By Alan CarterSpecial to TelevisionWeek How is this for interesting? The winners of this year’s awards for best actor and actress in a comedy will both take home Golden Globes not just because they do outstanding work on their television…
Graboff Taking Over West Coast TV Group; Pope Heads Development
By Debra KaufmanSpecial to TelevisionWeek As a CNBC reporter, David Faber had covered Wal-Mart’s earnings and growing work force for years. He and producer Lori Gordon were casting about for a project, having finished “The Big Heist,” about the AOL-Time…
By Alan CarterSpecial to TelevisionWeek Maybe they should call this one the Kitchen Sink category. Or Apples and Oranges. It really is a catch-all category, which is one reason the Golden Globes have sometimes caught flak over the nominees. Voters…
Thursday Premieres Improve Week
At her last Television Critics Association press tour as president and CEO of PBS, Pat Mitchell said it’s getting more difficult to secure financial resources to provide the kind of programming the public service’s mandate requires.“It’s getting harder and harder,…
“Sopranos” creator David Chase shot down the idea of spinning off his hit HBO mob drama as a feature film. “We used to talk about it, we don’t anymore,” Mr. Chase said. “I think what we’re gonna be doing in…
By Chuck Ross Rosie O’Donnell, answering a question during the Television Critics Association press tour Friday at the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, Calif., told reporters of her interest in appearing in another television show. She didn’t specify if her return would…
GSN has signed a three-series deal with Sony Pictures Television for “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” executive producer Michael Davies to develop game show programs for the network. The announcement was made at the Television Critics Association’s Winter Press…
Facing reporters at the Television Critics Association’s press tour, former “Nightline” anchor Ted Koppel said his new position at Discovery Channel will allow him to explore smart and serious news topics, and he suggested that commercial networks such as his…