AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon sent a letter to members today detailing the terms of the agreement that AFTRA’s Primetime Negotiating Committee made with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers. Highlights of the three-year agreement include increases for…
Like an island in an ocean of reruns, “Lost” remained one of the few original scripted shows airing on broadcast during the writers strike earlier this year. Its strike-shortened season ends tonight with a two-hour finale. Ending up ninth overall…
The Sci Fi Channel and SciFi.com are launching consumer game site Fidgit today. Fidgit’s fun and factual games will feature the language and attitude of gamers, but will be designed to appeal to both genre and non-genre game players. The…
ESPN’s 2008 Espy Awards, honoring achievements in athletics over the past year, will present the Arthur Ashe Courage Award to 1968 Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos. The iconic duo raised their black-gloved fists and bowed their heads during their…
The second season of “Mad Men” will premiere July 27 at 10 p.m. on AMC. The network will celebrate the return of the show with a “Mad Men” marathon of all 13 episodes from its first season on July 20…
Landmark Communications President-COO Decker Anstrom was re-elected chairman of the board of directors of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association. Mr. Anstrom will serve a second one-year term alongside Vice Chairman Tom Rutledge, chief operating officer of Cablevision Systems. Advance/Newhouse…
“Ghost Hunters International,” “Scare Tactics,” “Stargate Atlantis” and “Eureka” will return to the Sci Fi Channel’s schedule this summer. New episodes of “Ghost Hunters International” and “Scare Tactics,” the latter featuring new host Tracy Morgan, will premiere on July 9…
MTV is launching a summer music show called “F’N MTV Premieres…,” hosted by Pete Wentz of the band Fall Out Boy. The Friday night show, launching June 13 at 8 p.m., will show first-run music videos and feature live performances….
TiVo is hitching its wagon to high-definition television growth. The U.S. digital video recorder leader offset its continued drop in subscribers from an expiring agreement with DirecTV by selling more high-definition machines and bundling them with Mitsubishi HDTVs being sold…
Some of the folks who got you humming to the tune of product placements on “American Idol” are hoping they can put some spring in your step with more of the same in “So You Think You Can Dance.” Fox…