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’24,’ ‘The Office’ Take Top Emmy Honors

Fox’s thriller drama “24” and NBC’s quirky comedy “The Office” took home best series statuettes Sunday at the “58th Annual Primetime Emmys Awards” in Los Angeles, on a night when several previous winners once again walked away with honors.The awards…

Viral Video: GOOOOOAAAL!

TelevisionWeek is trawling video-sharing Web sites to find the hottest clips spreading on the Internet. The setup: With all due respect to the aurally enhanced Paris Hilton and her debut on YouTube last week, viral video is best served raw—like…

Discovery Orders Shows Inspired by ‘Dirty Jobs’ Format

Pair of Programs From Piligian Planned for 2007

Summer Series Fail to Produce Year-Round Sizzle

No Breakouts Expected From June-Through-August Entries

Marketing ‘Megan’

Getting the daytime audience to better know new talk show host Megan Mullally is a three-phase process, said Betsy Bergman, VP of marketing for NBC Universal Television Distribution. NBC Universal’s first phase of promoting its new syndicated series “The Megan…

Warner Bros. Domestic TV Distribution Taps Werner for Top Job

Last week marked a changing of the guard at Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, and a changing of the guard for the syndication business as a whole.Veteran television distribution and WB executive Ken Werner is taking the reins as president…

Mullally, Alda, Danner, Piven Take First Primetime Emmys

“Will & Grace” star Megan Mullally and “The West Wing’s” Alan Alda took home the first two statuettes presented Sunday at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium.Ms. Mullally won her second Emmy in the outstanding…

EMMY COVERAGE: Debbie Does Platinum

The Emmys are gold-plated, but the jewelry is platinum.That’s the message the Platinum Guild International wants to get across at the Primetime Emmy Awards.A press release handed out by a Platinum Guild International flack listed exactly who was wearing what,…

EMMY COVERAGE: One on One on One

Just off the Emmy print press tent is a smaller space reserved for “one on one” rooms, or places reserved for syndicated entertainment magazines, cable networks and the broadcaster morning shows. Walking throughout the hallway of spaces is not unlike…

EMMY COVERAGE: Chilling in the Press Tent

It’s 4 p.m. Los Angeles time, and it’s hot.Not just a warm August day hot, but the kind of heat that radiates of the pavement hot. Or in the case of this particular afternoon near the University of Southern California…