‘Everybody’s Fine’ is Robert De Niro’s show, and he brings a certain charm and depth to this family drama which tends towards predictability and sentimentality.
De Niro plays Frank Goode, a retired phone-wire factory worker whose wife has recently passed away. Frank spends most of his days out in the garden doing menial tasks, but when he organises a family dinner with his four, now-grown children, he busily begins preparing for their arrival.
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Click here for the full list of the 2010 Oscar nominees: http://bit.ly/aZZj44
But here are the nominees for Best Picture:
Irish language broadcasting in Northern Ireland received has received a boost as the Irish and UK Governments agreed a memorandum of understanding which provides a framework for continuing co-operation on broadcasting issues on the island of Ireland.
The memorandum, which is aimed at ensuring a smooth transition to digital switchover and the switch-off of analogue services in Northern Ireland and Ireland, was signed by Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Ben Bradshaw.
The memorandum commits the two Governments to facilitating the widespread availability of RTE services in Northern Ireland and BBC services in Ireland on a free-to-air basis. It will also ensure the continuing widespread availability of the Irish language channel TG4 in Northern Ireland following the digital switchover.
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As recently (FRIDAY 13TH NOV 09) featured on FM104’s Freaks on Friday, the DDFC:
The FM104 Freaks on Friday page can be found here
HBO Mafia show The Sopranos, which came to a controversial end last year, could return as a feature film.
Nick D’Urso, the manager of the strip club that doubled as the show’s Bada Bing bar, has revealed he won’t be making any renovations to his establishment as producers want to re-use the location for a Sopranos movie. Speaking to local New Jersey paper The Record, Satin Dolls manager D’Urso said: “I got an inside tip that they’re going to do a movie, so I don’t want to make any major changes.
“I’m not going to reveal my sources, but we got a call from somebody [working] on the script.”
A spokeswoman for HBO refused to comment on D’Urso’s claims.
via DigitalSpy
Director – Home Video #4 – Laser Point
WARNING: X Factor spoiler!
The auditions have only just finished airing on the telly but back in the real world X Factor boot camp and Judge’s Houses have already taken place and we’ve got quite the X-clusive spoiler – fresh off the rumour mill!
If you want to see this year’s final 12…keep scrolling!
Boys mentored by Cheryl (assisted by Will Young): 
Lloyd Daniels
Rikki Loney
Joe McElderry
Girls mentored by Dannii (assisted by KYLIE!!!) 
Stacey Soloman
Lucie Jones
Rachel Adedeji
Groups mentored by Louis (assisted by Ronan Keating) 
John And Edward Grimes
Kandy Rain
Miss F.R.A.N.K (a new three piece girl band made up of three solo bootcampers. Shar Alexander, Shanice Davis & Graziella Affinita)
Over 25s mentored by Simon (assisted by Sinitta) 
Olly Murs
Danyl Johnson
Jamie Afro
via Pigsback.com
First episode preview of new season Greys Anatomy
This is a preview of the first episode of Greys Anatomy, which starts Thursday Sept 24th on ABC.
Wedbush Morgan have been making some dramatic new predictions this morning, the firm noting that a Wii HD release by the end of 2010 could put an end to Sony’s hopes of a PS3 fightback.
According to the report, Money for Nothing: How Ancillary Revenues Can Extend The Console Cycle, the analysts expect a revised Wii console to arrive within the next 18 months or so, incorporating MotionPlus into its controller, alongside specifications similar to the Xbox 360.
“We would expect such a console to be fully backward compatible with the current Wii, but would expect the new console to have additional features and functionality,” reads the report, predicting a name similar to ‘Wii Plus’.
The appearance of an HD Wii could serious hurt Sony’s efforts with the PS3, we’re told: “In our view, if Nintendo can offer such a device by year-end 2010, it will be in a position to seriously damage Sony’s chances of a comeback this cycle. We would expect publishers to support such a move, given that the cost of porting an Xbox 360 game to the new Wii Plus HD format would likely be lower than the cost of building a ground up Wii game (we estimate under 5 million USD).”
via play.tm.
