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Jeremy Northam will star as Dean Martin opposite Sean Hayes as Jerry Lewis in CBS’s telefilm “Martin & Lewis.” Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are executive producing the film from Storyline and Columbia TriStar Domestic Television in association with St….
Discovery Communications and Procter & Gamble are on the verge of concluding a major multi-network upfront partnership deal that could be the largest single buy in the cable upfront that is now under way.The deal, which would involve virtually all…
Visible World and Adlink recently celebrated Mother’s Day with an all-digital trial-sending a television ad for 1-800-Flowers through the cable headend to Adlink’s 3.5 million subscribers in the Los Angeles area, altering the offer to reflect differing viewer demographic segments…
NBC, DreamWorks discuss production dealLos Angeles-NBC Entertainment President Jeff Zucker is said to be working to get DreamWorks Television under the NBC umbrella. Though sources said talks have been exploratory between DreamWorks partner Jeffrey Katzenberg and Mr. Zucker, the latter…
A bankruptcy filing by Adelphia Communications that could come as early as Monday would not only begin to bring much-needed clarity to the company’s scandal-racked situation but also help begin restoring investor confidence in other battered cable stocks.Cable operators, whose…
Martha Stewart, who has traded on her wholesome reputation and ability to make life more comfortable in creative ways, is being investigated by federal prosecutors.They are examining whether Ms. Stewart, founding chairwoman of Martha Stewart Omnimedia, had insider knowledge when…
The Caucus for Television Producers, Writers & Directors has asked the Federal Communications Commission to adopt regulations limiting the ability of national broadcast and cable TV systems to take financial interests in the programming they carry.Absent any limits, the major…
For someone often positioned as a bridge-builder, PBS President Pat Mitchell has left a lot of her former stablemates at CNN doing a slow burn after her June 11 op-ed column in USA Today in which Ms. Mitchell said that…
Now that the broadcast networks have unveiled their fall schedules, the pre-launch tinkering has begun-in ritualistic fashion-to several fall and midseason series.NBC, with the fewest new series added to its fall schedule-five-is mounting the most aggressive changes with its two…
There’s an old expression in Washington: “There are two things that you never want to see being made: laws and sausages.”That sums up the behind-the-scenes wrangling that occurred last week with congressional efforts to broker a compromise over the Federal…