HARTFORD, Conn. — Hubert “Hub” Schlafly, a key member of the team that invented the teleprompter and rescued decades’ worth of soap opera actors, newscasters and politicians from the embarrassment of stumbling over their words on live telev…
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NEW YORK — With snow falling along the Eastern seaboard again Wednesday, kids aren’t the only ones cheering. So are television executives.TV viewership increases when families are cooped up in their homes during storms, and nowhere was…
On her first show without him as a lead-in, Rachel Maddow thanked Keith Olbermann for bringing her to MSNBC and for being “freaking successful” in getting liberal voices on television.Speaking on Monday night, Maddow credited Olbermann with …
This year’s nominee pool for best actress in a musical or comedy is comprised of mostly returning faces from last year. Laura Linney, nominated for her work in The Big C, is the only newcomer here. Showtime is showing up big, with three show…
On television, Dexter’s wife was killed, and in real life, his marriage isn’t ending so well, either: according to Entertainment Weekly, the show’s stars, Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter, have filed for divorce.The on-screen siblings …
So I was sitting on the couch, watching television one night while I was seven months pregnant and my legs started feeling weird and jerky. It was a strange and uncomfortable feeling. When I asked my midwife about it she said that it sounded like res…
NEW YORK — The late-night television landscape used to be fairly easy to describe: There was Jay Leno, David Letterman and everybody else.Now, it just seems, there’s everybody else.Read More…
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With more money than ever being poured into political advertisements, the New York Times decided to look at which television shows each party is placing the most ads onto.The Times’ study found that, far and away, Republicans like placing th…
WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama says adults can address the problem of bullying if they lead by example.”Kids will follow our lead. They will follow our example, but we’ve got to set it,” she said in a television interview broadcast Thursd…
The PBS ombud and representatives of the public television programs studied in FAIR’s new report, “Taking the Public Out of Public TV,” have responded to the research that shows an elite, inside-the-Beltway slant to the programs’ guestlists….
