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The movie and TV streaming joint venture Hulu has closed a deal to license its webseries “Spoilers with Kevin Smith” to the Canadian cable TV channel Space, Variety reports. This is the first time Hulu has sold some of its original content to a TV channel – albeit a non-US one (Space belongs to Canadian Continue Reading →

Just six million people caught The Tony Awards earlier this month on CBS, continuing the downward rating funk of this jewel on the entertainment awards scene. Of the big four annual network TV award ceremonies – the other three being the Academy, Emmy and Grammy Awards – the Tonys, year-in and year-out, land on the Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120620_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Got a huge blank space in your living room and $11,000 extra bucks lying around? Sharp sure hopes you do.  The company released the largest ever LED television set coming in at a whopping 90 inches.  To give you a sense of scale, that’s as wide as Continue Reading →

The Department of Justice may have taken Netflix chief Reed Hastings’ net neutrality complaints about Comcast as a lot more than just sour grapes. It’s reportedly conducting an investigation into whether Comcast, AT&T and other TV providers are anti-competitive in their data restrictions. The Wall Street Journal cites primary concerns that Comcast’s Xfinity TV cap Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120606_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] This week game makers and gamers alike have made their way to the Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3. So far, the big announcements have come from Xbox and Nintendo and it’s all about multi-screens. Microsoft announced Xbox SmartGlass, an app that will work with Windows Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120418_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Believe it or not, Hulu has been around for five years.  But the big news is that its $8-a-month Hulu Plus service just topped 2 million subscribers.  This week, Hulu is going to pitch advertisers on something really new – original programming.  You know Hulu from its Continue Reading →

Five years ago, some of the most powerful players in television banded together to introduce Hulu, a streaming service intended to revolutionize the TV industry. This week, Hulu will look more like a traditional network than an Internet pioneer. Read the full story at The New York Times Continue Reading →

Next Issue Media, a joint venture between Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp, and Time Inc., has formally unveiled its Android tablet newsstand, which has been referred to as “Hulu for magazines.”  Read the full story at PC Mag Read more Top Stories Continue Reading →

Remember the game show 1 vs. 100, where one contestant played against 100 people for a cash jackpot? As the lone contestant built up his/her end of the jackpot (through incredibly inane multiple-choice questions) host Bob Saget (later Carrie Ann Inaba) would call for a decision to play on with this question: Do you want Continue Reading →

I know it’s early to make declarations over what 2012 will be remembered for, but you get the impression that we may, yes may, look back at the week of International CES in Las Vegas as the beginning of the “controllable” TV era. By controllable, manipulating your TV set and what you watch off it Continue Reading →