One of TV’s most famous ships, Gilligan’s S.S. Minnow, is being restored so it can give the public three-hour tours of the vessel, now docked in Canada, the Victoria Times Colonist reports. The ship’s owner, Ken Schley of the Quality…
Adam West could be doing the Batusi again on ABC. According to the New York Post’s Page Six, the star of TV’s “Batman” series during the ‘60s is being considered for a spot on the new season of “Dancing With…
When affiliates in markets including New York preempted the season finale of NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” to show football games, they also wiped out a special promotion the network sold to automaker Honda tied to the series, Advertising Age reports….
Former “Hardball” supervising producer Jeremy Bronson will be poking fun at the news in his new job as a writer for “Chocolate News,” a new series on Comedy Central starring David Alan Grier, the New York Observer says. The series…
With recession in the wind and corporate America looking for ways to cut costs, one major media agency is urging marketers not to trim their advertising spending. Obviously, cuts in media spending aren’t good for media-buying agencies, who are still,…
When opportunity knocks, it’s a wonderful thing. Jennifer White Lee hoped one day she’d be running the Chicago office of GroupM’s Mediaedge:CIA. Instead, the office was closed last year and its business was moved to New York. Ms. White moved…
Creating outfits for celebrities appears to be the thing that gets new designers noticed. That should be especially true for aspiring designers appearing on TLC’s new reality series “Who Are You Wearing?” The series, which launches Aug. 22, pits four…
The “24” movie due to air in November on Fox will find Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer in Africa, according to the New York Post, which says it has details of the special’s plot. After working as a missionary, Bauer embarks…
While the world gathers for the competition at the Olympics, advertisers will be trying to get their messages across to the viewers tuning in to the 3,500 hours of coverage NBC is providing. Nielsen looked back at Olympics advertising history,…
The National Association of Broadcasters wants stations to continue sending its signals to cable and satellite distributors for two weeks before and two weeks after the Feb. 17 digital switchover, even if they don’t have retransmission deals in place, TelevisionWeek…