The Screen Actors Guild will mail strike authorization ballots to paid-up members on Jan. 2, and tabulate the returned votes on Jan. 23. SAG needs a 75% “yes” vote from returned ballots in order to authorize the national board of…
Hallmark Channel announced that it has become the first cable network to license the NielsenConnections Brand Target Audience Products, which track how many viewers are buying particular products. Hallmark also is the first to buy cross-platform measurement from Nielsen that…
DirecTV’s The 101 Network will air the critically acclaimed and controversial series “Wonderland” in its entirety beginning Jan. 14. The series about the lives of doctors at a New York psychiatric hospital aired for two episodes on ABC in 2000….
Jay Leno says moving to prime time presents an interesting challenge. In an interview with TelevisionWeek, Leno says, “If this was the beginning of my career, I would have said no. Now, if I can get a few years out…
The leaders of the Screen Actors Guild are debating the merits of calling a strike during the January or February awards season, the Hollywood Reporter says. SAG also is considering when to send out ballots on a strike vote to…
Following NBC’s West Coast moves, the buzz that ABC might be next to combine its network programming operations with its television studio is growing, TelevisionWeek says. ABC Studios President Mark Pedowitz’s contract is up in February, adding to speculation he…
Former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather tells the Columbia Journalism Review he’s “never been happier or more satisfied” than he is now working on HDNet’s “Dan Rather Reports.” Rather is suing CBS for $70 million, and says a Hollywood producer…
A jury ruled that Turner Broadcasting System reneged on a deal to sell the Atlanta Hawks and Atlanta Thrashers, and awarded the jilted buyer damages of $281 million, Bloomberg reports. The buyer, David McDavid, had sought $450 million from the…
NBC’s decision to replace scripted series with talk show host Jay Leno in its 10 p.m. time slots was criticized by top television producers at the Hollywood Radio & Television Society’s Hitmakers luncheon panel Tuesday, the Hollywood Reporter says. James…
T.R. Knight is asking “Grey’s Anatomy” producers to write him out of the show, Entertainment Weekly reports, citing unnamed sources familiar with the situation. Producers are inclined to grant him his request and let him go of his contract, the…