The lion has finally been tamed.A Sony-led investment consortium on Thursday inked an agreement to acquire venerable movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for about $2.94 billion and the assumption of $2 billion in debt, ending months of tussling among the participants about…
The membership of the Writers Guild of America, West elected Carl Gottlieb to VP, the guild announced Wednesday. Mr. Gottlieb received 1,150 ballots compared with 834 for challenger Dennis Feldman. The results of the race for seats on the guild’s…
In one of the most competitive time periods of the new season, CBS’s Wednesday 10 p.m. (ET) debut of “CSI: NY” beat NBC’s flagship procedural drama “Law & Order” in total viewers and key adult demos, while the 8 p.m….
ESPN ABC Sports Customer Marketing and Sales has attracted the heads of its rivals for a panel discussion at its annual ad sales event in New York next month. In addition to George Bodenheimer of ABC and ESPN, the panel…
ABC Sports will be punking NFL players in a new feature that will kick off during halftime of next week’s “Monday Night Football.” The feature is called “You’ve Been Sacked.” Each week NFL players play a practical joke on a…
Woody Fraser, the ace producer who took over CNBC’s struggling John McEnroe talk show barely six weeks ago, is no longer connected with the show or the cable network. Mr. Fraser’s exit reportedly was effective Tuesday. A CNBC spokeswoman confirmed…
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, the lifestyle company trying to recover from the conviction of its founder for lying about a suspicious stock sale, on Wednesday said it struck an agreement with reality-television king Mark Burnett to bolster the company’s television…
Dena Higley, a staff writer for NBC’s “Days of our Lives” for the past 19 years, has been named head writer of ABC’s “One Life to Live.” The announcement by ABC said that the start date for Ms. Higley, who…
The one-hour live season finale of “Big Brother 5” and the two-hour special season finale for “Amazing Race 5” propelled CBS to a win for the first Tuesday of the 2004-05 season in viewers and virtually all the key ratings…
Voy Pictures Television, a subsidiary of Voy LLC, today named Jose´ Pretlow chairman and Gloria Medel president of production. In his new position Mr. Pretlow will provide strategic direction for Voy Pictures Television’s programming efforts and produce shows for Voy’s…