Necessity is the mother of invention, as the saying goes. It’s a growing necessity for cable systems across the country to raise more local and national spot advertising, and many systems have brought forth inventive sales strategies to generate more…
* Kim Cattrall, “Sex and the City” (HBO)* Kristin Davis, “Sex and the City” (HBO)* Megan Mullally, “Will & Grace” (NBC)* Cynthia Nixon, “Sex and the City” (HBO)* Mary-Louise Parker, “Angels in America” (HBO)2003 Winner: Kim Cattrall, “Sex and the…
Stephen Davis, president and CEO of Carlton America, and John Weiser, executive VP of Sony Pictures Television, have been nominated to become co-chairmen of the National Association of Television Program Executives. NATPE’s voting members must ratify the nominations during the…
It seems appropriate that the Ford Motor Co. hopes to drive sales of its Centennial Supercar, a k a the 2005 Ford GT (based on a muscle car built for the Le Mans race circuit) with the Super Bowl pregame…
* Ricky Gervais, “The Office” (BBC America)* Matt LeBlanc, “Friends” (NBC)* Bernie Mac, “The Bernie Mac Show” (Fox)* Eric McCormack, “Will & Grace” (NBC)* Tony Shalhoub, “Monk” (USA)2003 Winner: Tony Shalhoub, “Monk” (USA)2002 Winner: Charlie Sheen, “Spin City” (ABC)2001 Winner:…
“The Golden Globe Awards” is an awards show where winners and losers feel free to jump about on stage, casting off decorum, as Steve Martin and Billy Crystal did in 1990 after they both lost the best actor in a…
President, Andy Friendly Productions, and senior consultant, Sucherman Consulting Group “As an executive producer for King World in the ’80s and as president of programming/production from 1995-2001, I always got the feeling I was playing for the world champs-like pitching…
Best Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Series, Mini-Series or TV Movie* Sean Hayes, “Will & Grace” (NBC)* Lee Pace, “A Soldier’s Girl” (Showtime)* Ben Shenkman, “Angels in America” (HBO)* Patrick Wilson, “Angels in America” (HBO)* Jeffrey Wright, “Angels…
Premier Retail Networks, which creates the programming video loops that run nationally on TV sets in Circuit City, Best Buy, Sears, Wal-Mart and other electronics stores, plans to make available high-definition content from local stations and cable operators. The move…
What can a dollar buy today? How about ratings? To promote the launch of the three-part “Traffic: The Miniseries” on the USA Network, The Media Kitchen in New York affixed 50,000 one-dollar bills with peel-off stickers stamped with the airdate,…