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Driver on road to NBC seriesNBC has signed an exclusive series development deal with Oscar nominee Minnie Driver (“Good Will Hunting,” “Return to Me”) to headline a new comedy or drama series for launch in the 2003-04 season. “NBC is…
The behind-the-scenes unraveling at The Walt Disney. Co., AOL Time Warner and Vivendi Universal has become so acute that the companies are failing miserably at hiding or smoothing over some hard but telling truths.First case in point: Disney last week…
Interactive television middleware company OpenTV announced plans last week to acquire fellow ITV players ACTV and Wink Communications. The merger will create a vertically integrated ITV company with interests in middleware, interactive advertising and content and television-commerce.The ITV space has…
Charles Barkley signs for live TNT talk show New York-Charles Barkley, whose gift for gab netted him a spot on Turner Network Television’s NBA booth team after he left the basketball court, is getting a half-hour live general talk show,…
CBS’s almost single-minded dedication to developing and launching new 10 p.m.-to-11 p.m. (ET) dramas on four nights of its schedule this season appeared to pay off with initial growth for CBS affiliates’ late newscasts and the network’s “Late Show With…
As the 2002-2003 TV season rolls out, UPN programming is not an option for viewers in Chattanooga, Tenn., because the netlet is in the middle of an affiliate transition in the market. WDSI-TV, the Pegasus-owned Fox affiliate in Chattanooga, was…
AdvertisingDeirdre Nisbet to media planner/buyer, Gianettino & Meredith Advertising, Short Hills, N.J., from advertising planner, Weichert.BroadcastingJulie McNamara to VP, drama programming, ABC Entertainment, from director, drama series.Marianne O’Leary to director, media research, CBS Research, from manager, broadcast television research. Also,…
In this season of the witch, when media mergers such as AOL and Time Warner and Universal and Vivendi definitely seemed hexed, comes news that ABC News and CNN want to ride off on a broomstick together. But attention Messieurs…
In one small sense, the telecast of the 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards may have performed a public service. It probably helped discourage people from going into television. Watching those so-called professionals get up there and spew sanctimonious gush on…
NBC’s favored “Friends” blew past network sibling “ER” and CBS’s “Survivor” to top the charts this season as the highest-priced show on TV. A 30-second spot on “Friends” averages $455,700, according to Advertising Age’s annual prime-time network pricing survey.Factors vaulting…