Time Warner named Bill Nelson chairman and CEO of Home Box Office. He had been chief operating officer of the pay cable network. He succeeds Chris Albrecht, who resigned after being arrested in Las Vegas after an altercation with his…
Lifetime’s “Army Wives” averaged 3.5 million viewers during its premiere Sunday night, the most-watched series premiere in the network’s history. The show, starring Kim Delaney and Catherine Bell, drew a 2.9 household rating and was cable’s No. 1 show among…
GSN named Dennis Miller as host of its new game show “Grand Slam.” Mr. Miller, known from “Saturday Night Live,” “Monday Night Football” and his own HBO show, is taking on a game show for the first time. “Grand Slam,”…
When Spike Lee went to HBO in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina to seek funding for what would become “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” the cable network was immediately interested. The two had worked together previously…
In HBO Family’s “The Music in Me: Children’s Recitals From Classical to Latin, Jazz to Zydeco,” a mother talks about her 10-year-old trumpeter son’s foot, which he can’t keep still when he’s playing music. The infectious half-hour program arouses a…
In IFC’s documentary short series “Beyond Borders: Personal Stories From a Small Planet,” 10-year-old Mohamed Sidibay talks about how he escaped life as a child soldier in Sierra Leone. In the film he’s a fourth-grader who likes to play soccer,…
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