I’m actually OK with this.
TV viewers should be prepared: they may be heading back to “The Twilight Zone.”
CBS Corp. CEO Leslie Moonves announced today during the company’s earnings call that a long-rumored reboot of the classic sci-fi anthology series was in the works. THR is also reporting that, while this has yet to be officially confirmed, “The Twilight Zone” reboot will be hailing from Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw banner.
Executive summary: the Axanar people admitted that they didn’t have permission, that they violated copyright rules, that they’re going to make significant changes to Axanar, and that all future shows that they do will conform to CBS/Paramount’s ‘Guidelines for Fan Films.’ Continue reading CBS/Paramount settles on Axanar lawsuit.
Original continuity, which is fine. I mean, I’m one of those horrible people who enjoy what Abrams is doing with the movies, but it’s best if those stay one-offs. After all, the Star Trek timeline is complicated enough as it is…
According to Birth.Movies.Death, the new as-yet-untitled Star Trek series will first return to the timeline previously rebooted by J.J. Abrams’ film series, but still take place after the original Enterprise crew have made their mark on the galaxy. Set sometime between Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and The Next Generation TV series (thereby making original cast cameos unlikely), the new series will be “heavily serialized” with a new, non-Enterprise ship.
Via @smorton101368. The show will be out in 2017, on CBS ‘All-Access streaming,’ whatever that means. Although I suppose that I could hazard a guess.
TUNE IN FOR THIS ONE: CBS, 9PM Eastern time. The question of judicial appointments – particularly those of Supreme Court Justices – just became really, really important. Who these candidates would nominate is no longer a theoretical exercise.
Hey, remember that stupid, incredibly ham-handed, and only-an-drooling-idiot-would-fall-for-it Rathergate scandal? Well, in case you were a teenager in 2004 and missed it…
:pause: God preserve us, it really was a decade ago, huh? I didn’t have kids then. I wasn’t married, then. Shoot, I was still smoking.
…anyway: CBS got a bunch of documents purporting to show that George W Bush went AWOL from the Texas National Guard and that people covered it up, because shut up you Republicans. Dan Rather (remember him?) promptly ran with the story, because if the documents were true it’d have been a bombshell. Only problem was that these documents were fakes: they were originally written in Microsoft Word 2003 and then made to look like documents from the 1970s*. Once this was pointed out CBS ended up giving Rather (and, importantly for this article, his producer Mary Mapes) the bum’s rush. Continue reading In which we revisit Rathergate, and the bad movie about to be made of it.
His old persona is presumably the property of Comedy Central and it’s not really suitable for late-night television anyway (too political). Assuming that Colbert has any other settings or styles, any variant from them will get panned by people who actually want to know that the old persona is on the Late Show*. What is left for Stephen Colbert to bring to the table?
I ask out of only mild interest: I don’t watch television. Not out of snobbery; my wife doesn’t want to shell out the money for cable, and I don’t care enough to push back on it.
Moe Lane
*Although they wouldn’t watch it, which is the basic problem right there.
Well, the administration is kind of f*cked now.
CBS News has uncovered a serious pricing problem with HealthCare.gov. It stems from the Obama administration’s efforts to improve its health care website. A new online feature can dramatically underestimate the cost of insurance.
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Industry analysts, such as Jonathan Wu, point to how the website lumps people only into two broad categories: “49 or under” and “50 or older.”
Wu said it’s “incredibly misleading for people that are trying to get a sense of what they’re paying.”
Prices for everyone in the 49-or-under group are based on what a 27-year-old would pay. In the 50-or-older group, prices are based on what a 50-year-old would pay.
Continue reading CBS: Obama administration is lowballing reported minimum #obamacare costs.
So. Somebody hacked into the computer of one of CBS’s best-known investigative journalists.
CBS News announced Friday that correspondent Sharyl Attkisson’s computer was hacked by “an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions,” confirming Attkisson’s previous revelation of the hacking.
CBS News spokeswoman Sonya McNair said that a cybersecurity firm hired by CBS News “has determined through forensic analysis” that “Attkisson’s computer was accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in late 2012.”
One with a history of going after the administration. The report suggest that this wasn’t a script kiddie drive-by and it wasn’t a phishing expedition; whoever did this was after Attkisson’s personal hard drive data, and attempted to cover up the intrusion. So, whodunit?
Continue reading Sharyl Attkisson, computer hacking, and the Masters of the Universe.
It’s so nice when they update the classics.
Well. Isn’t this a thing:
Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.
“I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I’m not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I’ve been patient and methodical about this matter,” Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. “I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public.”
Of course, one shouldn’t jump to any kind of conclusions: after all, it would be the height of stupidity for, say, executive branch officials to order an illegal, politically-motivated break-in against an opponent in order to glean confidential information oh wait.
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Specifically, this post. And here’s what CBS wrote:
I would have linked – heck, I would have put it on RedState – except that they didn’t bother to link to [us]. Freaking amateurs.
Moe Lane
PS: No applause, just throw money.
PPS: …Oh, fine. Here’s the broken link.
h ttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501368_162-57504642/celebs-and-pols-when-the-star-alliance-misfires/
