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 ...

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 ...

He told you to “Set it and forget it,” but the world will never forget Ron Popeil. Popeil, an inventor and the face of infomercials for “as-seen-on-TV” products like Showtime Rotisserie and Pocket ...

“It chops, it dices, it slices/ It never stops/ Lasts a lifetime, it mows your lawn…/ It picks up the kids from school/ It gets rid of unwanted facial hair/ It gets rid of embarrassing age spots/ It ...

If you’ve got a product that lends itself to a live demonstration, you may want to think about infomercial advertising. First, let’s all admit we’ve watched a few and move on. Maybe it was because we ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ron Popeil, the man largely responsible for infomercials as we know them, who used them to sell products that he had invented, ...

In a squat brown office park in Fairfield, New Jersey—the headquarters of the Telebrands infomercial empire—five men and one woman are gathered around a long conference table, trying to figure out ...

NOTHING GOOD IS on TV between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m., and for good reason. Nobody's trying. It's the time period known euphemistically in the media business as the "Post Late Fringe," and less ...