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By Jeanine Poggi Advertising Age After what has been a quiet few weeks following broadcasters' presentations, the upfront marketplace is finally starting to move. NBC, Fox and CBS have started securing ad commitments as part of this year's upfront negotiations…
Arsenio Hall is in talks to reboot “The Arsenio Hall Show,” shortly after the syndicated late-night show was canceled in a surprise move by CBS Television Distribution, TheWrap.com reports, citing Hall’s manager. “There's been an outpouring of support,” manager John…
Marilyn Beck, who The New York Times says introduced “a style of impartial journalism to the celebrity gossip beat,” has died. Beck died Saturday of lung cancer at her home in Oceanside, Calif., the paper reports. She was 85. Beck’s…
AT&T has a point to make about the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, sending out postcard mailers for AT&T U-verse warning consumers that “the two cable companies with some of the poorest overall customer satisfaction scores have…
One of the mainstays of the morning TV talk scene is working on a musical comedy for ABC Family. Deadline.com reports that "Live! with Kelly and Michael's" Kelly Ripa, along with her husband, Mark Consuelos, is developing “Rated P for…
Internet advertising is ramping up to overtake television as the dominant ad market, with PricewaterhouseCoopers' new Entertainment and Media Outlook report saying the shift will take place within seven years, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The report predicts that TV…
After John Oliver spoke about net neutrality on his HBO show “Last Week Tonight” and urged viewers to lodge protests on the FCC’s website, the agency’s comments system crashed, reports Lisa de Moraes at Deadline.com. An FCC representative said it…
In what appears to be Monica Lewinsky's first TV Q&A since her high-profile article appeared in Vanity Fair's June issue, Lewinsky will give a television interview to National Geographic Channel, Capital New York reports. The Vanity Fair article revived talk…
A comment from author George R.R. Martin has led to speculation that HBO’s “Game of Thrones” series will have a longer lifespan that first thought. EW.com's Inside TV reports that Martin might pen eight books in his "Song of Ice…
The cancellation of one comedy series may work to the advantage of another one. TheWrap.com reports that Lisa Kudrow's "The Comeback," which is returning to HBO, has signed actress Malin Akerman, who became available after ABC canceled her series “Trophy…