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Whale Wars »     by Andy Dehnart / January 19, 2012, 6:47 AM The intensity of the confrontation between anti-whaling activists and Japanese whalers continues in the Southern Ocean, where a camera operator for Animal Planet’s documentary reality series Whale Wars was injured. On its web site, Sea Shepherd reports that “American crewmember Brian Race, (25) from New York, was jabbed twice in the face with a bamboo pole receiving lacerations above his right eye and on his nose. Russell Bergh of South Africa, (35) a cameraman for Animal Planet, was struck in the right arm and shoulder with an iron grappling hook thrown from the harpoon vessel resulting in deep bruising. Photographer Guillaume Collet of France, (27) was also struck in the right arm and shoulder by an iron grappling hook resulting in deep bruising.” That happened when, Paul Watson said, Sea Shepherd’s “”small boats were attempting to slow down the Japanese harpoon vessel Yushin Maru No. 2, which is aggressively tailing the ...

NBC »     by Andy Dehnart / January 16, 2012, 5:33 AM Tonight, NBC airs a special focusing on Golden Girls star Betty White, and follows it with a preview of a new reality series that carries her name. Betty White’s 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America’s Golden Girl debuts at 8, and features celebrities—including Mary Tyler Moore, Ed Asner, Valerie Harper, Ellen DeGeneres, Morgan Freeman, Tina Fey, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett, and Hugh Jackman—who will “deliver birthday wishes.” So, it’s basically a roast without the vitriol, and yet another moment in our culture’s now-ongoing celebration of Betty White, who deserves it (if only for the hours of entertainment she gave us as Rose Nylund .) That special will be followed at 9:30 by the first episode of Betty White’s Off Their Rockers , a hidden camera series that mostly just uses her name. (Asked about it by critics last week, she said she hadn’t seen clips of the pranks.) While I normally loathe hidden camera shows, this see...

Home > Entertainment > Don’t Miss on Sunday – Japan’s Tsunami: Caught on Camera on Channel 4 December 9th, 2011 by Sarah. No comments This Sunday, December 11th, Channel 4 is airing Japan’s Tsunami: Caught on Camera at 8:15pm, and we have a sneak peek clip for you after the jump. But first, it was of course on the 11th and 12th of March this year that the world watched horrified as a wall of deadly water wiped out swathes of Northern Japan, creating havoc and death as it surged inland. In this film, we’ll see never before seen footage of that day, and we’ll hear from one man who recorded the horrific event from inside his car. Lots more footage – all from amateurs who were on the spot – captures the terror of the earthquake that measured 8.9 on the Richter scale, and the resulting tsunami . More eyewitnesses will reveal how they escaped, and there will be the harrowing stories of those who did not… Channel 4 adds, “The eyewitness film captures some apocalyptic images of the w...