Jeff Bewkes hopes to put more TV on the Internet, but he’s going to make consumers prove they’ve paid for it. Time Warner, the largest owner of cable networks including TNT, Cartoon Network, CNN and HBO, sat back and watched…
Sumner Redstone has reached an agreement with lenders to his family holding company under which he will sell assets, but probably not stock in Viacom or CBS Corp., the Wall Street Journal reports. Redstone’s company, National Amusements Inc., is expected…
Sarah Silverman and the other two executive producers of “The Sarah Silverman Program” have threatened to quit after Comedy Central said it would trim the series’ budget by more than 20%, the Hollywood Reporter says. While the show hasn’t been…
While analysts say this is a “crazy” time to be launching a cable network, Mark Greenberg, the president of Epix, the new channel formed by Viacom and three movie studios, tells USA Today that the skeptics are in for a…
With cable channels outperforming broadcasters financially, companies that own cable networks could become buyout candidates, the Wall Street Journal reports. One takeout candidate is Scripps Networks Interactive, the paper says, and another could be Crown Media Holdings, owner of Hallmark…
AMC’s “Breaking Bad” returns for a second season, looking to build on the viewers it generated last season, and on the ratings garnered by AMC’s other critically hailed series, “Mad Men,” TelevisionWeek reports. Emmy winner Bryan Cranston tells TVWeek about…
Turner Networks’ TNT has begun a plan to get the same ad rates as broadcast networks, Daily Variety reports. Steve Koonin, a former Coca-Cola marketing executive, plans to tell advertisers during its upfront presentation that TNT is more similar to…
Interactive television is moving closer to reality after several years of trials and one-time experiments, Multichannel News reports. Top cable operators plan to upgrade at least 20 million digital set-top boxes to run interactive-TV applications this year, the trade magazine…
Characters on “Harlem Heights,” the new reality show on BET, use products provided by the show’s sponsor Johnson & Johnson, including Listerine, Zyrtec and Splenda, the New York Times says. Advertiser integrations are more difficult to do in unscripted shows….
While Glenn Close draws most of the attention, the second season of FX’s “Damages” features a number of interesting supporting actors including Darrell Hammond and Tom Noonan, the New York Times says. “In a TV world overrun by eccentric, all-knowing…