Coming to a stage near you: Glee the musical
Posted by Simon in Music, Television on 14. Nov, 2009 | 0 Comments
Perusing this NYT story on Glee and music labels, I encountered a quote that made me pause and wear my “deep thought face,” for a minute or two. “TV has basically become the new radio. It is about exposure and making an impression.” Leonard Richardson, vice president of music at the CW network. Record labels are [...]
Fox Corp has cow over Toronto scribe's Simpsons story
Posted by Jef in media, Pop Culture, Television on 15. Oct, 2009 | 0 Comments
Released this week was The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History, Toronto-raised John Ortved’s oral history of The Simpsons franchise spun from his 2007 Vanity Fair story on the same topic. According to a piece Ortved wrote for the Daily Beast, a behind-the-scenes piece about the behind-the-scenes book (can I get a natch?), his poking through [...]
