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May 2012
- Showbiz Sandbox 147: TV Networks Are Upfront About Their New Schedules
- Showbiz Sandbox 146: High Frame Rate Hijinks On "The Hobbit"
April 2012
- Showbiz Sandbox 145: Rise of Playlisters Marks The Death of Music Blogs
- Showbiz Sandbox 144: Measuring Media Proves Difficult In The Digital Age
- Showbiz Sandbox 143: "Mommy Porn" Is Hollywood's Hot New Trend
March 2012
- Showbiz Sandbox 142: Is The MPAA Rating System Broken?
- Showbiz Sandbox 141: Mike Daisey Learns The Difference Between Journalism and Art
- Showbiz Sandbox 140: Nollywood Love - Inside The Booming Nigerian Film Industry
- Showbiz Sandbox 139: Why The Music Industry Is More Brutal Than Ever
February 2012
- Showbiz Sandbox 138: Lessons Learned At This Year's Oscars
- Showbiz Sandbox 137: A Revealing Look At Who Votes For The Oscars
- Showbiz Sandbox 136: Crafting A Story For The Grammys Through Triumph and Tragedy
- Showbiz Sandbox 135: Is The SAG-AFTRA Merger Good For Hollywood?
January 2012
- Showbiz Sandbox 134: Video-On-Demand Rides To The Rescue At Sundance
- Showbiz Sandbox 133: Oscars Celebrate The Past; Sundance Discovers The Future
- Showbiz Sandbox 132: Moviegoing Is Alive And Well In The Modern Age
- Showbiz Sandbox 131: Broadway Flops Find New Life On The Road
December 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 130: It's The Data, Stupid (or Why Live Nation Bought BigChampagne)
- Showbiz Sandbox 129: Ticket Masters - The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
- Showbiz Sandbox 128: Have Yourself A Movie Little Christmas
November 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 127: Has NBC Lost Touch With Its Community?
- Showbiz Sandbox 126: Foot In Mouth Disease Sweeps Through Hollywood
- Showbiz Sandbox 125: Are Radio D.J.'s A Thing Of The Past?
October 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 124: UltraViolet Is A Solution In Search Of A Problem
- Showbiz Sandbox 123: DVR Data Can Save TV Shows From Cancellation
- Showbiz Sandbox 122: The Real Story Behind Steve Jobs And Pixar
- Showbiz Sandbox 121: Why 3D Movie Tickets Are About To Get More Expensive
September 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 120: Netflix Must Adapt To A Hollywood It Helped Create
- Showbiz Sandbox 119: Thompson On Toronto and Telluride
- Showbiz Sandbox 118: Mr. Television Rates This Year's New Shows
- Showbiz Sandbox 117: Crunching The Numbers Behind Summer's New Box Office Records
August 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 116: Will Hollywood Miss Steve Jobs?
- Showbiz Sandbox 115: Record Industry Wages A Quiet War Over Song Rights
- Showbiz Sandbox 114: Hollywood Overflows With Streaming Content Deals
July 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 113: Hollywood Studios Think Twice About Comic-Con
- Showbiz Sandbox 112: Why Netflix Had To Raise Its Prices
- Showbiz Sandbox 111: Can Paste Magazine Ignite A Digital Publishing Revolution?
- Showbiz Sandbox 110: "Transformers" Proves Mediocrity Makes Money
June 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 109: Making Grammar Fun (And F*cking Funny)
- Showbiz Sandbox 108: China Becomes Hollywood's New Best Frenemy
- Showbiz Sandbox 107: The Pros And Cons Of Cloud Music Services
- Showbiz Sandbox 106: A Tony Awards Preview Of Broadway's Billion Dollar Year
- Showbiz Sandbox 105: The Dark Truth About Digital Cinema
May 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 104: 'Pirates' Proves The Importance Of A Global Box Office
- Showbiz Sandbox 103: Midnight In Cannes - This Year's Fest Sparks Fireworks
- Showbiz Sandbox 102: Why Music Videos Matter (Again)
- Showbiz Sandbox 101: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner To Corner Office
April 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 100: In Showbiz, As In Life, Size Matters
- Showbiz Sandbox 99-B: The Special Excuse Episode
- Showbiz Sandbox 99: How To Fix Hollywood's Obsolete Residual Payments System
- Showbiz Sandbox 98: Why New Distribution Models Terrify Hollywood
March 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 97: What The Failure Of "Mars Needs Moms" Means For Hollywood
- Showbiz Sandbox 96: Why Facebook Is Becoming Your Friendly Neighborhood Video Store
- Showbiz Sandbox 95: The Media Is Charlie Sheen's Worst Enabler
- Showbiz Sandbox 94: Charlie Sheen Is More Entertaining Than The Oscars
February 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox 93: A Film Festival Fit For An iPhone
- Showbiz Sandbox 92: The Awards Otherwise Known As The Grammys
- Showbiz Sandbox 91: Super Bowl Ads Suffer Their Own Recession
- Showbiz Sandbox 90: Pick Up Artists Score At Sundance
January 2011
- Showbiz Sandbox Special Episode: Dissecting This Year’s Oscar Nominations
- Showbiz Sandbox 89: The Rising Fortunes Of Lady Gaga
- Showbiz Sandbox 88: How Many Producers Does A Movie Need?
- Showbiz Sandbox 87: The Oscars Have A Mommy Complex
- Showbiz Sandbox 86: Why TV Viewing Is Rising As Moviegoing Declines
December 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 85: How To Save The Movie Business
- Showbiz Sandbox 84: A Black List Every Screenwriter Wants To Be On
- Showbiz Sandbox 83: The Social Network Tops Critics Year-End Picks
- Showbiz Sandbox 82: Training For The Awards Season Marathon
November 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 81: Kanye West Spins His Own Hype
- Showbiz Sandbox 80: Disney Dumps Fairy Tales For Original Stories
- Showbiz Sandbox 79: A New Social Music Chart To Rival Billboard?
- Showbiz Sandbox 78: The Fight Over Streaming Television Online
- Showbiz Sandbox 77: It's Official - Hollywood To Make Nothing But Sequels
October 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 76: Taking On The Hobbit And Ticketmaster Down Under
- Showbiz Sandbox 75: Hollywood Stunned By A Jackass (And It's Not Perez Hilton!)
- Showbiz Sandbox 74: Showbiz News Gets A Reboot
September 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 73: Handicapping This Season's New TV Shows
- Showbiz Sandbox 72: Grading The Toronto and Venice Film Festivals
- Showbiz Sandbox 71: Missing Good Movies In Toronto, Eh?
- Showbiz Sandbox 70: Digital or Bust - The Future of Reading
August 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 69: The Emmys Shine In Google TV's Shadow
- Showbiz Sandbox 68: Who Said Jennifer Aniston Was A Movie Star?
- Showbiz Sandbox 67: Cheap Digital Music Downloads Are On (Arcade) Fire
- Showbiz Sandbox 66: Why Audiences Are Avoiding 3D Movies
- Showbiz Sandbox 65: Hollywood's Love/Hate Relationship With Twitter
July 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 64: Buzzing About Comic-Con, Digital Comics and E-Books
- Showbiz Sandbox 63: Mel Gibson Wishes It Were All A Dream
- Showbiz Sandbox 62: The Secret Behind Hollywood’s Accounting Practices
- Showbiz Sandbox 61: Andrew Garfield Fills Spider-Man's Reboots
June 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 60: Reality TV Doesn't Kid Around
- Showbiz Sandbox 59: Movie Piracy Becomes Unthinkable
- Showbiz Sandbox 58: Celebrities Take Over Broadway
- Showbiz Sandbox 57: A Memo From James Cameron
- Showbiz Sandbox 56: What You Talkin' Bout Guillermo?!
May 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 55: I Want My Google TV
- Showbiz Sandbox 54: Le Petit Cannes - Downsizing The Festival
- Showbiz Sandbox 53: I'm Sleeping With Richard Dreyfuss
- Showbiz Sandbox 52: Recruiting Sandra Bullock's Baby
April 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 51: Ridley Scott Believes 3D Is An "Alien" Concept
- Showbiz Sandbox 50: Coachella Gets Its Crowd On
- Showbiz Sandbox 49: Hollywood Experiences Premature Sequalization
- Showbiz Sandbox 48: The Justin Bieber Swagger
March 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 47: Movie Ticket Prices Get Super Sized
- Showbiz Sandbox 46: Hollywood's Latest Meme Is 3D
- Showbiz Sandbox 45: Changing Faces At Variety
- Showbiz Sandbox 44: And The (Six) Oscars Go To... "Hurt Locker"
- Showbiz Sandbox 43: The Obligatory Oscar Predictions Episode
February 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 42: Tom Cruise Takes A Pay Cut, And Other Indignities
- Showbiz Sandbox 41: Live Nation Becomes The Master Of Tickets
- Showbiz Sandbox Special Episode: And The Oscar Nominations Go To....
- Showbiz Sandbox 40: Taylor Ain't Swift At The Grammys
January 2010
- Showbiz Sandbox 39: Chez Sundance
- Showbiz Sandbox 38: Gender Matters In Hollywood
- Showbiz Sandbox 37: Conan and Leno's Late Shift Shrift
- Showbiz Sandbox 36: Can "Avatar" Beat "Titanic"? Heck No!
December 2009
- Showbiz Sandbox 35: Women In Hollywood... It's Complicated
- Showbiz Sandbox 34: Hollywood's Box Office Billions Set New Record
- Showbiz Sandbox 33: "Avatar" Is A $100 Hamburger
- Showbiz Sandbox 32: Grammys and Spirits and Comcast, Oh My!
November 2009
- Showbiz Sandbox 31: Blind Sided By Adam Lambert's Double Standard
- Showbiz Sandbox 30: "Modern Warfare" Stuns Hollywood
- Showbiz Sandbox 29: Camped Out For "Twilight: New Moon"
- Showbiz Sandbox 28: Why Spider-Man Is Hard Up For $52 Million
- Showbiz Sandbox 27: That's It For "This Is It"
October 2009
- Showbiz Sandbox 26: Hollywood Struggles With New Business Models
- Showbiz Sandbox 25: Mr. Television Grades Freshman TV Shows (and Leno Flunks)
- Showbiz Sandbox Special Episode: Are Bloggers Breaking The Rules?
- Showbiz Sandbox 24: How To Get A Hero Complex
- Showbiz Sandbox 23: Letterman and Polanski Go To The Dogs
September 2009
- Showbiz Sandbox 22: The Trouble With Indie Films, Roman Polanski and Hollywood Guilds
- Showbiz Sandbox 21: Name Dropping At The Emmys and Toronto
- Showbiz Sandbox 20: Judging Ellen DeGeneres and 3D TV
- Showbiz Sandbox 19: The Beatles Get Mono (and Stereo!)
- Showbiz Sandbox 18: It's All Fun And Games Until Celebrities Start Dyin'
August 2009
- Showbiz Sandbox 17: Twitter Makes Movie Critics Important Again
- Showbiz Sandbox 16: Hollywood Thinks Outside The Redbox
- Showbiz Sandbox 15: Ferris Bueller Is A Jerk!
- Showbiz Sandbox 14: Zooey Deschanel Proves It's Twee To Be You And Me
July 2009
- Showbiz Sandbox 13: Hooliganism At Comic-Con (Or Lack Thereof)
- Showbiz Sandbox Special Episode: A Look Inside TMZ's Michael Jackson Scoop
- Showbiz Sandbox 12: I Want To Be Korbi!
- Showbiz Sandbox 11: Wild About Michael Jackson (...and Neil Diamond)
June 2009
- Showbiz Sandbox 10: The Death Of Pop, Pinup Girls and (Possibly) 2D Movies
- Showbiz Sandbox 9: I Loves Me A Good Ouster Story
- Showbiz Sandbox 8: Everybody's A Critic On The Internet
- Showbiz Sandbox 7: Talkin' Tonys And Trailers
- Showbiz Sandbox 6: Down With 'Up' And Other Contrarian Opinions
May 2009
- Showbiz Sandbox 5: A Travesty Of American Idol Justice
- Showbiz Sandbox 4: Yes We Cannes!
- Showbiz Sandbox 3: Award Season Redux
- Showbiz Sandbox 2: Disney Hearts Hulu, Endeavor Hearts William Morris
