‘Butt out Australian bullies’

Butt extinguished Australia … Director Peter Jackson has hit out at the MEAA. Photo: Reuters New Zealand thin skin director Sir Peter Jackson has lobbed a grenade across the ditch, accusing an “Australian bully boy” actors union of threatening to derail his big parcel Hollywood fantasy The Hobbit. The Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance has [...]

Not Your Grandma's Coupon: Groupon Takes Manhattan … and Every Other City

On a modern summer day at Chicago’s “Kid’s Table,” manager Anastasia LaBorde rest her business inundated with phone calls. On a typical day at the furnish, which hosts children’s cooking classes, LaBorde receives a handful of calls from rare would-be patrons and clients. But on this day, by midafternoon, she’d accepted more than 100 calls. [...]

Italian press blasts Eat Pray Love

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Ch7 launches third digital channel

Seven has pitched its third digital channel, 7mate, at men. The Seven Network will launch a third digital channel, 7mate, which will target male viewers. “The launch of 7mate delivers us a awful platform of channels targeting specific audience demographics – leveraging our chief channel’s success with women and 7Two’s targeting of a 25+ full [...]

Filthy rich but still not happy

Click instead of more photos TV’s top earners Hugh Laurie is TV’s highest paid play actor, commanding more than $400,000 per episode. Photo: Timothy White The prosperity of House has made its star one of the best-paid and greatest part-watched people on the planet – but he still can’t quite believe it, says William Langley [...]