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Guess Which Cable Network Just Came in First Place in the Primetime Ratings for the Third Quarter in a Row (Hint: Born in the ____)

For the third straight quarter, the primetime ratings winner among the cable networks was the USA Network, Multichannel News reports.   Disney came in second place for the quarter. Tied for third place were three networks: TNT, ESPN and Fox News, Multichannel…

Survey: If Cable Wants to Charge for TV Everywhere, Not a Lot of Internet Users Are Interested

A new survey–like ones before it–confirms that most Internet users are not interested in TV Everywhere if they have to pay additional monies to get it, Multichannel News reports. TV Everywhere is the plan some cable operators have of allowing…

New Chief of Ad Sales for Hallmark Channel Appointed

Crown Media Holdings has filled the ad sales slot that became available when it’s former chief of ad sales, Bill Abbott, became the company’s president and CEO. The new EVP of Advertising Sales comes from within the company: Ed Georger….

Winners and Losers of TV’s Premiere Week

"’NCIS.’ Try to find someone who had forecast that this CBS drama, in its seventh season, would debut with its biggest audience ever — 21 million viewers — and wind up the most watched show of Premiere Week. Can’t be…

Dennis Hopper Hospitalized in New York

Dennis Hopper, star of the Starz TV series "Crash," was taken today by ambulance to a New York hospital after developing flu-like symptoms, according to his publicist Sheila Feren and reported on Fox 411. "Entertainment Tonight" also reported that the…

Panasonic Introduces a 50-inch 3-D TV and Unleashes its Secret Weapon to Get 3D TV Widely Adopted: Hollywood

Today’s Must Read:  As Panasonic introduces a new 50-inch TV that’s capable of 3D, this article from Business Week explains why the Japanese giant thinks 3D on TV will be a real business and not just a fad. That’s because…

Here’s One Future of 360-Degree Media: Sony Will Premiere New Game in Theaters, and Invite the Public to Play

Next month, in selected theaters in California, Illinois and Washington state, Sony will debut a new video game, "UNCHARTED 2: Among Thieves" on movie screens that have Sony’s digital projection technology, Reuters reports. According to the report, the theaters "will…

Shhh….’South Park’ Movie Extras Being Given Sneak Peek on Web in Advance of Blu-ray Release

It’s been ten years (!) since Matt Stone and Trey Parker gave us the movie “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut.”  The movie is headed for Blu-ray release next month with a never-before-released commentary on the film by Stone and…

Matt LeBlanc Returns to Series TV

Former "Friends" star Matt LeBlanc will appear on "Episodes," a six-episode comedy on Showtime and BBC2 in early 2010, reports B&C. The show is a single-camera comedy about an American sitcom being created from a British comedy, with LeBlanc playing…

Logo Developing Gay Version of ‘Housewives’

In an effort to create the kind of buzz the "Real Housewives" franchise has created on Bravo, Logo has begun work on a gay version of the series, reports Digital Spy. The series will be called "Kept" and is projected…