Entertainment Studios has named a new vice president of marketing, reports TVNewsCheck.com. John McDonald, who will be working out of Los Angeles, will be in charge of all levels of marketing for the company, including branding, multiplatform expansion, ad sales…
A popular TV chef who rescues failing restaurants on television has had to close his own London eatery, reports the Toronto Sun. On Fox’s "Kitchen Nightmares," celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay comes off as the No. 1 expert on making a…
20th Century Fox TV has signed separate syndication deals for two of its hit shows, "Glee" and "Modern Family," reports Deadline.com. According to the report, " ‘Glee’ will be heading to Oxygen, which we hear is paying mid-six figures per episode, plus airing…
"CSI" showrunner Carol Mendelsohn and "CSI: Miami" showrunner Ann Donahue have renewed their contracts with CBS TV Studios for four additional years, the Hollywood Reporter reports. The contracts represent terms that are longer than typical for a showrunner agreement, as…
After the success of ABC’s "I Survived a Japanese Game Show," the U.S.-based A. Smith & Co. and Japan’s Taiyo Kikaku Co. are creating a partnership to collaborate on more programs, the Hollywood Reporter reports. A. Smith’s founder Arthur Smith…
An iOS 4.0.1 software fix is in the works and may arrive early this week, reports CNET. Around the time the iPhone 4 was first released last week, users started flooding the Internet with complaints that holding the phone a…
A troubling trend is arising in reality television shows with children being included in filming of scenes that are potentially psychologically harmful, report Matea Gold and Richard Verrier in the Los Angeles Times. One recent example comes from the first…
Some Fast food advertisers are shifting their spending to national cable from local television, finding that ratings increases for cable are bringing audiences near parity while cable still offers cheaper prices, reports Advertising Age. Dairy Queen, for one, this year…
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A new forecast indicates ad spending in the United States bottomed out earlier this year, with the overall figure for 2010 expected to decline 1.3 percent to $145 billion, down from the $147 billion spent in 2009. U.S. ad spending…