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Comedian George Carlin posthumously received the award he considered to be the only legitimate comedy prize this evening. Carlin received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts…
Media Rights Capital has canceled two of the four shows it had The CW’s Sunday night schedule, Deadline Hollywood Daily says. Previously on hiatus, “Valentine” and “Easy Money” have been canceled. Expect MRC to select a couple of replacements quickly,…
Wade Allain Marcus will join the cast of The CW’s “Gossip Girl,” playing a manipulative photographer, the Hollywood Reporter says. Marcus had previously appeared in MTV’s “American Mall” and will appear in feature “Brooklyn’s Finest,” the newspaper reports. —Danny King
The season premiere of “Heroes” is as confusing as much of last season, while Simon Baker is effective as the title character in the new series “The Mentalist,” according to the Associated Press. Additionally, Jay Mohr helps make the new…
Kathy Griffin is in talks with other networks to move her comedy specials and series “Life on the D-List” from Bravo, the New York Post reports, citing people it didn’t identify. Griffin, whose representatives declined to comment, may leave Bravo,…
Entravision Communications acquired KREN-TV in Reno, Nev., from the trustee for the bankrupt Pappas Telecasting for $4 million, TVNewsday reports. Entravision, which owns 18 other stations, also obtained a Spanish-language affiliate of KREN and six low-power stations in the agreement….
The delay in letting customers automatically conduct transactions through television advertisements is a result of pricing and common language for the process, not the technology, Media Daily News reports, citing MediaBank Chief Executive Officer Brad Keywell. MediaBank, which process about…
Television station owner Ion Media Networks has proposed testing the cutoff of analog signals in markets such as New York and Los Angeles in advance of February’s switchover to all-digital broadcasts, Broadcasting & Cable reports. NBC Universal, which owns part…
IAC/InterActiveCorp Chief Executive Officer Barry Diller said at a conference this week that television advertising practices, including spots that interrupt programming, will be adopted for Web video, while Web advertisements will continue to be designed to target specific users, the…
Media consultant MediaXchange named former Sony International television executive John Barber as its new creative director, Newsday says. Before Sony, Barber worked at Paramount and ABC, where he oversaw production of television series such as “Roseanne” and “Moonlighting,” the newspaper…