The Detroit Red Wings and the Chicago Blackhawks will face off New Year’s Day 2009 at Wrigley Field, the Associated Press reports. The game, which marks the NHL’s second Winter Classic, will be televised nationally by NBC, the wire service…
BET Networks unveiled its plans for extensive, multiplatform election year political coverage, including the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. BET and BET J will air hours of on-air programming, including live coverage, daily news specials, public service announcements and extended…
File under “duh”: ABC will be ordering more episodes of its summer game show hit “Wipeout.” “I think there’s no question it’s going to go forward,” ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson said Wednesday at the network’s TCA press tour presentation….
ABC Family is teaming with the band Plain White T’s for “Meet Me in California,” a 12-part online series that follows the behind-the-scenes process of making an album. The first webisode will premiere July 30 on abcfamily.com/plainwhitets, with new webisodes…
Paige Hardwick has been promoted to vice president of on-air strategy and media planning for HGTV from director. Before joining HGTV in 2005, Hardwick worked for Turner Network Television in strategic off-channel marketing. Also, Gary McCormick has joined HGTV as…
“Scrubs” might not be headed into its final season after all. When ABC picked up the comedy from NBC in May, the assumption was that the show would complete one valedictory season, and then call it quits. But ABC Entertainment…
Music network Fuse has signed on as the official broadcast partner of the 2008 Lollapalooza music festival. The network will be originating programming from the annual festival, to be held Aug. 1-3 in Chicago. Fuse will cover breaking news and…
There was no comment Wednesday from NBC Universal or Post-Newsweek Stations about the report by the Miami Herald that the station group is expected to buy WTVJ-TV, the NBC station that was put on the market last March along with…
CBS has said “You’re hired” to Kiss frontman Gene Simmons, tapping him to serve as a judge on its upcoming Mark Burnett reality series “Jingles.” In addition to his A&E reality show “Family Jewels,” Mr. Simmons’ last major TV gig…
“Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane reveals three things fans didn’t know about upcoming episodes of the Fox animated hit in this exclusive video interview conducted by TVWeek columnist and deputy editor Josef Adalian. Mr. MacFarlane also tips his hand on…