Now With More Soul
1 a.m.: Speak Your Soul.
2 a.m.: The Soul Story.
3 a.m.: The Soul Player.
4 a.m.: The Soul Player.
5 a.m.: The Soul Player.
6 a.m.: The Soul Player.
Posted on February 24, 2016
Bad Girls Club vs. PBS Kids
Reported and Produced By Reese Johnson, Jamiya Smith, and Laurie Wilkes/Free Spirit Media News
“I think parents should let kids watch TV, because how [else] would they get rewarded for doing their homework?” says the adorable Harmony Pitts.
Posted on February 16, 2016
Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter! Valentine’s Day 2016
Here Comes Feely-Vision!
By Marianna Obrist/The Conversation
Imagine a party on a warm summer’s evening. You can see the beautiful greenery and the dipping sun, you can smell the freshly cut grass and taste the cool drinks on offer. You hear someone walk up behind you and feel them tap you on the shoulder. Now imagine you’re not really at the party, but sitting at home and the scene and all these sensations are coming from your TV.
Working out how television programs could one day stimulate all our senses is an interesting question for researchers like myself, who are exploring the future of TV. But the bigger, more exciting challenge is how we can not only imitate what is happening on the screen, but also use smell, taste and touch in a way that’s not a novelty and enhances the emotional experience of a show, just as a soundtrack does.
Posted on February 12, 2016
Seven Innocent People Went Undercover As Prisoners In An Indiana Jail For New TV Show
By Jill Serjeant/Reuters
Seven innocent people spent 60 days inside an Indiana jail for a TV show aimed at exposing corruption and showing what really happens behind bars.
Documentary series 60 Days In will begin airing on the A&E channel in March, the network said on Wednesday.
The seven men and women volunteers, ranging from a social worker trying to end gang violence to a military wife who feels prisoners have it easy behind bars, lived among inmates at the Clark County Jail in Jeffersonville, Indiana last year.
None of the jail inmates nor staff were aware they were posing as criminals or taking part in a television show.
Posted on February 11, 2016
Jonathan Pie, TV Reporter! The Truth About Teachers & Doctors
Halve Their Hours, Double Their Pay
The truth about the way the news is told.
Posted on February 10, 2016
Federal Appeals Court Confirms: Kevin Trudeau Is One Big Fat Contumacious Liar
By Steve Rhodes
“An appeals court in Chicago has upheld a 10-year prison term for a best-selling author whose name is synonymous with late-night TV pitches,” Tribune news services report.
“Its Friday opinion says Kevin Trudeau ‘spent his career hawking miracle cures . . . of dubious efficacy’ and that his ‘bag of tricks contains something to relieve almost any ailment.’
“The unanimous decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel says his sentence for criminal contempt wasn’t excessive given ‘the size of Trudeau’s fraud and the flagrant and repetitive nature’ of it.”
Indeed. Let’s take a look at the highlights of the court’s pretty awesome decision, written by judge Diane Sykes.
Posted on February 9, 2016
What I Watched Last Night: The Commercial Bowl
By Scott Buckner
On Sunday evening (or all damn day, depending on your rabid dedication to the sport), America paid homage to Super Bowl 50, a football game which has rocketed to such a ridiculous level of pomp and circumstance simply because we need an excuse for something, anything. That’s because when it comes to large public events that promote mass consumption of food and alcohol, the calendar’s a desolate place between January and March 17 if you’re not in New Orleans for Fat Tuesday.
It’s an event that, even if you do have $20,000 to shell out for a seat mid-field, you’d still stay home and watch the thing on TV instead because the beer is cheaper, the bathroom’s only 50 paces away and usually unoccupied, and your car’s already parked a lot closer. In that sense, it’s become The Super Commercial Bowl for the million-dollar ads alone, mostly because your team (or a team you despise and would love to see their teeth get bashed in) isn’t in it, and the halftime show always features someone overexposed or irrelevant, or bands whose music you never could stand anyway. So now we’re basically reduced to an audience of eleventy billion people waiting to see if Snickers’ ad agency can top last year’s commercial.
Posted on February 8, 2016
24 Hours With Pop TV
Breast Side Up
“A channel filled with optimism, passion, funny and excitement.”
5:30 a.m.: Perfect Cooker.
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7 a.m.: Retire in Style!
Posted on February 5, 2016