Reality fare, a game show revival, mixed martial arts and two scripted drama premieres dot CBS’ summer schedule, announced today. In the reality genre, the 10th season of “Big Brother” is gearing up for a July 13 premiere, while “Greatest…
Film and TV producer Harvey Weinstein said that when his company’s show, “Project Runway,” moves to Lifetime away from Bravo, it will be the same … only better. Speaking at an upfront press presentation for Lifetime in Manhattan Monday, Mr….
NBC Universal named Susan Malfa to head sales for both Bravo and Oxygen. Ms. Malfa, who had been executive VP for sales at Bravo, was also promoted to senior VP. She reports to Steve Mandala, executive VP of cable ad…
While Yahoo debates whether it would rather link up with AOL than Microsoft, a combined Yahoo-AOL would not have much impact on the business of online video, experts say. Microsoft made an unsolicited bid for Yahoo earlier this year, but…
Guess what the big topic of conversation in my house this weekend was? C’mon. Try. That’s right. My husband and I were all atwitter over the news that Veronica Belmont would be leaving Web show “Mahalo Daily.” I’m serious. We…
ESPN is working with Robert Redford on a theatrical movie about Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers and how they broke baseball’s color barrier. Mr. Redford will star as Mr. Rickey, the baseball executive who brought Mr….
Versus named Jamie Davis as president of the network, succeeding Gavin Harvey, who elected not to move with the network from Stamford, Conn., to parent Comcast’s headquarters in Philadelphia. Mr. Davis was previously managing director of ESPN Star Sports, a…
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, will make her first late-night TV appearance on “The Colbert Report” Tuesday. She will join host Stephen Colbert at the 900-seat Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Zellerbach Theatre on the campus of…
ABC, CBS Put More Commercials in First Half of Late-Night Talk Shows
A drop in CBS’s prime time ratings pose a larger challenge to the network than its “Evening News” program and recent reports of anchorwoman Katie Couric’s departure, the New York Times reports. CBS’s primetime audience has fallen about 20% this…