Joe Hagan
Articles by Joe Hagan
The Apprentice's Sorcerer
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Jeff Zucker.
Last week, after 39-year-old Jeff Zucker was crowned president of the newly merged NBC Universal Tel read more »
Is NBC's The Office Too Prickly for Primetime?
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Steve Carell
“I’m breaking down in all kinds of stress-related illnesses,” confessed Greg Danie read more »
Al Gets Gore-TV
Barry Blitt
Al Gore
The Observer has learned that former Vice President Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt, an entr read more »
Can Hewitt Stop Clock?
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Don Hewitt.
That stopwatch stops for no man. read more »
Al Gore Would Rather Be Ailes Than President
Barry Blitt
Al Gore.
This week, as NBC hammers out details on its proposed merger with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, f read more »
Meet the New Staggering Genius
Stuart Hawkins
James Frey
At 33, James Frey has a humble ambition: He wants to be the greatest literary writer of his generati read more »
Meet the New Staggering Genius
At 33, James Frey has a humble ambition: He wants to be the greatest literary writer of his generati read more »
Don's New Tempest: Hewitt Conjuring PBS 60 Minutes
Tick, tick, tick, tick …Tick.
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Don's New Tempest: Hewitt Conjuring PBS 60 Minutes
Nearly a year after his retirement, Don Hewitt, the 83-year-old inventor of 60 Minutes, is talking w read more »
Can HBO Save the Sitcom? Louis C.K. Says Yes
"The show we're doing has no precedent in American television history," declared Louis C.K., the 37- read more »
Bloggorhea
** Exclusive! **SOURCES: WARREN BEATTY TO BLOG!
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Steve Bochco Brings TV War to TV
A female soldier in fatigues stands at a phone booth, starkly framed against a clean, white U.S. read more »
Dan Rather Gone, But White House Isn't Sated Yet
"Karl Rove started talking to me again," John Roberts, CBS News' White House correspondent, said of read more »
True Confessions of a Fox-y Lady
One evening last summer at the Players Club, Kimberlee Auerbach, an almond-eyed 32-year-old with a m read more »
Dan Rather's Long Goodbye: Who Done It?
Barry Blitt
Dan Rather
EASTLAND, TEX.--Three days before Dan Rather was to retire from the CBS Evening News on March 9, the read more »
Dan Rather's Long Goodbye: Who Done It?
EASTLAND, TEX.-Three days before Dan Rather was to retire from the CBS Evening News on March 9, the read more »
CBS News Producer Fired In Memogate Will Shop Her Book
Last Friday, two of the CBS News staffers who'd been asked to resign over a 60 Minutes Wednesday seg read more »
CBS News Roiling, 60 Minutes Four Refuse to Yield
More than a week after CBS News released its ostensibly final, tortured, novella-length report on th read more »
CNN's Midlife Midwife
On Monday, Jan. read more »
Anderson Cooper, Dan Rather Jr., Emotes in Sri Lanka
Against a mise-en-scène of blue surf, swaying palm trees and a tsunami-flayed beach, CNN anchor And read more »
NYTV '05 Predictions: Carlson to MSNBC–Oops! It Happened
Here's the big prediction for the year 2005:CNN's paleo-yuppie pundit guy, Tucker Carlson, will jump read more »
Iconoclast of Leper Island
One recent evening inside the velveteen cavern of Joe's Pub on Lafayette Street, a singer called Ant read more »
CBS News
"My advice to CBS News," said Larry Gelbart, the TV writer, playwright and comedy master behind the read more »
ABC New's Vargas Girl Asks: Why So Few Women in Prime Time?
"In this business," said Elizabeth Vargas, the 42-year-old co-anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20, read more »
Anchor Battle! CBS News Boys Go to Corners
With CBS anchor Dan Rather preparing to vacate his desk in March 2005, the campaign to replace him h read more »
An Angry Comic's Afterlife Proves His Prickly Prescience
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines, by Bill Hicks. Soft Skull Press, 308 pages, $16.95. read more »
Dan Rather Says He'd Have Liked Another Decade
"I love this job," said 73-year-old CBS News anchor Dan Rather on Tuesday, Nov. read more »
Amy Goodman's Left Hook for Cable TV
Wednesday, Nov. read more »
Goodbye, Archie: We Could Use You Now
"I'm not so sure America knows how to laugh at itself today as it did then," said Norman Lear, the read more »
Tom's Long Count: Brokaw Sign-Off On Bloody Night
In a way, it was like 2000. Nobody knew nothing.But this time they admitted it. read more »
On-Air Women Snub Mackris, Olbermann Offers Cash
When MSNBC host Keith Olbermann offered Fox News producer Andrea Mackris $99,000 to pay off her repo read more »
Sy Hersh's News: He’s Describing Massacre In Iraq
A word of advice, from Seymour Hersh, as recounted by Seymour Hersh: "Just shut up."Mr. read more »
Revolt of Fox’s Hens
This has been a bloody and unpleasant couple of weeks at the Fox News Channel. read more »
Fox News Embraces ABC Memo Story Over Cameron’s Pleas
Fifteen minutes before the second televised Presidential debate, on the night of Friday, Oct. read more »
Rebellious Networks Split Debate Screen
The day after the first Presidential debate of 2004, David Borhman, the executive producer of CNN’ read more »
Jay Leno Deferred To Culture Quake As Conan Gets It
Conan O’Brien is going to The Tonight Show.And The Tonight Show is not coming back to New York.
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American Who Ran Afghan Jail Says He Sourced CBS
In a week in which it was burnt by at least one high-profile source, CBS News is being accused by an read more »
Dan Rather To Bush: 'Answer The Questions'
"With respect: answer the questions," said Dan Rather, the CBS News anchor. read more »
Bush's Convention: Amazing TV Triumph, Infomercial for Ages
On Tuesday, Aug. 31, when President George W. read more »
Aging Pitchfork Pat, Not Going Gently, Summons Years Past
"Hey, man!" hollered a young Latino kid in a Yankees cap, recognizing Patrick J. read more »
Fox News Flip-Flops on Protest Coverage ... South Park Chef Serenades Dennis Hastert
Leave it to Fox News Channel to dream up ways of making a large-scale anti-war protest into somethin read more »
Hannity: A Fox in the Crowd
Sean Hannity, the 42-year-old Fox News star, says he gets no special kick from hammering the lefties read more »
Bush Reality TV: Fishing With George!
Wednesday, Aug. 4It doesn't get any better than this.
On Friday, Aug. 6, for an read more »
Spielberg Protégé James Moll May Just Save Private Kerry
It's a little surrealistic right now," said a dazed James Moll, a 41-year-old filmmaker who won an A read more »
Kerry's Spielbergian Nominating Film: "A Remarkable Promise"; Here's What's In It
Here's how James Moll created the version of John Kerry that will introduce thecandidate at the Demo read more »
Butch Kerry and the Sundance Kid: Dem Duo Hit On Buddy-Flick TV Formula
Wednesday, July 14On Sunday, July 11, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl asked Senator John Kerry read more »
Amanpour Says Saddam TV Was Distorted ... Drudge Says Moore's 9/11 Is Pure–Drudge!
When Saddam Hussein turned to the TV cameras on Thursday, July 1, and proclaimed his court appearanc read more »
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