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Adele performed what may be an even better version of her mega-hit “Hello” with the host and house band of NBC’s “Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon.” Here’s the video:
Among the best deals available this Black Friday, according to a shopping guru who has done the work for us, are heavily discounted flat-screen TVs, along with smartwatchs, tablets, appliances and headphones. USA Today reports that Matt Granite led a…
The actor “who played twin brothers Adam and Stuart Chandler on the popular ABC soap opera ‘All My Children,’ has died at 77,” CNN reports. The story says that the actor, David Canary, “died of natural causes.” “Canary made his…
A special shout out to our former Crain Communications colleague Brian Steinberg for his clever wordplay in the first sentence of this story he wrote for Variety: “A furor appears to have stopped the Führer. Amazon Studios will pull ad signage…
The top executive of a cable network is out the door as the channel rethinks its programming strategy. The channel is HLN, sister channel of CNN. “Albie Hecht, a longtime Viacom programming executive, arrived at HLN in the fall of…
After rewriting the business model first for film distribution, then for scripted television, Netflix is now flexing its muscles in another genre: stand-up comedy. According to an in-depth report in The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming service is “contributing to a…
One of the Big 4 broadcast networks will win the November sweeps period for the fourth consecutive year in the key demo of adults 18-49. The network is NBC, which has been paced by “Sunday Night Football,” the broadcast networks’ top program…
ABC Family unveiled a set of premiere dates for new and returning series as the channel closes in on its January relaunch as Freeform. The new series “Recovery Road” will premiere Monday, Jan. 25, the same night returning series “The…
A drama series that has been chalking up Emmys, Golden Globes and critical acclaim will be back for a third season. FX announced that it has ordered a third cycle of “Fargo.” Executive producers Noah Hawley, Warren Littlefield, Joel &…
There’s an interesting twist in the bidding for the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football” package, according to our friend Claire Atkinson in The New York Post. Writes Atkinson: “The NFL is talking to networks about buying a stake in its cable…