ABC, CW Look Good for Fall ’07
Critics Have High Expectations for ‘Pushing Daisies,’ CW’s First Full Lineup of Originals
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Critics Poll Summer 2007: Series
Votes were tabulated using a weighted scale. Critics submitted 10 shows in the best series category, with the top choice receiving 10 points, the second choice 9 points and so on down to the 10th choice, which received 1 point….
Digital Dealmakers: Ben Weinberger
The player: Ben Weinberger, CEO of Digitalsmiths in Durham, N.C. The play: Digitalsmiths wants to be Google AdSense, but for video. It’s even got a similar-sounding name for its software, VideoSense, which launched in the second quarter and matches online…
Critics Poll Summer 2007: Movie, Miniseries or Special
Best Movie, Miniseries or Special Rank Show Network Studio 1. Planet Earth Discovery BBC Channel 2. Longford HBO Channel 4, Granada Television, HBO 3. The State Within BBC BBC Films America (t) American Masters PBS American Masters, various others 5. Jesse Stone:…
Rod Allen Reflects on Broadcasters He Has Worked With
On Thom Brennaman, FSN Sports and Cincinnati Reds announcer: “He’s an unbelievable human being. He taught me about professionalism and really reinforced in me how to treat people on a day-to-day basis.” On Ernie Harwell, longtime voice of the Detroit…
NewsMakers
BROADCASTING Randi Goldklank to VP/general manager, WHDH-TV/WLVI-TV, Boston, from director, sales. Thomas Grant, to national sales manager/assistant station manager, WZDX-TV/WAMY-TV, Huntsville, Ala., from national sales manager, WFXR-TV/WWCW-TV, Roanoke, Va. Rick Vokulich to senior VP, business affairs, The CW Network, from…
NBC Plans to Rehire ‘Apprentice’
NBC plans to revive Donald Trump’s struggling reality series “The Apprentice” for midseason, sources said. Under the leadership of newly installed entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman, the network is near a deal to bring back the veteran Mark Burnett-produced show for…
ESPN Barred from All Star Baseball Game
Major League Baseball has taken away ESPN’s anchor desk at the All-Star Game. The slap follows ESPN’s decision to broadcast the top National League vote getters and the complete All-Star rosters on Sunday, when TBS was running its All-Star selection…
‘The Nine’ Returns to ABC’s Schedule
ABC will burn off the remaining episodes of its fall bank heist drama “The Nine,” the network confirmed Friday. The network will air the final six episodes of the critically acclaimed show starting Aug. 1. ABC aired seven episodes last…