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The looming threat of a writers’ strike is
casting a dark cloud over the television industry, although
it is actually keeping a group of struggling shows on the air. The tumultuous negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and the ...
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Fox is cooking up another season of Kitchen
Nightmares, the freshman reality show featuring Hell's Kitchen's Gordon
Ramsay playing an angel to struggling restaurants.
News divisions mobilized to cover the wildfires engulfing
Malibu, Calif., locale of sprawling multimillion-dollar mansions but also
of plenty of middle-class residences and Pepperdine University’s main campus.
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David Letterman’s production company Worldwide Pants has targeted
January 2 for the return of its two late-night
shows, The Late Show With David Letterman and The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson
HBO executives might be calling their shrinks Wednesday.
The pay cable network’s new therapy series, In Treatment,
premiered to the lowest numbers ever for one of its originals Monday night -- 446,000. That’s about one-half of what its ...
Bravo will premiere its fifth and most likely
last season of Project Runway in July, giving the
show a brief break before it debuts on its new home, Lifetime Television.
Bob Schieffer signed a new long-term contract with
CBS News.
NBC Universal’s Access Hollywood to air exclusive four-part
interview featuring presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, family.
The NAB Wednesday unveiled its first national DTV-transition
PSA.
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Television
Lifetime Television's signature annual "Stop Breast Cancer for
Life" campaign this year will feature several stars appearing
in PSAs, including Whoopi Goldberg, Reba McEntire, Fran Drescher, Daisy Fuentes and NFL players.
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Television
LIN Television is partnering with YouTube to launch
dedicated YouTube channels for its 31 stations. The sites
will feature a mix of news content from the station and user-generated video.
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Television
Jerry Seinfeld will guest host Spike Feresten's late-night show
Saturday, a stunt to promote the movie co-written by
Seinfeld and Feresten, the former Seinfeld scribe
Beyond the Box Paige Albiniak, Contributing Editor, Broadcasting
& Cable October, 29 2007 Hello Hulu NBC Universal
and News Corp.'s long-awaited Hulu.com finally launched in private beta this mor... More BC Beat Alex Weprin, , Broadcasting & Cable ...
WCCO Minneapolis named Scott Libin as its news
director.
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Television
Marshall Herskovitz’s and Ed Zwick’s navel-gazing 20-something series,
Quarterlife, was picked up by NBC.
Imagine watching your favorite sitcom on your computer
or video phone, and it’s over in 90 seconds.
Therein lies the allure of the Webisode. Still in the nascent stages of an uncertain life, the Webisode has nonetheless become one of the ...
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Television
The ABC-owned television stations are relaunching their Web
sites Monday, with the new sites featuring large Flash
video players that take up the bulk of the home page. The architects said they’ve made the Web sites look and feel more like TV ...
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Television
VH1 will make popular music-video series Pop-Up Video
available online on VH1Classic.com.
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Television
Telco AT&T deployed its U-verse-TV IPTV service in
the St. Louis market, bringing new competition to incumbent
cable operator Charter Communications.
It looks like the end of the road
for NBC’s freshman time-traveling drama, Journeyman. The network let
its option lapse on the drama, effectively dooming it to the scrap heap.



















Strike Threat Buys Time for Series