ABC last week added the Tuesday sitcom “According to Jim” and Sunday night family show “America’s Funniest Home Videos” to its list of early pickups for the 2005-06 season. The network also announced its summer slate of programming. ABC will…
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Winners Differ on Emmy’s Influence
After the success of last month’s “Supervolcano,” Discovery Channel is ordering another scripted special depicting computer-generated special effects mayhem. “This signals a new trend for Discovery Channel-fact-based dramas that look like Hollywood movies,” said Phil Fairclough, Discovery Channel’s acting general…
WB Returning to Testing PadTrials Still the Nets’ Scheduling StapleBy Christopher Lisotta The WB, which last year was the only broadcast network that opted not to incorporate pilot testing results into its scheduling decisions, is returning this week to the…
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Themed to Film’s 30th
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Most of broadcast television is run by relatively youthful producers, directors and writers. Older creative types, writers in particular, often find it difficult to get assignments. Conventional wisdom among many studio and network executives holds that it takes a younger…
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