Television, in its finer moments, seeks to entertain, inform and educate. But when programs also serve to inspire, they reach an entirely new level of audience engagement. Those are exactly the kinds of shows that the Television Academy — recently…
Bravo has announced four new reality projects, including a ski instructor-based show and one that tracks a family of matchmakers, Deadline.com reports. “Apres Ski” is about ski instructors who compete for jobs at the top ski resorts, while “Family Love”…
An annual ESPN program was the most buzzed-about show last week, based on Nielsen’s Twitter TV ratings. Deadline.com reports that the cable channel's telecast of the Scripps National Spelling Bee topped the rankings. The spelling bee beat out HBO’s popular…
Sony Pictures Television has become the first major studio to subscribe to Rentrak's television ratings currency, Rentrak announced today. Under the agreement, Rentrak will "provide measurement information from its national, local and newly-released national syndication TV services. The agreement will…
"Television, in its finer moments, seeks to entertain, inform and educate. But when programs also serve to inspire, they reach an entirely new level of audience engagement," writes TVWeek Open Mic blogger Hillary Atkin in her latest blog entry, reporting…
Debmar-Mercury is working in partnership with Gannett Broadcasting to develop and distribute a batch of new programs, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The companies will jointly finance the projects, with the financing used to develop, produce, test and distribute the…
Andy Cohen, the executive producer behind the “Real Housewives” franchise on Bravo, is working on an unscripted project called “I Slept with a Celebrity,” The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. The series is being shopped to broadcast and cable networks,…
CNN's recent ratings struggles appeared to take a turn for the worse Friday night, when the former cable news leader had its worst result in the 10 p.m. time slot in 14 years, drawing only 35,000 viewers in the key…
The New York Times, quite correctly, called it the "Game 7 of a series for the ages." The paper also enthused, 'It was the culmination of a series as hard fought as it was highly skilled." It was the seventh…
The second-longest winning streak in "Jeopardy!" history is finally over. In the episode of the syndicated game show that aired yesterday, June 2, 2014, Julia Collins finally lost to contestant Brian Loughnane, "an investment operations manager from Scituate, Mass.," according…