Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Pushing Daisies, followed by new episodes of Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money. CBS has Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer at 8, then The Grammy Nominations Concert Live, and The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. NBC has Christmas in Rockefeller Center at 8, followed by new episodes of Life and Law and Order. FOX has the series premiere of Secret Millionaire at 8. Discovery has two new episodes of Time Warp at 8. TNT has A Christmas Story at 8. At 9, The...
These days, anyone could use a few good laughs. Guess that means the timing of Comedy Central's latest launch is well-timed. The Viacom-owned cable network has taken Jokes.com, a property that it acquired in 2002, and relaunched it Wednesday as a hub for its stand-up comedy archives. Sort ......
Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has opened the gates to its video portal Sling.com. The site pits Sling directly against Joost and Hulu (though Hulu is a Sling partner), allowing users to stream a variety of television shows and movies for free through an intuitive Flash player. Sling’s selection of media is pretty comprehensive, offering content from most of the major networks and studios including Warner, Sony, and MGM (Sling is licensing some of its content from Hulu). The site also offers movies from a number of smaller sources, like College Humor’s shorts....
Sling Media, the company behind the popular Slingbox TV-streaming hardware devices, has opened the gates to its video portal Sling.com. The site pits Sling directly against competitors Hulu and Joost, allowing users to stream a variety of television shows and movies for free through an intuitive Flash player. Sling’s selection of media is pretty comprehensive, offering content from most of the major networks and studios including Warner, Sony, and MGM (oddly enough, Sling is licensing some of its content from Hulu). The site also offers movies from a number of smaller sources, like College Humor’s shorts. But there are...
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, then the season finale of Dancing with the Stars. CBS has a new NCIS at 8, followed by new episodes of The Mentalist and Without A Trace. NBC has a new Biggest Loser at 8, then a new Law and Order: SVU. FOX has new episodes of House and Fringe. PBS has a new Nova at 8, then a new Frontline. At 9, Bravo has a new Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion show, followed by the season premiere of...
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 7, ABC has the American Music Awards Red Carpet, followed by the American Music Awards. CBS has a new 60 Minutes at 7, then new episodes of The Amazing Race, Cold Case, and The Unit. NBC has Football Night In America at 7, followed by the Colts/Chargers game. At 8, FOX has 24: Redemption. Disney has a new Hannah Montana at 9, then the movie Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds. Showtime has a new Brotherhood at 8, followed by new episodes of Dexter and Californication. At 9,...
Filed under: Cable, New content Cox may not roll 'em out as quickly as competing carriers, but when it drops new high-def channels, it drops a bundle. The latest area to get word of an impending load is the Gulf Coast region, where eleven newcomers will come home this December. AMC HD, Comedy Central HD, Cinemax HD, Hallmark Movie Channel HD, CMT HD, Starz HD, Nickelodeon HD, Travel Channel HD, Spike HD, VH1 HD and Palladia HD will be arriving in the area next month, and effective December 2nd, a slew of channel changes will also be taking place. Tap...
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty, then new episodes of Grey's Anatomy and Life on Mars. CBS has a new Survivor, followed by new episodes of CSI and Eleventh Hour. NBC has new episodes of My Name Is Earl, Kath & Kim, The Office, 30 Rock, and ER. FOX has a new Kitchen Nightmares at 8. The CW has a new Smallville at 8, then a new Supernatural. TBS has four great episodes of Friends starting at 8. TCM has 1925's Phantom of the Opera...
Nothing like a touchscreen computer from HP, and the TouchSmart TX2 is one of the coolest I have seen for a while. The touchscreen can be used by two fingers, and the user can apply iPhone gestures like pinch, rotate, arc, flick, press and drag, and single and double tap. The TouchSmart TX2 is unique as it has a specially-designed hinge so a user can convert it into three modes: PC, display, and tablet. It even has a rechargeable digital ink pen that allows the user to draw on the screen. If you want to use the pen to write,...
Filed under: Late Night, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 8, ABC has a new Pushing Daisies, then new episodes of Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money. CBS has a new Old Christine, followed by new episodes of Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY. NBC has new episodes of Knight Rider, Life, and Law & Order. FOX has a new Bones at 8. The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8, then a new Stylista. PBS has a new installment of Monarchy at 8. Discovery has two new episodes of Time Warp...
When RedLasso took down its TV clipping service earlier this year amidst legal action by the TV networks, bloggers who used the service to embed clips of breaking news stories, memorable quotes and gaffes were left without a replacement. Many former users, including Perez Hilton, Jossip, Hot Air and the Huffington Post, have felt the service’s absence in their daily gossip and politics coverage, and at times resorted to ripping and posting TV clips themselves. Now a new service called 1Cast, which we had the scoop on a few months ago, is giving the space an authorized try. RedLasso not...
HP's Touchsmart TX2 is awesome because its the first consumer-oriented convertible notebook to feature a multitouch technology built into the display. The 12.1-inch screen uses a capacitive touchpanel that can track two points simultaneously, operate with fingers or a stylus, and comes with the Mediasmart 2.0 interface customized for the notebook. While Dell's oft-mentioned Latitude XT came out last year with the multitouch power to simultaneously track all five fingers, the feature was kept dormant until the middle of 2008 and lacks any realy mainstream software to take advantage of the tech. The Mediasmart 2.0 software lets you watch movies,...
Web video has transformed the way the Internet is used, but finding the exact clip you want can be incredibly hard. And it’s no wonder, considering that sites like YouTube conduct their hunts by looking at a clip’s “contextual metadata” — tags, video title and description — and thus can often be misled by false information. For example, a homemade video about cooking might be inaccurately tagged with a popular search word like “Obama” so as to get more traction. This week I tested VideoSurf.com, a site that claims to be the first to search videos by “seeing” images...
Boxee, maker of a social media center software platform for HDTVs and laptops, has secured $4 million in first round funding from Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. The two firms each accounted for exactly 50% of the investment. Bijan Sabet from Spark and Fred Wilson from Union Square (also see Fred’s blog post on the investment where he calls boxee the ‘Firefox of media center software’) will join the boxee board. Boxee is bringing us a step closer to a true open, social TV experience. The app gives your computer (Mac OSX or Linux, and soon also Windows) or...
Filed under: Programming, What To Watch Tonight, Reality-Free At 7, CBS has a new 60 Minutes, followed by new episodes of The Amazing Race, Cold Case, and The Unit. NBC has a new Football Night In America, then the Cowboys/Redskins game. At 8, FOX has a new Simpsons, followed by new episodes of King of the Hill, Family Guy, and American Dad. ABC has a new Extreme Makeover at 8, then new episodes of Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. PBS has a new Nature at 8, followed by a new Masterpiece Contemporary. Food Network has the special Iron Chef...
