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It’s a new world for an old hand.As talk show pioneer Phil Donahue prepares to debut his new “Donahue” show on ratings-challenged MSNBC at 8 p.m. Monday, July 15, there’s no doubt he’s tensing for the overnight reviews.“Listen, I’ve always…
It’s always been easy to underestimate Buffy. Particularly if you’re a normal adult. I am nowhere near the right demographic for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and indeed, through the first five years of the show, I managed to see exactly…
News items: Worldcom, Enron, Xerox, Adelphia and, of course, Martha “I’m not a Clone” Stewart. As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said in an editorial last week, “Since the news of her December 2001 sale of 4,000 shares of ImClone stock-a day…
Earning respect has always been an uphill battle for the basic cable networks. But outstanding showings by FX’s “The Shield” and MTV’s “The Osbournes” in Electronic Media’s Spring/Summer 2002 Critics Poll suggest an end to the perception of cable networks…
Suspect nabbed after ‘Power, Privilege’ profileIt’s not yet “America’s Most Wanted,” but “Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege and Justice,” Court TV’s new series that recently premiered to high ratings, has already notched its first captured fugitive.Just two weeks after James Sullivan…
Local broadcasters will be helped more in the long run by pending duopoly deregulation than by the trickle-down boost of the surprise-but not necessarily sustainable-national upfront advertising recovery.But whether there is a big payoff for local TV station owners from…
Joseph Amarante, New Haven (Conn.) Register; Ed Bark, Dallas Morning News; Rick Bentley, The Fresno (Calif.) Bee; Bob Betcher, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers; Robert Bianco, USA Today; Hal Boedeker, Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel; Larry Bonko, The (Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot; Bill Brioux, TV…
As the clock wound down on a strange, slightly delayed 2001-02 season, Fox’s antiterrorism-themed “24” drama retained its title as the best show on television in Electronic Media’s semiannual Critics Poll. “24’s” victory in the Spring/Summer 2002 Critics Poll proved…
4Kids Entertainment’s Al Kahn has more than his fair share of surprises planned to pop out of the Fox Box as he builds a new broadcast business. Two months before the Sept. 14 launch of Fox Box, a four-hour Saturday-morning…
News vet Herbert called to `Celebrity Justice’Los Angeles-Veteran newswoman Holly Herbert has been named anchor of Time Telepictures Television’s upcoming syndicated strip “Celebrity Justice.” Ms. Herbert joins “Celebrity Justice” after having spent more than a decade anchoring and reporting at…