ANOTHER SILENT FILM LOOKING FOR OSCAR VOTE

Only months after The Artist received the best picture award at the Oscars, another black-and-white silent film produced by a European company is garnering rapturous reviews and could wind up competing with Hollywood’s best in the awards voting next year. On Wednesday, Spain selected Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves as its entry in the competition for the [...]

NBC POSTS WHOLE SEASONS OF SHOWS ONLINE

In a departure from standard practice by most network broadcasters, NBC has begun posting entire seasons of some of its shows on its website. Ordinarily only a handful of recent episodes are posted online, since producers worry that the shows would face difficulty on the syndication market if they were already available on the Internet. [...]

WORLD SERIES LIGHTS UP FRIDAY NIGHT (Updated)

Who says people are abandoning their TV sets on Friday nights? Give them something worthwhile to watch, it would seem, and they’ll tune in. And tune in they did en masse Friday for the seventh and deciding game of the World Series on Fox. According to a network press release, an average of 25.4 million [...]