HBO, Syfy and AMC were all winners as cable dominated Saturday night’s Television Critics Association Awards, taking home seven of the 10 categories, Multichannel News says. Syfy’s “Battlestar Galactica,” which ended a four-year run last spring, won for program of…
Kevin Federline was spotted at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Thursday shooting scenes for a reality show pilot, People reports, citing an unnamed source. People says the show, which has not been picked up, will focus…
PBS talk show host Charlie Rose brokered a truce in the fierce on-air feud between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly, the New York Times says. The on-air hosts began laying off each other in June after…
On late Friday, the five voice stars of “Futurama” came to a deal to return to “Futurama,” ending a standoff and ensuring that the animated comedy will be ready for its 2010 Comedy Central revival, Variety says. –Elizabeth Jensen
Fox Reality Channel’s first VOD premiere offering will be for “Househusbands of Hollywood,” which will be available to digital customers 12 days before its cable debut on Aug. 15, says Multichannel News. The subsequent nine episodes will be available on…
USA Network renewed drama “In Plain Sight” for a third season, and is closing in on a renewal of its other Sunday drama, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” says The Hollywood Reporter. The network renewed its Thursday series “Burn Notice”…
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By Elizabeth Jensen When the Society of Professional Journalists was founded as a journalistic fraternity at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., in 1909, few could have imagined the upheavals that now roil the profession. But as it celebrates its 100th…
By Elizabeth Jensen He never worked as a professional journalist, but Terry Harper, the executive director of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation, knew how to write laugh-out-loud prose that could also bring a reader…
By Daisy Whitney If recent news events have taught us anything it’s that viewers absolutely expect stories to run on-air and on the Web at the same time. That’s why when NY1 News gave its Web site a much-needed makeover…