New video game releases
McClatchy Newspapers
The following games are among those scheduled for release this week, according to GameStop.com:
Pop culture Q&A: Writings got Pat Buchanan removed from MSNBC
By RICH HELDENFELS Akron Beacon Journal
Q: I haven't seen Pat Buchanan, a regular on MSNBC, for some time. What has become of him?
Grammy Awards: Funny how the comedy category has changed
By DEBORAH VANKIN Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES - The comedy category at the Grammys is a funny thing...
Univision, Disney look at English news channel
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ AP Hispanic Affairs Writer
Univision and Disney are in talks to create a 24-hour news channel for Latinos in English, two sources close to the negotiations said Monday.
Eastwood's Super Bowl ad sparks the discord it decries
By JAMES OLIPHANT Tribune Washington Bureau
Perhaps the most attention-getting Super Bowl ad - other than that dog blackmailing his owner with tortilla chips to keep quiet over a felinicide, of course - was Clint Eastwood's paean to a resurgent auto industry in Detroit.
Iowa woman accused of blackmailing TLC show
The Associated Press
An Iowa woman is charged with extortion in an alleged plot to get Discovery Communications Inc. to cancel the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting" or pay her $10,000 in exchange for not revealing compromising photos of a cast member, according to federal court documents.
Netflix's first original series stars Steven Van Zandt as a New York mobster
By ROBERT LLOYD Los Angeles Times
In "Lilyhammer," whose eight parts debut Monday as an exclusive Netflix stream, Steven Van Zandt retrieves his Silvio wig from the "Sopranos" costume box to play Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano, a New York mobster who retreats into witness protection in Lillehammer, Norway. He remembers the town from broadcasts of the 1994 Winter Olympics as a place of "clean air, fresh white snow, gorgeous broads" and figures it will be the last place anyone would think to look for him. You know how that will go.
Kristen Bell said 'yes' to Showtime's 'House of Lies'
By LUAINE LEE McClatchy-Tribune News Service
PASADENA, Calif. - Though she still looks like a teenager, actress Kristen Bell is thoroughly grown up, she'd like everyone to know. For three seasons she played the crusading teen "Veronica Mars," a character seven years younger than she. And that was five years ago.
Sale puts 'M-A-S-H' hot dog diner in new hands
By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press
A hot dog eatery made famous on the TV series "M-A-S-H" has been sold after a yearlong family feud over ownership.
'NCIS' hits the 200 mark
By RICK BENTLEY McClatchy Newspapers
PASADENA, Calif. - The CBS drama "NCIS" will join a select group of prime-time TV shows Tuesday when it airs its 200th episode. Only 62 series - out of the thousands that have filled network and cable channels - have reached the milestone.
'Downton Abbey,' more on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday
By RICH HELDENFELS Akron Beacon Journal
The drama series "Downton Abbey" has become a public-television phenomenon, recalling the days when shows like "Brideshead Revisited" and "Upstairs Downstairs3/4 would be buzzed about by viewers who otherwise paid little attention to public broadcasting.
M.I.A.'s halftime gesture said to be 'a case of adrenaline'
By TODD MARTENS Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES - In early 1989 Madonna was the center of controversy over the religious imagery in the video for her "Like A Prayer." Twenty-two years later the song brought her Super Bowl halftime performance to an end with the all-together unifying message of "world peace," and it was her collaborator M.I.A. who was suddenly finding herself in the center of a media fracas.
NBC puts on a clinic with exceptional coverage
By BARRY JACKSON McClatchy Newspapers
This, quite simply, was a blueprint for how a Super Bowl broadcast should be done. With exceptional announcing, timely but restrained use of graphics and nifty angles on replays, NBC delivered exemplary coverage of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday.
NBC broadcasts Super Bowl with pomp and promotion
By JAKE COYLE AP Entertainment Writer
Clint Eastwood's patriotic pep talk about "halftime in America" might just as well have applied to NBC.
Super Bowl ads make use of movie imagery
By STEVEN ZEITCHIK Los Angeles Times
Many of the best-received commercials during Sunday's Super Bowl referenced movies - they just weren't for movies heading to the local cineplex any time soon.
