Seven years on, he's back with a film exposing the practice of aggressive product placement in US TV shows and movies.
The updated app gives tablet fans new streams of activity to explore what songs people are tagging and, in the US, what TV shows people are currently watching, as well as a fascinating new interactive mapping feature enabling music fans to explore what people are discovering in any city around the world.
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All of which means that the indices that come to us from the TV business shows are becoming obsolete now.
American Airlines is testing a new video streaming product from Gogo, an in-flight internet provider, that allows passengers on US flights to rent movies or TV shows onboard and watch them on their own wi-fi enabled laptops or tablets.
More recently he has appeared in a number of TV reality shows including the US version of I'm a Celebrity...
Many programmes on Sky channels were made by Mr Murdoch's US network Fox, including one of the most successful TV shows of the past 20 years, the Simpsons.
For those of us (like myself) that watch a lot of TV shows after the first airing, the advertisements that are presented during the show can often feel irrelevant.
"This arrangement upholds our retail and rental strategy, while allowing us to continue to deliver the best available movies and TV shows in the market to our customers, " said Mike Dunn, President Worldwide, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
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The reason why we love TV shows like The Office is that most of us can relate to the daily dramas, difficult personalities, and ridiculous requests that are part of the modern day corporate workspace.
Downtown San Pedro, often used as a filming location for movies and TV shows, has had its ups and downs as the US economy has stumbled.
"Our customers have been asking us for two things: HD and the ability to watch movies and TV shows instantly on their television, " said Bill Carr, Amazon vice president Music and Video.
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UK-made TV shows display a special logo at the start and end, but that doesn't apply to US imports like Cards and in any case it doesn't reveal the conditions of any agreement -- did a certain number of devices have to be shown onscreen, or depicted in a certain way?
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