The man who called himself "The King of Infomercials" on his website was found dead Sunday in an Arizona jail cell, reports CBSNews.com. Don Lapre, who was about to stand trial in a $52 million fraud case, apparently committed suicide,…
As the new broadcast season gets up to speed the pressure is on all top programming executives, but one network chief, NBC’s new top programmer Bob Greenblatt, appears to be under more pressure than the rest, reports the New York…
In Monday’s episode of CBS’s "Two and a Half Men," the new star of the show, Ashton Kutcher, snuck a plug into the show for some of his off-screen business concerns — Foursquare, Flipboard and GroupMe — as previously reported….
With viewers fleeing NBC’s new drama “The Playboy Club” it may be much ado about nothing, but the network, the show’s advertisers and a watchdog group are all putting different spins on what’s going on with the show, the New…
It happened in a scene from this past Monday’s episode of "Two and a Half Men" on Sept. 26, 2011. Here’s the description given by our good frined Lynette Rice at EW.com’s InsideTV blog: "Less than eight minutes into the…episode…Ashton…
Lovehoney will become the first sex-toy retailer to advertise on TV in the U.K. on Oct. 3, when a 30-second spot debuts at 10.15 a.m. during an episode of imported U.S. reality show ‘The Real Housewives of New York City,’…
Turner Broadcasting is trying to sell "Conan" with a new pitch, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. That approach is "forget the TV ratings, look at his online popularity," Steinberg writes. It’s the natural response to the weakened ratings and…
"Nielsen Wednesday [Sept. 21, 2011] began informing clients about a major snafu … that generates gross ratings points (GRPs) for the multibillion [dollar] television advertising marketplace," reports Joe Mandese at MediaPost. Mandese continues: "Nielsen said the glitch has been generating incorrect…
In 1992, when the NBC newsmagazine "Dateline" first hit the air, the state-of-the-art in social media was AT&T’s just released video telephone, which one could purchase for $1,499. And, of course, both you and the person you wanted to see while…
A new survey breaks down which broadcast networks and which cable networks reach the most viewers in affluent households, reports Jon Lafayette in B&C. ABC came in at No. 1 among broadcast networks, reaching the most viewers in affluent households,…