Simon Cowell's ITV1 gameshow Red or Black? has seen a contestant lose out on the £1 million prize for the second time in a row. Account executive Andy Morton missed out on the jackpot after choosing black in the show's final roulette spin. Morton simply said: "I played the game," before thanking hosts Ant & Dec. On Monday, data security consultant Ian Murphy failed to win the jackpot after choosing red. Morton (more)...
- 9/7/2011
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
New ITV1 gameshow Red or Black? rallied slightly on Monday evening, while Celebrity Big Brother stayed popular on Channel 5, the latest audience data has revealed. After haemorrhaging viewers on Sunday evening, Simon Cowell's Red or Black? steadied the ship with 5.02m (20.9%) on ITV1 in the 8pm hour, and 121k (0.5%) on timeshift. The programme returned from 9.30pm with 4.99m (20%) and 214k (1.3%) on +1, as data security consultant Ian Murphy missed out on winning the £1 million prize. Celebrity Big Brother continued to perform for Channel 5, attracting 2.26m (12.2%) in the 10pm hour, before Celebrity Big Brother's Bit On The Side entertained 641k (6.5%) from 11pm. Channel 5's How Do They Do It? quizzed 358k (1.6%) from 7.30pm, and Royal Submarine School fetched 1.26m (5.3%) in the 8pm hour. Soho Blues interested (more)...
- 9/6/2011
- by By Andrew Laughlin
- Digital Spy
Simon Cowell's ITV1 gameshow Red or Black? saw a contestant lose out on the top prize for the first time tonight. Data security consultant Ian Murphy missed out on winning £1 million after he incorrectly chose red during the show's final roulette spin. Murphy, who was praised by presenters Ant & Dec for his calmness throughout tonight's episode, remained upbeat after missing out on the money as he was joined by his family on stage. (more)...
- 9/5/2011
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Mike Huckabee's remarks about Natalie Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy weren't incendiary-until Eric Hananoki got his hands on them and found just the right snippet to get the media fired up. Howard Kurtz on how partisan groups are deploying sound bites to discredit public figures.
Mike Huckabee, whose nonstop book-flacking is keeping him on the political radar, was doing a routine radio interview when the talk briefly turned to Natalie Portman.
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Seattle host Michael Medved questioned how the 29-year-old actress could tout her pregnancy at the Oscars when she had not yet married her fiancé. The once-and-maybe-future presidential candidate replied that it was "troubling" to see "a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts" of having a child out of wedlock, because "there aren't really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions...
Mike Huckabee, whose nonstop book-flacking is keeping him on the political radar, was doing a routine radio interview when the talk briefly turned to Natalie Portman.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Al Sharpton: Obama's Go-To Black Leader
Seattle host Michael Medved questioned how the 29-year-old actress could tout her pregnancy at the Oscars when she had not yet married her fiancé. The once-and-maybe-future presidential candidate replied that it was "troubling" to see "a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts" of having a child out of wedlock, because "there aren't really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions...
- 3/30/2011
- by Howard Kurtz
- The Daily Beast
If you don't surf over to the Buffalo Beast, you may not immediately know the editor, Ian Murphy. But you probably know some of his work as a satirist and political troublemaker, such as his now notorious prank call on Gov. Scott Walker of Minnesota, where Murphy pretended to be David Koch. What's Murphy been doing over the last few weeks? Filing the paperwork to run as the Green Party candidate for Congress in New York's 26th District, which is having a special election to fill the seat vacated by "Craigslist Congressman" Chris Lee.
- 3/28/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
Union protesters in Madison, Wisconsin. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images.The governor of Wisconsin evidently speaks in a more unbuttoned fashion than usual when he thinks he is talking to David Koch. Hoaxed into believing that it was the libertarian moneybags on the line, Scott Walker allowed the actual caller (a near-incredulous Ian Murphy of BuffaloBeast.com) to ask him about the possible use of agents provocateurs to discredit the union protestors in the capital of his state:...
- 2/28/2011
- Vanity Fair
When a young reporter prank-called Wisconsin's union-busting governor this week, he joined a new golden age of political high jinks. From the blogger who brought down Acorn to the McCain volunteer who claimed she was attacked by Obama cronies, David A. Graham revisits the best capers.
The Yippies and Will Rogers might be long gone, but political humor is far from dead-as a prank call to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday proved. Ian Murphy, a writer with the alternative-news site Buffalo Beast, managed to talk to Walker under the pretense of being billionaire conservative benefactor David Koch, calling to encourage Walker in his battle against public unions. Murphy got a few titillating tidbits out of Walker-including the fact that Walker considered using "troublemaker" plants and preliminary acceptance of an unethical gift-but the main goal was embarrassment, and that appears to have worked just fine.
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The Yippies and Will Rogers might be long gone, but political humor is far from dead-as a prank call to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday proved. Ian Murphy, a writer with the alternative-news site Buffalo Beast, managed to talk to Walker under the pretense of being billionaire conservative benefactor David Koch, calling to encourage Walker in his battle against public unions. Murphy got a few titillating tidbits out of Walker-including the fact that Walker considered using "troublemaker" plants and preliminary acceptance of an unethical gift-but the main goal was embarrassment, and that appears to have worked just fine.
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- 2/25/2011
- by David A. Graham
- The Daily Beast
On tonight's The Last Word, host Lawrence O'Donnell spoke with Buffalo Beast editor Ian Murphy, the man behind the 20 minute prank call Wisconsin governor Scott Walker had with who he thought was conservative billionaire businessman David Koch. Murphy made the call because rumor had it that Democrats trying to get in touch with Walker, who is currently embroiled in his state's ongoing union protests, were unable to get through to him.
- 2/24/2011
- by Alex Alvarez
- Mediaite - TV
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker was pranked—punk’d, in Kutcherean parlance—by a gentleman impersonating cagey billionaire and G.O.P. benefactor David Koch. The prankster, Ian Murphy of the Buffalo, New York, Web site the Buffalo Beast, chatted with a congenial Walker about the pro-union protests that have snarled his state’s infrastructure. Walker, somewhat amazingly, doesn’t actually say anything all that damning, despite the escalating strangeness of his fictitious interlocutor. As Politico’s Ben Smith notes, the banal tape “reflects politicians willingness to give large amounts of time to rich guys whose obvious weirdness and terrible ideas are to be tolerated for the cash they put up.” Walker’s office has a different interpretation: “The phone call shows that the Governor says the same thing in private as he does in public and the lengths that others will go to disrupt the civil debate Wisconsin is having.
- 2/23/2011
- Vanity Fair
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