Independent distribution company Debmar-Mercury has made distribution deals with TBS and station groups for writer and director Tyler Perry’s original first-run syndicated sitcom, “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” a move that shakes up the way syndication has done business in…
An advertising industry self-regulatory body slapped the hand of the Warner Bros. film studio for placing spots for the PG-13 rated movie “Superman Returns” on the Cartoon Network cable television channel.The Children’s Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better…
TV Guide Mobile Entertainment linked up with mobile search service 4INFO in a deal that will bring TV listings to cell phones. Under the partnership, any cell phone user will be able to search their local channel guide from a…
Sam Champion, weatherman at the ABC-owned and -operated station WABC-TV in New York, has been named weather anchor of ABC News’ “Good Morning America.” Mr. Champion will begin at “GMA” on Tuesday, Sept. 5. In addition to his duties at…
Sunday night’s premiere of “The Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner” became the most-watched original program of the year for the network. According the Nielsen Media Research data cited by the network, the two-hour special was seen by 3.6 million…
Fox is adding to its online streaming of TV shows with the news Tuesday that it plans to offer for free the first three episodes of prime-time shows “Prison Break” and “Vanished” on its own Web site, Fox.com, and more…
General Motors, Toyota, Volkswagen, DaimlerChrysler and Target are labeled as the nation’s worst advertisers in the fifth annual listing from the Parents Television Council, while rival Ford Motor Co. ranked among the nation’s best.The rankings, released Tuesday, pertain to advertising…
Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has been tapped to host ABC’s new prime-time game show “Set for Life.” “I tried to tell ABC that it is too difficult to do a talk show every night and an hour-long prime-time…
Jim Paratore, president of Telepictures Productions and executive VP of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, is stepping down from the executive ranks to form a television production company, paraMedia inc., which will have an exclusive overall deal with the Warner…
The Aug. 19 premiere of Lifetime’s original movie, “The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life is Not a Fairy Tale,” was seen by 6.6 million viewers. The docudrama about the “American Idol” winner is the second-most-viewed movie in the network’s 22-year history….