Don’t Blink! Jane Pauley has not been cloned. That is Ms. Pauley, 53, with her older sister Ann Pauley, at NATPE, where the two drew frequent double-takes and the odd comparison to the Olsen twins. Ann, who’s working with Jane…
Broadcast and cable company E.W. Scripps last week said its fourth-quarter and full-year profits surged, thanks to strong results at the company’s cable interests, particularly Scripps’ Home & Garden Television and Food Network properties. The Cincinnati-based company, which owns 10…
HBO’s Bill Maher hosts the Hollywood Radio & Television Society’s annual Cable Chiefs Newsmaker Luncheon on Wednesday in Beverly Hills, Calif. Panelists are Showtime’s Robert Greenblatt, MTV’s Brian Graden, NBC and Bravo’s Jeff Gaspin, USA Network’s Doug Herzog, FX’s Peter…
Who was that masked fan? We know which stars participated in a charity hockey game Jan. 17 at the L.A. Kings practice facility in El Segundo, Calif., to benefit the Starlight Children’s Foundation. The celebs included “Alias” hunk Michael Vartan…
A spokesman for ABC News provided the following response: “Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci” is a serious and balanced exploration of controversial questions raised by the best-selling novel “The Da Vinci Code.” With millions of readers asking these questions themselves,…
Representing showrunners of some of television’s most successful comedies and dramas, Richard Weitz has taken his clients to the top of their game. Now he faces two stiff challenges in his battle to keep them there: the reality boom that…
While the rest of the broadcast networks used the Television Critics Association press tour as a platform to talk about coping with the changing rules of television by setting summer launches and short-term event series, CBS Chairman and CEO Leslie…
As Chase Carey settles into his new role as CEO of DirecTV parent Hughes Electronics, one can’t help but wonder if he’ll seek inspiration from Dick Biddle, the coach of Mr. Carey’s beloved Colgate University football team.
The advertising industry has seemed consumed by answering a fundamental economic question: How, when, where and why do people living in a relatively small number of U.S. markets-but who account for half the nation’s population-interact with media? A new report…
One of the casualties of the truce brokered in the 30-year not-always-civil war between the East Coast and West Coast TV academies is likely to be the possibility of a separate Emmy competition and telecast for Spanish-language programming.