Archive for the ‘film-tv’ Category

Greenpeace Story Being Turned Into Major Motion Picture

National Treasure's Jon Turteltaub set to direct, Naked Gun's Jerry Zucker to produce.

November 13th 2009

An impressive team of major Hollywood players is behind a new film detailing the birth of the environmental organization Greenpeace. Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure, Cool Runnings, While You Were Sleeping) will direct, Jerry Zucker (Naked Gun, Airplane!) and wife Janet will produce, and The West Wing’s Andy Sorkin has been approached to write the script.
According [...]

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The Green Quote: Gwyneth Paltrow Is Totally Addicted To (Green) Porn!

November 12th 2009

“For comic relief, ‘Green Porno’ on Sundance Channel is now in its third season of deadpan puppet shows by Isabella Rossellini. I’ve learned a lot more than I want to about reproduction in the animal and insect kingdoms. This season, the third so far, has an especially eco-friendly and equally hilarious bent, showing, in the [...]

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NBC Launches Third-Annual ‘Green Week’ Programming This Sunday!

November 11th 2009

NBC’s “Green is Universal” initiative is kicking off its third-annual “Green Week” of environmentally-themed programming starting this Sunday! Color me surprised that this campaign is still alive and kicking three years after its launch.
The centerpiece of this year’s “Green Week” is the “Green Counts Here” campaign, a cross-platform initiative that invites NBC Universal audiences to [...]

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Meat-Obsessed Cowboy Goes Vegan Thanks To The Dr. Oz Show

November 11th 2009

Dr. Oz is changing lives in a BIG way!
On a recent episode of his hit show, the good doctor challenged Rocco, a meat-obsessed cowboy, to a 28-day vegan cleanse. At only 52-years old, Rocco’s blood sugar was at 172, his waist size was 49 and he weighed 265 pounds. When all was said and done, [...]

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Planet Green To Debut ‘Burn Up’ In US

November 11th 2009

On December 6 & 7, Burn Up, starring Bradley Whitford, Neve Campbell and Rufus Penry-Jones, which aired in the UK on BBc2 in 2008, is finally going to bow in the US on cable’s Planet Green.
Burn Up is a two part tele-pic about the international conspiracy behind the oil industry and climate change. Planet Green’s [...]

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The Tapeworm Diet: Tyra Banks Introduces Women To The Next Gross Thing

November 10th 2009

There was all sorts of madness yesterday on The Tyra Banks Show — which shouldn’t surprise most people, but we were genuinely impressed with the amount of stupidity squished into one full hour of television.
The highlight was Tyra introducing viewers to “The Tapeworm Diet”, which isn’t something you eat, but ingest. That’s right: You eat [...]

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Fox Show ‘Bones’ Features Real Factory Farm Footage

November 9th 2009

Here at the Razz, we love us some Bones.
Last week, the hit Fox show featured gruesome footage (courtesy of Farm Sanctuary) of the cruelty that chickens face on a daily basis in slaughterhouses. VEGdaily contributer Jasmin Singer sums up the episode like this:
“The premise of the episode centered around a mysterious dead body that was eventually [...]

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Iron Chef America Visits Obama Family Garden For Special Episode

November 5th 2009

Iron Chef is playing in Michelle Obama’s garden and we think it’s just swell!
The popular Food Network program has taped a special episode using produce from the White House garden to help promote local and organic food. The episode will also feature Mrs. Obama discussing her crusade to reduce childhood obesity through better school lunches, [...]

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Al Gore And Stephen Colbert Debate Global Warming Solutions

November 5th 2009

Just last night, Stephen Colbert and Al Gore got together to discuss a solution to this pesky global warming problem.
In a pretty hilarious split screen Formidable Opponent segment, Colbert started off by interviewing himself and then introduced the former Vice President to chime in. Gore shared this piece of information:
“Stopping global warming doesn’t have to [...]

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‘2012′ Lastest Film To Recycle Sets, Offset Production

November 4th 2009

Director Roland Emmerich’s new disaster movie 2012 is about to hit theaters — and as the Mother Nature Network recently found out, there was an effort to keep the $260 million dollar film as green as possible.
Emmerich, who drives a hybrid and powers his home with solar panels, said “After making The Day After Tomorrow, [...]

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