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Violence against women has increased on TV programs, according to a new study by the Parents Television Council. “Women in Peril: A Look at TV’s Disturbing New Storyline Trend” found that incidents of violence against women and teenage girls increased 120 percent on television in the in the past five years, while overall violence on primetime broadcast entertainment programs increased only 2 percent in the same time period. Violent incidents against teen girls on television programs increased 400 percent since 2004. Television programs depicted violence or the “graphic consequences of violence” toward women 92 percent of the time, compared to...

For a myriad of reasons, I have spent the last few months watching a movie most every weeknight. I have finally gotten my money’s worth from my Netflix account. But, lately I have had trouble finding movies I think I will like. I scour Netflix and am having a hard time finding movies that interest me, though I know they are out there. My interest runs from war movies to action flicks to quirky indy films to foreign art things. Some of my favorite movies I have seen the past few months are Defiance, all of the Sean Connery Bond...

Is it a coincidence that TNT has been playing the movie, John Q, often this month? John Q was the Denzel Washington movie that was socialist propaganda for healthcare back in 2002. They played the move on October 8, 9, and 10 in their 8 pm time slot. Tonight the movie wasn't listed in the TV Guide, but there it was while I was flipping channels. Do they give the American public any credit for intelligence at all?

THE JAPANESE ARE KILLING DOLPHINS AND WHALES IN AN ALL NEW "SOUTH PARK" PREMIERING ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 AT 10:00 P.M. ON COMEDY CENTRAL NEW YORK, October 26, 2009 – The Japanese are on a mad-hunt to kill all the world’s dolphins and whales in an all-new "South Park" titled, "Whale Whores," premiering on Wednesday, October 28 at 10:00 p.m. on COMEDY CENTRAL. Stan and his family are spending his birthday at the Denver Aquarium where they will get to swim with the dolphins. Things turn bloody when the Japanese attack, kill all the dolphins and ruin Stan’s big day....

Nine Months After Appearing On Glenn Beck Show, Actress Claims to "Hate" him by Edna Mode In January, 24's Mary Lynn Rajskub appeared on Glenn Beck's show and talked about her second career as a painter. Interested in her work, Beck asked the actress to send pictures and Beck put Rajskub's artwork on his website for all to see. Nine months later, the actress repaid the favor by claiming to "hate" him. The remark came in this twitter exchange with Hollywood screenwriter/activist Jhoni Marchinko: Marchinko: @rajskub: that's a good start. maybe next you'll support my despisal for teabaggers and glenn...

Six weeks after Jay Leno moved to primetime, NBC's wait-and-see approach to his sinking ratings is testing the patience of affiliate stations across the country. The Peacock network maintains that putting Leno on five nights a week will pay off when fresh episodes of his show go up against reruns on other networks, but so far Leno has been a disappointing lead-in for the late newscasts that follow him. After a strong start, his program at 10 p.m. is down sharply from its premiere week and is drawing one-quarter fewer viewers than its scripted predecessors a year ago. This is...

Can anyone at ESPN keep a job? The network suspended Bob Griese today for a racist remark he made about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya. While he was calling Saturday's Minnesota-Ohio State game, Griese made a crack about Montoya saying he was "out having a taco." Montoya is Colombian. ESPN is yanking Griese off the air for one week, and a rep for the network says Griese "understands the comment was inappropriate." Yesterday ESPN fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips after news broke of his sex scandal with a production assistant.

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ABC has posted the first eight and a half minutes of its upcoming reboot of V, the alien-invasion series that kicks off on Nov. 3. Not much we haven't seen in promos before, but the clip introduces the main characters briefly before getting right into it: The arrival of 29 ginormous alien spacecraft over the major cities of the world, including New York.

This is a fake documentary that was made a few years ago. It runs about 90 minutes. It's on YouTube in nine parts. When you finish with one part, click on the next part in the right panel under Related Videos: The Confederate States of America: Part 1 of 9 WikipediaIMDb Allmovie Official site

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (10/25/09) Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Thurs: 8/7 -- Flashforward -- ABC 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Dollhouse -- Fox 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

Here is a short horror comedy film by Richard Gale. Saw it at the Nevermore Film Festival earlier in the year. I know many a FReeper will find this as funny and enjoyable as I did. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon

Sitting here this morning waiting for the football games to start (God Bless my Falcons), and thought I'd put this up for discussion in the meantime.. So which is it, NCIS or NCIS:Los Angeles?

Lou Jacobi, the mustachioed, scene-stealing Canadian-born actor and comedian who made a film and stage career playing comic ethnic characters but was lauded for serious dramatic roles as well, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 95. The death was confirmed by Leonie Nowitz, a social worker who had been overseeing his care for several years. Mr. Jacobi made his Broadway debut in 1955 in “The Diary of Anne Frank,” playing a less-than-noble occupant of the Amsterdam attic where the Franks were hiding, and reprised the role in the 1959 film version. When Bosley Crowther, reviewing the...

Melbourne (ANI): Australian actor Sam Worthington has been tipped to play the lead role in the latest movie of the Mad Max franchise. The Terminator Salvation star will reportedly share the screen with Charlize Theron in the Mad Max 4: Fury Road. Buzz up! According to The Daily Telegraph, the project, to be shot in Sydney and Outback New South Wales (NSW), would see tens of millions of dollars pumped into the economy, creating more than 500 jobs, reports News.com.au

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Yesterday, a snippet of info from James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, made its way online about the upcoming sequel to Quantum of Solace, referred to as simply Bond 23 for the time being. A Bond fansite called Commanderbond.net picked up on the info which came from when Craig was signing autographs after a performance of his stage play, A Steady Rain, with Hugh Jackman.

Some things in life are badThey can really make you madOther things just make you swear and curse.When you're chewing on life's gristleDon't grumble, give a whistleAnd this'll help things turn out for the best... And...always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of life... If life seems jolly rottenThere's something you've forgottenAnd that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.When you're feeling in the dumpsDon't be silly chumpsJust purse your lips and whistle - that's the thing. And...always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of...

Glenn Beck TV show for Friday, 10-23-09 is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbxeaHt5TZE&feature=channel The YouTube channel is called BuckFarack, and it has the show in five segments with good quality audio and video.

LOS ANGELES — “Law & Order,” the long-running NBC series about crime and punishment, rarely shies away from inflammatory topics, and Friday night it takes on one of the most contentious — abortion — for just the third time in the program’s 20 seasons. In the show’s customary ripped-from-the-headlines style, the new episode focuses on the murder, in a church, of a doctor who performs late-term abortions. Though the episode, which will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time, begins with the disclaimer that the story “is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event,” its...

The stage and screen star was cast as the sinister title character in 1962's 'Dr. No'. Joseph Wiseman, a stage and screen actor who played the sinister title character in "Dr. No," the 1962 film that introduced Sean Connery as James Bond, has died. He was 91. Wiseman, who had been in declining health in the last few years, died Monday at his home in Manhattan, said his daughter, Martha Graham Wiseman. The Canadian-born Wiseman already had appeared on Broadway numerous times and in films such as "Detective Story" and "Viva Zapata!" when he was cast as the mysterious villain...

Soupy Sales died at age 83 yesterday. He hosted an afternoon kiddie show that reached its height of popularity in the mid-1960s. He was totally unlike other kids-show hosts of that, or any other, era. He wasn’t soft-spoken, like Mr. Rogers; he wasn’t grandfatherly, like Captain Kangaroo; he didn’t want to teach you anything, like Mr. Wizard. What Soupy was was a unique combination of silly and hip. He mixed slapstick with self-conscious irony. He was forever getting a pie thrown in his face. He talked to puppets, especially two — White Fang and Black Tooth — that were really...

HIGHLANDS, N.C. – Actress Collin Wilcox-Paxton, who portrayed the false accuser in the movie classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," died of brain cancer just months after the diagnosis. She was 74. Her husband, Scott Paxton, confirmed Thursday that she died Oct. 14 in Highlands in the southwest part of the state. No funeral was held. Instead, the family held a service before her death. "It's pretty special being at your own memorial," said her husband of more than 30 years. She was diagnosed Aug. 11 with three brain tumors, he said.

George Lopez, the first Latino to lead a television series successfully, isn't laughing. "TV just became really, really white again," he said.

Things are so brutal out there for The Jay Leno Show that even the First Lady for it[sic] may not be able to work a miracle — and they just got a little worse. While Leno is routinely beaten in the ratings by 10pm shows on the other big networks, it fell behind another scripted drama on Tuesday, and this one was on cable. In the all-important 18-49 demographic, Leno was crushed by FX’s Sons of Anarchy, which drew 3.7 million viewers and a 2.05 rating to Leno’s 1.8. Somewhere, the cast and crew of the potentially cable-bound Southland are...

TALK-SHOW host David Letterman has been recorded on tape having sex with a female staff member - and he is worried that the footage will eventually be leaked, it's reported today. Letterman, 62, recently admitted to having a series of sexual relationships with some of the women that work for him. The chat show host and a much-younger female co-worker have apparently been captured on a studio surveillance tape in a compromising position. “If the tape makes its way into the criminal case, it’ll explode his marriage to smithereens,” a source told the National Enquirer magazine.

A petulant Chris Matthews wouldn’t talk about MSNBC’s recent ratings dip during an interview flogging his fawning essay on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy that’s in the November issue of Boston magazine. “Let’s just drop all the conversation about my network,” the “Hardball” host huffed the other day. “I’m not a media critic.” It could be that Matthews got a little hot under the collar because his left-leaning network has been losing viewers. During the recent third-quarter ratings period, Fox News averaged about 2.26 million total viewers in prime time and was up 2 percent from the same time last...

A resident will take his first step into the ethical morass of war tonight...with a cinematic debut that explores “what you have to do to come home alive.” In April 2006, amid heavy fighting, seven Marines and one Navy corpsman were given orders to capture a known insurgent in the Iraqi village of Hamdania, located west of Baghdad. The group kidnapped and killed the insurgent’s cousin, Hashim Ibrahim Awad, instead. The eight involved in the incident — the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment Kilo Company — became known as the Pendleton 8 and were held at Camp Pendleton before charges...

I just noticed on the 'Recently Added' list on Hulu, that they have added the first season of Magnum P.I. to their content. I hope they keep adding seasons ala SG-1.

MSNBC daytime anchor Contessa Brewer was betrayed (or so she says) by her prompter into welcoming Reverend Al Sharpton onto her show, when really the person in the studio was Reverend Jesse Jackson. Jackson, as you can imagine, was not pleased. But as Gawker's John Cook pointed out, "If Fox News did this, there would be sit-ins."

Jillette: "I sat on TV, while my hero Tommy Smothers yelled in my face how pissed off he was at me for appearing on Glenn Beck. It broke my heart."

Big Brother (or in this case little brother, since TiVo only makes up about 10% of the DVRs) is watching. Several data tables below, and I scrolled right down to them. On a glace it seems that TNT’s The Closer could be the best way to unify a partisan nation. TIVO EXAMINES TV VIEWERSHIP BEHAVIOR BASED ON POLITICAL PARTY AFFILIATION USING ITS POWER||WATCH™ RATINGS SERVICE IN JULY Highlights how True Targets data affords advertisers a better understanding of television behavioral segments and can help significantly improve consumer targeting and ROI No Republicans watched a second of Olbermann, No potential alternative...

Rosamund Pike thinks people became scared of her after 'Die Another Day'. The British actress - who played villainess Miranda Frost in the 2002 James Bond film - believes people are frightened of her since she played the confident and sexy MI6 double agent in the spy film franchise.

"...and there goes the tennis racket ... I didn't have it on there all the way."

THE BOYS GO TO THE WWE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AN ALL NEW “SOUTH PARK” PREMIERING ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 AT 10:00 P.M. ON COMEDY CENTRAL NEW YORK, October 19, 2009 – After attending a WWE MATCH, the boys ALL WANT TO BE PROFESSIONAL WRESTLERS in an all-new “South Park” titled, “W.T.F.,” premiering on Wednesday, October 21 at 10:00 p.m. on COMEDY CENTRAL. The boys have found their new calling in life and they hurry to sign up for the wrestling club. They soon find out THE KIND OF WRESTLING THEY TEACH AT SCHOOL IS not the same thing...

Are you interested in watching Oprah Winfrey's interview of Sarah Palin? Yes No AND Of the two women, which one do you have a more favorable opinion?

Joseph Wiseman might have preferred that he be indentified with the Jewish roles he took in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, The Night They Raided Minskys, Bye Bye Braverman or his most recent stage appearance, in Judgment at Nuremberg.

As fans of the Yankees have had much to enjoy this October -- from the Alex Rodriguez resurgence to the first classic games at the new Yankee Stadium -- it has been a difficult month for fans of the Mets. Sure, the break from seeing one Met after another fall to the ground in pain has been welcome. But what pleasure can a National League New York fan get watching the Mets' primary in-division rival head inexorably toward a battle with the team's primary in-city rival? The answer is a simple one: the broadcasting of Dodgers announcer Vin Scully. With...

Thursday night the five living members of Monty Python -- John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Michael Palin -- reunited at the Ziegfeld Theatre in Manhattan for a screening of the theatrical cut of IFC's six-part documentary 'Monty Python: Almost The Truth (The Lawyer's Cut),' after which the quintet, along with a cardboard cutout of the late Graham Chapman, answered audience questions in their classically flippant, self-mocking manner. They also allowed a ten year-old girl to present her portrayal of the famous "Spanish Inquisition" sketch. It's funny to think that when the British troupe began their subversive...

Wish I could say that this is nothing in the grand scheme of things...but these t-shirts have become quite the hot item as of the last 3 weeks with them being sold all over the net and e-bay. I had no idea why a few local kids were wearing such trash the other day when my family was shopping at Wal-Mart so sure enough I looked more into the fashion trend. It is none other than Obama supporter and rap star Lil' Wayne with Jay Sean who is wearing it in the #1 video in the country on BET, VH1,...

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THE ACTOR who played the DC Comics character Swamp Thing in two films and a television series has died at the age of 72. Dick Durock, a 6ft 5ins former Marine, passed away at his home in Oak Park, California, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, according to his official website. Durock wore a latex bodysuit and make-up to play the monster in 1982's Swamp Thing directed by Wes Craven; its 1989 sequel The Return of Swamp Thing; and a subsequent Swamp Thing series that ran for 71 episodes from 1990 to 1993. The actor appeared in dozens of...

Even though Robi Boscarino lives a world away, the 17-year-old Australian still manages to tune into CBS' "NCIS" seven nights a week. Earlier this month, the Perth resident visited the hit crime procedural's sound stages in Valencia and caught his favorite character, DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly), in action. "Back home, everybody likes him," said Boscarino, who has Hodgkin's lymphoma and whose big dream to visit the set was made possible by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. "He's one of the most popular TV actors, for sure. This is more than I expected, to be honest. I didn't expect him to be like he...

LOS ANGELES – The songwriter who wrote the catchy theme songs to "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres" television shows has died. Vic Mizzy was 93. .......................................... Mizzy has said that he didn't mind if people only remember him for the finger snaps at the start of the "The Addams Family" theme song. After all, he said "two snaps got me a mansion in Bel Air."

The road to a comeback isn't without its challenges, as Whitney Houston learned first-hand on Saturday (October 17) during a performance on English television show "X-Factor" (an "American Idol"-esque show produced by Simon Cowell). Houston, who recently hit Oprah's couch and took over the "Good Morning America" stage in order to promote her new comeback album I Look to You, experienced a wardrobe malfunction during an energetic performance of the Swizz Beatz-produced "Million Dollar Bill." The legendary singer appeared in front of a cheering crowd Friday, wearing a sparking silver dress with straps in the back. Halfway through the song,...

“You’re like Tom Cruise saying I don’t believe in therapy.”

Was watching Imus this morning and they did a business news break, and one of the items was, that as of today FBN was putting up their live broadcast on the internet? My, my, and this, days after their lawyers did the whole cease and desist bit with online sites hosting their programming! >B-) Anyone know if FNC is, hopefully, doing the same?

Weekly Sci-Fi Thread (10/18/09) Mon: 8/7 -- Heroes -- NBC Thurs: 9/8 -- Fringe -- Fox Fri: 9/8 -- Dollhouse -- Fox 9/8 -- Stargate Universe -- SyFy 10/9 -- Sanctuary -- SyFy Also there are variety of scifi shows on www.fancast.com

TV has at least three levels and one more. High-Intellect: Brett Baier, Krauthammer & Co., Chris Wallace, WSJ Report, Cavuto Middle-Intellect: Sean Hannity; Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck; Greta Sustersen Low-Intellect: Huckabee Carnival Barker: Geraldo

Why is WYSP morning man Danny Bonaduce drinking again? Not a reaction to his recent ratings, which were up. (September was his best month among men 18-49.) As a panelist on Joy Behar's show on HLN (formerly Headline News), Bonaduce blamed remarks by syndicated talker Glenn Beck's on the Fox News vs. White House feud for making him fall off the wagon.