TNT Stretches for HD
Cable Net Teamed With Defense Contractor to Create “Stretch-O-Vision”
In Depth
Morbid Week for HD Fans
Reports on Hanging of Saddam in HD and Ford Funeral Make Format News
HD Set Sales Surged During Holiday Rush
Manufacturers Report Q4 Sales Doubled From ’05
Police Shows Take Tuesday for NBC
NBC managed to trump college football Tuesday night thanks to a pair of workhorse police procedurals. NBC’s “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “Law & Order: SVU,” returning from hiatus, both scored against a field of reruns and Fox’s FedEx…
HBO Leads Producers Guild of America Award Nominations
With five total nominations, HBO leads all networks with the most 2007 Producers Guild of America Awards nominations following the announcement of additional television PGA contenders Wednesday. Fox and NBC are nipping HBO’s heels with four total nominations of their…
‘Dirt’ Gets Down With Viewers
The commercial-free premiere of FX’s new original series “Dirt” attracted 3.4 million viewers Tuesday night.FX said the figure was similar to the number of viewers who tuned in to the 2006 season premieres of “Rescue Me” and “The Shield.”The figures…
Fox Cancels ‘The O.C.’
Fox has canceled its teen soap drama “The O.C.”The show’s last episode will air Feb. 22, finishing out its fourth season, the network announced Wednesday. “‘The O.C.’ season four finale will also be the series finale,” said Josh Schwartz, the…
NBC Universal Pulls Plug on ‘Mullally’
The first syndication casualty of the season got the axe Wednesday, as NBC Universal informed staff of “The Megan Mullally Show” that the series was being cancelled.Production is being shut down immediately and airings of the first-run talk show strip…
Yahoo to Offer ‘Apprentice’ Game
Yahoo on Jan. 7 will debut an online contest in conjunction with the upcoming premiere of the sixth season of NBC’s “The Apprentice.”Yahoo’s game, called “The Intern,” lets fans predict each week what will happen on the show. The winner…
Axelrod to Sit In on ‘Saturday Early Show’
(Corrects Russ Mitchell’s New Duties)A Cinderella-style search for Tracy Smith’s next co-anchor on “The Saturday Early Show” will begin Jan. 13, when CBS News White House correspondent Jim Axelrod sits in for the first of three times. Founding co-anchor Russ…