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…
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‘Fame’ Scores for NBC The debut of talent show Fame scored for NBC last night, beating its rivals by a 45 percent margin among adults 18 to 49 in its 8 p.m.-to-10 p.m. time slot. It scored a 4.5 rating/13…
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TV Academy Chair Bryce Zabel Will Not Run For Second Term In a surprise move, Bryce Zabel, who took over as chairman of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences just before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, has decided…
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CBS Announces Summer Premieres CBS will premiere two sitcoms in June and two reality series in July. Baby Bob returns to CBS for eight episodes starting Friday, June 6, from 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (ET). New sitcom Charlie Lawrence,…
`Rainbow’ Fading? Last Hurrah for Live-Action Kiddie TV
A week ago, Reading Rainbow won the Emmy as Best Children’s Series for the third year in a row, bringing its total number of Emmys to 18 in 19 seasons. PBS ranks it as the program most used as a…
Success Stories: Supply drives and circulars
Gannett Broadcasting’s WTSP-TV in the Tampa-St. Petersburg DMA has run its Tools for School supply drive with sponsor Publix Super Markets for the past 11 years. Collection boxes are placed in more than 130 supermarkets in a nine-county area. Consumers…
SAVING FACE IN HI-DEF
Cameron Diaz is beautiful, right? After all, the green-eyed blonde has been a regular on People magazine’s list of the most beautiful people in the world. However, the magazine’s editors-and most of the Western world-do not have a high-definition TV….
The Insider
Producer Tom Fontana tossed a party last week in honor of B.D. Wong, the actor (Law & Order) who proves to be an utterly charming, engaging, inventive and affecting writer in Following Foo: The Electronic Adventures of the Chestnut Man…
Miami’s Browne in as Telemundo COO
Over the course of his 24 years with NBC, the newly named chief operating officer of NBC-owned Telemundo, Don Browne, has become known for thinking outside entrenched boxes.“Everybody’s told me all along, `You can’t do this. You can’t do that,”’…
Networks Ring Olympics
For weeks, the Big 4 broadcast networks and their conglomerate bosses have held top-secret meetings involving an array of sports, programming and finance executives to crunch numbers, prepare projections and determine the value of synergistic assets and broadcast platforms. It’s…