As election season builds to a climax, some of the most probing interviews and buzzy commentary is being provided by women on TV, Salon says. In particular, three women have been thrust into the spotlight: CBS’ Katie Couric, CNN’s Campbell…
Lauren Zalaznick, the boss of Bravo Media, whose gray hair is sometime untamed and has toenails painted canary yellow, takes the business of being hip very seriously, according to a story in Sunday’s New York Times. “Since she arrived at…
Fox has made decisions about two of its animated series. The network ordered a fifth Season of Seth MacFarlane’s “American Dad,” TelevisionWeek reports. The new episodes will give Twentieth Television enough to take the show into syndication later this year….
Market conditions are forcing John Malone to reassess Liberty Media’s plan to spin off DirecTV, the Wall Street Journal reports. Not doing the spinoff would be a disappointment to investors, the paper said. But Malone, who had to sell almost…
Bravo’s “Top Chef” continues to be successful at attracting sponsors by integrating their products into the cooking-reality show, Advertising Age reports. Campbell’s Soup, Dr Pepper and Quaker are among the show’s new sponsors, while long-time advertisers Toyota, Clorox and Food…
The head of ad sales at MTV Networks, Hank Close, is leaving the company at the end of the year, TelevisionWeek says. Mr. Close won’t be replaced. Instead, the top ad sales execs will report directly to the people who…
CBS’ “The Early Show” is sending its hosts on mystery trips over the next month as a ratings gimmick, the Associated Press reports. The destination is even a mystery to the traveler. First to pack up for parts unknown was…
Bradley Whitford and Romany Malco have been tapped to star in Universal Media Studio’s pilot “Off Duty” for NBC, the Hollywood Reporter says. “Duty” will feature Whitford as a cop who makes life come complicated for Malco when both are…
Mike Binder is developing a sitcom pilot “Two Dollar Beer” for Fox, Daily Variety reports. Binder just completed the script for 20th Century Fox TV, which focuses on a group of young adults who choose to remain in their hometown…
Tracy Morgan says his perpetual clowning evolved as a form of self-defense from a life filled with tragedies. If he couldn’t joke around “I’d be dead,” Morgan, a star of NBC’s “30 Rock” tells the New York Times. “My heart…