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Virgin Media will launch its first online and mobile TV player in beta today. The cable giant has been teasing the launch of a VOD service over the internet and through mobile phones for some time, and has now confirmed that the service will launch today.
The Panel: Introduced by Matt Groening, the panel included the usual suspectsDavid X. Cohen and the entire voice castplus director Crystal Chesney and some writers. Seriously, it was ginormous
I’m not even going to try and set up this clip.
It’s only a matter of time before the prevalence of online video makes cable television obsolete. In fact, the time has already arrived for some of us: I’ve been living very happily without TV for nearly two years
TMZ has learned legendary humiliator Lisa Lampanelli will be returning from her ” Roast “
Fox Mobile announced that it will be introducing yet another streaming video service (in a seemingly booming market) which will have Hulu in its crosshairs. After all, these services are pretty similar, as Fox Mobile’s offering will boast full-length, on demand TV programming from CBS, Fox NBC, A&E, Comedy Central, Discovery, FX, MTV, and USA. Full-length movies will be thrown into the mix before the year is over though, and Fox Mobile has every intention to mark out the cell phone market as the service will also play nice with select BlackBerry handsets, ranging from all variants of the BlackBerry Bold series, alongside the Curve 8900 and Tour 9630
Websites like Hulu and Comedy Central are great because they let you watch all of your favorite programs on demand, free of charge.
A Seattle cartoonist’s satirical suggestion that Thursday be dubbed “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” has led to anything but humor in some quarters, particularly Pakistan, which on Wednesday evening shut down Facebook. An Islamic lawyers association in Lahore, Pakistan, argued that the contest essentially equaled blasphemy, and on Wednesday won a court injunction against the social-networking site
Hulu’s days as a free online video site could be ending soon. Comedy Central’s decision to yank two of the most popular shows on Hulu — ” The Daily Show” and ” The Colbert Report” — in a dispute over splitting ad revenue is the latest blow to the entertainment industry’s attempts to make money off ads that run with free video. Yet Hulu’s most viable alternative — charging for access to some videos — could turn off viewers and crimp the site’s explosive growth
Stephen Colbert: Blippy Is More Exciting Than Going Through Old Receipts Normally, it takes quite a bit of time before a startup gets any sort of mainstream spotlight. That’s not the case with Blippy. Tonight, the controversial social credit card data aggregator was featured on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report. As you might imagine, host Stephen [...]