Channel Drift: Remember how MTV first started out playing music videos and has since morphed into a totally different channel? Well, it’s a lot more common than we might’ve originally thought. Fourteen other cable channels have also undergone identity changes. Maybe we should cut MTV some slack.
90210: Will have a shortened episode on Nov. 4 so viewers won’t have to choose between that and election coverage. ‘Cause, you know, the audiences for those two things are exactly the same.
James Marsden: Who does The Notebook, Enchanted and, let’s not forget, 27 Dresses actor want to impress? Judd Apatow! He thinks playing a bigot in the new film Sex Drive will help his cause. Good luck with that, James.
Obama: Might he make Oprah an ambassador? After all, she is the Queen of All Media.
Partisan TV: A new report says Republicans favor Rock of Love and Dems go for I Love New York. That’s high class right there.
Bi-Partisan Comedy: Less likely today as left-leaning comedians have the market cornered. Are Democrats just better at everything?
Miley Cyrus: Those scandalous bathroom photos from the spring? Courtesy of a hacker now under investigation by the FBI. But wasn’t she just being Miley?
MTV: Not going ahead with planned series Model Makers, which chronicled the making of wannabe models into the correct (read: skinny) body types. Shocking considering the other stuff they’ve shown. Who remembers I Want A Famous Face? Maybe we shouldn’t cut MTV some slack…
SIZZLED OUT: Samuel L. Jackson
STILL SIZZLING: Which R & B singer says she’s motivated not by athletes’ chiseled looks but instead their smooth skills?