In Jeffry Culbreth’s ideal world, Julia Roberts, Ashton Kutcher, Colin Farrell and Demi Moore would appear on “Living It Up! With Ali & Jack” during premiere week. But the talent producer for the new syndie talk show, launching Sept. 15,…
With U.S. unemployment at the highest level in years, the next big reality show could be “Human Resources,” based on a smash hit in Argentina. Prospective employers-usually small businesses-hand over the job-selection process to the show, which lets a nationwide…
Though the board of governors will not vote until Aug. 20, Tribune Entertainment President Dick Askin will be the next chairman and CEO of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, replacing Bryce Zabel, who served one term and chose…
This is the second part of the two-part conversation with Bob Wright, chairman and CEO of NBC and vice chairman and member of the Corporate Executive Office of General Electric, conducted by TelevisionWeek Editor Alex Ben Block and business reporter…
Dr. Richard Green has transformed cable industry research consortium CableLabs over the past few years to now include marketing as well as technology. That’s why CTAM chairman Kevin Leddy selected the technologist, who serves as president and CEO of CableLabs,…
1. Celebrating at the HBO-hosted party for their new series “Carnivale” July 10 on the Warner Bros. Studios back lot in Burbank, Calif., are, from left, HBO Chairman and CEO Chris Albrecht, actress Clea DuVall and actor Nick Stahl.2. WB…
Split-screen used to be a legitimate, if distracting, storytelling device in fictional TV and fictional cinema and nonfiction TV, and a visual convenience: Debaters who might actually be worlds apart, geographically as well as philosophically, could now appear face to…
Bingo!!!!! Whether any of those on the summer 2003 press tour in Hollywood ever actually yell that phrase, interrupting some producer, actor or suit in the middle of a press conference, it has become part of the long, rich lore…
There’s an old saying that if you want something to get done, give it to a busy person. If you’re in the cable industry, that person just might be Matt Blank, the president and CEO of Showtime, who has also…
“This Week With George Stephanopoulos” will start its sophomore season with a second shot at living up to the promise and promotion that accompanied its launch last September.ABC News announced last week that it is merging the production units of…