HOW OUTRAGEOUS WILL GERVAIS BE AT SUNDAY’S GOLDEN GLOBES?

NBC has launched a promotional campaign for Sunday night’s telecast of the 2012 Golden Globe Awards showing host Rickey Gervais with a pair of scissors cutting a gag wrapped around his mouth. Gervais himself posted a photograph of himself making a cockeyed face at the camera and holding up a handful of cash in front […]

PIERS MORGAN SPARS WITH HIS PREDECESSOR, LARRY KING

Larry King returned to his old CNN haunts on Wednesday, where he was interviewed by Piers Morgan, the man who succeeded him. Morgan immediately expressed his dismay at King’s comments on BBC radio last week that Morgan had been oversold by CNN in promos in which Morgan referred to himself as “dangerous.” Morgan wasted no […]

OLBERMANN’S SUSPENSION: “NOT A PUBLICITY STUNT”

MSNBC personality Keith Olbermann returned to the air on Tuesday after an “indefinite” suspension — that lasted precisely two days — for violating a company rule barring its hosts from contributing to political campaigns without permission. Although his return to the air was likely to boost ratings for his show, Olbermann insisted, “This was not […]