On Tuesday night, Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks on Current TV, tore into President Barack Obama’s unsuccessful push to get members of his party in Congress to support new gun laws. Uygur, a self-described progressive, said that many people of a similar political persuasion are rethinking their support for the president. Show More Summary
Add liberal host Bill Press to the list of liberals who want the sequester to hurt Americans in order to prove a political point. On Tuesday morning’s Full Court Press, his radio talk show simulcast on Current TV, Press predicted that...Show More Summary
Amazon is planning a set top box for video streaming, Brad Stone at Bloomberg reports. The set-top box is going to used to push Amazon's streaming services. It sounds like a rival to Apple's current Apple TV, or the Roku box. More to come... Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Join the conversation about this story »
Star-powered photo shoots currently dominate our covers, but over the years, TV Guide Magazine has also put illustrations, caricatures, collages and paintings front and center. A few of these canvases came from some of the most important artists of their times, including Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, Peter Max and LeRoy Neiman. Show More Summary
Not content with its purchase of Current TV earlier this year, Al Jazeera is reportedly looking at purchasing the Tennis Channel as it expands its presence in the U.S. According to the New York Post, Al Jazeera owns BeIN Sport, which they describe as a global network of sports channels that could benefit from a [...]
Retired NBA player and current Splash contestant Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has written an incredibly smart and eloquent defense of Bravo's trashy reality soap opera franchise The Real Housewives, and a defense of documentary-style reality TV as art that has great value. Show More Summary
Apple has added a new option for iTunes in the Cloud users, allowing them to defer large downloads of movies, TV shows, and music box sets for a later time. Currently, this new option does not work for apps, and is available only in places where iTunes in the Cloud is live. Show More Summary
Netflix subscribers are currently permitted to simultaneously stream two TV shows or movies on separate devices. This limit might not suit families who’d rather have one subscription take care of all their content streaming needs. Today...Show More Summary
Last week, I embarked upon a glorious experiment that, if my hypothesis was correct, would alter the course of human destiny. Placing two TVs side by side, I endeavored to watch the two best shows currently on TV—Game of Thrones and Mad Men—simultaneously. Show More Summary
Mad Men continues to impress this week. “To Have and To Hold” resonates in more ways than one. As Don grapples with the price of his wife’s success, a light is shone on Joan’s current state. The Players: Director: Michael Uppendahl Writer: Erin Levy Cast: Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, [...]
The Motion Picture Association and the China Film Distributors and Exhibitors Association have released a study that says the film and TV business contributed $15.5B to China’s economy in 2011. Commenting on the report, Mike Ellis, president...Show More Summary
No current TV show generates more Monday morning conversation than Mad Men. With that in mind, Flavorwire is recapping Season 6?s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce by giving you a handful of talking points to spark your own water-cooler debate. Show More Summary
When it comes to baseball's TV analysts, former players often make some of the best announcers out there. They not only know the game well, but they are familiar with situations players are going through, can explain the game better and have connections to players and management that can give them a little extra insight. Show More Summary
Todd Stiefel appeared on Thursday night's episode of Current TV's "The Young Turks with Cenk Uygur" and a clip from his appearance is now online. In it, he talks about why he's so passionate about the atheism cause: [Click headline for more…]
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings and current manhunt, many television shows are pulling episodes with sensitive subject matter. NBC has yanked next week's episode of the freshman drama " Hannibal," which contained a violent...Show More Summary
Style Media has just announced a slate of nine rather cheesy-sounding shows currently in development, including Matched By Design, a half-hour home-makeover series featuring Lloyd Princeton, "a high-end interior design broker who matches a very wealthy client with an A-list...
It has been more than three months since Qatari-based Al Jazeera purchased Current TV from Al Gore, and according to the New York Post, the initial projections of a June launch will not be met. A source told the Post that the network has still not hired a news chief, finished its studio or settled [...]
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Sony Xperia Z, HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S4 owners will all be able to make use of the service now Sky Go, the app that allows Sky TV customers to stream live TV To their Android devices has been updated to support some of the latest devices on the market. Show More Summary