Live From New York, It’s ’30 Rock’
NBC’s Emmy Award-winning sitcom "30 Rock" will take a page out of the playbook of shows such as "Will & Grace" by doing a live episode, reports Digital Spy. The live show will air Thursday, Oct. 14. There will be…
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Chuck Ross is the managing director of TVWeek.com. He's been involved in the TV business ever since he sold cable TV subscriptions in Santa Monica, Calif., door-to-door in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's had regular gigs reporting and/or editing about TV and advertising for Cablevision magazine,The Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inside Media and Advertising Age. He first joined the predecessor to TVWeek, Electronic Media, in 2000.
MTV Renews Sitcom, Says It’s Committed to Scripted Programming
Affirming its commitment to scripted shows, MTV announced that it is bringing back a comedy for a second season, reports Deadline.com. The cable network renewed the sitcom "The Hard Times of RJ Berger," and issued a statement on the relationship…
‘Big Brother’ Leads Sunday Nielsens
Amid mostly reruns, CBS’s "Big Brother" was the highest-rated show Sunday night in the Nielsen ratings, reported TVbytheNumbers.com. At 7 p.m. CBS’s "60 Minutes" had a 1.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic, better than NBC’s "Dateline" and Fox’s "Sons of…
ABC’s ‘Brothers & Sisters’ Loses Another Cast Member
When ABC’s "Brothers & Sisters" returns Sept. 26 for its fifth-season premiere, there will be one less cast member, reports Entertainment Weekly. Balthazar Getty, who played Tommy Walker on the show, will be gone and his absence will be explained…
Photo and Story: Drew Carey Tells How he Lost 80 Lbs.
Drew Carey, who has lost 80 lbs, tells People how he’s done it. According to the article, Carey, 52, showed up at a party during the the TV Critics tour last week and said, ""It sucks being fat, you know. I was…
‘Modern Family’ Co-Creator Levitan to ABC: Let My Show Go (Offline); Levitan on McPherson No Longer at ABC: ‘It Sucks’
"Modern Family" co-creator Steve Levitan says he’s lobbied ABC TV Group president Anne Sweeney to take his show offline, because two million people watch its episodes online when they could be supporting the comedy on ad-supported television, reports the Hollywood…
CNN Deal with Piers Morgan May Be Announced this Week, and How Katie Couric Missed out on the Spot
CNN may announce it has hired Piers Morgan to replace Larry King for the 9 p.m. weekday slot as early as this week, although negotiations are still ongoing, reports the New York Times. While Morgan pulled some strings with NBC…
Zucker on the Future and the Past of NBC. He Says the Network Can Get Back in the Game: ‘I think we didn’t have the right management team in place, and we hadn’t allocated enough resources to the team’
NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker has given a wide-ranging interview to the Wall St. Journal, in which he admits poor management has been partly responsble for NBC’s primetime woes. "I think we didn’t have the right management team in place,…
To Bump Network Out of Third Place, ABC’s Lee Says He Will ‘Take Some Risks’
Paul Lee, the new chief of ABC’s entertainment group, said he’ll "take some risks" to bump the network out of third place, reports Bloomberg News. What he won’t do is narrow the the ABC target audience to the millennial demographic, which…
Yes, ‘Mad Men’ Is One of the Best Shows on TV. But With Such Small Viewership, and Such Paltry Ad Sales, How Does It Stay on the Air?
Emmy Award winning "Mad Men" is one of the most acclaimed shows on TV. But it’s watched by relatively few people, and it’s ad sales are paltry. So how does it stay on the air? That’s the question Brian Steinberg asked…