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Even weeks before his death, the late “60 Minutes” correspondent Ed Bradley was turning out Peabody-quality work. His two-part report on rape charges leveled against three Duke University lacrosse players who had been charged with assaulting a hired exotic dancer…
When Spike Lee went to HBO in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina to seek funding for what would become “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” the cable network was immediately interested. The two had worked together previously…
Verklin/Kanner Book Takes a Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Constantly Changing Landscape of Media Advertising
With many of today’s top drama series featuring large ensembles, sometimes it’s tough to distinguish between leading and supporting actors. Rising to the top of the list among the supporting actors is “The Sopranos’” Michael Imperioli, who played Tony’s nephew,…
David went up against Goliath when New Haven, Conn., station WTNH-TV reported that Stratford, Conn.-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.—a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp. with posted 2006 revenues of $47.8 billion—was installing defective parts on its Blackhawk helicopters. The potential for…
TelevisionWeek is trawling video-sharing Web sites to find the hottest clips spreading on the Internet. Visit TVWeek.com to view the latest. The setup: Give Miss USA Rachel Smith some credit for mucho composure during the Miss Universe pageant. After slipping…
The roots of ABC News’ award-winning reports on Rep. Mark Foley’s inappropriate messages to congressional pages of high school age go back more than a decade, to the 1996 political conventions, when the network’s chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross and…
Survey Aims to Pinpoint What Gets Viewers to Absorb Ads
African Americans make up 13 percent of the population but account for more than 50 percent of new cases of HIV infection, a rate eight times that for whites. African American women are 23 times more likely to be diagnosed…
Regardless of its one-episode-and-done voting process, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences tends to pay attention to an actor’s cumulative performance in a memorable role. This summer no actor is bringing a more estimable body of work to the…