Former 90210 and Charmed star Shannen Doherty relishes her bad-girl image, which seems appropriate for her new gig as host of Scare Tactics, Sci-Fi Channel’s push-the-envelope version of Candid Camera. However, she insists there is no feud with Paris Hilton,…
Three weeks after CBS News bosses ordered her out for her own safety, correspondent Lara Logan, sans camera crew, slipped back into Baghdad, settled into familiar digs at the Palestine Hotel and prepared to resume reporting from the Iraqi capital,…
While a talk show featuring American Idol host Ryan Seacrest has drawn strong interest from stations whothat would like to begin airing it as soon as this fall, insiders say a debut date in January is far more likely given…
Mark Cuban, the owner of HDNet, the all-HDTV channel, was asked recently whether sports will drive sales of high-def sets.“It won’t,” Cuban replied. “The price drops of TVs … will drive the adoption of HD.”What?! Isn’t this like a bread…
Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite network, said its two Baghdad reporters were back in business Friday after a dispute with the Iraqi government kept them off the air for two days.The network announced that it was pulling the plug on all…
With the nation’s Hispanic population booming, TV stations around the country are grappling for ways to reach Spanish-speaking viewers without alienating the rest of their audience.Changing demographics first prompted television news organizations to hire on-air Hispanic talent so the newscasts…
Despite complications caused by the war in Iraq, attendance at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters convention is expected to be on pace with last year, when about 92,000 were on hand in Las Vegas. Despite travel concerns such as…
Hearst Corp. has put on the fast track development of plans to bring its Cosmopolitan Television channel-based on the company’s popular young women’s magazine-to the United States.Clearly the niche Hearst sees is a channel targeted somewhat younger than its popular…
The war plan was fine. It was the Geraldo plan that betrayed the shortsightedness of the U.S. military.If the generals had been bright enough to pull their heads out of bomb sights and terrain maps a week ago, they’d have…
Oxygen Network attracted teams of young and not-so-young celebrities, including Brendan Fraser, Seth Green, Kimberly Williams and Cheryl Hines, to a benefit for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation last week in Hollywood, where a new spin was put on…