ABC’s President of Prime-Time Entertainment Stephen McPherson said at the Television Critics Association’s Winter Press Tour Sunday the network will do one extra episode of both “Lost” and “Desperate Housewives” to bring each of their season orders to 23, but…
By Lee Alan Hill Special to TelevisionWeek It may be time to crown a new “Hardest Working Man in Show Business”: Roger Ebert, who this year will celebrate 30 years as TV’s most recognizable movie critic.Mr. Ebert not only does…
General Electric Chairman Jeffrey Immelt said last week that making acquisitions to bolster the NBC Universal unit is “reasonably low” on his list of priorities, dashing the hopes of some observers who have been speculating for weeks that NBCU might…
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Indecency activists might cause a ruckus over Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” and Nicolette Sheridan’s towel drop, but more viewers are turned off by violence and foul language than nudity, according to a new poll. In the E-Poll survey of 1,171…
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Open for Business: A Late Development Season Could Mean NATPE Is Again About Sales; Execs Expect Hotel Conveniences to Foster Deal-Making When several syndicators arrive at the 42nd annual National Association of Television Program Executives convention in Las Vegas this…