The beautiful Vanessa Williams @ The TV Land Awards yesterday..Monday, 9 June 2008
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Saturday, 7 June 2008
Friday, 6 June 2008
MTV Networks Europe has been fined a total of £255,000 ($484,500) by U.K. media regulator Ofcom for "widespread and persistent" breaches of its broadcasting code by four of its channels.The Viacom-owned operator will have to pay the following penalties:
TMF £80,000 ($152,000), MTV France £35,000 ($66,500), MTV UK £80,000 ($152,000) and MTV Hits £60,000 ($114,000).
The "highly offensive language and material" was broadcast before the 9pm family-viewing watershed.
Auds complained about a number of shows. They included: repeated use
of the words "motherfucker" , "fuck you" and "fuck" in a music video by Aphex Twin for the song "Windowlicker" on TMF, and racist and homophobic text messages aired by MTV France in "Belge Chat."
Additionally TMF screened a trailer for the reality skein "Totally Jodie Marsh" on seven occasions between 9.48am and 3.15pm on July 24 last year containing the sentence: "I just don't want you settling down with some fucking wanker from a modeling agency."
Other breaches identified by Ofcom included a 4.30pm broadcast of MTV UK show "Totally Boyband" in 2006 featuring "extensive offensive language."
In a statement the regulator said: "Ofcom concluded that this material was not justified by the context of broadcasts that were likely to appeal to children and that the likely audience would have expected to have been protected from the most offensive language and material in
such programming. "
A spokesman for MTV said: "MTV Networks Europe takes this sanction and fine very seriously and has taken a series of steps to minimize as much as possible any breaches in the future.
"These include strengthening procedures regarding programs for pre-watershed broadcast, reviewing MTV's archive programming, increasing the number of staff involved in compliance and investing in a new channel management system."
Variety. (Europe)
Thursday, 5 June 2008
A book publisher has sued Victoria Gotti for the return of an advance she was paid to write a memoir she never delivered.HarperCollins Publishers LLC says in court papers filed Thursday in New York that the book was due in 2005. Gotti notified HarperCollins last September she was terminating the contract.
The lawsuit says the daughter of the late "Dapper Don" John Gotti and star of the reality show "Growing Up Gotti" did not return the $70,000 advance.
Literary agent Frank Weiman says his client will return the money when he gets her another deal.
Weiman says Gotti made her book deal with former publishing heavyweight Judith Regan and that Gotti canceled because Regan and other editors his client dealt with left HarperCollins.
Yahoo News
T.I. is set to star in three upcoming high-profile movies, after signing a multi-picture deal with a Hollywood film company.The contract with Screen Gems has landed the hip-hop star a role opposite Matt Dillon and Idris Elba in forthcoming film Bone Deep, a thriller about bank robbers attempting their final heist.
The second T.I.-starring film is titled Boulevard and is in pre-production phases, while the third is still in development, reports AllHipHop.com.
T.I who acted alongside Denzel Washington in the 2007 drama American Gangster, is also set to star in his own reality series on MTV, about the 1,000 hours of community service he must perform before his year-long imprisonment for possessing unregistered guns.
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