Just in time to co-incide with the 500th episode of “The Simpsons,” Matt Groening, the show’s creator, has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Simpsons aired its first episode on 19 December, 1989, so I’d say it was a long enough wait. There was also doughnuts.
A 22m long sculpture was erected in Sandton Square this weekend, emblazoned with ice copy “In the Sahara your body loses 1L of water an hour” – slowly melting as the day went on. This was to promote a new series on DSTV called “Human Season”. More details and footage inside.
Matthew Bomer, star of the hit TV show, White Collar, has finally come out of the closet, ending years of speculation and rumours, and freeing up some space in there for Taylor Lautner. He made the announcement at a charity event this weekend, thanking his partner and three kids.
It’s a little weird that I just so happened to have been listening to Massive Attack’s “Teardrop” when I stumbled upon this announcement on Entertainment Weekly. After eight seasons, a vicodin addiction and a bisexual Olivia Wilde, Dr House will be hanging up his cane. Full release from Fox after the jump.
Hot off the press in Iran this morning comes a report that the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults in Tehran has added any and all toys derived from The Simpsons to a nationwide ban list, which includes Barbie dolls and assorted products.
South Africa’s only independent TV news channel has been fined R35 000 by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa for contraventions of the broadcasting code. The complaints were filed in October, for showing images of Colonel Gaddafi moments before his death. This was done at 07h30 and repeatedly until 12h00 without any warnings or advisories.
It’s been a rough ride for TopTV the last few months. The alternative pay TV provider has been adamant in trying to provide a full time porn channel on its network. This has faced monumental opposition, and their CEO has now been let go.
Few TV shows had us hooked last year like Game of Thrones. And if the three-month waiting period before season two feels like an eternity to you, then take comfort in this brand new trailer – after the jump.
The Simpsons are known for having the greatest variety in the people that guest star in their episodes. They can range from celebrities, political figures, even scientists such as Prof Stephen Hawking. As they approach their 500th episode, their special guest will be Julian Assange – founder of Wikileaks, and the first guest to appear on the show while still under house arrest.
A police investigation has been opened in Brazil after a Big Brother contestent was thrown out of the house for “inappropriate behaviour”. The 31 year-old male model was accused of sexually assaulting one of his housemates. A little tricky to dodge such allegations if the house you’re living in is filled with cameras.
To celebrate 500 episodes with Springfield’s most famous family, the producers of ‘The Simpsons’ are also preparing to break a Guinness World Record by challenging the show’s biggest fans to sit down and watch all 500 episodes of the show, back to back.
Economic times are tough in the United States, and sometimes this means that news networks can’t always afford to send a journalist to cover stories in the field. That’s exactly what happened in Los Angeles, where this weatherman was sent to cover a children’s toy drive. He wasn’t very happy about it.
So we’ve now had Jersey Shore, Geordie Shore, and even Clifton Shores. It seems Ireland is feeling a little left out. With a trashier cast and a fraction of the budget, I present to you: Tallafornia.
Critics adored the adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s sprawling fantasy epic, Game Of Thrones, and so did audiences around the world. So, imagine the frenzy when HBO dropped this little number on YouTube.
The respective returns of J.R. Ewing and Jesse Metcalf! What’s not to love?
TopTV has signed an agreement with Playboy TV to add three adult TV channels from Playboy to their existing line-up in 2012. But Isak Burger and his Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) is threatening a nationwide boycott campaign against TopTV. Burger says pornograhpy is “the new crack.”
Astra 4A satellite, the same satellite used by TopTV, will launch Porn Satellite TV, or PSat, across the country in January 2012. The 24-hour adult entertainment channel will be broadcast from outside of South Africa’s jurisdiction, which means South African authorities can do little to prevent it from traversing the airwaves.
Jeremy Clarkson appeared earlier this week on the BBC’s “The One Show”. During his interview he said that public servants who are taking part in a strike “ought to be executed in front of their families”. But Clarkson says it was only a joke and that producers of the show were warned in advance and approved of the comments.
If you’ve been following the US X-Factor, you might be aware that a country group of four stunningly beautiful angels is currently in the top nine of the competition. One of the group’s four members, it turns out, is from Cape Town.
Long before Law and Order and the hydra-like CSI franchise, there was another brand of American police procedural that was a little lighter in tone, and tended to focus a lot more on the physical assets of the cast than the semantic aspects of a good forty minute whodunnit. Being set in beautful Hawaii didn’t hurt either.
Jaco Haasbroek is a designer from Cape Town. This guy designed a t-shirt so cool that it has now been worn twice on one of the biggest TV shows at the moment. The shirt is called “High 5” and it popped up in an episode of Modern Family last month, and again on last Wednesday’s episode. High-five!
Multiple 2oceansvibe’s sources who attended the event have confirmed that Idols winner, Dave Van Vuuren did a corporate gig not too long ago for Samsung, during which he was expected to perform a few songs. Dave Van Vuuren, who is of the belief that his music will indeed change the world, got on stage and […]
In a continuation of its world domination, China Central Television, which produces the ruling Communist party’s news shows and other propaganda, is planning to broadcast English-language programming from the heart of the US capital of Washington DC. It has also built a studio facility in Nairobi, and plans to open a broadcasting centre in Europe too.
You might not think Jersey Shore is the sort of show that would spark serious academic debate, but lo and behold, the University of Chicago recently concluded a day long seminar on the dynamic and active scholarly field of “Jersey Shore studies”. No, really.
CTV is Cape Town’s only community television station. But so far only viewers with an aerial that’s in the line-of-sight of Tygerberg could actually watch the channel. That all changed yesterday as they launched a 24-hour live stream, embedded on their website – taking their content global.
MTV, capitalising on a series of home runs in their scripted show offering decided to log on to the still simmering global tween-obsession with things that go bump in the night, and revive Teen Wolf for the Jersey Shore generation.
That’s right. Mike Judge, the man behind the Office Space and Idiocracy, has brought back his infamous 1990’s animated comedy. The first episode aired last night on MTV, and is pretty damn funny.
The now infamous house in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, is available to rent for the very reasonable price of only $2 500 per night. For this low price, you too can now blow out your hair, put on your fake tan and be a Guido. It’s everyone’s dream. You can even sleep in Snooki’s bed.
The global movement against greed has been in the news a lot lately. The Occupy Wall Street protests have been going on for just over a month now, including dismal failures locally, but one network has seen fit to draw some profit from it.
This week we’re looking at Being Human, a personal favourite of mine that received the re-make treatment in the States just last year, while the British original continues next year into its fourth season.