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The BBC/PBS eight-hour adaptation of Charles Dickens’ "Little Dorrit" was the most-honored program of this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, winning seven awards including best miniseries, reports The Hollywood Reporter. It was the second year in a row that a miniseries…
Bill Maher was already Emmy’s “biggest loser,” and he extended the streak last night when his “Real Time,” which he helps produce, failed to win the variety series category, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Goldderby.com. Maher now has gone 22…
Steve Lanzano, chief operating officer of Havas-owned media agency MPG, was named president of the Television Bureau of Advertising, B&C reports. Lanzano, former CEO, North America, of WPP Group’s Mediaedge:cia, replaces Christopher Rohrs atop the TVB effective in January. –Elizabeth…
Peter Chernin, who stepped down earlier this year as chairman-CEO of News Corp.’s Fox Group, has sold his second project to Fox, a drama called “Fallen” about a group of vigilantes who fight crime in New York City, reports Variety….
PBS and PRI host Tavis Smiley for the moment is severing his ties to Wells Fargo & Co., owner of Wells Fargo Bank and Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc., following charges that the company steered African American borrowers into expensive…
More than three months after the transition to digital TV, many viewers still can’t receive certain stations, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The problem particularly affects UHF stations that moved their signals to VHF. Since the switch, at least 20 such…
Legendary New York City news anchor Ernie Anastos, now with Fox’s WNYW, dropped and F-bomb, live, during the station’s 10 p.m. newscast Wednesday night, reports B&C. Bantering with the show’s weatherman, Anastos said "Keep f—ing that chicken." The Associated Press…