Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: VH1

VH1 stories: 6 news summaries

 VH1 Brings Back 
 Behind the Music 

Lil Wayne, Scott Weiland to be featured

Mar 19, 09 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - VH1 is reviving Behind the Music—yes, it was gone—after the success of last fall’s popular New Kids on the Block special. “It felt like the time was right,” a network exec tells the Hollywood Reporter. “There’s all sorts of new artists who have... More »

MORE ABOUT:
television • music • VH1 • documentary • musician • Lil Wayne • Scott Weiland • Behind the Music

 Cho Gung-Ho on New Show

Comedienne has a new show and plenty to talk about

Aug 21, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you've missed Margaret Cho's raunchy brand of comedy, her new "scripted reality sitcom," The Cho Show, debuts this month on VH1 and follows the comedienne and hangers-on through outrageous adventures in Hollywood. Cho sat down with Radar to talk about anal bleaching, defending Britney Spears, and winning... More »

MORE ABOUT:
reality TV • comedy • VH1 • stand up comedy • interview • Margaret Cho

VH1 Loses
Creator of
Hit Shows

Hirschorn decamps network to start production company

Jan 17, 08 3:38 PM CST
(Newser) - VH1 programming VP Michael Hirschorn—the brains behind "Flavor of Love" and other hit shows that turned around the once-sleepy network—is leaving to start a new company centered on unscripted programming. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Ish Entertainment has secured a first-look deal with MTV Networks' Music Group,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
MTV • VH1 • Michael Hirschorn

NEW RELEASE

Check Out of This 'Rehab'

VH1 show exploits fame junkies looking to kick addictions

Jan 11, 08 6:19 PM CST
(Newser) - VH1 has pulled off a difficult feat—it's brought reality TV to new depths of depravity, writes Mark Perigard of the Boston Herald. The network's new "Celebrity Rehab," which follows the struggles of B- and C-list celebs as they try to kick their varous addictions, is "... More »

MORE ABOUT:
reality TV • rehab • celebrity • addiction • VH1 • rehabilitation • Jeff Conaway

Perez Hilton Calls Own
Work ‘Noble’

Admits he skewers Britney because he feels 'cheated'

Oct 21, 07 6:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mario Lavandeira, aka Perez Hilton, is every celebrity’s worst nightmare, but the blogger thinks his work—satirically applying lipstick, dollar signs, and other doodles to Hollywood’s most photographed—is “noble.” With his own VH1 reality show, a ban from the Chateau Marmont, and a yearly take... More »

MORE ABOUT:
blogosphere • Britney Spears • VH1 • blogger • Perez Hilton • Chateau Marmont

Cubans Ignore Static on Illegal TV

Even committed commies crave US satellite shows despite Castro ban

Jul 12, 07 7:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cubans are turning to black-market satellite TV to watch soap operas, US news and music videos, and even the Chicago White Sox—in defiance of a national ban on the programs, the Christian Science Monitor reports. "If there is censorship, there is business," said one  provider who faces... More »

MORE ABOUT:
television • DirecTV • cable TV • Fidel Castro • Cuba • censorship • black market • satellite TV • Committee for the Defense of the Revolution • soap operas • VH1 • boob tube

6 Stories


from our news partners