The stars of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” were among the fan favorites at the 34th annual People’s Choice Awards on Tuesday, as CBS scrapped its usual live broadcast of the show in favor of a strike-friendly, pre-taped program. The two-month-old Writers Guild of America strike has taken a toll on Hollywood’s awards season, leading to the cancellation of the Golden Globes and the scaling-down of People’s Choice. The fate of other shows, including the Oscars, remains in question. The People’s Choice Awards announced last month that it would replace its traditional live show with “a new format”… Read more »
The other high-heel shoe has dropped. With no end in sight for the Hollywood writers’ strike, the 34th annual People’s Choice Awards will slash its red carpet, it was confirmed Wednesday. Organizers, meanwhile, announced a “reinvention” of the telecast as a pretaped, “magazine-style format” show: Think two-hour special, rather than Christine Lahti-caught-in-the-bathroom live TV. People’s Choice spokeswoman Jeannie Tharrington said the show requested, and was denied, a waiver from the Writers Guild of America that would have allowed union writers to work on the Jan. 8 CBS telecast. Later, WGA spokesman Greg Mitchell said the union had taken no action… Read more »
R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Matt Damon, Kim Basinger and Samuel L. Jackson, along with 100 other celebrities, have signed a letter urging President Bush not to go to war with Iraq. “We feel that military action in Iraq will allow the terrorists to fan the flames of anti-American sentiment and further destabilize the Middle East,” one of the letters signatories, actress Janeane Garofalo (“Reality Bites”), told CNN. The letter’s contents were announced in a press conference Tuesday (December 10). “War talk in Washington is alarming and unnecessary,” reads the letter, which was put together by Artists United to Win Without War,… Read more »
92.3 K-ROCK present Fuel and Insolence on the deck of the Intrepid Sea Air Space Museum in New York City. FUEL-whose music was described by Bass Player as “big, muscular, and melodic in the extreme”-are touring in support of their second platinum CD SOMETHING LIKE HUMAN (Epic). The album’s recently released third single “Bad Day” is #14 on Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart and is also receiving airplay on Hot 100 and Top 40 stations. “Bad Day” follows the massive Modern and Mainstream rock success of the album’s first two singles, the top five “Innocent” and “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)”… Read more »
Phew! We have officially reached 80 out of 100 Rising Artists You Need To Listen To In 2024. Which means we are in the home stretch! We’re back this week with our new installment of artists and bands that span across the sonic spectrum. From classic pop-punk headbangers to sugary indie tunes to emo-rap ballads, there’s something in this series for every listener. As we’ve done each week leading up to today’s featured artists, our goal has been to elevate the voices of these rising stars and to help you, the idobi listeners and readers, discover your next favorite artist… Read more »
When did YOU find out Santa [SPOILER ALERT] wasn’t real? Plus customers/workers were trapped in an IKEA store overnight due to a snowstorm… is that really a bad thing though
When did YOU find out Santa [SPOILER ALERT] wasn’t real? Plus customers/workers were trapped in an IKEA store overnight due to a snowstorm… is that really a bad thing though?
Geek Girl Riot is heading back to Capclave 2018 to make fun of romantic/stalker tropes in fiction. But first our Rioters bring you up to speed with the latest in entertainment and a review of Been So Long!
For too many people—those who work in music and fans alike—sexual harassment has become part of the experience and we need to talk about it. In this three part series we are going to try to open the dialogue.
This week: Shadowhunters, Fresh Off the Boat, For The People, Chicago Med, Riverdale, The X-Files, Grown-ish, Speechless, 9-1-1, Krypton, Station 19, Atlanta, Santa Clarita Diet, Alexa & Katie, Roxanne Roxanne, The Walking Dead.
