The hoopla surrounding the ABC News interview with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s second ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich, has raised a question for conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh: How come journalists aren’t held to the same standard they hold those they investigate to? (more)
A Thursday night ABC “Nightline” interview with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s second ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich, is set to reveal that Gingrich asked her for an open marriage so that he could carry on an affair with one of his staffers, current wife Calista Gingrich. (more)
Emily Maynard is looking for love on TV – again! (more)
ABC’s justifiably maligned new half-hour series “Work It” finally debuted last night, and while we’d love to report that it was an instant failure, we cannot. (more)
If history can be the guide, 2012 may offer a break from gridlock in Washington, D.C., the National Journal’s Major Garrett said on Monday’s “The Early Show” on CBS. (more)
Earlier this month, ABC announced that Christiane Amanpour would be departing as host of its Sunday morning show “This Week” at the end of 2012. (more)
Christiane Amanpour has gotten the boot from ABC, TMZ has learned. She will be replaced as the host of the Sunday political show, “This Week,” by George Stephanopoulos. (more)
On Sunday night at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time, ABC is going to showcase the power of science, technology, and robotics in a new special entitled “i.am.FIRST: Science is Rock and Roll.” This special is geared primarily around the first-ever FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Championship, which is a competition held for K-12 students in order to showcase their skills in developing robotics and technology. It’s a look not only at how science is progressing in the modern world, but also the continued importance of math and science education (an initiative that is often forgotten by many in the midst of everything else going on in the country). (more)
Soap opera fans can breathe a huge sigh of relief. Two long-running ABC soaps headed for cancellation have been saved. (more)
Last night’s TV news shows produced a calm and relatively balanced treatment of the budget battle for their roughly 16 million viewers. That’s important for Republicans, because they’ve got to win support from the roughly one in six viewers who think both parties deserve equal blame for the conflict. (more)
Nancy Travis will star alongside Tim Allen in an as-yet untitled ABC comedy pilot, which follows the life of guy who is fighting for his manhood in a female-dominated world, reports the Hollywood Reporter. (more)
It’s back! Season 12 of the ABC hit, “Dancing with the Stars,” premiered Monday night to more than 22 million viewers. The judges were loud, the sequins were sparkling, and the spray tans were dark, but it’s still unclear which star will take home the coveted disco ball trophy. “This is perhaps the widest-ranging collection of stars we’ve ever had,” said host Tom Bergeron, and their performances were as different as their resumes. This year, celebs had only three weeks to prepare their debut dances, and their surprisingly polished performances proved how talented this season’s roster is. (more)
“Georgetown,” the upcoming ABC drama that aims to be a “primetime soap about young people behind the power brokers of D.C.”, won’t actually be filmed in the District, reports DCist. (more)
Charlie Sheen may have lost his “Two and a Half Men” acting gig and stand accused of terrorizing porn star Capri Anderson in a hotel room late last year, but the actor says his life is “perfect” and he’s “the nicest guy you want to meet.” (more)
Who would have thought Arianna Huffington was capable of this? (more)
A three-day-long stand-off at the Wisconsin state capitol between union supporters and those backing the Republican governor’s budget cuts just went to another level Thursday as Democratic senators apparently fled the area to prevent a vote on Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill, which would cut public employee union collective bargaining rights and require them to contribute to pensions and health care. (more)
Sen. John McCain joined ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday to discuss the crisis in Egypt, refusing to critique the administration’s response to the situation. (more)
Republicans say a proliferation of sympathetic media outlets will make it easier for them to get their message across in the debate over health care and entitlement reform. (more)
1.) FCIC dissenters defend bailing out Wall Street — Two reports will come out of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission today. The one written by the panel’s liberal majority will blame lax regulation and the banking industry for the collapse of the housing industry. The other, written by commissioners Bill Thomas, a former Republican congressman from California, Keith Hennessey, former chairman of the White House National Economic Council under President George W. Bush, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former director of the Congressional Budget Office, spreads the blame more broadly among “investors, creditors, regulators, homebuyers, and politicians,” all of whom must take “personal responsibility.” The dissenters also defended bailing out Wall Street: “For a policymaker, the calculus is simple: if you bail out AIG and you’re wrong, you will have wasted taxpayer money and provoked public outrage,” the paper reads. “If you don’t bail out AIG and you’re wrong, the global financial system collapses. It should be easy to see why policymakers favored action–there was a chance of being wrong either way, and the costs of being wrong without action were far greater than the costs of being wrong with action.” Thank goodness we didn’t destabilize the global financial system, which might have led to really scary stuff, like high unemployment. (more)
So Mean Girls 2 premiered on ABC Family last night, and as Gretchen Wieners might say, it was so not fetch. The flick tells the story of a pretty outsider who transfers to North Shore High, befriends an unpopular artist, and conspires to bring down the Plastics, a group of three snotty, cruel classmates: a devious queen bee, a dumb, promiscuous blonde, and a high-strung brunette. Soon enough, the protagonist gets a makeover and becomes a member of the ruling class herself. It’s only after a major crisis turns the entire school against her that our girl can get back on track and finally rid the school of Plastics once and for all. (more)
