Reporting from Sacramento – Concerned that the growing popularity of big-screen televisions could make it harder for California to keep pace with electricity demand, state energy regulators are poised to crack down on energy-guzzling sets despite opposition from a powerful electronics trade group. The first-in-the-nation TV efficiency standards would require electronics retailers to sell only energy-sipping models starting in 2011. Even tougher efficiency criteria would follow in 2013. The Calif
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Last year, Richard Donner tagged his former assistant, comic book scribe Geoff Johns , as an ideal writer to script the next Superman film. Johns, meanwhile, told MTV News he would love a crack at Superman or the Flash . Now, it appears both voices were heard by someone in charge, as Johns was brought in as a producer and consultant for DC's upcoming, live-action Flash movie. Johns has already developed a treatment for the film, which will be written by Dan Mazeau, according to T
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As a kid I loved watching the A-Team. I sang along to the theme tune and totally empathized with the crack commando unit – I too kept getting blamed for everything that went wrong (thanks mom!) and desperately wanted to escape the “stockade” and survive in the world as a soldier of fortune. I must have spent years saying “ Quit your jibba jabba fool! ” whenever my older brother tried to speak to me. Good times. I still catch the show on the Series channel, but I can’t regain that exhilarating
With the enormous popularity of Twilight on the big screen and True Blood on the little, vampires are no doubt the new black. So it should come as no surprise that Vamp Radio host Amy McCracken and her crack team of staffers have been burning the candle at both ends to bring their voracious listeners news, gossip, interviews and other goodies from those blood-sucking series. In recent weeks, for instance, the show has welcomed Twilight castmembers Daniel Cudmore, who plays Felix, and Jus
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