Is there a link between the set of scandals and sorta scandals hitting the Obama Administration right now and what’s happening with the ratings for MSNBC, the progressive-aligned all-news channel that is seeing its numbers hit a seven-year low?
Deadline’s Dominic Patten takes a look at the situation and lays out the story here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/obama-msnbc-fox-news-scandals/
What do you think? Is there a tie between the troubles affecting Obama and MSNBC?
The future of Rush Limbaugh’s radio-syndication deal with Cumulus is, um, clouded after the conservative host apparently became displeased at being scapegoated for Cumulus financial headaches.
Read more here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/rush-limbaugh-considering-exiting-cumulus-after-sandra-fluke-fallout-report/
What do you think? Should Rush move on?
(Source: deadline.com)
Great video bit from the White House Correspondents Dinner, featuring Barack Obama playing Daniel Day-Lewis “playing” Barack Obama in Steven Spielberg’s next presidential movie. Tracy Morgan has a key role. It’s pretty fun. Check it out here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/video-president-obama-daniel-day-lewis/
We also have several other videos and other coverage of the Correspondents Dinner, the so-called Nerd Prom that brings together heavy hitters in Washington circles with celebs from Hollywood and New York who like to hob-nob with them. See it all on Deadline.
George Clooney and Charlize Theron didn’t make it this year’s correspondents dinner, and president who’s likely to be somber post-Boston bombings and a host in Conan O’Brien who was less than scintillating in his first such run may suggest a less than overwhelming night, Deadline reports.
Nonetheless, we’ll carry on, with some bolstering in our coverage from the fine folks over at Politico.com. With Dominic Patten and Nikki Finke manning the horn, we’ll do our best to ensure you have a good time.
The seemingly ceaseless concerns about runaway production in Hollywood (the metaphysical home of the entertainment business) got a little bit of good news today. Eric Garcetti, the councilman who represents Hollywood (the physical place) and is running for Los Angeles mayor, pushed through a waiver of city fees for TV pilots filmed in the city.
No idea if the savings will make much difference in runaway production, but it suggests city officials are listening to Hollywood (both places) concerns at least a little bit.
Read all the story here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/la-city-council-waives-tv-pilot-fees-to-grow-local-production/
What do you think? Will this help much in stemming the tide of runaway production in the city?
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Screenwriter Mark Boal, talking about Congressional critics of his most recent Oscar-nominated effort “Zero Dark Thirty.” Boal spoke to Deadline’s Jen Yamato at the Writers Guild West panel of nominated screenwriters.
Boal and other panelists had lots to say, here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/wga-awards-nominees-panel-mark-boal-zero-dark-thirty-david-o-russell/
What do you think? Does he have a point about the Senators criticizing the movie to score political points in Washington?
(Source: deadline.com)
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That’s Chris Rock talking about his approach to gun control, as part of his appearance at the TV Critics Association meetings to tout Kemau Bell’s “Totally Biased” late-night show, which he exec produces.
Rock had a few more tart observations about a wide array of topics, including his own career and stand-up possibilities. Read it all here on Deadline: http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/chris-rock-gun-control-fx-totally-biased-tca/
With political controversy swirling in Washington around the torture scene in “Zero Dark Thirty,” star Jessica Chastain gets a good-natured grilling on the film’s authenticity from David Letterman (considerably more good-natured than she might get from the senators concerned the film suggests that torture of Al-Qaeda suspects may have led to discovery of crucial information in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden).
Watch the whole exchange here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/zero-dark-thirty-jessica-chastain-david-letterman-video/
Every six months or so, the Television Critics Association gathers to hear from the people behind the upcoming TV season’s biggest shows. And every six months or so, we can count on a few verbal bombs getting tossed in the TCA news conferences. Today’s biggest one (from one of several stories our writers filed today from the gathering):
Erik Jendresen, the writer and exec. producer of the “Killing Lincoln” TV adaptation of Bill O’Reilly’s book, called assassin John Wilkes Booth “a poster child for the Tea Party” in terms of the similar rhetoric and concerns voiced then and now about perceptions of an imperial presidency.
Read more about Jendresen’s comments here: http://www.deadline.com/2013/01/killing-lincoln-writer-says-john-wilkes-booth-poster-child-for-tea-party/
And visit Deadline.com for all the other coverage of the TCAs today and going forward.
Will he or won’t he? Ben Affleck, riding high on all the attention for his work as director and star of “Argo,” sits down with Bob Schieffer on “Face the Nation” to talk politics, his admirable Eastern Congo Initiative and, lo and behold, is asked whether he’ll run for Senate.
Affleck, though, is more coy than a Southern debutante at a ball in 1904 in responding. Listen to the exchange here: http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/ben-affleck-senate-rumors-face-the-nation-video/
What do you think, SHOULD he run for Senate, especially given how his career is taking off again in lots of interesting ways?
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