Garth Johnston

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Schwag Watch: HGTV Mailboxing

And today's winner of the "seriously, what in the world was the flack thinking when they ordered this one" award goes to: HGTV's new show Bought & Sold. Witness the waste of money that arrived not once, not twice, but three times today at B&C HQ. Yes, that is a plastic mailbox. So, just to reiterate, today HGTV sent us  three 3 lb. boxes measuring 15.25" x 15.25" x 3.5"... More

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Are We Being Punk'd?

MTV's Punk ' d is ending after eight seasons–or is it? The network announced the show's demise on Monday. Its "final season" premiere is 9 p.m. ET April 10, although MTV plans a "sneak peek" marathon of all eight episodes beginning at 1 p.m. ET April 7. But this isn't the first time the Ashton Kutcher-helmed prank show has been said to be on its way out. Back... More

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The Onion Adds Video "News"

Everyone's favorite news source The Onion is apparently getting into the TV news game. Sort of. Starting next week the free weekly paper is going to be launching the Onion News Network off of its website and they claim that "you will never read again." Don't believe us, here's the promo: Of course this won't be first spoof of TV news, there is a long history of it which the... More

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Pot Calls Kettle Black, Goes to Prison

There was a funny little nugget in Jonathan Miller’s NY Times story about shooting the final Sopranos scenes on location in Jersey. This tidbit was buried in parenthesis and had the misfortune of falling smack in the middle of a jump from page 1 of the Metro section to page 5. So I’ll give it the spotlight it deserves: But since it first went on the air in 1999, “The... More

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YouTube Awards MIA?

So earlier today YouTube put out this press release announcing the YouTube awards for user-generated videos in seven categories (we wrote about it here ). All well and good, right? But here's the rub: According to the press release users have between today and Friday to vote for their favorites by going to www.youtube.com/YTAwards  - at least that's what the press... More