Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is expected to continue to push rules opposed by cable operators until he’s replaced by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Bloomberg. Possible actions range from loosening cable’s hold on sports programming to raising the…
New York newscasts aren’t doing sweep stunts the way they used to. Or the way they’re still being done in Los Angeles, the New York Daily News says. The lowest sweeps story in New York was WCBS-TV’s about undergarments that…
Former Aegis Media CEO Mainardo de Nardis was named CEO of media agency OMD Worldwide, filling a vacancy left by Joe Uva, who went to Univision last year, Advertising Age reports. “The business is clearly going in the direction of…
A nightclub fire will threaten the lives of characters on “Desperate Housewives,” the Associated Press reports. The sweeps stunt was shot on the back lot of Universal Studios, away from the show’s usual Wisteria Lane street set. The fire is…
IM Global is working with Platinum Studios to develop a live-action series based on D.J. Coffman’s “Hero by Night,” the Hollywood Reporter says. “Hero” is Platinum’s 2006 Comic Book Challenge contest winner and is based on a landlord who discovers…
Jesse Alexander and Jeph Loeb, the two executive producers recently fired from NBC’s “Heroes,” will still attend a Screenwriting Expo panel Saturday, Daily Variety reports. Creator and fellow executive producer Tim Kring, however, has said he will not be participating…