As the 48th annual Promax & BDA conference gets under way July 4 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, attendees may find selecting seminars a bit more tricky this year, with several interesting contenders vying for fewer time slots due to…
Return of ‘The Family’ ABC is bringing “The Family” back. A two-hour episode, “The Family Recap,” explaining what happened in the first three hours of the show will air from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Wednesday, July 30. Starting…
Director Jon Cassar sums up his directing style in less than 24 seconds: It’s black, hard-edged, full of action. While these distinctions aren’t likely to land him a job directing the next Julia Roberts romance, his style has proved a…
Cable is heading for its own record upfront. The same rising upfront tide that carried the broadcast networks to a record dollar take in a pre-Memorial Day Weekend buyers’ frenzy is lifting the top- and mid-tier cable networks to new…
The natural antagonism between major multiple cable system operators and the program service providers has been escalating in the wake of industry consolidation, the weak economy and the rising cost of program and sports rights. MSOs, led by the industry’s…
Peter Boyle (CBS’s Everybody Loves Raymond), Mark Derwin (ABC’s Life With Bonnie), Brad Garrett (CBS’s Everybody Loves Raymond), Sean Hayes (NBC’s Will & Grace), Ted Levine (USA Network’s Monk), David Hyde Pierce (NBC’s Frasier)
It started with a phone call from Steven Spielberg. When the call came in, writer Leslie Bohem initially thought it was a prank. “He said that he wanted to do a miniseries about UFOs, alien abductions, that sort of thing,”…
Newspapers generated $17.4 billion in classified advertising last year, and local broadcasters want a piece of that pie. Classified ads have long been the mainstay of newspapers, but with the success of Monster.com and Hotjobs.com, station groups such as Liberty…
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…
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…