On the road: Over the summer, Caroline Rhea visited 26 cities to meet station executives and promote her upcoming Warner Bros. talk show “The Caroline Rhea Show.” Electronic Media asked her to keep a diary of her travels. A peek…
Universal Domestic Television’s “Crossing Over With John Edward” is seeing new visions of a “softer” daytime look and a new first broadcast window.Steve Rosenberg, president of Universal Domestic Television, said that “Crossing Over,” as the first syndicated daytime talk show…
CNN got more than it bargained for last week when it began showing off its prize cache of al Qaeda training tapes. The network clearly hoped the tapes would garner attention-and ratings-but it probably wasn’t expecting to find itself in…
Eight commercial spots were just the prescription to cure the “24” bug afflicting Fox affiliates, which were feeling out of sorts because of the network’s grand plans to relaunch “24” with a 24-hour FX marathon of the series’ 2001-02 season…
Sometime early in the second half of this decade, interactive television will take off. That will be when it reaches its “critical mass,” at around 15 percent to 20 percent market penetration, and that’s when a “third-party network” capable of…
The pipeline for top-tier off-network sitcoms has been somewhat dry for the past few years, but help from Hollywood studios could be on the way.Broader family sitcoms that usually sell well in syndication are making a comeback on the broadcast…
It’s not every day that people go wild over an 850-foot steel tower. So when I learned that KTWU-TV, the tiny public television station in Topeka, Kan., was throwing a big party for the big metal stick that will soon…
‘Folks’ earns extension NBC has extended an eight-episode order on the summer reality series hit “Meet My Folks” from Nash Entertainment and NBC Studios. An NBC spokeswoman said the network is still determining whether the new order for “Meet My…
Osborne wants to pull Fox interview Revived rocker Ozzy Osbourne ‘s lawyers claim he was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren under false pretenses and have demanded that Fox pull the heavily promoted interview scheduled to air in part on Fox…
Gurin, Carlton, Action Time form pact The Gurin Company, co-producer of NBC’s “Weakest Link,” has entered into a joint creative venture with U.K-based production companies Carlton Television and Action Time to develop and produce reality and game show TV series….