Some Olympic Tips for NBC
NBC has a lot to manage as it begins its coverage of the Beijing Olympics. Fortunately, USA Today has a few tips on how to build audiences and make sure viewers understand what they’re watching. The paper also provides a…
Daily Archives : Aug 8, 2008
Sundance Buys Peacock’s ‘Eco-Trip’
Sundance Channel has picked up Peacock Productions’ “Eco-Trip: The Real Cost of Living,” Daily Variety reports. The series, from NBC’s nonfiction division, will follow everyday objects from creation to disposal and their impact on the planet and environment, the trade…
Bertinelli’s Not the ‘Starlet’ This Time
Valerie Bertinelli, who shot to fame as a teen on the sitcom “One Day at a Time,” plays the down-to-earth Midwestern woman who looks after a post-rehab Lindsay Lohan-type starlet in the Lifetime movie “True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet,”…
WCBS’s Guzman Back After Heart Attack
Long-time New York TV reporter Pablo Guzman returned to WCBS-TV this week following a heart attack he suffered in July, the New York Daily News reports. After the heart attack, Guzman was also injured in a car accident, making the…
Staffers Pay for GM’s B’Day Bash
Staffers who attended a birthday lunch for Joe Ahern, general manager at CBS-owned WBBM-TV in Chicago, got billed for the meal after an attempt to expense it got rejected, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. WBBM’s controller went to department heads seeking…
Yet More Time Travel on BBC America
BBC America is launching another series dealing with issues involving time travel, the New York Times says. In “Primeval,” England is threatened by prehistoric creatures that escaped the past. “It definitely won’t make you forget about “Lost,” the paper says.