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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...