Nadya Suleman might consider her decision to have octuplets "irrational," but she's still totally going to sell the birth video. Maybe Ashley Dupre can teach her how to meditate amid 14 screaming kids. Despite what Dr. Phil was told, someone's shopping a tape of Octo-Mom giving birth, shot by one of...

Filed under: OpEd, Festivus, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten Ah, 2009. Come in, come in! Have a seat at my crystal ball. Oh, I know it's cracked, but don't worry -- it's still useful. You are so young, so virile, my little new year. You are also ripe...ripe for me to predict your future. I see plenty in ...

Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Stargate, Festivus, Eli Stone, Reality-Free I was looking at my last two Festivus wish lists in an attempt to determine if any of my requests came true. Turns out, many of them did come to fruition -- something that I'm damn proud of. Sadly, a new sitcom for Dustin ...

What does Ben Silverman, skiing enthusiast and co-chairman of craptacular NBC, do when everyone wonders why he's still employed? Judging by today's New York Post , tell his favorite outlet how great he is. Jeff Zucker has canned pretty much everyone responsible for finding new NBC shows — exce...

As Jeff Zucker foists his last hopes for NBC on Jay Leno and his arsenal of funny little newspaper-clipping typos, his arch nemesis—future galactic despot Les Moonves—couldn't help but hijack the opportunity to engage in a favorite pastime: an old-fashioned, TV honcho dick-measuring cont...

newVideoPlayer("/Conan_LenoShowers.flv", 506, 423,""); All eyes were on Conan O'Brien last night in anticipation of what, if anything, he'd say about NBC's surprise announcement that Jay Leno would upstage his long-planned ascension to The Tonight Show throne. (With a half-hour of local news between...

So SAG's fucked. Wait—did we say "fucked?" There we go again—needless doomsday prophesying where Obaman cool-headedness is clearly required. What we meant to say is: "SAG's probably fucked." Yesterday brought a confluence of Pop Culture Doomsday events that not even a walrus blowing like...

Jay Leno will stay at NBC and move to 10pm weeknight slot after Conan O'Brien takes over his Tonight Show in June, Broadcasting & Cable and Nikki Finke are reporting. Everyone thought Leno was probably going to end up at ABC after he said in a July interview "I am definitely done next year — w...

On Monday afternoon, NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker appeared at the UBS 36th Annual Global Media and Communications Conference at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan, where he delivered the day's keynote address to a banquet hall of lunching media entrepreneurs, investors, and bankers. Over the course of ...

Photo: Getty Images MEDIA • After MSNBC host Keith Olbermann slammed Fox News, Fox News chairman Roger Ailes called NBC chief Jeff Zucker and said if he didn't quit it, he'd unleash angry old man Bill O'Reilly and the New York Post on NBC and its parent company, GE. O'Reilly was happy to oblig...