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Daily Archives : Sep 23, 2008

‘Betty’ Seeks Juice From Move to Apple

A series of tax breaks have allowed the cast and crew of “Ugly Betty” to produce the series in New York City, the show’s setting, USA Today reports. “Betty” returns to ABC for its third season from the location where…

‘View’ Aims for Center Stage in Politics

ABC Daytime’s “The View” is staking a claim as a hot spot in the nation’s political landscape this fall following a series of interviews with key figures in this year’s presidential elections, the

More Actors on Patrol on ‘LAPD’

NBC has added Tom Everett Scott and Arija Bareikis to the cast of its pilot “LAPD,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Scott will play an officer and father married to a blogger while Bareikis will play an officer and mother to…

Netflix Gets CBS, Disney Shows

Netflix has signed a deal with Walt Disney Co. and CBS Corp. that will add more of the companies’ TV assets to the DVD rental service’s library of titles available for online streaming, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the…

NBA Eyes League Pass Play With Cable

The National Basketball Association is considering using its out-of-market subscription service NBA League Pass to get new cable carriage deals for its NBA TV cable network, Sports Business Journal reports. NBA TV has been stuck on sports tiers, reaching 12…

Changes Coming at WNBC

New York’s WNBC-TV is undergoing some construction changes to its 30 Rockefeller Center home base to go along with its staff reductions, Crain’s New York Business reports. The station is rebranding itself as a 24-hour “content center” and asking its…

Stadium Tribute Strikes Out

Sunday night marked the final night of game play at Yankee Stadium, and the closing ceremony, televised by ESPN and the YES Network, left much to be desired, the New York Times says. The historic moment “should have strived to…