Last Thursday night, some FOKO, as The Insider refers to the many Friends of Kathy O’Hearn, took the outgoing executive producer of “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” to dinner and offered ideas of thing to do with her weekends. Saturdays…
Four years after some African American media outlets were bitterly disappointed with the spending they got in the last presidential race, there is hope that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s presence on the Democratic ticket will lead to a significant increase….
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Only 4.4 million of more than 17 million digital converter box coupons sent out by the government had been redeemed as of June 25, the latest indication that the switch to digital television signals next year will be beset by…
CNN/U.S. President Jonathan Klein maps out how his network plans to follow up a successful primary season and keep its momentum now that the election has narrowed to a two-man race. The news exec tells TVWeek’s Jon Lafayette that CNN…
Steven Bochco gives a glimpse into his upcoming TNT series, “Raising the Bar,” talking with TVWeek’s Jon Lafayette about working with young actors and keeping plotlines just complicated enough while making each episode accessible to the casual viewer. He touches…
IFC is launching a new Tuesday night programming block and giving it a very old-fashioned name—Automat. The automat used to be a place in New York City where plates of food were behind small glass doors that opened when diners…
Lifetime CEO Andrea Wong said the cable network’s hit series “Army Wives” will be coming back for third season. The third season of the series will be comprised of 18 episodes and kicks off in 2009. Now in the middle…
TelevisionWeek is partnering with Los Angeles news-radio giant KFWB to launch “The TV Minute,” an on-air digest of the day’s most compelling industry stories. TVWeek deputy editor and columnist Josef Adalian will host the report Monday through Thursday afternoons, starting…