Antenna's reviewers consider CBS' new shows, none of which miraculously are CSI or NCIS spinoffs, and The CW's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
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Tags: CBS, Code Black, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, CW, Fall Premieres, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Life in Pieces, Limitless, pilots, premieres, Reviews
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Geoffrey Baym, Amber Day, Nicholas Marx, Chuck Tryon and Dannagal Young discuss Stephen Colbert's first week in the new job.
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Tags: CBS, Colbert, comedy, Late Show, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, political entertainment, satire, Stephen Colbert
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Peg Lynch, creator and star of Ethel and Albert, recently passed away at the age of 98. Her contributions to radio and early television may not be well known, but materially this forgotten show exists.
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Tags: archives, CBS, Earplay, Ethel and Albert, fandom, Gertrude Berg, Lantern, materiality, media history, NBC, NPR, obituary, Peg Lynch, radio, television, The Couple Next Door, The Kate Smith Hour, The Little Things in Life, WRGB
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Bradley Schauer argues that David Letterman’s brilliant late night talk show career would have been a nonstarter in today’s television landscape.
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Tags: CBS, comedy, Conan O'Brien, cult television, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Late night television, Late Show with David Letterman, television, Twitter, viral media, YouTube
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The hub for Antenna fall pilot season reviews.
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Tags: ABC, CBS, CW, Fall Premieres, FOX, NBC, pilots, premieres
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Back from the break, here are ten or more media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Bruce Springsteen, CBS, Charter, China, digital music, John Malone, Liberty Media, Netflix, PTC, SiriusXM, stock, Supreme Court, Time Warner Cable, WWE, WWE Network
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The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues on into the new year with a post on Sounding Out! from A. Brad Schwartz about the influence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories on Orson Welles' radio work.
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Tags: #WOTW75, Baker Street, BBC, CBS, First Person Singular, From Mercury to Mars, John Gielgud, Mercury Theatre on the Air, Orson Welles, radio, Radio Drama, Ralph Richardson, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Final Problem, The Shadow, Too Much Johnson, War of the Worlds, William Gillette
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The Antenna-Sounding Out! series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years continues today with a new post on Sounding Out! from Jacob Smith about the Mercury Theatre's 1938 radio play "Hell On Ice" as a proto-environmental critique that is as relevant today as it was 75 years ago.
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Tags: CBS, environmentalism, Hell On Ice, Jacob Smith, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles, radio, radio studies, science fiction, Sounding Out, War of the Worlds
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In this latest post in our From Mercury to Mars series, Josh Shepperd discusses the "War of the Worlds" broadcast as a foundational subject for intellectual history and, as the subject of social research like Hadley Cantril's The Invasion from Mars, one of the events that legitimated the very study of media.
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Tags: #WOTW75, audiences, broadcasting history, CBS, Communications Act of 1934, educational media, FCC, Federal Radio Education Committee, Frank Stanton, Hadley Cantril, Herta Herzog, Mass Communication, media aesthetics, media effects, media studies, Mercury Theatre on the Air, Orson Welles, Paul Lazarsfeld, Princeton Radio Research Project, propaganda, public broadcasting, radio studies, Rockefeller Foundation, War of the Worlds, William Paley
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A full rundown of all the information you'll need to know to participate in tonight's #WOTW75 collective listening experiment, commemorating the 75th anniversary of Orson Welles' and the Mercury Theatre's "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast.
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Tags: #WOTW75, CBS, connected listening, From Mercury to Mars, Mercury Theater on the Air, Orson Welles, panic broadcast, radio, social media, Twitter, War of the Worlds
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Understanding "War of the Worlds"’s neglected second act requires consideration of the contested status of character monologue and larger shifts in dominant production norms for Golden Age radio drama.
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Tags: #WOTW75, adaptation, Archibald MacLeish, Campbell Playhouse, CBS, Golden Age radio, H.G. Wells, Howard Koch, John Houseman, Katharine Seymour, Max Wylie, media aesthetics, Mercury Theater on the Air, Neil Verma, Norman Corwin, Orson Welles, radio, War of the Worlds
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Antenna contributors review the new fall series from America's #1 network in total viewers and—in a change—the key demographic.
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Tags: 2013, CBS, Fall, Hostages, Mom, premieres, The Crazy Ones, The Millers, We Are Men
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In this latest installment of the Antenna-Sounding Out! continuing series From Mercury to Mars: Orson Welles on Radio after 75 Years, Cynthia Meyers reflects on teaching the Mercury Theater's 1938 broadcast to 21st century undergraduate students.
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Tags: CBS, media studies, Mercury Theater, Orson Welles, War of the Worlds
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Aereo, Apple, blackout, CBS, Esquire Network, FilmOn X, iphone, IPO, SiriusXM, Time Warner Cable, Twitter
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