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Unlike officials at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and many pro-vaccination bloggers, I’ve had a chance to watch the entire pilot episode of ABC’s fictional comedy/drama “Eli Stone.”
The already controversial program, which debuts Thursday at 9 p.m. and subjects viewers to fanciful scenes involving pop singer George Michael, depicts a lawyer who argues in […]

NBC Universal aims to shake up the way it does business, particularly with its pilot development and “upfront” presentations, president and CEO Jeff Zucker said Tuesday.
In his keynote speech at the opening session of the National Association of Television Program Executives’ 2008 Conference and Exhibition (NATPE), Zucker said NBC will take more projects straight to […]

 
Joel and Ethan Coen won the top DGA prize for “No Country for Old Men” on Saturday in a kudofest marked by high spirits over the guild’s speedy contract resolution with the AMPTP one week earlier. It’s the first DGA win for the directing siblings, who beat out Paul Thomas Anderson (”There Will Be Blood”), […]

 
Montel Williams is calling it a wrap after 17 years in daytime.
CBS TV Distribution confirmed Wednesday it will end production on the syndicated yakker at the end of this season. CBS plans to offer stations a “Best of Montel” package for the fall that will feature segs from throughout the show’s run.
Fate of “The Montel […]

If you’re like most people, you look at your “basic” cable line-up and think: “Why do I have all these stupid channels? Wouldn’t it be cheaper if I could just subscribe to the ones I actually like?”
You’re probably convinced that there’s a huge conspiracy going on to get you to pay for a bunch of […]

The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace, producers have confirmed.
The title is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960.
Producer Michael Wilson said the film would have “twice as much action” as 2006’s Casino Royale, which saw Daniel Craig debut as […]

 
Best known for his haunting, Oscar-nominated performance as Ennis Del Mar, one of the gay cowboys in 2005 ‘ s “Brokeback Mountain,” Ledger was a massive young talent on the cusp of greatness when he died last week in New York. The native Australian, who is survived by his 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, had recently finished […]

 
The following list of films may not match up with the grades that I gave all the movies over the last 12 days, but it does have the advantage of perspective. Now that the Sundance Film Festival has pretty much come to a close, I am able to look back on all the films that […]

 
The name on the doorbell at director Doug Liman’s Tribeca loft is “Bourne J.,” which stands for Jason Bourne, hero of The Bourne Identity, Liman’s first blockbuster. As filmgoers recall, Jason Bourne lived in a fancy bourgeois apartment in Paris’s 8th Arrondissement. The entrance to Bourne J.’s building is cramped and grubby, as is the […]