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Daily Archives : Jan 11, 2010

Showtime Will Move from Tudors to Borgias

Showtime has ordered 10 episodes of a series about the Italian Renaissance family the Borgias, B&C reports. The show will go into production this spring and begin airing next year, with Jeremy Irons set to star as the family patriarch….

Diane Sawyer in Afghanistan

 In her first overseas trip since taking over in December as anchor of ABC’s “World News,” Diane Sawyer will anchor from Afghanistan tonight and Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Meanwhile, Nielsen numbers for last week show that NBC’s top-rated “Nightly…

Behind the Leno Move: Why NBC is Suddenly So Interested In the Brotherly Love of Its Affiliates

Aaron Barnhart, the TV Critic at the Kansas City Star and our longtime colleague, raised the issue immediately in Sunday’s Q&A between TV critics and reporters and Jeff Gaspin, chairman of NBC Universal Television Entertainment: Since the reason NBC was…