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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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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The Insider’s love affair with television developed relatively late in life. For four Air Force brats who spent three formative years in Germany, English-language TV was often unavailable. And it would be years before a sense of irony would develop to make hearing Tonto address the Lone Ranger with ...
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Off-network syndication offerings for 2009 are slim, but with syndicators and stations concerned about the tough economy, the segment’s importance will grow considerably in the next couple of seasons. Along with being the network’s top-rated show, NBC Universal’s “The Office” makes its way to broadcast...
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Am I allowed to mention that Izzie is having sex with Denny on “Grey’s Anatomy?” It’s not the sex part I’m worried about. What I’m wondering is—is it OK to “spoil” that she did it with a dead guy more than two weeks ago? I’m guessing that “more than two weeks” probably falls outside the spoilers statute...
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...
Forget about Hannah Montana or the Jonas Brothers. The next big star to emerge from the Disney empire might just be a 24-year-old Canadian singer-songwriter named Shawn Hlookoff. As part of a larger effort to control escalating music budgets for its programming, the Disney-ABC TV Group has launched an...
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It could have been a lot worse. That’s the bottom line from the first few days of the 2008-09 television season, which got under way last week amidst a higher-than-normal level of angst among network suits. With so many shows taking nine-month hiatuses due to the writers strike, and fewer newcomers than...
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