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NBC is working on a new dance-themed competition series with reality producers Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Fuller, to be hosted by “Lord of the Dance” Michael Flatley. The series, tentatively titled “Superstar Dancers of the World,” will bring together teams…
Brian Lawlor will take over the top spot at Scripps TV group when Bill Peterson retires at the end of the year, TVNewsday reports. Mr. Lawlor has 20 years of experience in the broadcasting industry and currently acts as the…
The life-size holograms CNN ushered out on Election Night weren’t really holograms, Canada’s CBC News reports. Interviews with projected images of CNN reporter Jessica Yellin and rapper Will.I.Am didn’t feature holograms because anchors Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper were speaking…
With the election over, the cable news networks unveiled new programming lineups and personnel changes on Wednesday, Daily Variety reports. MSNBC launched a new on-air tagline—“The Power of Change”—that lifts heavily from President-elect Barack Obama’s historic campaign victory, the newspaper…
A panel of experts recently discussed whether Barack Obama will provide as many laughs as George W. Bush’s presidency, the Hollywood Reporter says. “Obama is going to raise the intelligence of the jokes,” panelist Roseanne Barr said. “The Daily Show”…
Ratings for Sunday’s episode of HBO drama “True Blood” was up 63% from the season premiere’s ratings, Broadcasting & Cable says, drawing 2.35 million viewers in live plus same-day data. The show is averaging about 6.4 million viewers, including replays…
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin said he’s looking into the pricing practices of cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable as well as Verizon, the Associated Press reports. Martin says the multichannel service operators may be confusing customers…
DirecTV’s third-quarter subscriber growth slowed 20% from a year earlier due to spending cutbacks on higher-end television services, Multichannel News reports, citing Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett. Slowing growth at satellite TV providers like DirecTV, which reports earnings this…
Media buyers and advertisers are preparing for the audience of NBC’s “Tonight Show” to get younger once Conan O’Brien replaces Jay Leno as host next year, Advertising Age reports. The show’s future audience is likely to more resemble those who…
Consumer-products giants such as Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson are starting to skip one step in the creative process by enlisting media companies for new ideas on ways to sell its goods, Advertising Age reports. Such efforts follow…