Despite the fact that a number of commercial broadcasters have some serious reservations about the Federal Communication Commission’s new National Broadband Plan, the main organization for non-commercial broacasters, PBS, has given the plan a ringing endorsement. In a statement PBS…
Writer, producer, director Larry Charles, whose credits include "Borat" and "Seinfeld," is taking on Apple icon Steve Jobs. In fact, the TV series will be call "iCon," according to the New York Times, which says might make the Apple co-founder…
Twentieth Century Fox Home Enterainment has officially set the DVD and Blu-Ray release date of the megahit "Avatar." It will be the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, which is Thursday, April 22, 2010. Only the 2D version of the movie…
There’s nothing more American than a good ol’ fight in Washington over policy changes. In this case it’s the Federal Communications Commission’s new National Broadband Plan, which hasn’t even cooled after being pulled from the oven. Says an article is…
The National Broadband plan has been issued to reporters and the Federal Communications Commission has taken its embargo off the material, so a number of media outlets are now writing about it. To read the official six-page summary of the…
Showtime, which last year used the Los Angeles Times as a major component of its Emmy campaign, is turning to social media networks Facebook and Twitter this time around, according to our good friend and former TVWeek colleague James Hibberd…
Our good friend Harry Jessell, who runs the editorial at TVNewsCheck and who, for many years was a reporter and then the editor who ran B&C, unearthed an important video the other day that everyone connected with TV should watch,…
The Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism is out with its annual "The State of the News Media Report." A quick glance shows that the only delivery methods of news that have increased in numbers of viewers and users, year…
The national Screen Actors Guild board agreed to team up with the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists for joint bargaining on a new primetime TV contract, TheWrap reports. Talks with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will…
Last September, Netflix awarded $1 million to a group that figured out a way to improve Netflix’s software that makes movie recommendations for its customers. The challenge was to improve the software by 10%. NetFlix had made the challenge back in 2006. The…