ABC has a spinoff in the works for its well-received comedy series “black-ish,” with the show’s creator and executive producer Kenya Barris working with ABC Studios on the project, Deadline.com’s Nellie Andreeva reports. The new show “would be toplined by…
We’re not sure whether it’s our middle school-level sense of humor or whether the producers of “I Love Dick” meant to get us to raise our eyebrows over the show’s title … but we suspect it’s the latter. Either way, Amazon…
ABC has added two drama projects to the development slate for next season, ordering pilots for “The Crossing” and “The Deception,” TVLine reports. “‘The Crossing’ has a timely-sounding premise, with war refugees seeking shelter in an American town,” the report…
Veteran media executive Richard Beckman, who exited his post as chief revenue officer at Vice Media last year, has been named chief revenue officer for Discovery-backed Group Nine Media, The New York Post reports. “Discovery, the cable-TV powerhouse, announced in…
Press release from Amazon, Jan. 19, 2017: Amazon today announced that the highly acclaimed Amazon Original Series Sneaky Pete, which premiered on January 13th, has been renewed for a second season. The series was the second most streamed original scripted…
Just as it’s clear that Donald Trump is media savvy, it’s clear that he’s anti-journalism. So how should journalists cover him and his administration? Please click here to read an essay by Open Mic blogger Chuck Ross, who says a…
In his 2016 year-end roundup of news events, our friend Harry Jessell, the editor and co-publisher of TVNewsCheck — who was also, at one time, the editor in chief of Broadcasting & Cable (B&C) — got it exactly right when…