Emmy nominee Joan Allen has signed on to star in the title role of Lifetime biopic “Georgia O’Keeffe.” The movie focus on the celebrated painter’s 20-year love affair with photographer Alfred Steiglitz, to be played by Emmy winner Jeremy Irons….
Cablevision Systems, the New York-area cable company, said today that it turned a third-quarter profit as it increased revenue per subscriber by boosting the number of digital video, high-speed Internet and telephone subscribers. Shares fell today as the company lost…
Barack Obama will hold his first press conference Friday afternoon as the president-elect, the Hollywood Reporter says. The conference, to be held at a yet-to-be-disclosed Chicago location, is expected to be a media frenzy, with broadcast networks expected to carry…
There is a correlation between program type and the level of digital video recorder playback a show gets, according to a new analysis by a leading media agency. Steve Sternberg, executive VP at Magna Global, said nearly all action and…
NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group and Propworx have teamed up to auction off props from Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica.” The props, costumes and set pieces will be auctioned live and online beginning Jan. 16 at…
Online video traffic to the Web sites of the broadcast networks surged in September when the fall television season launched, according to data released today from Nielsen Online. NBC.com saw the biggest monthly bump, with a 312% rise in unique…
Stephen K. Friedman has been named general manager of MTV, MTV Networks announced Thursday. Mr. Friedman will continue to oversee mtvU, of which he was general manager. He also will be responsible for MTV.com, MTV2, MTV Tr3s, MTV Hits and…
The life-size holograms CNN ushered out on Election Night weren’t really holograms, Canada’s CBC News reports. Interviews with projected images of CNN reporter Jessica Yellin and rapper Will.I.Am didn’t feature holograms because anchors Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper were speaking…
Brian Lawlor will take over the top spot at Scripps TV group when Bill Peterson retires at the end of the year, TVNewsday reports. Mr. Lawlor has 20 years of experience in the broadcasting industry and currently acts as the…
A panel of experts recently discussed whether Barack Obama will provide as many laughs as George W. Bush’s presidency, the Hollywood Reporter says. “Obama is going to raise the intelligence of the jokes,” panelist Roseanne Barr said. “The Daily Show”…