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There’s more to this year’s NBA All-Star Game than the coverage on TNT. NBA TV, the league’s digital cable channel, is planning extensive coverage of events surrounding the All-Star Game. While TNT shows the events, NBA TV will take viewers…
Bliss hits Stuckeyville on NBC’s “Ed” as the season concludes Friday with Ed and Carol getting married in a circus-themed setting. Ed Stevens (played by Tom Cavanagh), a former hotshot New York lawyer who now owns a bowling alley, and…
My first impulse when writing a story about Jack Paar is to call up Jack and get his latest funny take on what’s happening in the world. His curiosity was never satisfied, his keen eye never dimmed. But there is…
HBO took seven of the 11 TV prizes at the 2004 Golden Globe Awards.Five of the pay-TV network’s wins were for miniseries “Angels in America,” which won best miniseries and four acting nods. HBO’s two other awards went to “Sex…
As young viewers headed back to school after the winter holiday, syndication numbers dipped for nearly every genre. The exception was, however, weeklies, with each of the top seven shows showing improvement for the week ending Jan. 18, according to…
“The highly viewed award shows cannot help but influence our viewing choices. Not that we stop watching our favorites when they lose, but we are encouraged to sample the winners that we may not have seen before.”Bill Carroll, VP, director…
In a period of transformation, uncertainty and rapid change for the TV industry, at least one of the changes on the broadcasting horizon is a welcome one. That change is the widespread introduction of Nielsen Media Research’s People Meter systems,…
“Luckily, I don’t have to shoot you.”That was the not very comforting message delivered by a female police officer as TelevisionWeek publisher Chuck Ross and I took a wrong turn trying to find our way to the Beverly Hilton last…
Do four-letter words warrant six-figure fines for broadcasters who can’t bleeping keep them off the air? That’s just one of the questions to which Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., wants answers by Feb. 3 from NBC Chairman and CEO Bob Wright,…
When contestants on NBC’s “Fear Factor” immerse themselves in a box full of 500 tarantulas this month, some AT&T Wireless subscribers will play along.The daring reality show with an off-the-scales ick factor will allow mobile phone users to participate vicariously…