I love this stuff. That, in five words or less, sums up why I consider myself beyond blessed to have spent virtually the whole of my adult life getting paid to write about television. True: At this very moment, things are glum in the land of make-believe and fairy dust. Business models that for decades...
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It might not get a lot of hype, but NBC’s “Medium” has quietly turned into one of the network’s most reliable bench performers. Glenn Gordon Caron The drama about a psychic (Patricia Arquette) balancing her family life and her special powers gets very little help from the network’s promotions department...
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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With television makers including Samsung and Panasonic this year unveiling flat-screen sets that are capable of displaying 3-D content, the format is widely considered the next leap forward in TV technology. So far, 3-D programming has been about stunts and gimmicks rather than an earnest play to engage...