Bill Burr’s excellent live show “Why Do I Do This?” makes it’s TV debut on August 31st, Comedy Central at 11:00pm. Burr, born in Canton, MA, got his start in Boston by stepping onstage during a contest for “Funniest College Student” and hasn’t looked back. You’ve had many opportunities to get familiar with Burr over [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Supposedly NBC is beating the ratings battle with this week’s broadcast of the DNCC in Denver. We’ve listed PBS below because when you’ve got a commercial-free option, go for it. True we’re not listing C-SPAN, but even we have standards.
Despite posting a second quarter of profitability, Tivo’s stock got pummeled yesterday because their profit did [...]
You just can’t keep an undead cable network down: TechCrunch has reported that The WB has been resurrected as TheWB.com, which launched today. The site will act as a source for all the TV shows that originated on The WB and has a number of interesting features. While one might argue with TechCrunch’s assertion that [...]
It was great to get some late night TV back yesterday, one wonders when the networks will run out of Olympians to showcase - Conan was particularly biting regarding the parade of Olympians and the relative importance they are playing on TV as of late.
Tonight marks the debut of another show on BBC America, “Gavin [...]
What will get us out of our perchlorate-laced Olympics hangover? I don’t think the season opener of “Deal or No Deal” is going to do it.
NBC is getting some criticism for how poorly it monetized nbcolympics.com - essentially making only $0.004 per page served (of at least 1.2 billion pages), raking in a pissant $5.75 [...]