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If we are to take CBS at its word, the decision to dump the miniseries “The Reagans” only two weeks before it was scheduled to air was made because of a last-minute realization that the long-in-the-works project “does not present…
E! Networks President and CEO Mindy Herman gave birth two weeks ago and is now dividing her time between telecommuting and attending to her firstborn. The process of nursing, she said, “is even more unrelenting than the search for ratings”-a…
Carole Black knows what women watch.Since becoming president and CEO of Lifetime Entertainment in 1999 Ms. Black has attracted enough women to Lifetime to make it the No. 1-rated cable network in prime time for each of the past two…
Advertisers and women 18 to 49 are a long-lasting match made in TV heaven. As soon as Nielsen began producing sophisticated demographic information more than 40 years ago, mass-product advertisers began clamoring for the “lady of the house,” or the…
Barbara Walters had an idea for a daytime show produced by her Barwall Productions: Assemble a group of five women of different ages and backgrounds. Put them in an audienceless studio. Let them talk about the news for a half-hour….
As the creator of ABC’s “The Bachelor” franchise, Mike Fleiss hit the heights-or the depths, depending on your perspective-as one of Hollywood’s hottest television producers. From the start this unscripted series built around one man-and later, one woman in spinoff…
When the Oxygen Network debuted in 2000, television writers wondered if the “O” logo stood for the chemical symbol or for the woman who co-founded the network. They had reason to think the logo stood for co-founder Oprah Winfrey. With…
Nathan Nipper is a writer from Grand Prairie, Texas, who was beginning to think his chances of breaking into the entertainment industry were between slim and none. He had written query letters to producers and agents, composed writing samples and…
* In the chart “Inspirational and Faith-Based Cable Networks” (TelevisionWeek, Sept. 29), distribution for The Worship Network is 80,355,391 and distribution for Pax TV is 96,210,955.* In “Tauzin Confirms Talks” (TelevisionWeek, Nov. 3), there have been no talks between Rep….
Barbara Hall likes to rant. She can rant about how the publishing industry doesn’t understand what kids will read. She can rant about why society scares girls away from studying math and science in school. And she can rant about…