NBC is considering moving its Monday night airport drama “LAX” to Wednesdays at 8 p.m. (ET) for November sweeps, pre-empting the regularly scheduled action drama “Hawaii.”“Hawaii” premiered Sept. 1 with a 2.8 rating and 10 share in the adults 18…
SoapNet is partnering with AOL to make its new reality series “I Wanna Be a Soap Star” available in its entirety online, the network announced. The six-episode series follows 12 aspiring actors as they compete for a role on ABC’s…
E! has enlisted singer Wayne Newton to star in a Las Vegas reality show competition in which 10 aspiring performers vie for a chance at the Vegas spotlight. “The Entertainer” is a 10-part series set to debut in January. It…
Media General, the newspaper and television station group, on Friday reported a surge in third-quarter profit, driven in part by strong political advertising revenue as well as the absence of a one-time charge taken in the year-ago period.Richmond, Va.-based Media…
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry’s campaign Friday morning formally requested equal time to respond to Sinclair stations’ planned airings of “Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal,” a documentary critical of Sen. Kerry’s Vietnam-era antiwar activities, before the Nov. 2…
Nearly 51.2 million viewers in the United States watched President Bush and Sen. John Kerry meet Wednesday night in the third and last 90-minute presidential debate before the Nov. 2 election, according to Nielsen Media Research data. Nielsen figures also…
Twentieth Television announced Thursday it has cleared the Fox Network drama “24” on 18 major market stations, representing 34 percent of the United States, for a fall 2005 launch in off-net syndication. The announcement was made by Paul Franklin, Twentieth…
TMC Entertainment announced Thursday that it began principal photography in late September in Turkey and Israel on two PBS miniseries, “Walking the Bible” and “Abraham,” which are based on the books of Bruce Feiler.Mr. Feiler and Avner Goren, a biblical…
TBS plans to turn to the video-on-demand platform to promote its upcoming reality show “The Real Gilligan’s Island” as the network launches its first VOD slate with Comcast Oct. 15.The reality show premieres Nov. 30 on TBS, and for the…
The ongoing tussle between NBC Universal and Paxson Communications took another turn Thursday after the struggling network denied NBCU’s charge that it was low-balling the value of NBCU’s 32 percent stake in Paxson.Answering a claim filed by NBCU in August,…