If you're between the ages of 28 and 43, then get ready to go down memory lane because you're about to be hit with a strong dose of '90s and '00s commercial nostalgia: 3.The "Hello mother, hello ...
Washboard abs, stain-free carpets, and the ability to dice a tomato with a playing card: Do these promises sound familiar? These are just a few of the claims made by some of the world’s most ...
Their products can slice and dice your vegetables, flatten your belly and clean your colon! But will you be able to find them if the much-maligned TV infomercial doesn't get right with the social ...
But wait! There's more! Thane Direct is moving from celebrities to popular TV shows and their producers to sell product by the truckload. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief But now, Tukulj, who as ...
The Screen Actors Guild's 2003 Commercials Contract, which has been extended to 2008, covers infomercials shot on film, although the guild also has a separate five-page agreement that deals with them ...
Most nights, I watch New York City’s PIX11 News at 10. During commercial breaks, I’m hit with the usual onslaught of campaign promos. But what stands out more are the strange Trump-themed infomercials ...
Ron Popeil, the man largely responsible for infomercials as we know them, who used them to sell products that he had invented, such as the Pocket Fisherman, Hair in a Can spray, Mr. Microphone and ...
For every genuinely useful and fully realized infomercial product, there are plenty more that the inventor clearly did not think all the way through, and the purpose is laughably embarrassing. The ...
Ron Popeil, the prolific infomercial spokesman behind “as seen on TV” products like the Showtime Rotisserie and Hair in a Can, has died. He was 86. Popeil died early Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai ...
Perhaps most of us can agree that the idea to begin Barack Obama's 30-minute infomercial with him standing in a wood-paneled, faux Oval Office was cheesy. And what if the subtle, perhaps subliminal, ...
Infomercial king Ron Popeil died “suddenly and peacefully” Wednesday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said a family representative. He was 86. Popeil started his sales career in ...