CNN has filled the post of senior vice president for development and acquisitions. CNN Worldwide Managing Editor Mark Whitaker announced today that Vinnie Malhotra, a former program development executive at ESPN and longtime ABC News producer, has been hired for…
“Game Change,” the television movie based on the emergence of Sarah Palin in the 2008 presidential race, was the most watched original film on HBO in almost eight years, reports Entertainment Weekly. The Saturday 9 p.m. premiere of the movie…
Bravo Media has named a vice president of scripted development and production, reports B&C. The newly created position will be filled by Andrew Wang, part of a move by the network into scripted production. Eli Lehrer, vice president of development…
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Ashton Kutcher, who replaced Charlie Sheen on CBS’s "Two and a Half Men" this season, said he hasn’t heard from "the powers that be" about whether he will return in his role as billionaire Walden Schmidt, according to The Hollywood…
Ratings may not matter so much for shows like "Community," says our friend Bill Carter in The New York TImes. Carter calls the NBC show from Sony Pictures Entertainment "one of the first shows of the so-called post-television era." "Community"…
One of the world’s top technology firms is considering an online pay-television service that will operate on TVs, computers and mobile devices, reports Bloomberg. The company is chipmaker Intel Corp. Intel is talking with media companies including cable networks about…
Oprah Winfrey’s cable network OWN scored its highest rating yet with a recent telecast, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. The program was Sunday’s interview by Winfrey with Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of the late singer Whitney…
Barry Diller’s Aereo pay-television service countered a lawsuit filed by the owners of New York’s local TV stations, stating in a counterclaim that the service is "entirely lawful," reports Adweek.com. "Consumers use the Aereo Technology to do no more than…
Boosted by a rare ratings achievement from a new show, ABC claimed a ratings win Sunday night in the key 18-49 demo, TVbytheNumbers.com reports. The controversial new series “GCB” may have been aided by protests against the show over its…