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Ad spending by makers of prescription drugs fell 8% in 2008 to $4.4 billion, the first decline since the late 1990s, the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper says that commercials for products such as Vytorin and Rozerem are seen…
Bill O’Reilly’s show on the Fox News Channel has taken to ambushing people to get reluctant sources to appear on the show on camera, the New York Times says. Mike Hoyt, executive editor of The Columbia Journalism Review, is one…
USA Today has launched its annual “Save Our Shows” poll, which asks viewers to vote on which series the networks should renew and which should be cancelled. ABC launched several shows later in the season than usual and all of…
Oxygen has signed a programming deal with Tori Spelling and her husband, Dean McDermott, to produce a couples makeover show, a fourth season of “Tori & Dean” and a made-for-television movie, TelevisionWeek reports. The pair will also work on a…
Ashton Kutcher says he’ll beat CNN in the race to be the first with 1 million followers on Twitter, CNN reports. “I found it astonishing that one person can actually have as big of a voice online as what an…
History is working on a documentary from Matt Damon and Chris Moore based on the Howard Zinn book “A People’s History of the United States,” Daily Variety reports. The two-hour film will meld archival footage with readings by Damon and…
VH1 has committed to a reality series starring “American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino, the Hollywood Reporter says. The project will focus on the singer’s life as a performer and a young single mother, and is slated to appear in early…
Joss Whedon said his new series “Dollhouse” is unlikely to be picked up by Fox, SciFiWire reports. “Obviously our numbers are pretty soft, and there it is, but we live in hope,” Whedon told reporters at a Paley Festival event…
Lifetime, which last month got the go-ahead to begin airing “Project Runway,” has begun casting the series seventh series, the Los Angeles Times reports. The series was tied up in litigation between NBC Universal, owner of Bravo, which used to…