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Bravo plans to produce a new docu-soap reality series and launch a pair of broadband channels based on its former cable property Trio, the network announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association press tour. The new series, titled “Work Out,”…
ESPN’s next original movie will premiere on ABC. The sports network has greenlighted production on “Ruffian,” based on the true story of a racehorse. The movie will debut in conjunction with ABC’s presentation of the Belmont Stakes in June 2007….
In a widely expected move, Marc Graboff has been named president of NBC Universal Television for the West Coast. The announcement was made Thursday by Jeffrey Zucker, who was promoted to CEO of NBC Universal Television Group in December.Mr. Graboff…
A&E has ordered a new docu-soap reality series starring KISS rocker Gene Simmons. The network made the announcement at the Television Critics Association’s Winter Press Tour. The new series, “Family Jewels,” stems from a “Biography” episode on Mr. Simmons. Mr….
Twelve years after they sold their production company to Hallmark Cards, Robert Halmi Sr. and Robert Halmi Jr. have reached an agreement to buy back Hallmark Entertainment, the wholly owned subsidiary of Hallmark Cards, and plan to rename it RHI…
CBS-owned KTVT-TV and KTXA-TV in the Dallas-Fort Worth market have added a strictly local extension of the network video-on-demand deal made by CBS and Comcast last year, which made local news and specialty programming available for free through Comcast’s iN…
Lifetime Entertainment, whose Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network were taken off EchoStar’s Dish Network Jan 1 in a dispute over license fees, said Thursday it is launching a multimedia campaign offering viewers incentives to switch to cable or DirecTV. Cable…
Fox-owned WNYW-TV in New York has transferred Fox News Channel’s Rick Folbaum and Dari Alexander to the station’s anchor desk of the half-hour newscast at 6 p.m. weekdays. The two succeed Ernie Anastos, who will continue as anchor of the…
Former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel, who gave up one longtime job last November when he retired from ABC News, now has three new jobs. New York Times Editorial Page Editor Gail Collins said Thursday that Mr. Koppel will begin writing…
Former Walt Disney Co. CEO Michael Eisner earned more than $10 million in the 2005 fiscal year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Mr. Eisner, who retired from the media company on Sept. 30, 2005, after a…