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Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim has acquired “The Office” from BBC Worldwide. Both seasons of the U.K. comedy, as well as the Christmas special, will air on Adult Swim this summer. The original “Office” is created, written and directed by Ricky…
There’s news on the Dr. Oz front. On Tuesday’s edition of “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” Ms. Winfrey let loose with a couple of details about the new Dr. Mehmet Oz-hosted program she’s producing in conjunction with Sony. First, a premiere…
Buzz Media Inc., a community of pop culture Web sites, has appointed Alan Citron as president. Mr. Citron will oversee programming, marketing, engineering and product development for the company’s 30-plus Web sites. Anthony Batt, founder and president of Buzz Media,…
I can still remember the first moment I heard about “Lost.” It was 2004 and my then-Variety colleague Mike Schneider and I were having lunch with Lloyd Braun, who then ran most of the ABC empire. We were in the…
“Today” weatherman Al Roker will host the new weekday morning program “Wake Up With Al” on the Weather Channel, recently purchased by NBC. Mr. Roker, the weather and feature reporter on NBC News’ “Today” since 1996, will host the show…
There’s more Donald in the works at NBC. The network Wednesday greenlit a third cycle of “The Celebrity Apprentice,” the reality competition show from Donald Trump and Mark Burnett. No shocker, given its nice Sunday night ratings. The Internet had…
NBC has picked up a third cycle of “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The renewal isn’t much of a surprise, given this season’s solid Sunday night performance for the show, which is produced by Mark Burnett and Donald Trump. There had been…
NBC Universal has advice for marketers looking to reach women during the recession: Consumers now are looking for both value and optimism, and those messages are intertwined. With assets including cable networks Bravo and Oxygen and the Web site iVillage,…
While some traditional news businesses, especially newspapers, are having problems, online sources of news are mostly booming. Newspaper online sites including those of the New York Times, Tribune Newspapers, McClatchy and the Washington Post, saw audience increases in March, according…
Discovery’s new series “Weaponizers” is a little bit like Demolition Derby on steroids. Or maybe an oversized version of “Battlebots.” The object of the contestants on the show is to take an everyday civilian vehicle, such as a shuttle bus…