If America’s headed for another Great Depression, somebody better tell Hollywood’s celebrity class. While millions suffer through unemployment—and the rest of us wonder if we’ll be next—more than a few residents of Hollywoodland apparently have decided that now would be a perfect time to act like complete...
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ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson said he’d like to expand the network’s comedy portfolio by adding more traditional sitcoms to its programming mix. The network once dominated the comedy space with meat-and-potatoes half-hours such as “Roseanne” and “Home Improvement.” But while ABC has had...
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The people who get paid to watch TV probably would prefer to pretend the last four months never happened. Always a surly lot, the nation’s TV critics—whose semiannual press tour kicks into high gear this week in Los Angeles—are disappointed, if not downright angry, over what many believe to be one of...
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ABC has picked up sophomore drama “Private Practice” for a full season. The network ordered nine more episodes of the “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff Tuesday, according to sources familiar with the order. The move doesn’t come as a surprise given the resources ABC has devoted to the ABC Studios-produced series...
One week’s worth of commercial ratings left ABC ahead of the pack in terms of the numbers that determine how much ad revenue networks can take in. HEALTHY The ABC hospital drama “Grey’s Anatomy” scored a 6.97 C3 rating. Among adults 18 to 49, ABC averaged a 3.49 C3 rating—a measurement that calculates...
ABC says that in the first week of the new television season it was the leading network when measured by C3, the commercial ratings used for buying and selling television commercials. ABC says that among viewers 18- to 49-years old, it had a 13% advantage over its rival broadcast networks. ABC’s posted...
ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson says the upcoming fall season will be important in getting viewers back to watching TV after the writers strike. Mr. McPherson sat down with TVWeek deputy editor and columnist Josef Adalian at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly...
ABC will stick to a fairly traditional premiere-week strategy, rolling out the bulk of its lineup the week of Sept. 22. Big guns such as "Dancing With the Stars," "Ugly Betty," "Desperate Housewives," "Grey's Anatomy," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition"...