"Harper's Island" is on the move. CBS has decided to drop the three-week-old serialized drama from its current plum post-"CSI" timeslot, network insiders confirm. The series, which had been airing Thursdays at 10 p.m., will shift to Saturdays at 9 p.m., effective immediately....
It might not be obvious on the surface, but the new limited-run drama “Harper’s Island” has a lot in common with another CBS island-based show: “Survivor.” Like Mark Burnett’s groundbreaking reality series, “Harper’s”—an “I Know What You Did Last Summer”-style murder mystery—promises viewers complete...
The central premise of "Harper's Island" is that each week, a character on the CBS show—which will launch April 9 and run through early July—will be killed. The twist: It's likely the show will be killed too. CBS has ordered only 13 episodes and asked writers for a finite...
Can programming producers survive on revenues derived from Web distribution alone? The overwhelming evidence seems to say no. Last week production shop Generate struck a multiyear television development and production deal to create scripted broadcast and cable series for 20th Century Fox Television...
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Even though NBC has been wracked by huge layoffs and a tanking economy, the network’s digital division will start shooting a pilot this week for an online late-night talk show, one of nine planned Web shows for 2009. And NBC isn’t the only network pursuing Web originals for the new year; CBS also is...
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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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