Disney Media Networks promoted Peter Seymour to executive vice president of strategy and research, TVNewsday reports. Seymour, who will report to Disney Media Network co-chairs Anne Sweeney and George Bodenheimer, will oversee media planning for Disney’s ABC unit as well…
Television shows aired double the number of partially or unbleeped prime-time curse words last year that they did in 1998, with far more instances of harsher words like f*** and s***, TVNewsday reports, citing a Parents Television Council report. TV…
Barack Obama has certainly been leading the advertising spending, but the Republican National Committee has dramatically increased its spending in the presidential race in the last two weeks. The party’s independent expenditure arm has spent $25 million to air anti-Obama…
Former “Dukes of Hazzard” star John Schneider will appear in three episodes of ABC’s “Dirty Sexy Money,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Schneider, who appears regularly on ABC’s “The Secret Life of an American Teenager,” will play a congressman paid off by…
Milton Katselas, a director and acting teacher whose pupils included Gene Hackman, Doris Roberts and George Clooney, died of heart failure in Los Angeles at age 75, the Hollywood Reporter says. Nominated as a director for a 1970 Tony Award,…
Ex-“NYPD Blue” star Sharon Lawrence will appear on The CW’s “Privileged” as the deadbeat mother of Joanna Garcia and Kristina Apgar’s characters, Entertainment Weekly reports. Lawrence will appear in at least two episodes starting in January, the magazine says. —Danny…
NBC’s coverage of Republican vice president candidate Sarah Palin was the most positive of any television network despite sister channel MSNBC’s coverage being slanted toward the Democrats, TVNewser reports, citing the Project for Excellence in Journalism. Additionally, presidential election stories…
Comedian Russell Brand resigned from his BBC Radio show after he and Jonathan Ross were suspended for airing what the network said were lewd phone messages to “Fawlty Towers” co-star Andrew Sachs, the Associated Press reports. Brand and Ross, who…
Cablevision announced it will increase its cable TV rates by 3.5% in 2009, below the current rate of inflation. The telecommunications company also will leave pricing for its Optimum Online high-speed Internet and Optimum Voice digital phone service unchanged for…
ABC News’ interview with Sarah Palin, conducted by Elizabeth Vargas, will air on “Good Morning America” on Thursday and on “20/20” on Friday night. Portions of the interview, which took place today on the campaign trail in Toledo, Ohio, will…