Susie Dent, 56, is the resident lexicographer on Countdown alongside host Nick Hewer, 77, and mathematician Rachel Riley, 35. The main show presenter stepped down from his role after a decade on the Channel 4 programme, with Anne Robinson, 77
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Friday, February 19
Sunday, February 14
'SNL' host Regina King is Gorilla Glue hair victim seeking legal compensation: 'You are not alone'
"Saturday Night Live" guest host Regina King starred in a skit taken from today's viral headlines – as a woman who used Gorilla Glue in her hair to disastrous results. The woman seeks legal compensation in a spoof of accident lawyer
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Friday, February 12
'Chappelle's Show' is streaming on Netflix again with Dave Chappelle's blessing
Dave Chappelle has given his blessing to Netflix to run "Chappelle's Show," which will start streaming again Friday after the service pulled it over the comedian's displeasure with the licensing of the show. Chappelle announced the news during
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Wednesday, February 10
Rush Limbaugh continues to fight advanced lung cancer as staffers pray for remission
Conservative talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh continues to battle advanced lung cancer and will miss Wednesday’s program as his staff prays for a remission. Producer James Golden, who is known by his pseudonym Bo Snerdley to millions of Limbaugh
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Thursday, February 4
Kyle Griffin
Kyle Griffin is a writer and producer at MSNBC. He is presently a producer of The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an hour-long weeknight news and political commentary program. He lives in Manhattan, New York City.Griffin grew up in Upstate New York as a child.
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Biden has fired more of Trump's Labor appointees:
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 4, 2021
Unions said Trump's appointees to the Federal Service Impasses Panel were trying to rewrite collective bargaining agreements.
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Wednesday, September 21
Anderson Cooper talks to mom Gloria Vanderbilt about brother’s suicide
Gloria Vanderbilt spoke of Carter Cooper, her son. The U.S. heiress and fashion designer said she will never get over the 1988 suicide of the 23-year-old. People.com said Monday that Vanderbilt, 87, talked about Carter's death on the new syndicated talk show of her surviving son Anderson Cooper. During their conversation, Vanderbilt recalled how Carter leaped from the 14th-floor terrace of his family's New York penthouse apartment, UPI.com reported.
"When he went … I thought he was going to come back, but he didn't," People.com quoted Vanderbilt as saying in the interview. "He let go, and there was a moment when I thought I was going to jump over after him. "I thought of you and it stopped me from jumping," Vanderbilt told Cooper. "You never get over it, but you learn to live with it." "The fatal loss stripped me bare," Vanderbilt said in a book that discusses losing Carter, who was a seemingly confident Princeton graduate. Cooper’s second week followed this trend, beginning with an extremely emotional interview with his mother Gloria Vanderbilt about the suicide of his brother in 1988. Carter Vanderbilt Cooper jumped from his family’s New York penthouse to his death when he was just 23-years-old.
Vanderbilt told her son that she considered jumping after him, but stopped when she thought of Anderson. “There’s this word closure,” the 87-year-old heiress said. “And there is never closure on something that happens like this.” “It’s a TV word,” a slightly choked up Cooper added. He then invited his mother’s favorite singer, Judy Collins, to sing “Amazing Grace.” But, this being “Anderson,” this deeply emotional moment was followed by an appearance from comedian Kathy Griffin — Vanderbilt’s “fantasy daughter.”
Sunday, March 27
TV advertisement rates for India-Pak semifinal up by 350%
Team India lives another day to play the dream semifinal against Pakistan and that means advertisers, who banked on the 50- over World Cup, feel they have got a bigger bang for their buck than expected.
It's not only the advertisers, the ICC World Cup is turning out to be a jackpot for the broadcaster ESPN Star Sports (ESS) as well. Media planners told TOI that ESS has hiked its advertising rates-the amount a brand pays to be seen on air-to as much as Rs 17-18 lakh for a ten second spot for the India-Pakistan semifinal scheduled to be played in Mohali on March 30. This is a huge jump from Rs 3.5- 4 lakh for a ten second spot the broadcaster charged before the start of the tournament.
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Saturday, February 26
Nikki Finke
Early life
Finke was raised on Long Island in New York, where she attended Buckley Country Day School and the Hewitt School. She graduated from Wellesley College.
Career
She worked in Washington D.C. for New York congressman Ed Koch, before joining the Associated Press (AP). She worked for the AP in Baltimore, Boston, the foreign desk at the New York City headquarters, Moscow, and London. Finke later worked for The Dallas Morning News. She joined the staff of Newsweek as a correspondent in Washington and Los Angeles, then at the Los Angeles Times as a staff writer covering entertainment and features. Finke became West Coast Editor for The New York Observer and then New York, where she penned Hollywood business columns. Finke has also written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, The Washington Post, Salon.com, Premiere, and Los Angeles magazine. She appears occasionally on radio and television commenting about the entertainment and media business.
Finke began writing her LA Weekly column "Deadline Hollywood" in June 2002, and began the Deadline (Deadline Hollywood Daily until September 2009) blog in March 2006 as a daily online version of her weekly column. She describes it as her "forum to break news about the infotainment industry."
The New York Times described Finke as "a digital-age Walter Winchell" with an "in your face" writing style, who is "feared by Hollywood executives". Deadline became a key information portal during the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, tripling her readership; according to the Times, "Finke’s Web site has become a critical forum for Hollywood . . . But it is the strike that may have finally solidified her position as a Hollywood power broker." Finke claimed to have worked "almost around the clock" during the strike; in 2009 the Los Angeles Times noted her announcement of a five-day vacation.
In 2008 Finke was named on Elle magazine's 25 most influential women in Hollywood list,[9] and to the Heeb Magazine 100. In 2009 she sold Deadline to Jay Penske's Mail.com Media Corp, reportedly for $14 Million, under an agreement by which she continues as the writer and editor of the website.
Reception
Praise
In 2006, Finke's LA Weekly columns won First Place in the Alternative Weekly Awards for the category Media Reporting/Criticism, Circulation >50,000. In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke’s salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that’s just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat." In the 2007 AltWeekly Awards, Deadline won Second Place.
A studio executive said of Finke, "She's very, very, very, accurate, extraordinarily so—you have a supposedly private conversation with two other people, and it's on her site within an hour." Charlie Koones, former Variety publisher, called her a "once-in-a-generation talent".
Criticism
Observers have questioned Finke's "harsh tone", "summary executions," "penchant for innuendo and unnamed sources", and allegedly giving better coverage to "her favorites" and frequent sources, such as Ari Emanuel and Ronald Meyer. In 2008 she was criticized for first posting a Sony press release and then adding her own analysis which contradicted the release without updating the time stamp, and in early 2009 she was accused of retroactively altering a Deadline Hollywood Daily report about the director of the third Twilight film.
Personal life
Finke had a 14-year relationship with Jeffrey W. Greenberg, getting engaged in 1974 and married in 1980.They divorced in 1982.
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Friday, December 17
Larry King
He is recognized in the United States as one of the premier broadcast interviewers. He has won an Emmy Award, two Peabody Awards, and ten Cable ACE Awards.
King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and '60s. He became prominent as an all-night national radio broadcaster starting in 1978, and then, in 1985, began hosting the nightly interview TV program Larry King Live on CNN.
On June 29, 2010, it was announced that he would step down as host of the show but would continue to host specials for CNN. In early September, CNN confirmed that he would be replaced by Piers Morgan. King's last show aired on December 16.
Early life
King was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to Edward Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense plant worker, and his wife Jennie Gitlitz, a garment worker, who emigrated from Belarus. King grew up in a religious and observant Jewish home, but in adulthood became an agnostic. King's father died at 44 of heart disease, and his mother had to go on welfare to support her two sons. His father's death greatly affected King, and he lost interest in school. After graduating from high school, he worked to help support his mother. From an early age, however, he had wanted to go into radio. His last show was aired on December 16th 2010 at 10:00 PM EST.
Career
Miami radio and television
A CBS staff announcer, whom King met by chance, told him to go to Florida, a growing media market where openings still existed for inexperienced broadcasters. King rode a bus to Miami. After initial setbacks, King persisted and got his first job in radio. The manager of a small station, WAHR (now WMBM) in Miami Beach, hired him to clean up and perform miscellaneous tasks. When one of their announcers quit, they put King on the air. His first broadcast was on May 1, 1957, when he worked as the disc jockey from 9 a.m. to noon. He also did two afternoon newscasts and a sportscast. He was paid $55 a week. He acquired the name Larry King when the general manager Martial Cemen said that Zeiger was too ethnic and difficult to remember, so Larry chose the surname King, which he got from an ad in The Miami Herald for King's Wholesale Liquor, minutes before air. He started interviewing on a midmorning show for WIOD, at Pumpernik's Restaurant in Miami Beach. He would interview anyone who walked in. His first interview was with a waiter at the restaurant. Two days later, singer Bobby Darin, in Miami for a concert later that day, walked into Pumpernick's as a result of coming across King's show on his radio; Darin became King's first celebrity interview guest.
His Miami radio show launched him to local stardom. A few years later, in May 1960, he hosted Miami Undercover, airing Sunday nights at 11:30 p.m. on WPST-TV Channel 10 (now WPLG). On the show, he moderated debates on important issues of the time. King credits his success on local TV to the assistance of another showbiz legend, comedian Jackie Gleason, whose national TV variety show was being filmed in Miami Beach during this period. "That show really took off because Gleason came to Miami," King said in a 1996 interview he gave when inducted into the Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. "He did that show and stayed all night with me. We stayed till five in the morning. He didn't like the set, so we broke into the general manager's office and changed the set. Gleason changed the set, he changed the lighting, and he became like a mentor of mine." Jackie Gleason was instrumental in getting Larry a hard-to-get on air interview with Frank Sinatra during this time.
During this period, WIOD gave King further exposure as a color commentator for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, during their 1970 season and most of their 1971 season. However, he was dismissed by both WIOD and television station WTVJ as a late-night radio host and sports commentator as of December 20, 1971, when he was arrested after being accused of grand larceny by a former business partner. Other staffers covered the Dolphins' games into their 24–3 loss to Dallas in Super Bowl VI. King also lost his weekly column at the Miami Beach Sun newspaper. The charges were dropped on March 10, 1972, and King spent the next several years in reviving his career, including a stint as the color announcer in Louisiana for the Shreveport Steamer of the World Football League in 1974–75. For several years during the 1970s in South Florida, he hosted a sports talk-show called "Sports-a-la-King" that featured guests and callers.
King managed to get back into radio by becoming the color commentator for broadcasts of the Shreveport Steamer of the World Football League on KWKH. Eventually, King was rehired by WIOD in Miami.
National radio
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In 1978, he went national, inheriting the nightly talk show slot on the Mutual Broadcasting System, broadcast coast-to-coast, that had been "Long John" Nebel's until his death, and had been pioneered by Herb Jepko. One reason King got the Mutual job is that he had once been an announcer at WGMA-AM in Hollywood, Florida, which was then owned by C. Edward Little. Little went on to become president of Mutual and was the one who hired King when Nebel died. King's Mutual show developed a devoted audience.
It was broadcast live Monday through Friday from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time. King would interview a guest for the first 90 minutes, with callers asking questions that continued the interview for another 90 minutes. At 3 a.m., he would allow callers to discuss any topic they pleased with him, until the end of the program, when he expressed his own political opinions. That segment was called "Open Phone America". Some of the regular callers used the pseudonyms "The Portland Laugher", "The Miami Derelict", "The Todd Cruz Caller", "The Scandal Scooper", "Mr. Radio" and "The Water Is Warm Caller". "Mr. Radio" made over 200 calls to King during Open Phone America. The show was successful, starting with relatively few affiliates and eventually growing to more than 500. It ran until 1994.
For its final year, the show was moved to afternoons, but, because most talk radio stations at the time had an established policy of local origination in the time-slot (3 to 6 p.m. Eastern Time) that Mutual offered the show, a very low percentage of King's overnight affiliates agreed to carry his daytime show and it was unable to generate the same audience size. The afternoon show was eventually given to David Brenner and radio affiliates were given the option of carrying the audio of King's new CNN evening television program. The Westwood One radio simulcast of the CNN show continues.
CNN
Larry King Live
He started his Larry King Live CNN show in June 1985, hosting a broad range of guests from controversial figures of UFO conspiracy theories and alleged psychics, to prominent politicians and leading figures in the entertainment industry, often doing their first or only interview on breaking news stories on his show.
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Unlike many interviewers, King has a direct, non-confrontational approach. His reputation for asking easy, open-ended questions has made him attractive to important figures who want to state their position while avoiding being challenged on contentious topics. His interview style is characteristically frank, but with occasional bursts of irreverence and humor. His approach attracts some guests who would not otherwise appear. King, who is known for his general lack of pre-interview preparation, once bragged that he never read the books of authors before making an appearance on his program.
In a show dedicated to the surviving Beatles King asked George Harrison's widow about the song "Something", which was written about George Harrison's first wife. He seemed surprised when she did not know very much about the song.
Throughout his career King has interviewed many of the leading figures of his time. CNN claimed during his final episode that he had performed 60,000 interviews in his career.
King also wrote a regular newspaper column in USA Today for almost 20 years, from shortly after that newspaper's origin in 1982 until September 2001. The column consisted of short "plugs, superlatives and dropped names" but was dropped when the newspaper redesigned its "Life" section. The column was resurrected in blog form in November 2008 and on Twitter in April 2009.
Departure
On June 29, 2010, King announced that after 25 years, he would be stepping down from his nightly job hosting Larry King Live. However, he stated that he would remain with CNN to host occasional specials. The announcement came in the wake of speculation that CNN had approached Piers Morgan, the British television personality and journalist, as King's primetime replacement.
On September 8, 2010, CNN confirmed that Morgan would occupy King's 9:00 pm timeslot from January 2011 onward.
The final edition of Larry King Live aired on December 16.
Heart disease
On February 24, 1987, King suffered a major heart attack and then had quintuple-bypass surgery. King has written two books about living with heart disease. Mr. King, You're Having a Heart Attack: How a Heart Attack and Bypass Surgery Changed My Life (1989, ISBN 0-440-50039-7) was written with New York's Newsday science editor B. D. Colen. Taking On Heart Disease: Famous Personalities Recall How They Triumphed over the Nation's #1 Killer and How You Can, Too (2004, ISBN 1-57954-820-2) features the experience of various celebrities with cardiovascular disease including Peggy Fleming and Regis Philbin.
On February 12, 2010, Larry King revealed that he had undergone surgery 5 weeks earlier to place stents in his coronary artery to remove plaque from his heart. During the segment on Larry King Live which discussed Bill Clinton's similar procedure, King said he was "feeling great" and had been in hospital for just one day.
Charitable works
As a result of heart attacks, he established the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, an organization to which David Letterman, through his American Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming, has also contributed. King gave $1 million to George Washington University's School of Media and Public Affairs for scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
On September 3, 2005, following the devastation to the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, King aired "How You Can Help", a three-hour special designed to provide a forum and information clearinghouse for viewers to understand and join nationwide and global relief efforts. Guest Richard Simmons, a native of New Orleans, told him, "Larry, you don't even know how much money you raised tonight. When we rebuild the city of New Orleans, we're going to name something big after you."
On January 18, 2010, in the wake of the devastation caused by the 2010 Haiti earthquake, King aired "Haiti: How You Can Help", a special two-hour edition designed to show viewers how to take action and be a part of the global outreach.
King serves as a member of the Board of Directors on the Police Athletic League of New York City, a nonprofit youth development agency serving inner-city children and teenagers.
On August 30, 2010, King served as the host of Chabad's 30th annual "To Life" telethon, in Los Angeles.
Controversial positions
On September 10, 1990, while on The Joan Rivers Show, Rivers asked King which contestant in the Miss America pageant was "the ugliest". King responded, "Miss Pennsylvania. She was one of the 10 finalists and she did a great ventriloquist bit The dummy was prettier." King was a judge for the September 8, 1990 pageant. King later sent Miss Pennsylvania, Marla Wynne, a dozen long-stemmed roses and a telegram apologizing for saying she was the ugliest contestant in the pageant that year.
In 1997, King was one of 34 celebrities to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested the treatment of Scientologists in Germany, comparing it to the Nazis' oppression of Jews in the 1930s. Other signatories included Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn.
Personal life
King has been married eight times, to seven women. He married high-school sweetheart Freda Miller in 1951 at age 18. The union ended the following year at the behest of their parents, who reportedly had the marriage annulled. King was later briefly married to Annette Kaye who gave birth to his son, Larry Jr., in November 1961. King did not meet Larry Jr. until the son was in his thirties. Larry Jr. and his wife, Shannon, have three children.
In 1961, King married his third wife, Alene Akins, a Playboy bunny at one of the magazine's titular nightclubs. The couple had son Andy in 1962, and divorced the following year. In 1963, King married his fourth wife, Mary Francis "Mickey" Sutphin, who divorced King. He remarried Akins, with whom he had a second child, Chaia, in 1969. The couple divorced a second time in 1972. In 1997, Dove Books published a book written by King and Chaia, Daddy Day, Daughter Day. Aimed at young children, it tells each of their accounts of his divorce from Akins.
On September 25, 1976, King married his fifth wife, math teacher and production assistant Sharon Lepore. The couple divorced in 1983.
King met businesswoman Julie Alexander in summer 1989, and proposed to her on the couple's first date, on August 1, 1989. Alexander became King's sixth wife on October 7, 1989, when the two were married in Washington, D.C. The couple lived in different cities, however, with Alexander in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and King in Washington, D.C., where he worked. The couple separated in 1990 and divorced in 1992. He became engaged to actress Deanna Lund in 1995, after five weeks of dating, but they never married.
He married his seventh wife, Shawn Southwick, born in 1959 as Shawn Oro Engemann, a former singer and TV host , in King's Los Angeles, California, hospital room three days before King underwent heart surgery to clear a clogged blood vessel. The couple has two children: Chance, born March 1999, and Cannon, born May 2000. He is stepfather to Danny Southwick. On King and Southwick's 10th anniversary in September 2007, Southwick boasted she was "the only [wife] to have lasted into the two digits". On April 14, 2010, both Larry and Shawn King filed for divorce. but have since stopped the proceedings, claiming "We love our children, we love each other, we love being a family. That is all that matters to us".
Shawn attempted suicide in May 2010 when she overdosed on prescription pills.
In July 2009, King appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, where he told host O'Brien about his wishes to be cryogenically preserved upon death, as he had revealed in his book My Remarkable Journey.
Awards
King has received many broadcasting awards. He won the Peabody Award for Excellence in broadcasting for both his radio (1982) and television (1992) shows. He has also won 10 CableACE awards for Best Interviewer and for Best Talk Show Series.
In 1989, King was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame,[ and in 1996 to the Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. In 2002, the industry magazine Talkers named King both the fourth-greatest radio talk show host of all time and the top television talk show host of all time.
in June 1998, King received an Honorary Degree from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, for his life achievements.
King was given the Golden Mike Award for Lifetime Achievement in January 2009, by the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California.
King is an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Beverly Hills. He is also a recipient of the President's Award honoring his impact on media from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2006.
King is the first recipient of the Arizona State University Hugh Downs Award for Communication Excellence, presented April 11, 2007, via satellite by Downs himself. Downs sported red suspenders for the event and turned the tables on King by asking "very tough questions" about King's best, worst and most influential interviews during King's 50 years in broadcasting.
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Thursday, November 25
Al Norton sits down for an exclusive interview with House star and People's Choice Award nominee Lisa Edelstein.
Al Norton: Congratulations on your People's Choice Award nomination.
Lisa Edelstein: Thanks. It's so exciting.
Al Norton: I know everyone always says that awards aren't why you do this but it still must have been great to get the phone call.
Lisa Edelstein: I don't even think it was a phone call, I think I saw it on-line. It's really nice, especially the People's Choice Awards because it's the audiences that are voting so you really feel like you're in touch with the people watching the show.
Al Norton: I have a theory that the reason no one else from House has been nominated for an Emmy or a Golden Globe is that Hugh is so good, people tend to overlook others on the show. I think a lot of people would be surprised to learn no one other than Hugh has gotten a nomination.
Lisa Edelstein: I'm not sure if that's what it is. It's a lead plus an ensemble and the network really pushes it as House. All the ads are House. You're introduced to the show as Huge Laurie plus ensemble in a procedural, and once you get procedural in there people tend not to notice the ensemble. I think there are a lot of elements in it. But he is pretty fantastic, that Hugh, and everyone has to step up their game when acting in a scene with him.
Al Norton: If the show had a different title it might be easier for the rest of you.
Lisa Edelstein: When we started the show we didn't have a title, it was "The Untitled David Shore Medical Project" or something and when they said they were going to call it House, Huge was horrified (laughing). He was like, "you can't call it House, it's not about House." I think when he read the script he really comprehended how much the focus would be centered on him.
Al Norton: Did you know from day one that Cuddy and House would get together or did last season's finale catch you off guard?
Lisa Edelstein: I always thought that they would get together. I thought it was in the pilot, honestly. Some people saw it, some people didn't, but I thought they had chemistry from the get go.
Al Norton: Did you think that there were things that had to happen to the characters before they could get there?
Lisa Edelstein: Definitely. When you're someone's boss, there's a dynamic you have to be very careful with so I think they had to work around it for a really long time. Plus I think on the show they didn't want to go there for as long as possible.
Al Norton: For any show with a "will they or won't they" tension, the worry is that you don't want to drag it out too long and have the audience lose interest and then the main thing is, what happens next.
Lisa Edelstein: I thought about all of that, too, but I don't think the show as about "will they or won't they." I think that's an element to their particular relationship but the show is about House and his struggles to deal with the world and this is one path along that journey. That question of will they or won't they had to be resolved and now they can move on to dealing with House being somewhat incapable of having intimacy. We had to see that, and see that with someone who was important enough to him where there were high stakes.
Al Norton: The love scene with House and Cuddy in the season premiere was very well done. I really like how they didn't use any music. Did you spend a lot of time blocking it?
Lisa Edelstein: We didn't, no. You kind of get an idea of where you're going and then you let everything unfold. It's more about organic movement and feeling like your peaking into an intimate moment. I think they really didn't want to skip over what happens when this happens. They didn't want it to be some crescendo, they slam against the wall, they start having sex, and then it cuts to everyone sighing and then they're back to work. I think they really wanted to take a moment, look behind closed doors and be with these people who are newly discovering each other, and stay quiet for a minute, and then bring them back into the world of Princeton Plainsborough.
Al Norton: Do you think the audience got enough closure with Cuddy and Lucas or do you think they were just ready for House and Cuddy to get together?
Lisa Edelstein: Yes, it was a little abrupt they way the ended the Lucas storyline (laughing). I mean, we knew it was coming to an end and again, the show isn't called Cuddy, so her story isn't what unfolds on camera. You just see enough of her story to see how it relates to him. I do think there was a lot of the end of the relationship with Lucas in 5 to 9, even though that wasn't actually the end. You kind of got a sense of what she could get from Lucas that she couldn't get from House but more importantly what she could get from House that she couldn't get from Lucas.
Al Norton: Do you remember at all what your expectations were when you got the job?
Lisa Edelstein: You can't really go into a pilot having much in the way of expectations. The only thing you can do is read a script and decide whether you think it's well written, if you think it has a chance for survival, and if you think you'd be interested in playing that character for seven years. That was my magic number in my head and here we are, in season seven.
Al Norton: And you're not going anywhere.
Lisa Edelstein: I hope not. We have no idea yet. There's stuff going on between the network and the studio and we're just waiting to find out.
Al Norton: Is that hard as an actor, to know that there are so many other things involved in a show getting and staying on the air other than just if it's good and how many people watch?
Lisa Edelstein: This is a business, so of course you think of that. Yes, it's an art form, but it's also a very big business. Our show, any show, is really just the space between commercials and you're reminded of that all the time (laughing) and you make the best of it. Like I said, when you read a pilot script you have to decide if you think the world will be interested in it long term, if you will be interested in it long term. You have to assume it's going to last forever while also assuming it will just be a pilot. You have to simultaneously go in both directions in your head and decide if you would feel trapped it if lasted forever and also if you think it has a chance.
Al Norton: When fans come up to you, do they address you as Cuddy?
Lisa Edelstein: Well, I rarely come in contact with a fan so delusional to think I am Cuddy. They call me Cuddy, they yell at me for my relationship with House. It's a very interesting Rorschach Test about how people respond to what they see on TV. So much of it is projection. I think in the first season of a show there is so much to be done to describe the characters and the world that they live in that there are things that are loosely drawn until little by little the details get filled in. As the writers fill in the details over the years they might not be the details that they audience had projected onto those characters and then you get people complaining that the show has changed, which is really funny because it hasn't, it's just become richer, and in a way that took them by surprise.
Al Norton: What do you watch on TV?
Lisa Edelstein: Mad Men, True Blood, Big Love…those are my main shows. I really like Project Runway, too.
Al Norton: Can you tell me a bit about the next episode?
Lisa Edelstein: It's this really fascinating episode about this patient who gets himself crucified once a year. It's really dramatic.
Al Norton: This is the last new episode of the year so you must have a nice little break.
Lisa Edelstein: I have a break for December.
Al Norton: Earlier on in your career I would bet that a month off would have been terrible but now, with the grind of a series, a month off must sound great.
Lisa Edelstein: I always wanted to take a month off but I could never leave because I'd lose the opportunity to get another job and when you're going from job to job, it's really important to just be here. I'd leave for a week at most and I'd never know when my next job would come so it was stressful paying for a vacation. This job really has been a dream in terms of world travel. I've really taken the opportunity to go see whatever I have time to see because I know I'm coming back to a job, I know I can afford the trip. I don't want to miss that chance in my life so I really try to take advantage of it.
Don't miss House, tonight at 8pm on Fox.
Thursday, November 18
Media of France
The French press was healthiest in the aftermath of World War II. A year after the end of the war, 28 papers had a combined circulation of about six million. However, seven years later that figure had been nearly halved.
This decline was principally due to the greater popularity of the broadcast media and the subsequent diversion of advertising revenues. Recently, newly produced free papers have further weakened the established press. Still, 80 daily papers remain, and there are a wide range of weeklies, many of which now feature internet sites.
Regional papers have remained relatively unaffected by the decline, with provincial newspapers commanding a higher degree of reader loyalty. For example, Ouest-France, sells almost twice as many copies as any of the national dailies.
Magazines
Cahiers du cinéma
ELLE
Fluide Glacial
L'Expansion
L'Express
Le Figaro Magazine
Le Nouvel Observateur
Le Point
Madame Figaro
Paris Match
Picsou Magazine
Télérama
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List of French newspapers
National
Daily
La Croix (Catholic, daily)
Le Figaro (centre-right, daily)
L'Humanité (formerly the newspaper of the French Communist Party, daily)
Libération (left-wing, daily)
Le Monde (centre-left, centre, daily)
Le Parisien (daily)
La Tribune (economics, daily)
Les Échos (economics, daily)
France Soir
20 Minutes (daily, free)
Direct Matin (daily, free)
Direct Soir (daily, free)
Metro (daily, free)
L'Équipe (sports, daily)
Weekly
Le Canard enchaîné (investigative journalism, particularly on French politics, and satirical commentary, weekly)
Le Nouvel Observateur (news, center-left)
L'Express (news)
Le Point (news, right-wing)
Marianne (news)
Paris-Match (photos and people)
Télérama (cultural)
Courrier International (translated articles from press worldwide) [1]
Minute
Monthly
The Connexion (English language, monthly)
Le Monde Diplomatique (left-wing, monthly)
TheFrenchPaper (English language, monthly)
Other
La Bougie du Sapeur, (satirical, every February 29)
Regional
L'Alsace-Le Pays: Alsace
Le Berry Républicain: Centre
Le Bien Public: Burgundy
Charente Libre: Poitou-Charentes
Corse-Matin: Corse
Le Courrier Picard: Picardy
Le Dauphiné Libéré: Dauphiné, Savoy
La Dépêche du Midi: Midi-Pyrénées
Les Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace: Alsace
L'Est Républicain: Franche-Comté, Lorraine
Le Journal du Centre: Centre
L'Indépendant: Languedoc-Roussillon
Le Journal de Saône et Loire: Bourgogne
Midi Libre: Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées
La Montagne: Auvergne
Nice-Matin: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Nord éclair: Nord-Pas de Calais
La Nouvelle République du Centre-Ouest: Centre, Poitou-Charentes
Ouest-France: Pays de la Loire, Brittany, Lower Normandy
Presse-Océan: Pays de la Loire
Le Progrès: Auvergne, Burgundy, Franche-Comté, Rhône-Alpes
La Provence: Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Le Républicain Lorrain: Lorraine
La République des Pyrénées: Aquitaine
Sud Ouest: Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrénées, Poitou-Charentes
Le Télégramme de Brest: Brittany
La Voix du Nord: Nord-Pas de Calais
Paris-Normandie: Normandie
Former newspapers
La Gazette, 1631-1915, first French weekly, founded by Théophraste Renaudot, became the mouthpiece of the Legitimist monarchists
L'Ami du peuple founded by Marat
Le Journal des débats, 1789-1944 (conservative)
Le Père Duchesne, 1790-1794 (edited by Jacques Hébert)
Le Père Duchesne (19th c.) (other newspapers)
Le Globe, 1824-1832, founded by the republican and socialist Pierre Leroux, mouthpiece of the Saint-Simonists starting in 1830
Le National, 1830-1851 (liberal, founded by Adolphe Thiers and Armand Carrel)
La Voix des Femmes, 1848-1852 (feminist)
Le Temps (Paris), 1861-1942 (compromised by the Collaboration during Vichy, replaced at the Liberation by Le Monde)
Le Petit Parisien, 1876-1944
La Citoyenne, 1881-1891 (feminist)
Le Matin (Paris), 1884-1944
Le Journal (Paris), 1892-1944
Paris-Soir, 1923-1944
Je suis partout, 1930-1944, far-right newspaper, Collaborationist during Vichy
Combat, 1944-1974 (founded during the Resistance, hosted articles by Albert Camus, Sartre, Malraux, etc.)
English-language newspapers
The Connexion
Television channels
National channels
EPG No. Channel Notes Owner/parent company Broadcast hours Format Multiplex
1 TF1 Privatised during 1987. Formerly RTF (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française) and ORTF (Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française) TF1 Group 24 hours 16:9 SDTV SMR6
2 France 2 State owned. Formerly Chaîne 2 and Antenne 2 France Télévisions 24 hours 16:9 SDTV GR1
3 France 3 State owned. Semi-localised channel, the programs may differ according to region. Formerly Couleur 3 and FR 3 France Télévisions 24 hours 16:9 SDTV GR1
4 Canal+ HD Private. Subscription network, some programs without encryption in SDTV Canal+ Group 24 hours 16:9 HDTV CNH
5 France 5 State owned. Formerly La Cinquième (analogue broadcast from 4am to 7pm) France Télévisions 24 hours 16:9 SDTV GR1
6 M6 Métropole 6 - Commercial network Métropole Télévision (RTL Group) 24 hours 16:9 SDTV Multi 4
7 Arte State owned. French-German arts channel. ARTE France 24 hours 16:9 SDTV SMR6
8 Direct 8 Commercial station. Live 18hrs a day Bolloré 24 hours 16:9 SDTV NTN
9 W9 commercial music station Métropole Télévision 24 hours 16:9 SDTV Multi 4
10 TMC Formerly Télé Monté-Carlo, Monaco-based commercial station TF1 Group, AB Group 24 hours 16:9 SDTV SMR6
11 NT1 Nouvelle Télévision 1, commercial station AB Group 24 hours 4:3 SDTV Multi 4
12 NRJ 12 commercial music station, NRJ network NRJ Group 24 hours 16:9 SDTV SMR6
13 La Chaîne parlementaire State owned. National Assembly, Senate 24 hours 16:9 SDTV GR1
14 France 4 State owned. Arts, music, sports channel France Télévisions 24 hours 16:9 SDTV NTN
15 BFM TV commercial news and finance station Nextradio 24 hours 16:9 SDTV NTN
16 I-Télé commercial news station Canal+ Group 24 hours 16:9 SDTV NTN
17 Direct Star Commercial music station. Formerly Virgin 17, owned by MCM group, then changed owner to Direct 8 's owner. Bolloré 24 hours 16:9 SDTV NTN
18 Gulli children's programming Lagardère Active, France Télévisions 24 hours 16:9 SDTV NTN
19 France Ô State owned. France Télévisions 24 hours 16:9 SDTV GR1
30 TPS Star pay-tv, some programmes free-to-air Canal+ Group 24 hours 16:9 SDTV CNH
31 Paris Première pay-tv, some programmes free-to-air Métropole Télévision 24 hours 16:9 SDTV Multi 4
32 Canal+ Sport pay-tv, some programmes free-to-air Canal+ Group 07:00 - 04:00 16:9 SDTV CNH
33 Canal+ Cinéma pay-tv Canal+ Group 07:00 - 04:00 16:9 SDTV CNH
35 Planète pay-tv, documentaries Canal+ Group 24 hours 16:9 SDTV CNH
36 TF6 pay-tv TF1 Group, Métropole Télévision 24 hours 16:9 SDTV SMR6
38 LCI pay-tv, news and information TF1 Group 24 hours 16:9 SDTV SMR6
39 Eurosport pay-tv, sports programs TF1 Group 06:45 - 02:00 16:9 SDTV SMR6
51 TF1 HD high definition version of TF1 TF1 Group 24 hours 16:9 HDTV MR5
52 France 2 HD high definition version of France 2 France Télévisions 24 hours 16:9 HDTV MR5
56 M6 HD high definition version of M6 Métropole Télévision, RTL Group 24 hours 16:9 HDTV MR5
57 Arte HD high definition version of Arte ARTE France 24 hours 16:9 HDTV Multi 4
Regional channels on multiplex GR1
EPG No. Channel Area
20 Alsace 20 Region of Alsace
20 Angers 7 Department of Maine-et-Loire
20 Bip TV Department of Indre
20 Clermont Première Region of Auvergne
20 France Ô Region of Île-de-France
20 LCM Department of Bouches-du-Rhône
20 Normandie TV Region of Lower Normandy
20 Télé Grenoble Department of Isère
20 TLM City of Lyon
20 TLT City of Toulouse
20 TV Rennes 35 Department of Ille-et-Vilaine
20 TV Sud 77 Department of Seine-et-Marne
20 TV7 Bordeaux Department of Gironde
20 TVPI Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
20 Villages TV City of Poitiers
20 Wéo Region of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
EPG No. Channel Area
21 7L TV City of Montpellier
21 Grand Lille TV City of Lille
21 Nantes 7 / TéléNantes Loire-Atlantique, Vendée
21 TL7 City of Saint-Etienne
21 TLP Alpes de Haute Provence, Vaucluse
21 TV Tours Indre-et-Loire, Loir-et-Cher
21 TV8 Mont-Blanc Savoie, Haute-Savoie
21 Voo TV City of Dijon
21 Vosges Télévision Department of Vosges
23 LM TV Sarthe Department of Sarthe
23 Mirabelle TV Department of Moselle
23 Télé Miroir City of Nîmes
23 Territorial TV Marne, Haute-Marne, Meuse
23 TY Télé Department of Morbihan
25 Orléans TV City of Orléans
Regional channels on multiplex L8
EPG No. Channel Area
20 Bip TV City of Issoudun
20 Canal 32 Department of Aube
21 Demain IDF / BDM TV / Cinaps TV / Télé Bocal (time-shared) Region of Île-de-France
22 IDF1 Region of Île-de-France
23 NRJ Paris Region of Île-de-France
24 Cap 24 Region of Île-de-France
23 Canal Cholet Department of Vendée
24 TV Vendée Department of Vendée
25 Canal 15 Department of Vendée
Bis Télévisions
TF1 France 2 France 3 NT1 France 5 M6 ARTE Direct 8 W9 TMC RTL9 NRJ 12 LCP-AN/Public Sénat France 4 BFM TV Mangas Virgin 17 Gulli AB1 AB moteurs Orange Sports Info Vidéoclick Escales Animaux Encyclopédia Toute l'Histoire Chasse et Pêche TV8 Mont-Blanc France Ô TV5 MONDE Action Ciné First Ciné Fx Ciné Polar XXL Dorcel TV ART Prime Sport ART Hikayat (séries) ART Movies (cinéma)
Nouveau CanalSat
TF1 France 2 France 3 Canal + France 5 M6 Arte Mosaique Canal + Canal+ Cinéma Canal+ Sport Canal+ Family Canal+ Décalé Canal+ A la demande Ciné + Canal Evenementiel TPS Star 13ème rue Comédie! Jimmy Sci Fi TF6 Série Club TV Breizh Téva France 4 TMC Paris Première W9 RTL9 NT1 NRJ 12 TV5 Monde Direct 8 I-Télé LCI Euronews LCP AN Public Sénat BFM TV Bloomberg TV France 24 CNN BBC World News CNBC Europe La Chaîne Météo Vivolta Cuisine.tv Du coté de chez vous TV Discovery Real Time E! Luxe.TV Planète Planète Thalassa Planète Justice Planète No Limit Discovery Channel Voyage Histoire Odyssée Ushuaia TV National Geographic Channel Nat Geo Wild Seasons Animaux Escales Toute l'Histoire Encyclopédia Liberty TV M6 Boutique La Chaîne Best Of Shopping Cash TV Sport+ Eurosport InfoSport L'Equipe TV Équidia Eurosport 2 ESPN America ESPN Classic AB moteurs Motors TV Ma Chaîne Sport OM TV OL TV Onzéo Sailing Channel Extreme Sports Channel CinéCinéma Premier CinéCinéma Frisson CinéCinéma Emotion CinéCinéma Famiz CinéCinéma Star CinéCinéma Club CinéCinéma Classic CinéCinéma Etc TCM Ciné Polar Ciné FX Action Disney Cinemagic Disney Cinemagic + 1 Tiji Piwi Playhouse Disney Disney Channel Canal J Télétoon Télétoon +1 Cartoon Network Jetix Planète Juniors Gulli Baby First Boomerang Disney Channel +1 Nickelodeon Filles TV AB1 Game One Mangas Star Academy MTV MTV Base MTV Pulse MTV Idol Trace TV NRJ Hits MCM MCM Top MCM Pop Direct Star M6 Music Hits M6 Music Black M6 Music Rock Mezzo Télé Melody MTV Hits MTV 2 VH1 VH1 Classic France Ô NRJ Paris KTO Demain.TV TF1 HD France 2HD Canal+ HD M6 HD Scifi HD 13ème rue HD Eurosport HD MTV HD Ushuaia TV HD National Geographic Channel HD CinéCinéma Premier HD Disney Cinemagic HD Ciné+ Foot+ Rugby+ Playboy TV Private spice XXL Pink TV Pink X PMU Ce Soir Espace Client Playin'TV
The list below does not include Cable and Satellite television channels.
Main networks
TF1 - Private
France 2 - Public
France 3 - Public
Arte - Public Franco/German (see also List of German-language television channels)
France 5 - Public
M6 - Private
Canal+ - Private
Musical Channels
MCM
M6 MUSIC
MTV France
24/7 News Channels
LCI
ITELE
BFM TV
Others
AB1 - Private
NRJ 12
LCP-AN - The national assembly channel - Political programming (French version of C-SPAN)
TV5 - global diffusion of national programming by France 2, France 3, RTBF, TSR, Radio-Canada, Arte
Radio stations in France
BFM
Chérie FM
Europe 1
Europe 2
Fun Radio
Nostalgie
NRJ
Radio des autoroutes SANEF
Radio FG
Radio France
France Inter
France Info
France Culture
France Musiques
France Bleu
FIP
Le Mouv'
Radio Monte Carlo
RTL
RTL2
Skyrock
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