By Rick Kissell
Ratings for event programming continue to benefit from the surge in social media activity that they spur, with the Academy Awards the latest to post surprisingly hearty numbers. Sunday's telecast of t…
By Jon Weisman
The Oscars are done with, and much has been written about the ceremony broadcast already, so forgive me my three cents. But since I spent enough time expressing my fears about Sunday in the days and w…
By Brian Lowry
Infusing the evening with genial snark, Seth MacFarlane joined David Letterman, Jon Stewart and Chris Rock as hosts tapped to heighten the Oscars' hipness quotient and address its age-old (which is to…
By Brian Lowry
Like David Letterman, Jon Stewart and Chris Rock – all recruited to add to the Oscars' hipness quotient – Seth MacFarlane has relatively little to gain in trying to solve the telecast's age-old pr…