Handicapping the Best Supporting Comedy Actor Emmy
Open Mic contributing blogger Hillary Atkin handicaps the Emmy race for best supporting actor in a comedy at TVWeek.com.
Daily Archives : Sep 16, 2009
ABC News Apologizes for Tweeting President Obama’s Opinion of Kanye West
ABC News apologized to the White House and CNBC after its employees heard President Obama call Kanye West a “jackass” and immediately posted the comment on Twitter, the Associated Press reports. ABC employees were listening in on a CNBC interview…
Former GE CEO Jack Welch Faces Another Three to Four Weeks in Hospital
Former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch has been hospitalized since July 5 with a spinal infection and expects to be there for another three to four weeks, Bloomberg reported. Welch, 73, has a staph infection called discitis, but his…
Workplace Comedy From ‘Arrested Development’ Creator Gets Put Pilot Commitment from Fox
Ron Howard’s multicamera workplace comedy got a put pilot commitment from Fox, where his last comedy, “Arrested Development,” also left its mark, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The show is set in an Internal Revenue Service office and will be written…
Hulu Considering Adding Subscription Services, PPV
News Corp. chairman-CEO Rupert Murdoch told the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference that the partners in the free online video service Hulu are looking to add subscription services and pay-per-view, Multichannel News reports. NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker, whose company is…
Arianna Huffington Tries Hand at Sitcom Producing for ABC
Huffington Post founder and political pundit Arianna Huffington is going to give TV producing a try: ABC gave a script commitment to a multicamera comedy she is working on with Greg Malins, executive producer of “How I Met Your Mother,”…
Rupert Murdoch Says News Corp. Is Seeing Uptick in Ad Market
News Corp. chairman-CEO Rupert Murdoch said at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia Conference that the company has seen improvements in advertising in recent weeks, says The Hollywood Reporter. "It’s a pretty healthy picture at the moment,” Murdoch said, noting the Fox…
Remember Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl ‘Wardrobe Malfunction’? FCC Isn’t Over It Yet
More than five years after the event, the FCC said it wants to further investigate whether CBS’ indecency violation in the 2004 Super Bowl—in which Janet Jackson’s right breast was briefly exposed to the TV audience—was a “willful” act because…