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Turner Broadcasting announced new original series projects with Steven Spielberg, Steven Bochco and Kevin James. Turner, which is crashing the broadcast networks’ upfront advertising sales week with a presentation of its own Wednesday, has been pumping up the amount of original programming on TNT and...
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Turner Broadcasting has realigned its senior management with CEO Phil Kent putting David Levy in charge of distribution as well as advertising sales and sports. Former head of distribution Andrew Heller has been named vice chairman of TBS Inc., and assumes a coordinating role within parent company Time...
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Sam Linsky has been promoted to senior vice president of current programming for TNT and TBS. Mr. Linsky previously was VP of current programming for TNT. He oversaw the production of many of TNT’s current series, including “The Closer,” “Saving Grace,” “Raising the Bar” and “Leverage.” He will continue...
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The 16th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Jan. 23. The awards will be handed out at the Shrine Exposition Center in Los Angeles at 5 p.m. local time, but will air at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Submissions for the awards show open July 13. Nomination ballots will be mailed Nov...
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Turner Broadcasting hopes to ensure that when its series “My Boys” returns this week, people will remember Nationwide Insurance. As part of a deal struck during last year’s upfront, Nationwide is being integrated into an episode of the comedy. Also, characters from the show will appear in a custom tune...
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Comedian George Lopez’s new late-night cable show on TBS may be a preview of things to come for syndicated television distributors looking beyond the broadcast TV market. Looking to launch at 11 p.m. in November, Mr. Lopez’s show has a fight ahead as it elbows into the field of competitors, including...
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TBS is going forward with a late-night talk show starring comedian George Lopez. The network plans to launch the show, which will air Monday through Thursday, in November. Mr. Lopez' program is being produced by 2.2 Productions, paraMedia Inc. and Telepictures Productions in association with Warner...
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Bravo’s “Top Chef” reigned supreme among cable shows Wednesday night, taking the top spot and matching its previous season high. At 10 p.m., “Chef” scored a 1.8 rating/5 share among adults 18-49 and drew 3.3 million viewers, according to national ratings from Nielsen Media Research. The cooking competition...
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TBS has ordered an additional 70 episodes of Tyler Perry’s “Meet the Browns” following a successful 10-episode trial run in January, the network said today. Distributed by Debmar-Mercury, “Browns” is a spinoff of “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” which received a 100-episode order after Debmar ran a test...
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Sunday night’s simulcast of the Screen Actors Guild Awards on TBS and TNT drew the smallest audience since the two networks began airing them together in 2006. TNT, which had telecast the show exclusively from 1998 through 2005, posted a 0.9 rating/2 share among adults 18 to 49 and 2.8 million viewers...
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The economic slowdown isn’t stopping advertisers from paying premiums to create sales messages that defeat the fast-forward button on digital video recorders. Case in point: General Motors is sponsoring a five-part microseries on Turner Broadcasting’s TBS to highlight the features of its new Traverse...
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The Screen Actors Guild may be divided against itself over whether to call a strike vote, but the group is forging ahead toward its annual awards show amid reports that some members are politicizing the event. When last year’s Writers Guild of America strike wreaked havoc on many entertainment industry...
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In a new Beta Research survey of media buyers and advertisers, Discovery Channel topped the lists of networks they expected to spend more money in the next 12 months. Discovery was named by 45% of those surveyed by Beta Research, followed by ESPN with 44% and TBS with 40%. The survey was conducted from...
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Monica Neal has been appointed vice president of emerging markets and partnerships for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies. Ms. Neal will oversee a team charged with creating consumer-centric, integrated marketing campaigns for the networks’ acquired and original programming. Ms. Neal previously served...
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Turner Entertainment Networks promoted Michael Wright to executive VP and head of programming for TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies. Mr. Wright had been senior VP in charge of Turner Entertainment Networks’ content creation group, responsible for all original programming. In his new job he adds oversight...