Word: broadcast
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...Millionaire" flamed out a few years ago, but there must be some depth of disgrace - behind UPN! behind Pax! behind Trio! - at which the failure becomes liberating. When anything goes. When the network decides to roll the dice and unleash the weirdest crap that's ever been seen on broadcast TV, because, well, why not? A drama about the rough-and-tumble world of professional plumbing inspectors! A reality show about dogs - directed and produced by dogs! A family sitcom by the guy who just made a movie about Jesus Christ getting tortured to death...
...sundry other shows you forgot the network had aired in the first place. Which brings us the one true innovation from this year's upfronts: following Fox, which is debuting many of its new shows in June, NBC will begin rolling out its series in late August, following its broadcast of the summer Olympics. With any luck, many of the shows you're reading about this week could be canceled before the beginning of fall. Who says nothing ever gets better in television...
...gays kissing each other all week. Producers from the big networks will be in Massachusetts to broadcast what are billed as the first legal gay marriages in the U.S. But the stories won't be totally accurate: gay couples have already legally wed in the U.S., here in Oregon. In a little noticed decision last month, overshadowed by the news from Massachusetts (not to mention Iraq), Oregon Circuit Court Judge Frank Bearden ruled for the first time in U.S. history that a state must "accept and register" marriages of same-sex couples. In March and April, Multnomah County issued marriage...
...sure, Moore and Miramax will find a new distributor; of that there is no question. What is particularly worrisome is that the interference of powerful media conglomerates in the dissemination of politically sensitive material has lately become routine. Two weeks ago, Sinclair Broadcast Group instructed its seven ABC affiliates not to air a Nightline segment displaying the names of over 500 U.S. soldiers killed in action in Iraq because, according to Sinclair’s statement, the company deemed the program politically motivated against U.S. efforts in that country. (Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., blasted Sinclair?...
...million Cost of 30 seconds of commercial time during the final episode of Friends on May 6, a record for a non--Super Bowl broadcast...