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ABC Renews Staples of Thursday, Sunday Lineups, Axes ‘Samantha’

“Ugly Betty” remains in vogue at ABC. The network Thursday renewed the Thursday night dramedy as part of a mass pickup of a dozen staples of the ABC schedule. Also greenlit for the 2009-10 season: “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” “The Bachelor,” “Brothers...

Published Thu, Apr 23 2009 1:52 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, ABC, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, Dancing With the Stars, Brothers and Sisters, Lost, Samantha Who, Private Practice, The Bachelor, Grey’s Anatomy, Wife Swap, Supernanny, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Pickups, Renewals, America’s Funniest Home Videos

Adalian Column: Reality Is the Small Screen’s Survivor

There is no cure for reality TV. This fact will no doubt crush many who work in the business of television, people who have silently prayed for the end of unscripted programming ever since Richard Hatch first strutted naked across the small screen on...

Published Fri, Mar 6 2009 2:55 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, Dancing With the Stars, Print Edition, Project Runway, Big Brother, So You Think You Can Dance, American Idol, Survivor, The Biggest Loser, The Amazing Race, The Bachelor, Reality TV

Injuries Force Nancy O’Dell, Jewel to Stop ‘Dancing’

“Access Hollywood’s” Nancy O’Dell and singer Jewel have withdrawn from the latest season of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” due to injuries sustained during practice, the network announced today. Ms. O’Dell suffered a torn meniscus, while Jewel was diagnosed...

Published Thu, Mar 5 2009 4:39 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, ABC, Dancing With the Stars, Nancy O'Dell, Jewel, Conrad Green

ABC Buys Saget’s ‘Surviving Suburbia’

ABC has acquired the rights to never-aired CW comedy "Surviving Suburbia" and is giving the Bob Saget vehicle a plum spot behind "Dancing with the Stars" on Mondays. "Suburbia" was a victim of producer Media Rights Capital's...

Published Wed, Feb 4 2009 11:59 AM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, ABC, Dancing With the Stars, The CW, Media Rights Capital, MRC, In the Motherhood, Samantha Who?, Bob Saget, Surviving Suburbia

ABC to Reveal ‘Dancing’ Cast With ‘All Night Name Drop’

ABC will unveil the cast for the eighth season of “Dancing With the Stars” throughout its Sunday night programming on Feb. 8 in what the network is dubbing the “All Night Name Drop.” “Dancing” host Tom Bergeron will reveal one name at a time in interstitials...

Published Tue, Feb 3 2009 4:54 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, ABC, Desperate Housewives, Dancing With the Stars, Tom Bergeron, Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Brothers & Sisters, All Night Name Drop, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Guest Commentary: Celebreality: Play the Game, Not Yourself

The term “celebreality” was coined by VH1, but other cable and broadcast networks have all been quick to cash in on the money-spinning format with a host of celebrity reality vehicles including danceshows, docu-soaps, business competitions and more. With...

Published Sun, Jan 11 2009 9:30 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, Dancing With the Stars, Print Edition, Celebrity Fit Club, Extra, Guest Commentary, VH1, Maria Lopez, Mel B., Joey Fatone, Scott Sternberg, The Singing Office

ABC Wins First Week’s Commercial Ratings

ABC says that in the first week of the new television season it was the leading network when measured by C3, the commercial ratings used for buying and selling television commercials. ABC says that among viewers 18- to 49-years old, it had a 13% advantage...

Published Wed, Oct 15 2008 3:48 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, ABC, Advertising, Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Dancing With the Stars, TV Ratings

Prime-Time Ratings Keep Angst at Bay

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...

Published Sun, Sep 28 2008 11:45 PM by News

Filed under: Fringe, Broadcast, Ratings, Grey's Anatomy, Dancing With the Stars, How I Met Your Mother, 90210, Print Edition, Heroes, Knight Rider, The Mentalist, Do Not Disturb, Worst Week, Boston Legal, Criminal Minds, Two and a Half Men

The Insider: Jeffrey Ross on Reaching for the ‘Stars’

The Insider has long had a soft spot in her heart and on her funny bone for comedian Jeffrey Ross, so she was starting this season of ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” with something she usually didn’t have: a predetermined rooting interest. Then fate, and...

Published Sun, Sep 28 2008 11:45 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, Dancing With the Stars, Print Edition, Insider, Jeffrey Ross

Prime-Time Clashes Loom

On the cusp of the official start of the 2008-09 season, Fox and The CW are enjoying a few perks for having been out of the gate ahead of the pack. Fox’s “Fringe” skyrocketed 59% week-to-week in its ratings, while The CW’s “Gossip Girl” has steadily improved...

Published Sun, Sep 21 2008 9:56 PM by News

Filed under: Fringe, Broadcast, Fox, ABC, CBS, NBC, Dancing With the Stars, primetime, The CW, Chuck, Print Edition, Heroes, Gossip Girl, Carat, Programming, Shari Anne Brill

ABC Pushes 'Samantha' Return Back a Week

ABC has decided to delay the season premiere of "Samantha Who?" by a week. The Christina Applegate comedy now will bow on Monday, Oct. 13, the network said Thursday. ABC executives want to air an extra two-hour "Dancing With the Stars"...

Published Thu, Sep 11 2008 3:35 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, ABC, Dancing With the Stars, Samantha Who

Lance Bass, Kim Kardashian Join ABC’s ‘Dancing With the Stars’

ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” will return for its seventh season on Sept. 22 with 13 new contestants. Lance Bass, Toni Braxton, Brooke Burke, Rocco Dispirito, Maurice Greene, Kim Kardashian, Cloris Leachman, Cody Linley, Susan Lucci, Misty May-Treanor...

Published Mon, Aug 25 2008 1:00 PM by News

Filed under: Broadcast, Dancing With the Stars, Warren Sapp, Jeffrey Ross, Toni Braxton, Cloris Leachman, Lance Bass, Cody Linley, Brooke Burke, Ted McGinley, Maurice Greene, Kim Kardashian, Rocco Dispirito, Misty May-Treanor, Susan Lucci

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