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Even though the Super Bowl is over, the advertisements showed during the game continue to battle for supremacy among online viewers, the Wall Street Journal reports. Marketers, who paid as much as $3 million for a 30-second spot, are trying…
Four Google executives went on trial yesterday in Milan for criminal charges of defamation and privacy violation over a three-minute video posted on the company’s Italian site that mocked a child with Down Syndrome, the New York Times reports. Three…
“Twilight” distributor Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate talked about a merger last fall, although Summit rebuffed Lionsgate’s offer as too low, the Los Angeles Times reports. While nothing is happening now, the “Twilight” movie franchise would fit nicely with Lionsgate’s strategy,…
President Barack Obama has scheduled interviews with anchors at all the top television networks Tuesday, the Hollywood Reporter says. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News Channel will air the interviews, conducted separately, over the course of the afternoon and…
The CW is bringing back the supernatural drama “Reaper” on March 3, a few weeks earlier than originally planned, as part of a midseason makeover the network will announce today, the Hollywood Reporter says. The schedule change will place “Reaper”…
News Corp. should take a page from the U.S. government’s idea of splitting up “good banks” and “bad banks” by separating its growing assets from its bad assets, according to a report from Michael Nathanson of Sanford C. Bernstein, the…
CBS has greenlighted a pilot called “A Marriage” from “Thirtysomething” creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the Hollywood Reporter says. The pilot, their first for a network other than ABC, is a project about a marriage that works, the trade…
HBO has acquired rights to a book about the financial crisis that was recently sold for seven figures to Penguin imprint by Portfolio publisher Adrian Zackheim, Daily Variety reports. The book will be written by New York Times business writer…
CMT has renewed “Can You Duet” for a second season after the music-competition show scored as the highest-ever original-series premiere for the cable network, Daily Variety reports. The network plans to start the second season in June, the publication says….
ABC Family’s “Greek” will return for its third season without Frannie, the character played by Tiffany Dupont, Entertainment Weekly says. Although a representative for ABC Family declined to comment, a source says the decision was both creative and budgetary, the…