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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…