The Insider
David Simon, the executive producer of The Wire, was not trying to set a Guinness-style record but was paying homage to a “very smart and very funny” homicide cop he’d come to know in Baltimore, when he rendered a memorable…
In Depth
Tony Shalhoub
USA Network’s Monk is an oddity in just about every way, and that’s the way actor Tony Shalhoub-who won a Golden Globe Award for the title role-likes it. “Because I had some experience in television, I was really looking for…
Love Fest for CBS, Affils
How congenial was the 49th annual CBS Affiliates Convention in Las Vegas last week? The two-day gathering at the Bellagio Hotel wrapped with a closed session in which affiliates asked network executives only two or three questions, none of them…
Production ‘Pods’ Profitable
Just over one-third of the new scripted series on the broadcast networks’ fall schedule were born out of studio deals with nonwriting producers. Those deals have been widely referred to as “pod deals,” but each studio has its own definition…
Victor Garber
How is it that one of Broadway’s most accomplished song-and-dance men has found success in a television role in which he doesn’t sing, he doesn’t dance and he never smiles? “Well, it’s because as an actor, I’m always looking for…
A Standard of Excellence
Primetime Emmy Awards nominating ballots will arrive shortly in the hands of some 10,000 Academy of Television Arts & Sciences members, beginning a process that culminates Sept. 21 with the presentation of this year’s honors for outstanding achievement in prime-time…
Newsmakers
Advertising & Agencies Jeff Henderson to director, business development, Huey/ Paprocki Advertising, Atlanta, from co-founder and VP, sales, ITFusion. Broadcasting Christopher Morris to CEO, Transit Television Network, from VP. Also, David Schwartz to VP, sales and operations, from director, national…
Deregulation Fallout Feared
When Federal Communications Commission Republicans vote as expected June 2 to substantially loosen the agency’s media ownership restrictions, the nation’s major media conglomerates will be the immediate beneficiaries because the latest round of deregulation will clear the way for them…
When Audiences Intersect
Arbitron’s Portable People Meter, a pager-size device that measures out-of-home television viewing as well as radio-station preferences, has been used to correlate the connections among radio listeners and TV viewers in a recently completed trial in the Philadelphia market. The…
cabler puts on its race face
Only a week before Memorial Day weekend, executives at Fine Living were offered a promotional opportunity in the annual Indianapolis 500 race. Ken Solomon, president of the Scripps Howard-owned cable network, immediately raised the green flag, sending his staff racing…