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Although prolific show creator David E. Kelley was a no-show Monday at the Television Critics Association panel session on “Boston Legal,” a late addition to the cast did make it. Mark Valley (“Keen Eddie”) has been added to “The Practice”…
Filmmaker Robert Greenwald officially launched his attempt to do to Fox News Channel what film mischief maker Michael Moore has done to President Bush with “Fahrenheit 9/11” Monday at a Manhattan press conference at which the producer-director said, “There isn’t…
Friday, Dec. 6 Millennium cuts staff Some 10 people at various levels of Millennium Sales & Marketing, the largest of Katz Television Group’s three TV divisions, lost their jobs this week in a restructuring that hit hardest in New York,…
GSN, formerly known as the Game Show Network, has been trying to broaden its programming to include fare other than game shows. So it asked Darva Conger, who infamously once married a multimillionaire on TV (and quickly divorced him), to…
Anne Sweeney and Steve McPherson have a lot of catching up to do. The two new leaders at ABC will have their first meeting this week to quickly get to know ABC’s development and each other. When Ms. Sweeney was…
If The WB’s marketing gurus Bob Bibb and Lew Goldstein need fresh ideas, they should call actor Paul Johansson, who plays patriarch Dan Scott on “One Tree Hill.” He came up with the idea for this poster spoofing The WB’s…
Sony has teamed with a pair of private-equity firms in an effort to acquire venerable film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for $5 billion, according to sources familiar with the situation. Terms of the deal floated last week involved Sony and buyout firms…
Voom, the new DBS service featuring loads of high-definition channels, which is operated by the Dolan family of Cablevision fame, likes to impress securities analysts. The Dolans’ way of doing so can be unique, however. Recently, Voom’s Bill Casamo, executive…
Susan Zirinsky says Girl Scouting was not an option in her Queens neighborhood, so she grew up a “total Girl Scout wannabe” until she became a White House producer with a press badge that fulfilled a childhood wish to belong…
The television industry tried to make sense of the unexpected upheavals at NBC and Universal’s syndication divisions late last week as the Peacock quietly hammered out new deals for key executives in the broadcast and cable departments. The moves were…