LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday declined to file any charges against Bill Cosby after a woman recently claimed the comedian molested her around 1974. The rejection of a child sexual abuse charge by prosecutors came roughly
NEW YORK (AP) — NBC has scrapped a Bill Cosby comedy that was under development and TV Land will stop airing reruns of “The Cosby Show,” moves that came a day after another woman came forward claiming that the once-beloved
Actress Diane Guerrero, who stars as an inmate on the popular Netflix series Orange is the New Black, told CNN Monday that her parents were deported when she was a teenager, which is why she is backing President Obama’s push
The fourth season of “Portlandia,” the brilliant show created by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, is now available on NetFlix, and it’s better than it has ever been – systematically devastating in its portrayal of modern American malaise, pretension, and ego – and funny
If memory serves correctly, the first random access storage device I seriously considered purchasing, as a preteen with some odd-job money to fuel his insatiable appetite for high technology, was a floppy disk drive that stored 128K per disk. (Gather
Currently, Dish Network’s 14 million subscribers do not have access to CNN or other Turner Broadcasting channels like the Cartoon Network. Speaking specifically of CNN, Dish Chairman Charlie Ergen ridiculed the left-wing cable news network’s obsessive coverage of the missing
Following on the heels of HBOGO and the CBS entertainment network, comes the launch of CBSN, a streaming network, which is yet another nail in the coffin of bundled cable and satellite. Available today on the Web, as well as
A Dutch start-up called Blendle is taking global the equivalent of “a penny for your thoughts” by pioneering a Spotify-style market for copyright journalism. To begin to touch a world of seven billion people, Blendle just raised $3.8 million in a first
Due to a contract dispute, CNN and 6 other Turner Broadcasting networks have been yanked from Dish Network, a satellite provider that provides television in bundled packages like every cable television provider. The 7 channels also include Turner Classic Movies,
According to Deadline, Lionsgate and Tribeca will partner for a Netflix-style video-on-demand (VOD) service that “will focus on prestige independent films from around the world … The films will be curated by Tribeca and leading voices in contemporary culture and
In what could be a welcome and seismic crack in the foundation of bundled cable, Time Warner chairman and CEO Richard Piepler announced to shareholders Wednesday that HBO will break from bundled cable and offer a stand-alone streaming service. From
If anyone doubted Scarlett Johansson’s box office might, the summer film Lucy silenced them once and for all. Not only does Johansson stand tall in The Avengers and Captain America, she can carry an action movie on her slender shoulders.
Mere hours after buggy whip makers theatre owners here in America and around the globe collectively attempted to strangle the streaming/Imax deal between Netflix and The Weinstein Company in the crib, Netflix turned around and shoved its finger deep in
This is huge, huge news. But don’t get too excited. For now at least, the à la carte “cable television” service will only be available on your mobile devices. Though it happened a few years sooner than I would have expected,
For those of you waiting for the final chapter of the Atlas Shrugged trilogy, the wait ends today, Friday, when “Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?” lands in 254 theatres this weekend. You can use this site to find a
Unless bundled cable providers find a way to move their racket online, the demographic reality of younger people moving online looms as an existential threat to the most lucrative business in entertainment and the news media. In just four years
A&E’s “Longmire,” which recently wrapped up its third season, is the second highest-rated program on the network (second only to “Duck Dynasty”) and the most popular original dramatic production the network has ever aired. It’s an unassuming police procedural that
During last night’s Emmys there were several jokes about the fact that while the award show took place on network TV, most of the nominations were for cable and Netflix shows. Also, this year marked a record number of nominations
The Netflix series House of Cards put the streaming giant in the content big leagues, right alongside HBO, AMC and FX. Orange Is the New Black showed Netflix was no fluke in the original programming arena. Yet both the political
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Modern Family” and “Breaking Bad” triumphed at Monday’s Emmy Awards, proving that established broadcast and cable series retain the power to fend off challenges from upstart online series like “Orange Is the New Black.” The ceremony’s
For the first time, top U.S. cable firms have more broadband customers than cable TV subscribers, according to published data from the Leichtman Research Group. The top cable companies had about 49,915,000 broadband subscribers in the second quarter ending in June, compared
Netflix is now in the Bill Cosby business. The streaming giant just secured new comedy specials from the avuncular comic along with younger performers including Jim Jefferies, Bill Burr and Chelsea Peretti, Variety reports. The Cosby special, “Bill Cosby 77,”
On Tuesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon spoofed Netflix’s “House of Cards,” which included a number of celebrity cameos. Watch (Part 2): Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (UPI) — The Bluths are coming back to the small screen. Netflix chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, told USA Today on Tuesday that a fifth season of Arrested Development was “just a matter of when.” The
The Hollywood Reporter writes that Summer 2014 is shaping up to be the worst in 8 years thanks to the worst year-over-year decline in three decades. With only 6 weeks of summer remaining and middling titles like “Hercules,” “Teenage Mutant
Comic actor Jason Biggs brought his 2014 Apology Tour to The View earlier today. We’re still waiting for a single “sorry” for slamming the wives of GOP politicians in vile fashion. Biggs, featured on the buzzy Netflix show Orange Is
(AFP) Veteran Broadway actress and singer Elaine Stritch, who enthralled theatre audiences for 70 years with her brassy voice and quick-fire comedy delivery, has died. She was 89. Her death at home in Birmingham, Michigan was confirmed to US media
Drummer Tommy Ramone, the last surviving member of the four founding Ramones, died of cancer Friday at age 62 (some outlets place his age at 65). Born Thomas Erdelyi in 1952, in the band’s early formative years, Tommy also served
Box Office: Under-Performing ‘Transformers 4’ Should be Freaking Hollywood Out My reviews of the dreadful “Tammy,” the pro-Catholic “Deliver Us From Evil,” and a much better than expected “Transformers: Age of Extinction” just posted. I’m late with “Transformers” due to
“…expect the people of this nation to…overthrow you. By any means necessary.” “…for the Netflix and cat videos…” “Why not rename the constitution the Comcast-Time Warner Constitution of the United States.” These are just a few of the coarse and
UNITED NATIONS, July 2 (UPI)–Russia used its informal veto power to block the hit Netflix series House of Cards from filming scenes at the U.N. Security Council in New York. In a series of confidential emails obtained by Foreign Policy,
Why Aereo’s Defeat Will Be An Eventual Defeat For the Victors Unless Aereo decides to pay re-transmission fees to the networks it wishes to re-transmit — which is unlikely and would mean higher costs to Aereo customers — Aereo is
A group of Occupy Wall Street activists staged an “Occupy Google” protest Wednesday evening to push the Internet giant to embrace the cause of “net neutrality,” which would allow the government to regulate the rates charged and bandwidth provided by
Hypocrites at Deadline Threaten All of Hollywood Over Nikki Finke A self-serving Sunday morning interview between Deadline’s Mike Fleming and Deadline’s Peter Bart at Deadline about how awful Nikki Finke is, is quite the lesson in pompous, passive-aggressive character assassination.
New Amazon 3D SmartPhone a Disruptor? Not at $200 Amazon is way-way-way late to the SmartPhone business, which means that CEO Jeff Bezos had one job yesterday, and that was to dazzle. As is the case with anything from Amazon,
Chelsea Handler is getting in bed with streaming giant Netflix. Will the two regret the coupling? Handler, the rowdy comic who hosted Chelsea Lately on E! for several years, will be the star of several projects for Netflix. In 2015,
This article originally appeared in City Journal Silicon Valley innovators love to talk about “disruptive innovation,” the iconic phrase coined by Harvard’s Clayton Christensen. But today, the innovators’ dilemma–to borrow from Christensen again–is how best to confront disruptive regulation from Washington, D.C.
Netflix Streams TV Shows and Bad Movies In Ultra HD 4k Netflix just added the full “Breaking Bad” series, “Smurfs 2,” and “Ghostbusters2” to their Ultra HD 4K streaming service. Doesn’t this seem like overkill as far as picture quality?
Superhero News: DC Release Schedule, ‘Amazing Spider-Man 3’ Delayed to 2017 According to Nikki Finke’s first scoop in her reboot, below is the DC film release schedule through 2018. The company is about 7 years behind Marvel but there’s no
Sigourney Weaver Resurrected for ‘Avatar’ Sequels … Will Play Different Character I don’t remember much about “Avatar” — I mean other than the numbing of the ass about halfway through. But I do remember the characters played by Sigourney Weaver
