Animal Planet’s Sunday night premiere of “Animal Witness” gave the network its most-watched series debut when it pulled in 1.1 million viewers, Multichannel News reports. The episode told the story about former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and his role…
DIY Network will air a weekend marathon of “Cool Tools” episodes under the blanket title of “100 Skills Everyone Should Know,” Multichannel News reports. The marathon, to be hosted by “Tools” host Chris Gundy, will coincide with special Popular Mechanics…
Get those ballpoint pens fired up, DGA members. Daily Variety reports DGA ballots will be mailed Dec. 15 for television and on Dec. 1 for feature films for the guild’s 61st annual awards show. Nominees will be announced Jan. 8…
After pulling the plug Monday, fake Twitter accounts in the names of “Mad Men” characters were up and running again Tuesday, the Silicon Alley Insider reports. The show’s network, AMC, had issued a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown notice to…
The cable news networks, especially CNN, hit ratings pay dirt Monday night with their wall-to-wall coverage of the opening night of the Democratic National Convention. The convention lineup, featuring addresses by Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy and presidential candidate Barack Obama’s…
Direct response television advertising is on the rise, reports AdWeek. Money spent on traditional TV advertising is relatively stagnant: First-quarter figures for 2008 saw only a 2% rise from the same time the previous year. DRTV expenditures, however, grew 19%…
E! Entertainment Television has officially canceled “Denise Richards: It’s Complicated,” the reality show that followed the actress and mother of two, the Los Angeles Times reports. Apparently, the audience numbers never surpassed its premiere ratings, when 1.5 million viewers tuned…
Fox’s Japanese-import game show “Hole in the Wall” will air Sept. 9, immediately following the 90-minute debut of J.J. Abrams’ “Fringe”, Daily Variety reports. The game show, wherein contestants contort their bodies to fit through holes on a moving wall,…
Sen. Barack Obama has asked Academy Award-winning actress and former “American Idol” contestant Jennifer Hudson to sing the national anthem before his nomination acceptance speech at Denver’s Invesco Field, the Los Angeles Times reports. Hudson won’t be the only singer…
From the people behind set design Web site NewscastStudio comes set design firm Fifteenhundred. Michael P. Hill, founder of NewscastStudio, has partnered with Dak Dillon to launch a new set design firm that they promise will be fresh and innovative….