Category: TV
Egg-vertising.
CBS will advertise TV shows for its fall lineup on the shells of eggs.
Post date: Monday, July 17th, 2006.
Destination Truth.
TV crew discovers fresh Bigfoot footprint in the jungles of Johor, Malaysia.
Post date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006.
COSE.
System that will allow users to communicate in “chat room” style using televisions. (via)
Post date: Monday, February 6th, 2006.
Dead woman watching.
Ohio woman has been sitting in front of her TV dead for 2 ½ years.
Post date: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006.
Dude.
Five of the six numbers from ABC’s Lost TV drama show up in Irish lottery. (via)
Post date: Saturday, December 17th, 2005.
Dead Body Guy.
Man who wants to play dead for a living. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, December 13th, 2005.
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Apple dashboard widget that simulates the Dharma Initiative computer from the TV show Lost, in which you must enter the correct code and push the button every 108 minutes. (via)
Post date: Thursday, December 8th, 2005.
The Force is with them.
Cable channel buys TV rights to all six Star Wars movies. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2005.
Moving ads.
German electronics firm has created paper-sized TV screens that can be used to animate ads in newspapers and magazines. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 14th, 2005.
MAD face.
Dr. Claw, the villain on the Inspector Gadget TV show, has his face finally revealed. (via)
Post date: Friday, October 14th, 2005.
Batmaaaaaaan.
Scientists have taught dolphins to sing the Batman theme. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 5th, 2005.
Buddy system.
RentmyDVR.com: Hire someone to digitally record your favorite TV show for you to download. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, October 4th, 2005.
CSI: Topeka.
Controversial Hallmark greeting card makes fun of a Kansas city. (via)
Post date: Saturday, October 1st, 2005.
Choose your own adventure.
British TV show is allowing its viewers to interact with the plot and chose the outcome by voting with text-messaging.
Post date: Monday, September 26th, 2005.
Ratings booster.
Dutch man to take heroin and LSD live on TV. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2005.
Mr. Potato.
Sri Lankan man breaks record for longest time spent watching TV: almost 70 hours.
Post date: Friday, September 16th, 2005.
Pricelessly awful.
The ‘Chuck says, Rufus says, Kathy says‘ hilarity that was R. Kelly’s live performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Not ready for prime time.
Man who held up a convenience store with a ‘drill bit‘ may have been influenced by TV crime shows. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Noooooooooooooo!
Charlie Murphy: ‘Chappelle’s Show is over‘.
Post date: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005.
Party time. Excellent.
Air guitar to be subject of study for PhD.
Post date: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005.
Step away from the La-Z-Boy.
This just in: Men still hog the remote.
Post date: Monday, August 1st, 2005.
Please Cooter don’t hurt ‘em.
Cooter is urging Dukes of Hazzard purists to boycott the upcoming new movie. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, July 13th, 2005.
Made for CSI.
A passenger involved in a fatal car accident in Japan had been dead at least one day before the accident. (via)
Post date: Monday, June 27th, 2005.
Do not try this at home.
Unlike a scene out of Jackass, kidnap prankster wannabes get busted.
Post date: Monday, June 20th, 2005.
Preparation.
Some interesting footage of Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston for an upcoming reality TV show.
Post date: Wednesday, June 8th, 2005.
You mean that stuff isn’t real?
And now you have it: the real dope on fake dope.
Post date: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005.
Yee-haw
What if you could watch the Dukes of Hazzard for a year on TV, learn everything you could about the show, and get paid 100k for it. Seriously!
Post date: Friday, February 25th, 2005.
Movies all month
Turner Classic Movies is doing their annual 31 Days of Oscar, where they show movies all month that have won at least one Academy Award. The real cool thing is that they take full advantage of the ‘cable’ idea and keep all original content in, even vulgarity. And no commercials either! Woo-hoo!
Post date: Friday, February 11th, 2005.
Gay TV star
Marcia Cross of Desperate Housewives apparently has an image problem with her sexuality.
Post date: Thursday, February 10th, 2005.






