NBC's "Kings" has been dethroned from its Saturday timeslot, while ABC is pulling "In the Motherhood" even sooner than planned. NBC Tuesday said it was pulling the drama from its lineup, effective immediately. The network had recently moved the show from Sunday to Saturday nights...
“Kings” is dead … on Sunday nights. Long live the “Kings” … on Saturdays. NBC has decided to pull its much-hyped new drama from its current 8 p.m. Sunday slot, effective immediately, a network insider said. “Dateline” will expand to two hours and fill the 7-9 timeslot for now. The network will allow...
“Friday Night Lights” remains, by most accounts, one of the finest shows on TV. So maybe it’s time for it to die. Before you Panther fans start pelting me with manure-covered footballs, hear me out. Like any card-carrying member of the Television Critics Association, I’ve been a supporter of underdog...
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All hail NBC’s “Kings”—especially if you’re an upscale viewer with a $100,000-plus income who has a fondness for arthouse movies, voted for Barack Obama and likes to read the New York Times Magazine. Those are the kinds of folks NBC has been targeting for months as part of what might be called a trickle...
While paid ads will get most of the attention during NBC’s telecast of the Super Bowl on Sunday, network parent NBC Universal is hoping to steal its share of the big day’s big buzz with a well-orchestrated promotional blitz that will focus on virtually all units of the company. NBC’s network schedule...
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NBC has given early pickups to "The Office," "30 Rock" and "The Biggest Loser." In addition, the network has scheduled the premiere of the new Amy Poehler comedy as well as its new cooking reality show "The Chopping Block." The Poehler project will bow Thursday...
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The broadcast networks are looking for a do-over. After an awful autumn that saw the Big Five shed a stunning 12% of their collective audience year-to-year, the networks are planning radical surgery on their prime-time schedules next year. More than a dozen newcomers will have their debuts between next...
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NBC will bid farewell to “ER” with a two-hour finale on March 12 at 9 p.m., the network said in its mid-season schedule announcement. New series “Kings” will start with a two-hour premiere March 19 at 9 p.m. before it settles into “ER’s” time slot March 26 at 10 p.m. The network’s mid-season push begins...
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NBC is keeping its new fall shows under wraps a little while longer. The network had planned to screen newcomers “My Own Worst Enemy,” “Kath & Kim,” “Crusoe” and “Knight Rider” next Monday as part of the Paley Center for Media’s annual fall preview screening series . All five major broadcast networks...
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The traffic gods have conspired to keep Hollywood away from Comic-Con 2008, which kicked off today at the San Diego Convention Center. A fiery wreck this morning on southbound Interstate 5 caused traffic to back up for 20 miles, according to the Associated Press. The highway is the main route from Los...