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Sportsman Channel Coming to DirecTV

The Sportsman Channel and DirecTV have made a distribution deal. The network will be available to DirecTV customers in the Choice Xtra package by the end of January. The Sportsman Channel is owned and operated by InterMedia Outdoors, which also…

4 Million Tune in to Lifetime’s ‘Flirting With Forty’

Lifetime’s original film “Flirting With Forty,” starring Heather Locklear, drew 4 million viewers in its premiere Saturday night. The film, in which Ms. Locklear plays an older divorced mother who begins dating a much younger man, ranks among Lifetime’s most-viewed…

Blitzer Re-Ups With CNN

Wolf Blitzer has renewed his contract with CNN. Mr. Blitzer will continue to anchor “The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer” weekdays from 4-7 p.m. Additionally, CNN has tapped John King to lead the Sunday news block from 9 a.m.-1 p.m.,…

Creative Team Returns to Produce SAG Awards

Jeff Margolis Productions will produce the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards for the 11th consecutive year. Executive producer Jeff Margolis will be joined by the entire team of producers and artists behind the past two SAG Awards ceremonies. Kathy…

Toughing Out the 2009 TV Syndication Market

TVWeek’s Syndication Roundtable Draws Heavyweights

TV Network Schedules Set to Flood With New Shows

Post Strike, Winter Schedule to Look Like Fall

TV Industry Job Cuts: What’s Next?

More Bad Economic, Advertising News Coming

‘The Doctors’: Tweaking a Syndie Show to Succeed

Producers of CBS Television Distribution’s “The Doctors” are fine-tuning the medical talk show and getting results, recently tying NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution’s “Deal or No Deal” for the top spot in the rookie syndication pack. “The Doctors” premiered to…

A&E Uses Drama Pilot to Gauge Viewer Interest Before Ordering Series

Experimenting with a different kind of programming rollout, A&E Network later this month plans to air the pilot of a series about a former undercover New York City detective who searches for runaway kids. It is unusual for A&E to…

New Promo Campaign Touts TNT’s Dramatic Credentials

Stars of Series Play Off ‘We Know Drama’ Slogan