Judy Davis, Jessica Lange, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith and Meryl Streep: This year’s lineup for best actress in a TV movie or miniseries is pure platinum. Every one of the actresses has a crowded shelf of awards, many of them…
Few things are certain in life. One is that when the networks announce how much-that is, how little-of the political conventions they will cover this summer, officials from each party will denounce them. Television is shirking its public duty, they…
Robert KingPlace of Birth: New JerseyCurrently: Consultant, CBS Enterprises; lives in Morristown, N.J., and Hillsboro Beach, Fla.Formerly: President, King World, 1972-1983Richard KingPlace of Birth: New JerseyCurrently: Retired; lives in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.Formerly: Member of King World…
When the 61st annual Golden Globes are awarded Jan. 25, television and production executives will be watching with rapt attention.From humble beginnings, the tiny Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s raucous dinner-show extravaganza has grown in stature with the Hollywood establishment over…
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…