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 ...

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 ...

Media Enterprises, the company responsible for the Mighty brand product line, announced that the last infomercials Billy Mays recorded before his death will be aired. The ads will introduce the newest ...

When you watch television — and I’m guessing 100 percent of you have TVs — you can occasionally become bored (easy to do). If you decide to go “channel surfing” (a term that didn’t exist when I first ...

A show offered a partnership with Monroe County, promoting the county and capturing life in the town, but the deal came with ...

YONKERS, NY — Products sold on late-night television promise to solve problems like scrubbing baked-on crud from cookware, mopping up gallons of spilled milk, and falling off ladders when cleaning ...

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 ...

Mays, the bearded TV commercial and infomercial salesman known for his high-powered promotion of household cleaning products, showed up Thursday in Valparaiso at a Digital Cocktail Hour sponsored by ...

What makes for a great golf commercial/infomercial? What we've learned after viewing countless late at night over the years is that "greatness" doesn't necessarily ...

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 ...