Tag: Television

The Takeaway

Documentary filmmaker tracks an oil boom in North Dakota

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Guest: Caitlin McNally, documentary filmmaker

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Video: Classic food jingles

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

McDonald's is asking MySpace users to create a new jingle for its signature Big Mac sandwich. Will the new tune find a place among these classics?
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1 — McDonald's Big Mac

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What's the word, Sunday pundits?

Monday, July 14, 2008

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Big-time TV writers Whedon and MacFarlane create Web-exclusive shows

Friday, July 11, 2008

Joss Whedon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and Seth MacFarlane ("Family Guy"), two of television's most powerful showrunners, are taking their brands online. Whedon's "Dr. Horrible" will be an on-the-cheap supervillain musical. MacFarlane's "Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy" will be distributed by the advertising juggernaut Google, who just might be reinventing TV...

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TV documentary offers an unusually close look at prestigious "Hopkins" hospital

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Terence Wrong is the producer and executive producer of the ABC News documentary series "Hopkins," which gives viewers an intimate look at life and death and work inside Baltimore's John Hopkins Hospital. The six-part program was shot over four months, and premieres Thursday night.

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Tony Schwartz, 84, co-creator of "Daisy," the game-changing political ad

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Tony Schwartz is a former WNYC host and creator of 1964's "Daisy" ad, the first television spot to change the national political conversation. Schwartz died on Sunday at the age of 84. The Takeaway looks at his successors and how they've affected election campaigns.

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