The HBO marketing executive behind the debut campaigns for "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones" plans to step down at the end of the year, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. Courteney Monroe, who is currently HBO’s executive vice president…
The MSO Mediacom "has sent the FCC another letter asking it to step in to prevent blackouts during retrans disputes," writes our friend John Eggerton in Multichannel News. The article notes, "Mediacom is not taking the Federal Communication Commission’s ‘no…
Here’s quite a prediction we read about this afternoon at Barron’s website: "[Analyst] Collins Stewart’s Mayuresh Masurekar, who rates Amazon shares Neutral, this afternoon writes that the Fire could be a prelude to Amazon buying Netflix’s streaming operations: ‘We believe the…
It happened in a scene from this past Monday’s episode of "Two and a Half Men" on Sept. 26, 2011. Here’s the description given by our good frined Lynette Rice at EW.com’s InsideTV blog: "Less than eight minutes into the…episode…Ashton…
Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable network is bringing in a veteran programmer to help put the network on track, according to The Hollywood Reporter. OWN has tapped former Lifetime executive Susanne Daniels, who will work as an executive consultant and report…
Fox took the overall ratings win Tuesday night in the 18-49 demo, as “New Girl,” “Raising Hope” and “Glee” remained strong, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “New Girl” won adults 18-49 with a 4.4 average rating, off 8% from premiere…
Initial ratings have come in for ABC’s replacement for the soap opera "All My Children" — a lifestyle series called "The Chew." According to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog, the show got off to a solid start on…
One syndicated daytime talk show stood above the rest as ratings came in for the first week of the new television season, reports the New York Post. “Dr. Phil” averaged 5.2 million viewers and a 3.9 rating for the week…
Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures today announced a reorganization in which its DVD and Blu-ray disc sales unit and its online video licensing operation are being combined, Bloomberg reports. Some staff is being relocated from London to Los Angeles as part of…
Starz has given a renewal to one of its shows even before the series debuts for its first season, reports TVLine.com. The show is "Boss," a new drama starring Kelsey Grammer. The first season of the series is slated to…