Former HBO CEO Chris Albrecht is leaving IMG, TelevisionWeek reports. IMG hasn’t been able to raise the money needed to support Albrecht’s production goals, the agency said in a statement. Albrecht is returning to Foresee Entertainment, the content development and…
NBC’s coverage of the Beijing Olympics has opened fast with higher-than-expected ratings, but the Wall Street Journal wonders whether viewership will continue to surge after Michael Phelps dries off. Upcoming events, such as track and field, won’t be live and…
Chinese Olympic organizers are facing further heat after reports surfaced that Lin Miaoke, a 9-year-old girl who performed during the Opening Ceremonies, was lip-synching, Daily Variety reports. Her performance became controversial when it was revealed that the original singer, 7-year-old…
Britney Spears, who got roasted for her out-of-shape appearance on MTV’s Video Music Awards last year, is doing ads for the music network and may get a do-over on the VMAs, the Associated Press reports. A spokesman for MTV tells…
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…