Fact: Consultant Jim Vidakovich was not hired to listen to the gripes of the ever-assertive staffers on NBC’s “Today” show.Fact: Mr. Vidakovich has been working with NBC for more than two years, most often with NBC’s entertainment division but also…
On any given week on television, viewers can watch a woman restructure her face with an electric current (Oxygen’s “Skin Deep”), learn how to make healthy meals such as a low-cal country stew (Food Network’s “Cooking Thin”) and follow the…
The hip East Coast retailer Urban Outfitters is offering a long-sleeve T-shirt for $28 that reads, “Voting is for old people.” That may be someone’s idea of a joke, but it is exactly the wrong message to send. It comes…
Television comedians and comic actors are accustomed to having their sketches, routines and one-liners routinely attract uproarious laughter. They do not always hit the mark.A recent feeble attempt at humor by actress Nicole Sullivan on the finale of Bravo’s “Celebrity…
Call-in cable talk host Sue Johanson is busy working the phone. She reassures a caller about changes in her partner after a vasectomy and takes a call from a woman whose husband has a urine fixation.And so it goes for…
“Band of Brothers” is being given an important mission on History Channel, which on April 11 will debut the award-winning miniseries it acquired from HBO. History executives expect the World War II drama to increase sampling of the channel’s regular…
The broadcast network morning shows have long been America’s dependable source for health news and information.CBS’s “The Early Show,” ABC’s “Good Morning America” and NBC’s “Today” all have medical contributors, and all three programs air health segments almost every day,…
Actor Ewan McGregor will ride his motorcycle around the world in a new reality series on Bravo, sources said.The program, “The Long Way Around,” will feature Mr. McGregor (“Trainspotting,” “Big Fish,” “Star Wars: Attack of the Clones”) traveling across the…
The TelevisionWeek Media Planning Conference on Tuesday in New York focuses on issues crucial to media planners, including econometric modeling and communications channel planning. Panelists include Marston Allen of Universal McCann, KK Davey of Insight Partners, Randolph Stone of Marketing…
Hot on the heels of a “Seinfeld” renewal on key Fox stations, Sony Pictures Television has added a splash of Tribune to the list of stations on board to carry the strip through 2011.Sources said the seven Tribune stations that…