Tag Archives: television

Jade Goody, a former contestant on UK reality show Big Brother, is terminally ill with cervical cancer and is taking bids for the rights to televise her death. Her story has become daily tabloid fodder. Goody told the News of the World: “”I’ve lived in front of the cameras. And maybe I’ll die in front of them. And I know …

That Oscar Wilde quote sprang to mind while watching this clip from Nip/Tuck. Audio NSFW. Wait for the last line. If I recall correctly, what they speak of has its own category on certain “social networking” sites. (Tipped by JMG reader DallasCub)

A Michigan television station that was slated to run Silencing Christians, the hate-filled informercial from the American Family Association, has canceled its running twice as the station receives pressure from Christiantist and LGBT groups over the show. A controversial one-hour paid program on the “radical homosexual agenda” scheduled for WOOD-TV is delayed for the second time as partisans on both …

In case you’re watching it on A&E and are really annoyed by “Freak you” and “Ya gotta be foolin’ with me”, here’s every fucking “fuck” from The Sopranos. It’s rather hypnotic and goes on from 27 minutes, but you’ll probably only last a minute or two.

Forget the Bachelor, Married By America, and all those other reality shows that demonstrate the God-ordained sanctity of one-man/one-woman marriage. CBS is treading into potentially controversial reality TV territory again. The network has ordered a new series from the producers of “Top Chef” that puts lovelorn singles into arranged marriages. The show introduces four adults age approximately 25-45 who are …

RuPaul’s Drag Race debuts tonight on LOGO at 10PM. Here’s the first few minutes of tonight’s episode. You can watch the entire thing online right now.

Via Think Progress comes this graph showing who the cable news programs are going for commentary on Barack Obama’s stimulus package. In total, from 6 AM on Monday to 4 PM on Wednesday, the networks have hosted Republican lawmakers 51 times and Democratic lawmakers only 24 times. Surprisingly, Fox News came the closest to offering balance, hosting 8 Republicans and …

The NY Observer thinks so. Sure, there’s Rachel Maddow and that wry smile, there’s Anderson Cooper and his silver foxiness, but Andrea … she’s got something else. But what was it? We were pretty sure it had something to do with her performance at the very end of last year’s Republican convention, when she appeared completely unfazed by the avalanche …

Andy Towle points out this clip from Wheel Of Fortune in which a contestant point out his male fiance’ in the audience. His winning answer was “mixed signals”, but if there’s a joke in there, I can’t think of it.

After months and months of nonstop annoying ads warning us about the switch to digital television, the Senate yesterday approved a bill to delay the transition until June. Because they’re out of money to pay for the converter boxes. The Senate unanimously passed a bill Monday to postpone the digital television transition until June 12. The deadline for all broadcasters …

GLAAD has announced the 2009 Media Award Nominees. Here’s a few of the categories. OUTSTANDING FILM – WIDE RELEASEBrideshead Revisited (Miramax Films)Milk (Focus Features)Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Columbia Pictures)RocknRolla (Warner Bros. Pictures)Vicky Cristina Barcelona (The Weinstein Company) OUTSTANDING FILM – LIMITED RELEASEThe Edge of Heaven (Strand Releasing)Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom (New Open Door Productions)Save Me (First Run Features)Shelter …

Last night I watched Prayers For Bobby and while the movie stayed true to the schlocky Lifetime formula of crisis-dissent-tragedy-redemption, overall I thought the film was OK, but only for its primary intended audience – the bible-clutching housewives of middle America. Which is fine, of course. Gay folks probably did a bit of eye-rolling for some parts of the movie, …

Claiming the clips were too controversial to run during inauguration coverage, KABC-TV in Los Angeles refused to run public service announcements from Get To Know Us First, a group that promotes acceptance of LGBT families. From their press release: Non-profit organization GetToKnowUsFirst.org produced five 30-second commercials featuring gay and lesbian families, with the message “Marriage promotes families. Support marriage equality.” …

Via WickedGayBlog we learn that the Florida chapter of the American Family Association is calling for an advertiser boycott of one of my favorite shows, LOGO’s Sordid Lives. From a Christian newswire press release: A pro-family activist says LOGO, an advertiser-supported homosexual cable channel owned by MTV, is taking another shot at Christians. David Caton of Florida Family Association is …

A TV show with a gay superhero is in production. Spider-Man creator Stan Lee is to unveil the world’s first gay superhero. High school basketball star Thom Creed hides his developing superpowers along with his sexuality. Former Marvel Comics boss Stan, 86 — who also created the Hulk and the X-Men — will unleash the character in an hour-long TV …

After months of teasing and steamy kisses, As The World Turns boyfriends Luke and Noah finally had sex yesterday in a breakthrough episode for daytime television. Without any warning or hysterics, the show took that unexpected turn and went where no daytime drama—and few primetime shows—has dared: Luke and Noah were shown post-coital, sheets ruffled. And you know the best …

Clearly, spray-on tan technology has a long, long way go. I’ll be back later tonight with the Cheetos-tinted winners. UPDATE: It was a big night for NBC’s 30 Rock and for HBO. Golden Globes 2009 Winners BEST MOTION PICTURE, DRAMA:Slumdog MillionaireBEST MOTION PICTURE, COMEDY: Vicky Cristina BarcelonaACTOR, DRAMA: Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler ACTRESS, DRAMA:Kate Winslet, Revolutionary Road ACTOR, COMEDY OR …

Neil Patrick Harris hosted Saturday Night Live last night. Most of it was unfunny, except for a marginally amusing bit about Broadway falling on hard times. I was wondering about SNL’s history with gay hosts and went off to Wikipedia to research. Here’s what I found. 1976: Lily Tomlin. Not out at the time.1976: Anthony Perkins. Died without coming out.1976: …

Last night MTV’s The Real World debuted its 20th season with a house cast that includes a gay man, a bisexual woman, and a transgender woman. Could be interesting. The cast house is located in the semi-scary nabe of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Via Good As You, here’s the full first episode.

If you subscribe to Time-Warner Cable, you and their 13 million other customers nationwide will lose all of your Viacom channels at midnight tonight as the two media giants continue to spar over a new carriage fees. Viacom wants to raise the charges for Time-Warner to carry their 19 channels, Time-Warner says they’re being greedy. Same old, same old. Among …