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THE WB’S BEEFY BIRTHDAY BASHAnyone can order up cake and candles to observe a birthday. The WB-hereby re-nicknamed The WBeef-offered meatier fare to employees when it turned 9 years old recently. The netlet had In-N-Out Burger, the popular Southwestern drive-through…

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Amish Youth to Star in UPN Reality Show UPN is developing a reality series that will follow five young Amish people through the Amish rite of passage called rumspringa. During this religious tradition, young Amish men and women leave their…

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CBS Renews Four Freshman Series Plus ‘Survivor’ CBS renewed four of its freshman series for a second season. Sitcom “Two and a Half Men” and dramas “Cold Case,” “Joan of Arcadia” and “Navy NCIS” got the early nods from CBS…

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Riesenberg Joins Omnicom Group Robert Riesenberg, a leader in advertiser- produced programming, is leaving Interpublic’s Magna Global Entertainment to run a new unit at Omnicom Group that will produce and co-develop programming with talent, leading producers, clients and distribution networks….

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ABC Picks Up David E. Kelley Pilot ABC has picked up a pilot from David E. Kelley and Jason Katims for next season. The show, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, is a family drama about three 20-something sisters who…

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‘Top Model’ Struts for UPN “America’s Next Top Model” returned to UPN with a bang last night. It scored a 2.2 Nielsen Media Research rating and 6 share in adults 18 to 49 and 4.9 million viewers-the second-largest audience ever…

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‘Friends’ Aims for Low-Key Finale The finale of “Friends” will be treated as a regular episode and not aim for a big high-concept finish, “Friends” producers Marta Kauffman, David Crane and Kevin Bright said at a Television Critics Association press…

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NBC Cancels ‘Frasier’ NBC’s “Frasier” will end its 11-year run this May. “This is the end,” NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker declared Monday at a Television Critics Association panel on the “Frasier” set in Hollywood with cast members and executive…

Roving Eye

1. TNT’s Michael Wright throws the opening pitch for “The Winning Season” at the Television Critics Association press tour Jan. 6 in Hollywood.2. Steve Lipscomb, left, creator of the Travel Channel’s “World Poker Tour,” professional players Chris Ferguson and Annie…

Spotlight Event

NATPE Jan. 18-20The annual conference of the National Association of Television Program Executives, at the Venetian Hotel and Sands Expo Center, Las Vegas.Events include a series of nine super-sessions, starting with “Outlook 2004: Boom, Gloom, or Doom” Jan. 18. The…