set ...
More TV Shows Online (1)
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Canwest has announced that they’re going to be streaming some big name shows online this fall including House, Heroes, The Office, Deal or No Deal, Weeds, Knight Rider (the new series, not the old) and 90210 (also the new one). In addition, they’re going publishing additional webisodes and behind-the-scenes footage not available on TV. Canwest already [...]
If Everyday Was Election Day (1)
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If you watched Hillary Clinton's speech last night, you joined millions of Americans who did the same thing. After several days of hype and "What if" questions, Senator Clinton finally took the podium and confirmed some of the rumors, while dispelling others. Still, her speech raised all sorts of questions: Was it enough to get her supporters to back Obama? Did she go after McCain hard enough? How come the only time CNN beats Fox ...
Our Moment of Zen (3)
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JJ Abrams Inspired by YouTube Video of "Crazy Pig with Monkey Face" [Jj Abrams] (1)
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If you've watched any of JJ Abrams' scifi-themed shows over the years like Alias and Lost — or if you're lucky enough to have seen the season premiere of his new show Fringe before it airs Sept. 9 — you know the guy is obsessed with science. Well, not science as the journal Science would define it, but instead what characters in his new series call "fringe science." Stuff like UFOs, mutations, hallucinations, ESP, and ...
Miss the first episode of The Cho Show? Watch it here! (1)
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We here at Feministing heart Margaret Cho, so we couldn't have been happier to find out she was getting her own show on VH1. If you missed the first episode, you can watch it right here! Rest of episode after the jump....
West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin to write Facebook movie (1)
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Apple iPhone TV ad banned in UK as ‘misleading’ (1)
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Apple iPhone TV ad banned in UK as ‘misleading’: The ad, which touts the iPhone’s ability to completely surf the Web, apparently didn’t take into account the problem the device had with surfing Web pages that use Flash and Java. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled that the ad cannot be rebroadcast in its current form.
Kal Penn, a familiar face in an unfamiliar place, working the DNC (1)
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DENVER -- Moments after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton rocked the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday by urging Sen. Barack Obama’s nomination by acclamation from the floor, a familiar-looking young man in an official green neon vest was on the floor, scurrying around the Virginia delegation, talking into a mouthpiece. He looked just like that stoner guy, Kumar, except sober. He also looked like Dr. Kuttner, the young physician from “House.” No wonder. It was Kal ...
Las grandes Alamedas de la era digital (1)
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Arturo Arriagada, de Antimedios, publicó en la última edición de la revista Capital esta columna, que habla sobre las reales posibilidades de la política 2.0 en nuestro país y los desafíos que ésta enfrenta. Reproducimos la columna a continuación: Las grandes Alamedas en la era digital Gracias a Obama, la fiebre digital está afectando el diseño de las campañas electorales. Si antes para los políticos el juguete de moda fue la televisión, ahora es la ...
Cyber-Jekyll the Pickup Artist Wows a Stripper with His Cape [Found Footage] (1)
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This extremely obscure straight-to-DVD flick called Jekyll has three things going for it: Jekyll is played by the Middleman (yay!); it shares the same name as a really awesome BBC miniseries called Jekyll; and it has an egregiously silly cyber-themed "transformation" scene when geeky Jekyll becomes a gothy, Abraham-Lincoln-style Hyde in a cape. With black fingernails. This scene, which is an abbreviated version of that transformation and its stripper-soaked aftermath, captures for you the exact ...
Hey Chicago -- Drink Some Blood Next Tuesday [True Blood] (2)
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The fine people at HBO, makers of the new scifi vampire show True Blood, are throwing a party in Chicago next week. And you're invited. There will be cocktails, hors d'oeuvres, and a special showing of the premiere of Alan "Six Feet Under" Ball's new series. Judging from what we've seen of True Blood, it's going to appeal to Buffy fiends and Forever Knighties alike. Plus, it'll pull in Desperate Housewives fans, just for good ...
Leak: First Look At Astro Boy's Home World (8)
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Some new Astro Boy concept art has leaked out. Looks like the monsters our tiny robot hero will have to face are freaktasticly big go-go rocket boots. The new pics also include the first look at Dr. Tenma (the scientist who creates Astro Boy), and a giant alien or robot playing in a flower field. These pictures look gorgeous. I love the flying transports in Metro City. I'm also really impressed with Dr. Tenma, he ...
In a polarized society, will moderate viewpoints die? (2)
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The term red states, blue states introduced America and the world to the notion of a polarized society, one that rallies around what makes us different over the common ground. Polarization in politics isn’t new, but today the middle ground appears weak, a notion of the greater good replaced by one of a blind ideological viewpoint of us and them. Sadly the new media and technology sector are moving in the same direction. Extremism on ...
Turn Your TV into a Start Page with YourScreen (13)
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YourScreen is a new service that is announcing its upcoming beta today, and it’s set out to enable you to turn a television into a start page of sorts. Designed for use within schools, companies, and at events, YourScreen is a custom option for displaying your content on televisions. So what type of content can you post on these televisions? Built on Adobe AIR, YourScreen comes with some ready-made content, like weather and a stock ...
Gossip Girl Season Two Promo: Now With More Boobs, and Jay McInerney! [Television] (1)
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The CW has released a video of the first few scenes of Gossip Girl's 2nd season premiere. The show, about bitchy, scheming Manhattan rich kids and three impoverished Brooklynites, returns next Monday (squee) and looks to begin with sex and making out and boobs! and more making out, and, heh heh, Jay McInerney. Yes the sadsack author makes a cameo as Dan Humphrey's (the chief Brooklyn poor) summertime mentor. He can be seen in this ...
