As media companies, program producers and other service providers gear up to create and sell a new television season, it’s important to note how much has changed-for better and for worse.The threat of war and a weakening economy will impact…
A crime reality-game competition, a hidden-camera series and The Smoking Gun show are three of the six projects that have made the cut to “airable” pilot for Court TV’s new fall season.As Court TV wraps what is in effect its…
Now that Don Johnson has convinced us that he is not laundering money and wasn’t carrying $8 billion when he crossed the German border last November, let’s get to what’s really important. What kind of car was he in Europe…
Tourists in the NBC Experience Rockefeller Plaza store got value added to their shopping experience during a recent coooold spell. NBC Agency executive Frank Radice, Weekend Today co-host Soledad O’Brien and Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush found it just tooooo coooold…
“No. As an actress and TV/film consultant, I struggle daily with scripts where Cubans say, `Ole,’ Puerto Ricans love mariachis or Mexicans dance the tango. Memo to producers: Hispanics are not `a race.’ Our realities lie beyond your limited Latino…
Despite a difficult advertising and economic environment, the Fine Living Network has gotten off to a faster start than expected in its first 12 months, putting it on track to reach 20 million viewers by the end of this year….
CBS will be much more picky this development season, thanks to a strong schedule and hit shows like CSI, which CBS President Les Moonves calls a nearly perfect mix of creative and commercial elements, in the second part of his…
Telemundo has always played Avis to Univision’s Hertz. But the second-largest Spanish-language network has taken a new tack under its savvy NBC ownership and is redefining itself to better compete with the much larger reach of Univision.Telemundo is betting on…
The rich make me sick. I hate them. It seems fair to me to blame the rich for most of the messes, major and minor, the world is in right now. I’m talking about the rich people who dominate the…
Al Primo wants to do for kids programming what he did for local news in the late ’60s with the Eyewitness News format: Reinvigorate it and redefine it and give representatives of the audience a role in the program.“This is…