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The French Sanjaya wins Idol

Thursday, June 14 by Olivier / The Wit

In the USA, Jimmy Kimmel compared Julien the fresh winner of French Idol (Nouvelle Star) to American Idol "worst constestant" Sanjaya.

Jade and Shilpa gave Celebrity Big Brother its highest ever audience

Wednesday, January 24 by Olivier / The Wit

In the UK, on Channel 4, The Jade Goody's interview after her eviction was watched by an average of 7.8 million viewers at 22.30. It was the Celebrity Big Brother’s highest ever audience while the show started a national racism debate and became an International issue.

Golden Globe Awards : the winner is ...."Ugly Betty" !

Tuesday, January 16 by Guest

America Ferrera is facing her first awards this night in Hollywood.

Official website : www.hfpa.org/goldenglobeawards/index.html

"The L Word", Showtime's Lesbian Series, Season 4 is back !

Wednesday, January 10 by Guest

January 2007, the season 4 of "L Word" is starting in USA.
The series, broadcast on Showtime, tells the story of lesbians' friends in Los Angeles, the 1st serie completly focused on lesbian life.

Non-official website : www.thelwordonline.com
Official website (for US only) : www.sho.com/lword

Greek Ugly Betty already a star

Wednesday, January 3 by Pedro / The Wit

In Greece Mega Channel just launched the primetime telenovela Ugly Maria the local adaptation of the Betty La Fea format. On Monday, January 1 from 21.10 to 21.55 the first episode won its timeslot with a 36.2% share in 4+, according to Agb data. On January 2 the second episode also won its timeslot wit a 30.1% share against the local adaptation of the Deal or no Deal format on Antenna 1.

German Ugly Betty ready to seduce French viewers

Thursday, December 28 by Pedro / The Wit

Merry Christmas everyone !

Friday, December 22 by Vincent / The Wit

Don't Worry he'll be on time for everyone!

All The Wit Team wish you a Merry Christmas

Barney's philosophy

Wednesday, December 13 by Delphine / The Wit

From this week's How I Met Your Mother

Too aggressive!!

Friday, December 8 by Delphine / The Wit

Joy (My Name Is Earl) and her... anger management problem!

The Bachelor - Rome (season 9): ABC

Thursday, December 7 by Delphine / The Wit

Lorenzo finally made his decision... Will it be the right one? Let's hope so!!

Scrubs is back!

Thursday, November 30 by Delphine / The Wit

1st episode of Scrubs’ season 6 on NBC.

America is playing ? no, dreaming !

Thursday, November 23 by Guest

America is playing. No more TV reality shows, the US channels understood that American viewers wanted to dream. Games’ shows become the new American Dream.

DVD... licious !

Thursday, November 23 by Guest

The Best Of the 3 first seasons of The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Ellen DeGeneres in NYC, you go girl !

Thursday, November 23 by Guest

The Ellen DeGeneres Show has moved to New-York City for Thanskgiving; as her best french fan of this funny show, I was there, in the Big Apple.

Victoria and David

Monday, October 23 by Guest

Star Stories is a comedy show imagining the bust-ups, love-ins and fall-outs of celebrities, played by actors. The first episode aired on Channel 4 in the UK. In the opener: a look at the world of David and Victoria Beckham and the best kept secrets behind the romance of the century, treated with lots of fun!

Here is the first rendezvous.

The ARD had two entertainment hits last week...

Sunday, October 22 by Guest

Hi The Wit,
thought I'd just drop you a line, just in case you didn't have the information already.

The ARD had two entertainment hits last week with shows created by First Entertainment.

First of all Nature's Best Inventions on Thursday October 12th at 20:15 won its time-slot with 4,82 million viewers and a market share of 15,4% and 10% with the 14-49 ers. It faced very stiff competition. (First Entertainment in co-operation with SWR). The science-based entertainment show has been optioned by Endemol France (Distribution: First Entertainment)

Secondly, on Saturday 14th October the 6th edition of The Pisa Show at 20:15, with host Jörg Pilawa performed very well, with 5, 3 million viewers and 18,4% market share. This time 10 teams from Germany's neighbouring countries: Belgium, Holland, France, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic took part in the highly successful test-tv format. (Production: First Entertainment in co-operation with WDR; Distribution Eyeworks).

Best Wishes,
Rosanna (First Entertainment)


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