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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Recent grabs

[edited 01092006]

"Consumer Group Plans To Protest Sale Of MBNA": yet another BofA WILD AND CRAAAAAZY takeover.

Best of the bunch: Those kids over at MIT want to make their own SOFTWARE to homebrew their own HD broadcast switcher. And what are they producing? MIT SPORTS ON LOCATION! Read about the project at http://blogs.mit.edu/sportcast/ Kickass!

Better than a control room's monitor wall, it's Wolf Blitzer's "Situation Room."

New York Daily News's Jane H. Furse quotes Marc Cherry on the "Housewives"' gaydar:

"The moment you put a woman in an evening gown mowing the lawn, it's just gay," he said, still reveling in the Emmy nods which tied "Housewives" with "Will and Grace" for most nominations.

F*ck Screw the Prince of Darkness, he's keeping his TV job: CNN Stands by Embattled Novak

Media Life Magazine's Kevin Downey: How Fred Silverman pulled NBC to number one, and how it needs to be pulled back to number one now that Must See TV is withering. NBC has jumped on the reality TV bandwagon -- they're practically reality wall-to-wall as far as I can see -- such that I don't watch them anymore. I stumbled across it tonight for "Law and Order" and now I don't know if Idina Menzel's husband is going to get better after some hired gunman killed a witness and popped off a few shots at him too.

Jesse L. Martin! Ah. (Det. Green)

Watch Matthew Perry drop his pants on a national stage. It was on after the Red Sox-Yankees game (Sunday Night Baseball) and the only thing that got me curious was that, in a promo beforehand. A Yankee fan had turned it on. I couldn't really watch the ESPYs because I was trying to produce the 11pm.

No "Queen" on Fox 5 in the morning, Reege stresses the need for sunblock, and getting a critic a real job. Plus, even though GMA toasts Today, The Early Show is still in the toilet.

Boston's Pho Pasteur settles a labor lawsuit, the Weekly Reader's editor gets a little too close to his subjects/readership, and Gillette is looking to add a blade called P&G.

I also watched most of XXXX's "90" (the 5, 5:30 and 6) (or "earlies") today and was highly nonplussed unimpressed.

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