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NBC has filled the holes in its winter prime-time schedule heading into the XXIII Olympic Winter Games, which run Feb. 8-25. The Futon Critic reports that the back half of “The Wall’s” current season has been scheduled, along with the…
A pair of prime-time shows received full-season orders from CBS, which announced that the two Monday night comedies “Man with a Plan” and “Superior Donuts” were given extensions for the full 2017-2018 season. “Man with a Plan’s” Nov. 13 sophomore…
NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt needed just three words to define the problem facing the TV business this morning at a forum in L.A. on advertising, measurement and the state of television. Said Greenblatt: “Consumers hate advertising.” Greenblatt did elaborate…
Legendary actress Angela Lansbury — a three-time Oscar nominee and a television fixture with a stunning 264 episodes of “Murder, She Wrote” under her belt — ruffled some feathers with her recent comments about Hollywood’s sexual harassment scandal. “There are…
After 11 weeks of the current NFL season, we’re getting a picture of how far the league’s TV ratings have fallen. MediaPost reports that even with a steady increase in Nielsen averages over the past four weeks, season-to-date numbers continue…
Motor Trend announced its 2018 Car of the Year, with the prestigious award going to the Alfa Romeo Giulia. In its report, the magazine admits that “some readers might feel our choice of the Alfa Romeo seems out of left field.”…
Three executives at Fox News Channel have been given promotions, with the cable channel announcing today that advertising sales executives Dominick Rossi, Frank Sorace and Sam Moser were elevated. Effective immediately, Rossi will become senior vice president of eastern sales,…
NBCUniversal International Studios has a new president, with the position going to longtime TV executive and producer Jeff Wachtel. Wachtel has been Chief Content Officer, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, since 2013. Based in Los Angeles and reporting to NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment…
A high-profile annual awards ceremony will have a new home on NBC after the network signed a multiyear deal with dick clark productions for the Billboard Music Awards. “The 2018 telecast, with a date to be announced in the near…
MTV firmed up plans to put the “Jersey Shore” gang back together, greenlighting a new series that will feature Deena Nicole Cortese, Paul “Pauly D” Delvecchio,” Jenni “JWOWW” Farley, Vinny Guadagnino, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and Mike “The Situation”…