How unfun is Fox TV? Well, we already now from their "news" programming that they're pretty much the spawn of Satan. But now they go and put the kibosh on sing-along screenings of the classic "musical" episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Lawyers for Twentieth Century Fox Television, a division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., told a licensing company that had given the green light for the sing-along events that it had gone beyond limits of the show's licensing agreements.
All future engagements of the show, including a three-night run scheduled to start Friday in St. Louis, have been canceled.
Chris Alexander, a spokesman for the studio, said that "significant payments" would have to be made to Hollywood unions for the show to be screened in movie theaters, which is a highly unusual arrangement anyway and usually reserved for situations like one-time charity events.
You suck, Fox.
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The Led Zeppelin catalog is going digital Nov. 13.
The digital release program is timed to coincide with the release that day of the 24-track, two-CD Atlantic/Rhino compilation "Mothership," which spans the band's 12-year career.
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Copies of Ray Davies' second solo album will be given away free with the Oct. 21 edition of London's Sunday Times newspaper.
In a statement, Davies claimed that his decision to give away the album was "about reaching as many people as possible. I'm incredibly proud of this LP and am truly excited that 1.5 million copies will be distributed to people who'll hear it organically, the way it was intended. It's an exciting opportunity I couldn't resist."
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The Aquaman Shrine interviews comics scribe/historian Bob Rozakis.
AMS: Your stories have a decidedly lighter tone than Aquaman was used to, especially since this was very soon after Black Manta murdered his child in Adventure Comics. Was this a conscious effort on your part to lighten him up a bit?
BR: I think I took a lighter approach to pretty much everything I wrote. There have been too many angst-filled heroes in comics. Surely there had to be some among them who were actually happy!
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January 2008 DC Comics Solicitations will be posted here later today.
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