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D.L. Hughley to Host ‘Liar’ Comedian D.L. Hughley has signed to host “Liar,” a game show for CBS based on a United Kingdom format. In the show, six contestants claim to have had a common experience but five of them…
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NBC Officially Axes ‘Boomtown’ NBC has cancelled the critically-acclaimed sophomore drama “Boomtown.” “Boomtown,” produced by DreamWorks and NBC Studios, aired two episodes in its new Friday 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. time slot before NBC put it on hiatus. In…
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Fox Wins Sunday’s 18-49 Crowd, but ‘Arrested’ Doesn’t Deliver The premiere of Fox’s Sunday lineup gave Fox a big nightly victory in adults 18 to 49, but the news wasn’t so good for Fox’s new sitcom “Arrested Development,” which finished…
Compared to What?
The WB ran in ad in The Hollywood Reporter on Oct. 10 claiming “The Most Concentrated Young Adult Audience in Network Television” and including a chart comparing its audience composition in several demos with that of other broadcast networks. Conspicuously…
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Who is that masked woman? It’s Joy Behar, the comedienne best known as a member of “The View,” attending Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project 6th Annual Hulaween p
Now that’s scaryText: Who is that masked woman? It’s Joy Behar, the comedienne best known as a member of “The View,” attending Bette Midler’s New York Restoration Project 6th Annual Hulaween party in Manhattan last week. And yes, members of…
Playing Doctor
Where do you turn for urgent health-care information? Why, to your friendly neighborhood cable network, of course-or so suggests Discovery Communications. Last week the company announced a new project called Discovery Hospital, where health-care facilities can license a 5,000-page medical…
Progress Seen at Big 4
Four years ago, none of the 26 new prime-time shows on the Big 4 broadcast networks featured a minority actor in a starring or leading role, spurring minority advocacy groups to form the Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition and demand change from…
Q3 MSO Results Vary
Amid an ongoing battle over sports rights fees, Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, reported a strong third-quarter financial performance last week, thanks to a one-time gain from the sale of QVC to Liberty Media. Cox Communications reported a larger…
‘Schmo’ Scores
A record-setting 3.4 million viewers tuned in Oct. 28 at 9 p.m. to see the dramatic finale of Spike TV’s “The Joe Schmo Show,” where unsuspecting reality show contestant Matt Kennedy Gould finally learned that he was the subject of…
Budgets, Ethics Under Fire
The wildfires raging throughout Southern California last week not only left a toll of death and destruction but also were a major drain on local television stations, which were forced to tax their resources to cover a disaster of such…