Show Me The Money: How Much TV Stars are Worth

Drama actors:

Hugh Laurie (House) $400,000+
Christopher Meloni & Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU) $395,000 (each)
David Caruso (CSI: Miami) $375,000
Marg Helgenberger (CSI) $375,000
Laurence Fishburne (CSI) $350,000
Jeffrey Donovan (Burn Notice) $200,000
Nathan Fillion (Castle) $100,000
Jon Hamm (Mad Men) $100,000
Alex O'Loughlin (Hawaii Five-0) $100,000

Talk show hosts:
Oprah Winfrey $315 million
Judge Judy Sheindlin $45 million
David Letterman (The Late Show) $28 million
Jay Leno (The Tonight Show) $25 million
Conan O'Brien (The Conan O'Brien Show) $10 million

Reality:
Ryan Seacrest (American Idol) $15 million
Joel McHale (The Soup) $2 million
Piers Morgan (America's Got Talent) $2 million
Kate Gosselin (Kate Plus Eight) $250,000 per episode
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi (Jersey Shore) $30,000 per episode

Comedy actors:
Charlie Sheen (Two and a Half Men) $1.25 million
Jon Cryer (Two and a Half Men) $550,000
Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner (The Simpsons) $400,000
Tina Fey (30 Rock) $350,000
Jeremy Piven (Entourage) $350,000
Steve Carell (The Office) $297,000
Ed O'Neill (Modern Family) $100,000
Betty White (Hot in Cleveland) $75,000

News:
Matt Lauer (Today) $16 million +
Katie Couric (CBS) $15 million
Bill O'Reilly (Fox News) $10 million
Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) $7 million
Wolf Blitzer (CNN) $3 million

Could Be Worth Seeing!

Deniro and Edward Norton? Can't be a BAD movie, right? Here's the trailer for "Stone."

Let's See If I Can Go "Viral"

Here's my first attempt at 15 minutes of fame (I'll even take 15 seconds). I've always been good at random Tiger Woods tricks, so I figured I'd whip together a youtube video of some of my stuff in my spare time. Comment/rate/enjoy and make Token Sports famous! Please...

This Movie Should Be Made...Like Now.

Speilberg, are you reading this? Here's the trailer for the next truly great piece of cinema: "Serenity Now." Starring the legendary cast of Seinfeld, this triller has all the makings of a masterpiece. Coming to a theater near you...

Great job by user "lorocker" on youtube for compiling this.

Whoops: Facebook hated like airlines and cable companies

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

This really cracks me up.

Facebook, the most visited site on the Internet , may also be the most despised: A new poll says the site scored 64 on a 100-point scale, which “puts Facebook in the bottom 5 percent” of private sector companies “and in the same range as airlines and cable companies, two perennially low-scoring industries with terrible customer satisfaction,” according to results of a survey released today.

The results of the American Customer Satisfaction Index’s E-Business Report, done by the University of Michigan in conjunction with ForeSee Results, comes as Facebook nears 500 million members, and as founder Mark Zuckerberg prepares to take to the airwaves Wednesday to talk about his company and its woes.

“Facebook is a phenomenal success, so we were not expecting to see it score so poorly with consumers,” said Larry Freed, president of ForeSee Results. “At the same time, our research shows that privacy concerns, frequent changes to the website and commercialization and advertising adversely affect the consumer experience.”

Really doesn't surprise me. I dislike Facebook a lot. The whole privacy issues bugs me to no end. And the Federal Trade Commission is investigating Facebook's privacy and data collection practices. I've really watched what I type and do on Facebook, and I encourage all of you to do the same. Facebook is still an amazing networking too, and the main reason why I haven't gotten rid of it is because I'm afraid of losing touch with friends. But if Facebook does something that makes me mad, I may walk real soon.

In the mean time, read the entire MSNBC.com article here.

Garfield and commercials

Sometimes, Garfield tells it as it is.  Todays' Sunday strip does it spot-on.

I'm sick of commercials being so much louder than the actual programming.  I'm also sick of there being more commercials then ever before.  And I'm certainly sick of seeing the same commercials over and over and over and over and over again.

I do like the new Geico commercials, though...

"Covert Affiars" is network ready summer fun

"Covert Affairs" is USA's new summer series to join the likes of "Burn Notice," "Royal Pains," "White Collar," Phych," "In Plain Sight," and "White Collar," and it is one of the most enjoyable shows the network has put on the air. USA first got the comedy/drama/action series right with "Monk," putting itself on the map as a network that does more than just reruns of "Law & Order" and "NCIS."

"Covert Affairs" is a fun diversion from the summer, but doesn't seem as formulaic as "Burn Notice" and "Royal Pains." Instead, it dives into the spy genre, and adds a strong female lead in Piper Perabo (of "Coyote Ugly" fame), instead of the customary male lead that we see in most of USA's other shows. But Perabo's character, Annie Walker, is young, reckless, confident, and deeply complex. She's enjoyable to watch, and in one scene during the pilot, where she tries to recover data left behind during an opp turned bad, the clever scriptwriting and her strong acting make the scene laughable and meaningful. We see that she has talent as a CIA operative, and we hope to see her grow and learn as the show continues.

Perabo's biggest help in the show is the blind "Q"-like character, Auggie Anderson, played by Christopher Gorham. Gorham makes Auggie a lovable mentor who seems like the perfect best friend to have. He's one of those character's who may just be along for the ride, but at the same time, after watching the pilot, I have confidence in the writers to make him more complex and important than just a blind assistant.

Speaking of the writers, the show is produced by Doug Liman, who brought Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne to the silver screen. Liman uses his spy-genre experience to make "Covert Affairs" seem more complex in one episode then you'd expect, making me hope and pray that the next episodes will be just as compelling as the pilot.