Not just anyone can be an Iron Chef. The Food Network is searching for someone who can go cleaver to cleaver with Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, Masaharu Morimoto and Cat Cora for its show “Search for the Next Iron Chef…
Fox’s one-two punch of “American Idol” and “House” knocked out the competition again Tuesday night. According to data from Nielsen Media Research, “Idol” posted a 9.6 rating among adults 18 to 49, with an average 25.7 million total viewers. From…
DirecTV is exploring new “Passions.”The satellite television provider has signed a deal with NBC Universal Television Studio to keep the studio’s daytime soap opera “Passions on the air. The series was dropped from NBC’s daytime lineup earlier in the year….
Betty Cohen resigned Wednesday as president and CEO of Lifetime Entertainment Services after two years at the company. Lifetime’s ratings and revenues were down last year, but Ms. Cohen on Tuesday introduced plans to increase spending on programming at Lifetime’s…
Fox’s “House” and ABC’s “Lost” are the most time-shifted shows, according to new figures from Nielsen Media Research.In the week of April 2, “House” was played back on digital video recorders 2.7 million times, which would add about 14.4 percent…
In a case of instant history, The History Channel will be airing a one-hour special on the Virginia Tech shootings Thursday at 10 p.m.The special, “Virginia Tech: Eyewitness to Tragedy,” is produced for The History Channel by NBC News Productions.The…
Online video site Revver struck a deal with technology provider Intent MediaWorks to distribute viral videos on peer-to-peer networks. The deal will bring Revver’s advertising revenue model to the videos making the rounds on peer-to-peer systems, the companies said. Under…
“You never know what’s real on this show,” co-executive producer Manny Coto teased in this week’s exclusive “24” Backlot Talk.Such was the case with Monday’s episode, which embraced the witching hour of midnight to 1 a.m. by showing a balance-beam…
In an exclusive pre-show “Idol” Backlot Talk, co-executive producer Ken Warwick talks of anthems, children and corporate America: three links in a chain of events leading to the show’s first fund-raising effort, “Idol Gives Back.”The six remaining contestants will collaborate…
MyNetworkTV, under the direction of new president Greg Meidel, will forgo elaborate presentations for the upfronts in lieu of roadshow-style meetings with individual advertising agencies.“We decided that this year it was more important for us to take the unconventional path…