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ABC Picks Up Web-Derived Series ‘Motherhood’

ABC is adding another comedy to its series roster, ordering 13 episodes of “In the Motherhood.” The project, which is based on the Internet-based series of the same name, has been in development at ABC since last spring. ABC Studios…

‘Ellen,’ ‘Tyra’ Discuss Booking Candidates (Correction)

While “Oprah” has ruled out booking the presidential candidates for her talk show, Telepictures Productions’ series “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” and “The Tyra Banks Show” are currently in discussions about booking the candidates for their programs, according to a company…

Fox Claims Cable Crown Again With McCain Speech

Fox News Channel closed out its coverage of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., Thursday with a second consecutive victory over all cable and broadcast competitors, according to national data from Nielsen Media Research. The 9.2 million viewers…

CBS Teases Viewers With ‘Mentalist Awareness Test’

CBS is playing games with the latest promotions for the new Simon Baker drama “The Mentalist.” The network has teamed up with U.K. psychologist Richard Wiseman to create a series of one-minute brain teaser videos in which viewers are challenged…

McCains Plan to Visit ‘The View’

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy, will appear on ABC’s “The View” on Sept. 12. They will be the only featured guests during the episode, which kicks off the program’s “Red, White & View” campaign promoting…

Winfrey Says There Was Never Any Talk of Having Palin on Her Show

Oprah Winfrey is strongly denying a story on the Drudge Report Web site that the reigning queen of talk shows was balking at having Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on her show. “The item in today’s Drudge Report is…

Internet Searches for ‘Palin’ Soar

Sarah Palin is the most searched-for political figure on the Internet in the last three years as measured by volume of searches in a one-week period, according to Hitwise. For the week ending Aug. 30, Internet searches for Alaska’s governor…

McCain Speech Breaks Obama’s Week-Old Viewership Record

Nearly 39 million people watched Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s acceptance speech on the closing night of the GOP convention Thursday in St. Paul, Minn. That broke the week-old convention record of upwards of 38 million viewers set by Sen….

Palin Speech Gets 1.3 Mil Web Views in 48 Hours

The speech by Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday has been viewed more than 1.3 million times online in less than 48 hours. That accounts for views across the Web, with most coming…

McCain Speech Surpasses Palin, Obama on Nets

Early returns indicate the old maverick may be more popular than the young maverick on the Republican presidential ticket. GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s acceptance speech drew a combined audience of 18.11 million viewers on ABC, CBS and NBC…