By Debra KaufmanSpecial to TelevisionWeek Child slavery is an unlikely focus for a sports program, but as correspondent Bernard Goldberg likes to point out, “Real Sports” isn’t a sports program in the traditional sense. “The program explores important issues in…
By Lee Alan HillSpecial to TelevisionWeek Each year the promotional cry for the Golden Globes declares the awards are a “harbinger of the Oscars,” an allusion to the conventional wisdom that the votes of the 86 members of the Hollywood…
By Brad PomeranceSpecial to TelevisionWeek Of the 26 programs the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has nominated in the past five years for Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television, only two aired on one of the commercial broadcast networks….
AOL won a decisive victory in the burgeoning online video search battle with the news last week that it has acquired Truveo, an online video search engine that’s earned praise for being easy to use. Video search on the Internet…
‘Tyra Banks,’ ‘Keith Ablow’ Look Firm for ’06
Hyundai will be the title sponsor of the new season of Court TV’s “Dominick Dunne’s Power, Privilege and Justice,” which premieres this week.The sponsorship was negotiated by media buying agency Carat last spring, when it struck deals with Court TV…
By Debra KaufmanSpecial to TelevisionWeek After “Murder on a Sunday Morning,” a portrayal of racism in a Florida murder case, won the Oscar for best feature documentary in 2002, its director, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, was urged to repeat his success…
By Lillian Jackson On New Year’s Eve I was at a party where in addition to the booming music the host had the television on. The sound was off but on screen was a stylishly dressed black man standing in…
Adviser’s Annual Report Touts ‘Ray,’ Ablow Project
In April 2004 one of the supports for the $360 million Crosstown Expressway project in Tampa, Fla., buckled, causing a bridge to cave in. There weren’t any cars on it, but that support was the first of three to sink….