Horace Newcomb described the BBC/National Geographic production “Galapagos: Born of Fire” as one of the most beautiful things he has ever seen. That’s quite an accolade from the director of the Peabody Awards. The high-definition series explored the history, landscape…
Prime Time TV Awards Offer a Mix of Usual Suspects and Surprising Newcomers
The roots of ABC News’ award-winning reports on Rep. Mark Foley’s inappropriate messages to congressional pages of high school age go back more than a decade, to the 1996 political conventions, when the network’s chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross and…
Canadian television director Paul Nadler was in a coma for six weeks in 1994. He wasn’t expected to walk again, talk again, at times even to live. But he defied expectations, regaining many of his motor and cognitive skills during…
A&E pulled reruns of some episodes of “Flip This House” off the air after learning of claims against an Atlanta businessman who had been featured on the program, the Associated Press reported. Businessman Sam Leccima presented himself as a successful…
Former NBC development executive Katherine Pope will be named the new head of NBC Universal Television Studio, sources said. The news comes after a week of rumors about her future and the tumultuous ouster of her boss, entertainment president Kevin…
Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica” will end after this season, the show’s fourth, concludes. Season four is currently in production and the producers will use the 22-episodes to bring their tale to a close. “This show was always meant to…
Fox reality programming executive Kary McHoul has joined UTA as co-head of its alternative television department. Ms. McHoul will manage the division with Brett Hansen, who has been running the department for the past year. For the past three years,…
The Federal Trade Commission tossed a bombshell into the debate over the role TV food ads play in childhood obesity with its report that the number of TV ads kids see is far lower than some recent estimates—and decreasing. “Our…
The debut of CBS’s “Pirate Master” couldn’t plunder its time period Thursday night, placing second to Fox’s “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?” “Pirate” pillaged a 2.3 rating among adults 18 to 49, according to preliminary Nielsens, down 51…