Fox orders full season of “Fringe”
Fox has ordered an additional nine episodes of the thriller Fringe, bringing the series to a full season order, it was announced by Kevin...
SAG negotiators want strike vote
Frustrated by the refusal of the TV and movie studios to return to the bargaining table, the negotiating committee of the Screen Actors Guild has asked the union’s national board to order
Who will rule the new season?
"Judge Judy" closed out the 2007-2008 television season with another weekly win in syndicated TV. As has been the case so often of late,...
TV audience spiked for House bailout vote
Cable news channels drew lots of extra viewers on Monday for the US House of Representatives vote on a proposed $700 billion bailout for...
Gannett on S&P Credit Watch
Gannett CEO Craig Dubow issued a statement that the company’s “underlying fundamentals remain strong” after Standard & Poor’s Ratings Service placed Gannett’s credit ratings...
Playing hurt
Thursday’s highly anticipated rhetorical match-up between Sarah Palin (R-AK) and Joe Biden (D-DE) is scheduled to be hosted by PBS veteran newser Gwen Ifill....
NTIA pushing early box adoption
Meredith Atwell Baker of NTIA is charged with the task of executing the digital-to-analog converter box coupon, and with the Wilmington NC experience under...
Oxygen celebrates great quarter
Oxygen celebrated its most successful quarter ever for both primetime and total day. Per Nielsen Media Research data, Q3 2008 was the network's most...
Buffett buying GE stake
NBC Universal parent General Electric announced plans to sell at least $12 billion of common stock to the public and to sell $3 billion of a new issue of preferred stock to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
Exposure incident outed in Survivor episode
There was an unwanted and, for a time apparently undetected screen presence in CBS’s latest round of “Survivor,” taking place in Gabon. One of the participants in an immunity contest unfortunately found
SciFi seeks reality as well
SciFi isn’t all about fiction. The cable network has given the green light to new investigative adventure series “RelicQuest” (working title), hosted by documentary...
Saturday is Fey Day
Tina Fey’s stone cold impersonation of VP candidate Sarah Palin (R-AK) is wowing critics and the public alike and driving viewership to NBC’s iconic...
Converter box business picking up
The NTIA has released new stats showing an increase in the number of coupons requested for the acquisition of a digital-to-analog converter box. The...
ABC dominates premiere week
The Alphabet Network won the total viewership crown and every major demo for week one of the 2008-2009 television season. It also had the weeks' four top-rated shows - two nights of the reality competition "Dancing With the Stars" and
Studios reject SAG call to resume talks
Leaders of the Screen Actors Guild sent a letter to Disney’s Bob Iger, News Corporation’s Peter Chernin and the chief studio negotiator calling for