ESPN cancelled plans for a college basketball ad campaign featuring actors depicting offensive characterizations of students at specific colleges, USA Today reports. An ad agency working for ESPN was casting spots and looking for a slutty girl to play a…
RCN might be looking to take a run at Comcast’s home town, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The company says serving towns on the outskirts of the city already make Philadelphia one of its fastest growing markets. RCN was denied a…
Following weeks of slow-paced shuttle diplomacy by Federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez, the Screen Actors Guild might resume contract talks with producers as early as next week, Daily Variety says. Negotiations broke off July 16. Neither said had a comment,…
“Pushing Daisies” has been the subject of numerous reports it has been canceled, but its creator, Bryan Fuller, tells the Los Angeles Times he hasn’t heard official word from ABC one way or another. Other low-rated shows are also awaiting…
A new study concludes that happy people watch less TV and have more sex than unhappy people, TV by the Numbers reports. TV provides some short-term pleasure, but comes at the expense of other things. “What viewers seem to be…
The New York Times calls a new quiz show on GSN sponsored by Meow Mix “one of the most embarrassing half-hours in the history of television” and “a lame attempt to use game-show trapping to disguise what is nothing more…
Marvel Animation is working on a new animated TV series based on the upcoming “Thor” theatrical release, the Hollywood Reporter says. Marvel will self-produce the 26-episode series and plans on debuting the show in the fall of 2010 after the…
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…