“I can manage anything-oversee producing or executives or whatever,” said Bonnie Hammer, president of USA Network and the Sci Fi Channel. “I can take anybody criticizing any show, whether it’s ‘The 4400’ or ‘Battlestar Galactica.’ But if somebody takes a…
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“Today” executive producer Jim Bell told The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Gail Shister last week that the TV news booking wars had gotten “obscene” and “ugly” and that he feared “there will be an incident where someone gets hurt.” There was an…
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