Yes a federal indictment will just about make any network cringe when their programming and advertising content is full of what led to that action by the government.
ESPN, the so named “Worldwide Leader in Sports,” has made significant programming changes to their late night, overnight and weekend programming by shedding its schedule of any poker related content. This comes after action from the federal government virtually shutting down several sites that sponsored such content on the sports network.
The U.S. government seized the domains of five poker related web-sites after the indictment was announced, taking assets and freezing bank accounts connected to those entities charged. PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, Ultimate Bet and UB were all shut down according to the indictment.
After the move ESPN said “for the immediate future we are making efforts to remove related advertising and programming” in response to the indictments.
That makes total sense from a business standpoint as the ABC owned network needs nothing more than a few federal attorneys sitting in their corporate offices. In addition if bank accounts are frozen, who will pay for the advertising? Let’s hope for ESPN’s sake these poker related advertisers were cash in advance.
With the bank accounts now frozen, users of the online gaming sites are not feeling good today since they have no access to any funds they placed on hold with any of these sites.
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Yeah we change the actual title, at least in the lead of this story, really because we do have a lot of mothers that read this blog. But guess what? Mothers should read this and tell their daughters to watch this show? Even their sons!
So Who the Bleep Did I Marry gets to go to season two beginning in July on Investigation Discovery. And it’s all about what the title says, about cheating spouses, bigamists, you name it this show will give you viewers the full story on some real true dirty doggin’, scandalous mess.
Now the new season starts on Wednesday July 13th. But with the impending nuptials of Prince William and Kate Middleton, a marathon of sorts for So Who the Bleep Did I Marry will air on Investigation Discovery starting Saturday April 30th at 5PM.
So those stories you hear all the time from all of your friends, well grab the popcorn and tissues once again cause this marathon will be a true tear jerker.
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Now this show could have had some standing because the concept is pretty cool. Especially for the summer where a short lived project could get a nice test. But David Hasselhoff? See this is why some reality shows are challenged when they focus on so called celebrities.
CBS will present SAME NAME, a reality show that will take a celebrity, find a regular person that holds the same name as that celebrity, and send him or her to where the normal person lives and have that celebrity do their job, live their life.
That sounds pretty cool. Now even more cool?
David Hasselhoff
That regular person gets to be that celebrity, live his or her life, spend a week with the celeb’s friends and family.
Problem is…David Hasselhoff. But if you think about this in depth, Brad Pitt or Denzel Washington certainly aren’t going to volunteer for a show like this so why not David Hasselhoff.
SAME NAME gets actor/reality star David Hasselhoff to travel to Lake Jackson, Texas to trade lives with David Hasselhoff, high voltage power technician and landscaper.
OK this really is pretty cool when you think about it.
No date selected for the first episode of SAME NAME on CBS.
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Will she be a judge? Apparently not. What role will she have on the show has yet to be determined by the big boss, Simon Cowell who will present X Factor on FOX this fall. So far the only confirmed judge is music mogul L.A. Reid who we wrote about joining over a month ago. But all has been quiet from Simon since.
Now the Mariah thing and this is big.
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon
Still walking around (or more like sitting around) waiting to drop Nick Cannon’s twins after currently being 8 months pregnant, Mariah has been posing nude for some magazines that think that’s attractive, but her plans after giving birth are unconfirmed.
Time to head to nanny.com because Mariah will either be the judge of all of the judges “She’ll be involved in some form. I think she will have a role in the TV live shows,” said Simon Cowell during a radio interview with Jackie Brown.
How does he feel personally about Mariah? “I literally adore her…I love her to bits,” said Simon. Read more on this story from the Huffington Post.
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Well this series is in development over at SyFy but this one peaked our interest. If you’re an old school TV junkie you remember The Six Million Dollar Man (video below) which ran on ABC back in the 70′s. Lee Majors played the role of a pilot who was involved in a serious accident and was outfitted with enough equipment that made him run faster, jump higher and do other things that a normal man could not do.
'Me and Lee's Lee Majors and wife Faith
Well now there’s a new series in the making with a similar theme. This time Lee Majors isn’t going to be The Six Million Dollar Man with Bionic capabilities but will have a part in the project. Me and Lee will feature Lee Majors and a yet to be unnamed lead. The series follows the exploits of a 20 something guy who has back surgery and something during the procedure goes wrong.
In comes Lee Majors as the man with the master plan who offers to make him the next Bionic Man. No time yet announced to air on SyFy.
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If the Wall Street Journal can do a story about Playboy TV‘s marketing campaign called TV for 2, certainly RealTVCritics.com can force their senior writer to check out a taping of the network’s comedy show The Stash.
Oh yeah, like I was really forced to spend a Saturday afternoon watching porn clips. Honey, you take the kids to see Hop, I have to attend a taping for Playboy TV.
That’s not going to go over well. But there I was, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh…
TV for 2? Well Playboy TV wants more than the single guy, sitting on the couch at 1:30AM, less any female companionship, just watching porn, surfing PlentyofFish.com or Match.com, in search of the one, the only one woman, crying “send me down and angel” in the words of the Ohio Players with a cheap bottle of scotch…
…OK maybe I shared a bit too much. And Google the Ohio Players.
Rachel Perry, Host of 'The Stash' on Playboy TV'
Anyway Playboy TV wants women. Yes more women as users of the network, but watching it with their boyfriends or husbands and not getting freaked out about the content.
Now what is The Stash? Oh so you ask. Host Rachel Perry integrates her solid comedic talent in between porn film segments mostly from the past. Or from foreign countries. And segments titled Barnyard Perversions and other similar versions, which makes this show even more funny.
OK so I must admit the segments of porn they show during The Stash are quite interesting but I missed some good parts from the clips because this guy sitting in front of me, well his head was in front of the closest monitor.
Damn him.
For the record if you’re a card carrying Tea Party member or believe in no sex before marriage, you’re not going to like this show. But it’s my Saturday afternoon and I choose to spend it as I want.
Take that Sarah Palin.
Now here’s the set-up. And oh how smart by show producer Larry Strothe as he seats pretty much every audience member but makes sure they all have two tickets for alcoholic beverages.
We love Larry.
Yes they serve beer and wine to an audience that you might see attending a Charlie Sheen stage show. Though the liquor helps make the content of The Stash funny, it’s not needed. But a nice twist to getting the audience ready for some fun.
The audience? All between 20 and 40 years of age. I was like Hef, the oldest guy in the room. But that was cool because I was probably the only one in the room who could play name that tune to the music of Dean Martin and other old school crooners that played over the audio in the studio prior to the start of the taping. So this Philly boy who grew up with Sinatra was groovin’ on a Saturday afternoon.
Yeah, that’s why I went to see The Stash. Honey, they played Dean Martin.
Yet a clean, good looking, 50-50 male/female audience split which could have been a Saturday night outside The Standard on Sunset Boulevard. But this was Playboy TV’s The Stash. And a perfect audience indeed.
OK more the environment. You remember what comedians say at the comedy club…keep drinking cause the more messed up you are the funnier the jokes. Well you’re only permitted two beverages.
Damn Larry.
Rachel Perry, the host of The Stash, is truly engaging. A perfect selection for managing this show. And this is not your father’s Oldsmobile for what comes out of her mouth and the clips you’ll see her introduce. It’s porn. But classy, slick, smartly written and enough innuendos that fit in perfectly with the old school content that some lucky producer gets to watch.
Yeah, I need that job. Rachel says they’re up to “2000 clips watched so far” for providing content on the show.
“This is really funny. It could go really bad…is this going to be sleazy or degrading but it’s very good,” Rachel Perry said in an interview prior to the taping. And it is. From a career standpoint…”I’m not getting naked,” she popped back at me. And family? “They love it, they were very excited about it,” she said.
And it is done very well. You have to see the show to really understand how stupid those questions were from me. I kinda got beat up a bit by Rachel for asking about the content of the show. So instead of me not experiencing The Stash I said “blank it” and went to see the show.
“If you inclined to laugh, you’re going to enjoy it,” said Perry. Even Rachel’s mom liked it. “I didn’t have any problems with mom or dad but if I said I made a sex tape, you wanna see? That would not have gone over very well!”
Yeah, well I would say I was laughing my butt off but that might be a bit much after sitting in on a taping of The Stash. But worth the afternoon of battling all of the beach-goers headed on the I-10 West to the water.
Or those going to see Hop.
Let me say that his show is not for everybody. Not one you will grab the kids and a bag of popcorn to watch on a Friday or Saturday night. But one you will watch with your boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife, and you will really like it. Good adult comedy, a lot like Talk Soup but with a porn slant that makes the show a lot of fun to watch.
Read more on The Stash for times the show airs on Playboy TV.
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OK so I can remember when Prince Charles and Princess Diana got married so many years ago and I can surely remember the number of men who just could care less. And yes as a man I could care less.
But for women. Well watch out. The festivities will begin at 4AM on April 29th and ABC News has got wall to wall coverage of the union between Prince Philip and Kate Middleton. And it really is wall to wall.
Prince William and Fiancee Kate Middleton
Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters will do the play by play live from Buckingham Palace beginning at that early time that morning. And they will be joined by Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts who will be set up at Westminster Abbey.
And that’s not all. ABC World News Weekend anchor David Muir will be working reaction via Facebook and Twitter, 20/20 anchor Chris Cuomo will be in London as well with Nightline co-anchor Cynthia McFadden, Good Morning America anchor Bianna Golodryga, ABC News correspondent Nick Watt and ABC News Special Royal Correspondent Katie Nicholl.
What a cool title, that “special correspondent’ thing.
There’s a special 20/20 next Monday anchored by Barbara Walters called William & Catherine:A Modern Fairytale and Good Morning America going all out the week of April 25th.
Guys get your DVR’s ready. Ladies prepare the late night drinks and popcorn along with a lot of tissue paper cause this is going to be a real tear jerker.
Rick Thomas
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In short, the Verizon guy we’ve seen for years on their television commercials touting “can you her me now” is now officially out of work. Paul Macarelli, the guy wearing the glasses and selling Verizon wireless products for five years or so has been told not to come to work anymore because the company is taking their advertising in a different direction.
Paul Macarelli, the Verizon 'Test Man'
Hey Paul! Call AT&T immediately. You could get the same job as their service is suspect on a regular basis, let’s say daily.
Paul got the word via e-mail in September of last year. And the contract that he had with Verizon still has him under agreement to not discuss anything connected to his work with the company. One of those Non Disclosure Agreements we’ve all had to sign at some point during out lives.
What’s next for Paul? Well he’s not sure. After the Verizon ‘Test Man’ ad campaign had him locked in to working for the mobile carrier only, there were no other options for work.
If you want to read a more detailed account from Spencer Morgan over at the Atlantic Monthly just follow the link.
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And this may be well deserved. I mean we do have limits, don’t we? Seems Showtime and Gigolos producer Richard Grieco have caught the eye of the Las Vegas Police Department because of the content of the controversial show.
Richard Grieco, Producer of Showtime's 'Gigolos'
Gigolos is just what the title means. Good looking guys running around taking cash for their sexual services. Guess what? That’s prostitution. And now Showtime has told the so called performers on Gigolos to shut up and not talk to anyone or say anything about the show.
In tonight’s episode, a buffed out trio brings in $3,000 for working with a recently divorcee. Yes, once again that’s prostitution.
A spokesperson for the LVPD told the New York Post “our vice section is aware of the situation”which is not good news for Showtime or Gigolos. If we can show a pattern of pandering…the show could have to answer for that.”
Check out the link from the New York Post to read more.
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Well according to Sheen himself he was. But he claims cleanliness now but what he’s saying about his negotiations to return to Two and a Half Men start us all wondering about his sanity according to show producer Warner Bros.
Charlie Sheen with WBZ-FM's 'Toucher and Rich'
Sheen has been on his tour, getting booed again in Boston, but had time to stop by WBZ-FM in that city to chat with the sports morning team of Toucher and Rich. Now Chuck is not making anywhere near what he was bringing in from Two and a Half Men so him talking about returning to the show may just be a good move for the trouble actor.
Problem is Warner Bros. will have none of his new rant about a return. The law firm for the production company sent a letter to Charlie Sheen’s attorney officially denying any conversation about a reunion. And the Hollywood Reporter got a copy of that letter from Munger, Tolles and Olson along with the names of about 100 other attorneys that scared the heck out of this writer at RealTVCritics.com and not a lot scares me.
OK maybe my ex-girlfriend’s newly crowned ex-boyfriend, who wondered why my name came up on her computer, yeah he now scares me. But not much else.
You can read the letter from Warner Bros. law firm below. In the meantime Sheen told WBZ-FM that a script for Major League III is done so he’s got work but not on Two and a Half Men.
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