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While the family house on “Who Wants to Marry My Dad?” may seem homey, it’s not really home for the Mueller family. They actually reside in Cincinnati, not Southern California. Executive producer Scott Satin, who also produced the show’s predecessor…
Upon graduating from college, Peter Micelli had one last multiple-choice test to take. Choice A: Play professional basketball in Italy for $60,000 a year; or Choice B: Work in the mailroom of a Hollywood talent agency for about $4.25 an…
Steven Spielberg, who struck ratings gold with his epic “Taken” miniseries for the Sci Fi Channel, is again lending his talents to a basic cable project: a 12-hour limited original series for Turner Network Television about the opening of the…
DirecTV’s deal with Nielsen Media Research to create a satellite TV ratings service has several important media planning implications. First and most obvious, ad agency executives say it will help legitimize DirecTV as a component of national TV advertising plans,…
When it comes to selling its U.S. entertainment assets, has Vivendi Universal outsmarted itself?As the Paris-based company continues to use stall tactics and staring contests to help drive up the price of its Vivendi Universal Entertainment unit, a growing number…
Forget the new fall lineups-oh, you already have? Fine, because we have the fall lineups for 2004 here now. Networks plan further ahead than ever, and thanks to the latest computer programs, they already have the projections to show which…
The resurrection of Twentieth Television’s FoxLab is the kind of opportunity Daniel Tibbets has been waiting for his whole career.As VP of production for the distributor, Mr. Tibbets has been charged with, among other responsibilities, oversight of a “brain trust”…
While a psychology degree may not be required to be a television development executive, Michael Thorn’s got one. The original plan was to leave upstate New York and head to graduate school in San Diego to get his Ph.D. in…
I’m one of those people who keep in touch-with everybody. Yet I had let my friendship with my college friend Ben drift away many years ago and was never really sure why or how. Then a friend told me about…
Leonard Goldstein’s first job in the TV industry taught him two things: the quickest ways to get around Los Angeles, and how to play the harmonica. He was a messenger for production company Kushner-Locke for a year and a half…