For TV journalists who spent weeks embedded on the front lines of the first real-time televised war, coming home means trading one emotional roller coaster for another.The Pentagon’s unprecedented program of assigning journalists to specific units paid off big time…
Everyone looks to a market’s leading station for ideas on succeeding in news. But the one to watch may be the last-place station that is slowly but steadily working its way up.Several perennially poor-performing television stations around the country are…
MTV to Make Bronte Musical Forget Catherine (Merle Oberon) and Heathcliff (Laurence Olivier) and that gloomy, stormy landscape with the manor house in the English moors. MTV is giving Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights the musical telefilm treatment. This time around,…
As cable news channel ratings leveled off during the week ending April 6 due to the de-escalation of the war in Iraq, syndicators were the prime beneficiaries. After two weeks of posting ratings declines due to pre-emptions and audience defections,…
“Americans are a self-invented people,” Chris Matthews wrote in his fourth and most recent book, American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions. “Here, any person has a right to try and become who he or she wants to be.”Mr. Matthews himself is…
They may have a loyal following, but some series will say goodbye before May sweeps begins April 24. A network may prefer to air specials or may have used up all the episodes during an earlier push for the show….
TechTV is adding a new sports-oriented show, Performance, to its Sunday-night lineup.The cable network has scheduled 13 one-hour episodes of Performance, which was acquired from Pixcom in Montreal and is set to air Sundays at 9 p.m. Performance, which premieres…
Carmen Alzner has been appointed senior VP and managing director of programming for Promax&BDA Europe. Her previous position was executive director of Promax&BDA Europe headquarters. Ms. Alzner will oversee all European efforts, coordinating the expansion of Promax&BDA’s year-round activities and…
‘Angel’ Wins Thursday The WB’s Angel, which is on the bubble for renewal next year, scored its highest adults 18 to 49 ratings last night since its Oct. 6 premiere. It pulled a 2.3 rating and 6 share, tying a…
Tollin/Robbins Moves to Touchstone Mike Tollin and Brian Robbins are moving their production shingle Tollin/Robbins Productions to Touchstone Television from Warner Bros. Mr. Tollin and Mr. Robbins signed a multiyear deal with Touchstone. “I couldn’t be more excited about getting…