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Bill Maher is getting booed by his audience on “Real Time With Bill Maher” on HBO when he criticizes President Barack Obama, the McClatchy Newspapers report. He tells the newspapers that he understands Obama is a harder target than previous…
“Today” is sending anchor Ann Curry to Iraq and Afghanistan to report on how the wars are changing under President Barack Obama’s leadership, the Associated Press reports. Her reports will be seen both on the morning show and NBC’s “Nightly…
NBC is negotiating to pick up a comedy starring Debra Messing, in which she plays an out-of-work CEO who’s unprepared to become a full-time mom, the Hollywood Reporter says. The untitled comedy, produced by 3 Arts and UMS, is written…
Lionsgate Entertainment Corp. arranged a private transaction with two unnamed bondholders that will keep 28% of $316 million in convertible debt from shareholder Carl Icahn, the Los Angeles Times reports. The transaction occurred as Icahn’s tender offer for the bonds…
Spike TV has greenlighted a pilot for “Pirate Hunters: USN,” a documentary series that will look at the U.S. Navy’s antipiracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden, Daily Variety reports. The show has a deal with the Navy to allow…
The bad economy doesn’t mean the upfront TV advertising market will collapse, TelevisionWeek quotes NBC Universal boss Ben Silverman as saying. “If you’re going to get out of a recession, you need to sell stuff,” the co-chairman at NBC Entertainment…
The broadcast networks are seeking to air low-cost shows aside the “tentpole” series such as “Lost” to help lower expenses and improve profits, Daily Variety reports. One way networks are achieving this is looking at international co-productions, something that most…
With ratings sinking at broadcast properties, the cable networks are poised to perform well at this year’s upfront television-ad market, Advertising Age reports. “What I’m hearing is cable is definitely going to be better than broadcast. They’ve been stronger throughout…
FX may have been one of the first cable channels to air award-winning original scripted drama, but its president, John Landgraf, thinks other networks are tempting fate by trying to cultivate too many original shows, TelevisionWeek says. The differing economics…
It may be the age of TiVo and Hulu, but the next few weeks will once again underline an important tenet of the broadcast TV economy: Schedules still matter. Even as networks increasingly adapt to the notion that their programming…