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According to this New Fortune Magazine List, Anne Sweeney Has Overtaken Oprah

It’s not often that Oprah Winfrey takes a tumble, but she has this week, according to Fortune magazine’s annual list of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Business." Though Oprah still has her fledgling Oprah Winfrey Network, with the ending…

Besides Being Female and TV Stars, What Else Do Tina Fey, Eva Longoria and Mariska Hargitay Have in Common?

What do “30 Rock’s” Tina Fey, “Desperate Housewives’” Eva Longoria and “Law & Order: SVU’s” Mariska Hargitay have in common? Answer: The three actresses are among television’s highest-paid female stars, reports Forbes.com. Both Fey and Longoria earned $13 million between…

‘CSI’ Creator Sells First Project Under Overall Deal With ABC Studios

"CSI" creator Anthony Zuiker has sold his first project under a three-year overall deal with ABC Studios, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. ABC picked up "Chameleon," a drama from "World Trade Center" writer Andrea Berloff that…

Marketing Exec Behind HBO’s ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ to Step Down

The HBO marketing executive behind the debut campaigns for "The Sopranos" and "Game of Thrones" plans to step down at the end of the year, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. Courteney Monroe, who is currently HBO’s executive vice president…

MSO Mediacom Again Asks FCC to Prevent Programming Blackouts During Disputes About Retransmission Fees

The MSO Mediacom "has sent the FCC another letter asking it to step in to prevent blackouts during retrans disputes," writes our friend John Eggerton in Multichannel News. The article notes, "Mediacom is not taking the Federal Communication Commission’s ‘no…

‘Dancing With the Stars’ Studio Receives Envelope Containing White Powder

The studio where "Dancing with the Stars" is taped received an envelope with a white powder inside, prompting a call to the authorities on Wednesday, reports the Los Angeles Times’ L.A. Now blog. The substance was found to be harmless…

‘Gilmore Girls’ Creator Taps Tony Winner for Pilot Lead

Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of "Gilmore Girls," has tapped a Tony Award winner to star in a new pilot for ABC Family, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s The Live Feed blog. Tony winner Sutton Foster will play Michelle, a Las…

What a Prediction!! With the Launch of Amazon’s Kindle Fire Tablet, Analyst Prognosticates That Amazon Will ‘1) launch a 10″ tablet priced below $300 in early 2012, and 2) purchase the streaming business of Netflix’

Here’s quite a prediction we read about this afternoon at Barron’s website: "[Analyst] Collins Stewart’s Mayuresh Masurekar, who rates Amazon shares Neutral, this afternoon writes that the Fire could be a prelude to Amazon buying Netflix’s streaming operations: ‘We believe the…

NBC Hoping For Another Bonanza: Buys Western Project from Company of Emmy-Winning Actor

Between 1961 and 1969, NBC’s hit Western "Bonanza" ranked no lower than fourth among all primetime TV shows. The peacock network is hoping for some deja vu. Today it has been revealed that NBC "has bought an untitled Western project from…

Kutcher Plugs Tech Companies He Has a Financial Interest in on ‘Two and a Half Men.’ CBS Not Paid for the Promos

It happened in a scene from this past Monday’s episode of "Two and a Half Men" on Sept. 26, 2011. Here’s the description given by our good frined Lynette Rice at EW.com’s InsideTV blog: "Less than eight minutes into the…episode…Ashton…