As senior vice president in charge of Turner Entertainment Networks’ Content Creation Group, Michael Wright is keenly aware of the need for family-friendly programming in today’s television landscape. The executive responsible for all original programming for TBS, TNT and Turner…
CNN’s Republican YouTube debate last Wednesday was watched by an estimated 4.4 million viewers, more than any primary debate in cable news history, according to Turner analysis of fast national data from Nielsen Media Research. Add in a simulcast on…
“It won’t help raise American SAT scores, but it’s certainly no cause for alarm. The invasion of other people’s privacy will always be a source of entertainment. It may not represent TV at its most high-minded, but I don’t think…
The second CNN/YouTube presidential debate last week solidified a notion that we had in July when the first CNN/YouTube presidential debate was aired: This format delivers great television. A large part of the success is the debate’s primary conceit: Why…
So the Hollywood writers are winning the public relations war against the major media companies. As an actual Hollywood writer, upon hearing this vital and timely news of our psy-ops victory, I could not help but ask the question—so what?…
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