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Steve McPherson is fired up. Along with the rest of the TV industry, Mr. McPherson, president of the ABC Entertainment Group, has struggled through tough times during the past 18 months. He’s had to try to develop new hits while slogging through the twin terrors of a writers strike and a collapsing economy...
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“Ugly Betty” remains in vogue at ABC. The network Thursday renewed the Thursday night dramedy as part of a mass pickup of a dozen staples of the ABC schedule. Also greenlit for the 2009-10 season: “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “The Bachelor,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “Dancing With the Stars,” “Desperate...
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ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” and “Brothers and Sisters” were among the honorees in television categories announced at Saturday’s presentation of the 20th GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles. The Gay and *** Alliance Against Defamation holds annual ceremonies in multiple cities in order to recognize those...
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The William S. Paley Television Festival will host panels celebrating shows including “The Big Bang Theory,” “The Mentalist,” “90210” and a combined evening for “Battlestar Galactica” and prequel “Caprica.” The full lineup, announced today by the Paley Center for Media, also features panels for “The...
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ABC will unveil the cast for the eighth season of “Dancing With the Stars” throughout its Sunday night programming on Feb. 8 in what the network is dubbing the “All Night Name Drop.” “Dancing” host Tom Bergeron will reveal one name at a time in interstitials during “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” ...
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Some might say the beginning of the 2008-09 broadcast TV season marked a return to business as usual. With the writers strike a distant memory, the broadcast networks are back in the business of providing quality, regularly scheduled programming with new episodes of old favorites and the debuts of new...
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Fox drew the highest ratings among the networks that show NFL football for the second consecutive year. Fox said its NFL games averaged a 10.5 Nielsen household rating and a 22 share CBS’s Sunday games drew a 10 ratings and 21 share. Fox’s Sunday afternoon rating also beat the 10.2/16 NBC drew with its...
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In time for the holiday season, we are celebrating a quintet of broadcast network prime-time series. These programs, one from each network, achieved the highest program engagement score among adults who live in households with children present. Scores are based on adults who watched these programs, regardless...
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Sun, Dec 14 2008
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There is a correlation between program type and the level of digital video recorder playback a show gets, according to a new analysis by a leading media agency. Steve Sternberg, executive VP at Magna Global, said nearly all action and sci-fi drama show above-average DVR playback so far that season. That...
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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...
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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...
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Marc Cherry, creator of “Desperate Housewives,” says he’s resolute about ending the show’s run after seven seasons and gives some scoop on his show. In an interview with Television Week columnist and deputy editor Josef Adalian, Mr. Cherry talks about pushing the show’s plot line forward five years and...
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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...