(First off, I’ll be posting mainly in the late-night hours this week because of other commitments that have popped up during other hours of the day…. But I will post breaking news when I feel its warranted…. On that note…) Stations in Illinois and Indiana are gearing up to cover the big game: – The CBS affiliates in the home-team […]
The “i” network, which changed from PAX two years ago, is changing its name again – to MyNetworkTV2! Actually, its changing its name to ION, named after the company who now controls the network. Many industry insiders have joked that the “i” in the “i” network stood for infomericals, referring to the high number of paid programs that air on […]
ESPN will begin to produce two of its daily shows, Cold Pizza and 1st and 10 (no relation to the former HBO sitcom) in high-definition, beginning in June. That’s great in all, but the shows still suck, considering who’s hosting them. (Perhaps they should concentrate on upgrading the content rather than the picture.) Look for me to use the same […]
The Bears weren’t the only winners in yesterday’s NFC Championship Game. Fox’s ratings for the event were up 21 percent from last year’s Carolina Panthers-Seattle Seahawks tilt. The Chicago Bears-New Orleans Saints game drew a whopping 25.1 rating and 42 share, and it drew 43.2 million viewers, the most in 10 years. And yes, like the AFC Championship Game that […]
Man… on the day where the TCA and the NATPE shingdings are going on…. the browser crashes. Took an hour and a half to get it back working. That’s why we’re late tonight … anyway… Ed Sherman of the Trib has a review of Fox’s coverage of the Seahawks-Bears NFC Divisional Playoff game yesterday. If I haven’t seen an extended […]
With the NATPE convention getting underway today, Let’s visit an article TV Week published last week on Syndication’s Most Bankable Stars, picked by a panel of syndication experts. Among the highlights: -Topping the list again is Oprah Winfrey, thanks to her continuing success of new now two- decades old talk show. -Oprah’s spinoff show, Dr. Phil, is number two. -Newcomer […]
The 2007 Winter Critics Poll is out from TV Week, and not surprisingly, The Wire is on top as best show (as it was in Broadcasting & Cable’s earlier TV Critics Poll), followed by Excellent 10 program Heroes (yay!), and The Office. Other notables: –Ugly Betty, another Excellent 10 favorite finished in a tie for fourth with Grey’s Anatomy. –Lost […]
The Q’s are out… Bravo dumps Queer Eye for the Straight Guy after five seasons, while ESPN cancels Quite Frankly after two. Rest assured these shows won’t be missed. (Let’s hope Stephen A. stays away from daytime TV… There are already too many bombastic personalties in that field already.)
– Debmar-Mercury has cleared 85% of the country for the ninth syndicated season of Family Feud, which was previously distributed by Tribune Entertainment. Debmar-Mercury has also recruited Twentieth Television to sell ad time for Feud and off-cable weekly sci-fi hour The Dead Zone. That program has also been sold to 85% of the country, including season two renewals for ABC […]
The Canadian-owned producer of shows ranging from Night Heat to DaVinci’s Inquest to the CSI franchise has been sold to CanWest Global and Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs for a whopping $2.3 billion. Even if it’s Canadian currency, that’s a lot of money! CanWest Global runs Global, Canada’s third broadcast network.
While America has to wait until July for The Simpsons to hit the big screen, and Family Guy’s movie eschewed theaters altogether for the safety of your living room via DVD, The Aqua Teen movie will be hitting theaters this March, called The Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters. (I swear I’m not making this up.) Based […]
The ax has fallen on Geraldo at Large, the Twentieth Television-syndicated newsmagazine show that replaced the failed revival of A Current Affair last year. Hosted by Fox News Channel personality and former daytime talk-show host Geraldo Rivera, At Large did well in a few markets like New York, but in many other places, like here in Chicago, the program ran […]
Here we go! I am honored to present to you: The Excellent 10: The best television shows of 2006. Once again, we’re counting them down American Top 40 style, from number 10 to number 1.… 10. Pardon the Interruption (ESPN). Despite Kornhiser…. And LeBatard…. 9. Simpsons (Fox). 8. Arrested Development (Fox). R.I.P. 7. South Park (Comedy Central). Despite a handful […]
Bruce Wolf, who joined WMAQ-TV morning’s team after being unceremoniously dumped at WFLD-TV earlier this year, will shine (make that rise and shine) in an new early-morning offbeat news show called Barely Today, that will begin Jan. 15. The program will air at 4:30am (yes 4:30am), which pushes Early Today to 4am. The program launches on Dr. Martin Luther King […]
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