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This Week in HD: ‘Hollywoodland,’ ‘All About My Mother,’ ‘Torchwood’

HD programming picks for Sept. 13-Sept. 19: “Hollywoodland,” “All About My Mother,” “Torchwood” “Hollywoodland” (HBO HD). Saturday, Sept. 15, 8 p.m.: A private eye investigates a tip that “Superman” actor George Reeves’ mysterious death wasn’t suicide but murder. “All About…

‘Thirtysomething’ Duo Make New Series Exclusive to MySpaceTV

The Emmy Award-winning writer-producer team of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick have teamed up with MySpaceTV to distribute their new series exclusively online. “Quarterlife” picks up the mantle thematically of the team’s critically acclaimed “My So-Called Life” and “thirtysomething” by…

DIC Puts Bloomgarden in Charge of Global Sales Efforts

DIC Entertainment has tapped Kirk Bloomgarden as executive VP of global sales. Effective Jan. 1, he will oversee the company’s worldwide television, home entertainment and consumer products divisions. Bloomgarden joins DIC from the pan-European licensing agency Copyright Promotions, which was…

Local Broadcast TV Ad Revenue Slips in Second Quarter

Without political advertising or Olympics programming, local broadcast TV ad revenues in the second quarter were down 6.6 percent year-to-year to $3.9 billion, according to analysis of estimates supplied by TNS Media Intelligence/CMR to Susan Cuccinello, senior VP of research…

NBC’s ‘Wilkos,’ Warner Bros.’ ‘TMZ’ Stay Strong in 2nd Airings

Overnight ratings averages for day two of the new syndicated series to debut this fall saw the rich get richer, but there’s trouble brewing at the other end of the spectrum. NBC Universal’s “Steve Wilkos” remains the only rookie to…

Fox Business Network Taps Five From Fox News as Anchors

When the Fox Business Network debuts Oct. 15, the anchor lineup will include faces already familiar to viewers of Fox News Channel. Fox News Executive VP Kevin Magee on Wednesday announced a quintet of anchor choices: David Asman, who hosts…

NATAS Honors Discovery’s Zaslav, Inducts Three Into Hall of Fame

Discovery Communications President-CEO David Zaslav will receive the Trustees Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Sept. 23 at a black-tie event at the Harvard Club in New York City. On the same night, veteran New York…

Video-Sharing Site Veoh Gets $25 Million in Funding Round

Video-sharing site Veoh Networks closed its third round of funding, adding $25 million to its coffers from a group of new investors. They include Goldman Sachs and former Viacom CEOs Tom Freston and Jonathan Dolgen. Veoh was the ninth most…

Guthrie Joins NBC News as Correspondent

NBC News has named former Court TV reporter Savannah Guthrie as a correspondent. Ms. Guthrie spent several years in local TV news as a reporter and anchor in the ‘90s and freelanced for NBC-owned WRC-TV in Washington, D.C. before practicing…

CNN Names Borger Senior Political Analyst

CNN has hired U.S. News & World Report contributing editor Gloria Borger as a senior political analyst based in Washington, D.C. Her assignments will include the prime-time program being developed for former NBC newswoman Campbell Brown as well as other…