Fox Show Brings Messy Workplaces to TV

NEW YORK (AP) -- This time "you're fired" is more than a Donald Trump catchphrase. Fox is turning the firing of real people from real jobs into prime-time entertainment starting this week.
 
The network on Thursday will begin airing "Does Someone Have to Go?" a series where cameras go into small businesses and employees are compelled to rat out underperforming colleagues. At the end, they choose one co-worker to recommend for firing.
 
"This is the thing they promise to do in retreats but nobody really does it," said Mike Darnell, executive in charge of alternative programming for Fox.
 
Darnell and Fox have pushed the boundaries of reality TV since it was first recognized as a genre, from the highs of "American Idol" to the lows of "Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire?" He said he sees "Does Someone Have to Go?" as a new direction for a programming form dominated by singing and dancing competitions.
 
It's a revamped version of a show, then called "Someone's Gotta Go," that Fox had been working on with the Endemol production company four years ago. In its initial incarnation, employees were given the power to determine who should be laid off within companies that needed to shrink for economic reasons. The show drew awful advance publicity - one magazine called it a step toward public executions - and never aired.
 
Read more at the Associated Press.
 
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Chief Keef Arrested on Weed Possession Charge

Chief Keef arrested

Chief Keef was arrested near Atlanta this week for disorderly conduct after hotel security smelled marijuana smoke coming from his room, the Chicago Tribune reports.
 
The Chicago rapper was at the LeMeridan Hotel in Dunwoody, north of Atlanta.
 
Booked under his real name, Keith Farrelle Cozart, the rapper was released on his own recognizance from the DeKalb County Jail around 3:20 a.m. today.
 
The circumstances leading up to Chief Keef’s arrest, as TMZ reports, are quite hilarious. Well, we’ll let TMZ retell what the guard said on the 911 tape:
 
During the call, the security guy alerts the 911 operator to “a bunch of gentlemen rolling marijuana and smoking … all in the room … the room’s filled with smoke.”
 
The security guard seems astonished … because, “I announced myself as ‘security’ and they let me in the room AS IF IT DOESN’T EVEN MATTER!”
The guy also warns 911 to send cops to the scene ASAP because he feared “those guys may just bolt.”
 
Read more at News One.
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Fantasia entering a new era

 

Not long ago Stephanie Mills had an album titled “Born For This.” She was — and so was Fantasia, the Season 3 “American Idol” winner whose brand new album, “Side Effects of You,” had an amazingly successful debut and might surpass the sales of her first three albums.

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Nicki Minaj to Bow Out of ‘Idol’ After Current Season?

After Randy Jackson, “American Idol’s last original judge, announced his departure from the show after appearing for 12 seasons, rapper and judge Nicki Minaj (pictured) is said to be exiting the show after the current season ends, according to US Weekly.

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Although Minaj has not officially announced her rumored departure, she has, according to an unidentified show insider, been noncommittal about signing up for another season with the show.

The once-flagship Fox program now has ratings that are worse than last year’s. An “Idol” insider reprotedly told Us Weekly about Minaj’s plans, “It’s safe to say she isn’t coming back…. She’s okay with it. She had a great time but was only going to do one season anyway.” The spokesperson also mentioned that Minaj just wanted to focus on her singing career.

With Minaj’s reported departure, the show would be left with songstress Mariah Carey and Keith Urban as its judges.

During Minaj’s time on the show, she has been at odds with fellow judge Carey, with the women even resorting to unabashed name-calling on Twitter.

As far as the other two judges, Carey and Urban, mum’s the word as to whether they will return to their respective judging gigs for Season 13.

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Chris Brown Cited For Scary Mural On His House

There’s never a dull moment with R&B singer Chris Brown (pictured below) who this go-round is in trouble with the city of Los Angeles for having a mural painted on a wall outside of his Hollywood Hills home (pictured above) that is terrifying the neighborhood kids, reports the L.A. Times[1].

Neighbors have reportedly complained in vain to Brown about the very prominent mural, which depicts giant blob-like monsters with bloodshot bulging eyes and huge fangs. So they reportedly took their gripes to local authorities.

And L.A. city code officials reportedly sided with the irate neighbors about the mural, citing Brown with a $376.32 fine after complaints began to flood their office.

The fine is for unpermitted and excessive signage, and the agency ordered him to remove the art within 30 days.

If Brown fails to comply with the agency’s order, the fine will go north of where it presently stands.

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