The first post-merger steps NBC Universal take later this year may include making USA Network the official cable home for Olympic Games telecasts, making a bigger bundled play for advertising dollars in the upfront, launching select “Law & Order” franchise…
This year’s Golden Globe nominees for best musical or comedy series take full advantage of the broad range of their category. The series constitute what David Hoberman, executive producer of the nominated “Monk,” called “a potpourri of shows.”The list includes…
This week at the National Association of Television Program Executives conference, Dick Askin will be in familiar territory, both in his role as president and CEO of Tribune Entertainment and as the chairman of the Academy of Television Arts &…
It’s broke, so let’s fix it. That was the message broadcast television executives conveyed to TV critics last week at the Television Critics Association press tour in Hollywood. After a fall season in which much of the new programming fell…
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Sci Fi Gets ‘Andromeda’The Sci Fi Channel and Tribune Entertainment Co. entered into a program license agreement for Tribune’s weekly action hour “Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda.” In addition to presenting the fifth and final season of “Andromeda” next fall as an…
If Roger King didn’t exist, you couldn’t make him up.He’s a salesman, a pitchman and, usually, a gentleman; a pioneer and seer; salutary, visionary, revolutionary, rarely cautionary and somewhat missionary; capitalistic and hedonistic; romantic and heretic; and has had as…
Will the foreign press see the Golden Globes this year as a last chance to honor Matt LeBlanc of NBC’s retiring “Friends” series? That may well be on the minds of Globes voters, though Mr. LeBlanc has stiff competition.“I do…
The exclusive poster inside our special section beginning on Page S1 celebrates the history of the Golden Globe Awards. On Sunday the 61st chapter will unfold, and as always, the Globes remain the most unpredictable of award shows, thanks to…
NBC’s announcement last week that it would start the 2004-05 season earlier than usual is getting the thumbs up from most advertisers. In fact, some said it is something they have long wanted. “It’s about time,” said Jon Mandel, co-CEO…