Category: TV

The PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, Mac and Windows PCs, the Roku, Tivo, even many Blu-ray players and televisions have been able to stream videos from Netflix's Watch Instantly library for some time now. Only poor Linux users and Wii owners stand shivering outside. But that group of outcasts is about to get cut in half now that Netflix has finally started shipping the discs required to enable ...

If you're under the age of 15, you probably have no idea who or what "Fred" is. But the kids, they love that dang high-pitched YouTube character created by 16-year-old Lucas Cruikshank from Nebraska. Fred Figglehorn, the fictional six-year-old played by Lucas in the Web series, would drive many adults to puncture their eardrums, but apparently leaves a younger audience in stitches. Nickelodeon ...

Share If you often find yourself chatting away on your laptop while passively watching an episode of 'Dancing with the Stars,' you're not alone. According to the latest Three Screen Report from the Nielsen Company, about 60-percent of all TV-watching Americans multi-task in front of the tube, and that figure is only growing. In the fourth quarter of 2009, the average viewer spent about 3.5 ...

Share As the autonomy of individual Web surfers has grown, we've come to expect to be able to instantly broadcast a message, post a video, or direct-message celebrities on Twitter. The last frontier, though, was supposed to be TV, the only media nook in which there still seemed to be some distance between us and the people on the other side of the screen. Unlike posting a video of yourself to ...

What do you get when you throw 'Mad Men,' 'Entourage,' and Steve Jobs into a blender, and hit purée? At best, you just might find yourself with a deliciously cutthroat blend of Silicon Valley satire and comedic (Ari) Gold -- which is exactly the aim of the developers of a new Jobs-based show. The forthcoming series, called 'iCon,' will be broadcast on EPIX, and will feature a lead ...

It has only taken 80 years or so, but Sony has apparently discovered an effective method of preventing kids from sitting too close to the television. According to the Wall Street Journal, Sony has developed a sensor mechanism that can actually determine if a child is within a specified range. When a child enters a one-meter zone in front of the TV, a camera detects the kid's presence and ...

In what The New York Times is calling "the first major fracture" between TV execs and the video streaming Web site, Viacom has decided to pull both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert from Hulu's lineup of shows. The specifics remain uncertain, but it seems that the two parties couldn't agree on how to divide the swelling ad revenue that both shows have yielded. As Hulu's Andy Forssell wrote in a ...

Bravo is partnering with Foursquare for a promotion that will point users to locations from its shows and open up Bravo exclusive badges. The big news isn't that people can take advantage of the geo-location powered social-network-cum-game via Guides By Bravo or add a level or interaction with 'Sheer Genius' or 'Real Housewives.' What is grabbing our attention is that Bravo has produced a ...

Plans to turn the one-liner rich ShitMyDadSays Twitter account into a TV show are moving forward, and creator Justin Halpern has scored a major star for the pilot. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Transformed Man himself, Mr. William Shatner, has signed on to star in the CBS comedy. With a legitimate TV legend as its star, the creators of 'Will & Grace' its producers, and a script ...

We're used to seeing atrocious amounts of green-screened scenes in big budget films. In flicks like 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace' and 'Sin City,' there probably isn't a single thing, other than the actors, that wasn't added in post production. What we were truly amazed to find out, though, is the number of TV shows that use green-screen trickery to flesh out outdoor environments. A Tumblr ...

What could have possibly made 23-year-old Westley Strellis completely lose it and storm through a Walmart outside of Georgia smashing TVs left and right with a bat he found in the store? When police arrived on the scene following Strellis' flat-panel-destroying rampage he was sitting quietly on the floor of an aisle according to the Huffington Post. When placed in cuffs the young-man invoked ...

For some of us, the Super Bowl is nothing more than a string of witty commercials interrupted by snippets of football. Now, though, you won't even have to tune in to the big game to watch the world famous ads, thanks to a new YouTube channel devoted solely to Super Bowl commercials. As Mashable reports, the site recently announced the launch of the new channel, which will allow users to rate the ...

Everyone and their mama's mama will be tuning in this Sunday for the big game, and to that end, you might be planning a get-together with some buddies involving a few six-packs, snacks and of course, the TV. But is that Super Bowl shindig infringing upon copyright law? That's what one Ars Technica writer wondered aloud after a friend mentioned he couldn't watch the Super Bowl on a TV 55-inches ...

Now we'd like to see your iPhone (or for that matter, iPad) do this. The Weather Channel promoted its Android app by displaying a QR code (that strange-looking box on the bottom left corner) and a banner instructing owners of the Google-powered handsets to "scan here." Scanning the code would take you straight to the Android Market and the page for the Weather Channel app. Pretty slick, huh? ...

Our two favorite time wasters -- television and the Internet -- have been making wondrous love babies for a while now (for example, Hulu). But none may be as hilarious and anticipated as the soon-to-be-released venture between HBO and the guys behind the sketch-comedy site "Funny or Die." Next month, according to Mashable, a new sketch-comedy show called 'Funny or Die Presents' will debut on ...