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Summer Television Adds Sizzle to Network Offseason
TNT Network has rebooted the 1980s CBS drama Dallas. There was a time before you had a cable box or a satellite dish hooked to your television when summer heat meant television cooled off. Occasionally...
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News Can Get It Wrong in Race to Get It On
Fox News and CNN both incorrectly reported the Supreme Court ruling on healthcare legislation with the opinion in their hands. Everyone is familiar with it. In many households the entire family is...
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Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Sign New Contracts
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have signed real contracts to keep doing the fake news. Good real news for fans of the fake news. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are going to continue to offer their...
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Vampire Shows Prove Creativity Sucked out of Hollywood
The completely original Harry Potter franchise has made $15 billion. This week, NBC Universal announced that it will co-produce a new vampire series “Dracula” with Sky Living. It is the second...
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Taking Risks a Lost Art in Episodic Television
"Burn Notice" creator Matt Nix took a risk on the hit show this season. As we pointed out yesterday, sticking with a winning formula is usually a good strategy in the television business. In a day...
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Radio Makes Cheap Programming Option for Networks
Mike and Mike have become a cornerstone of ESPN's programming lineup. Back in the 1990s, fledgling news channel MSNBC was behaving like any other upstart network: a tweak here, move a time slot there,...
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Fall Season Coming Fast So Get Ready for Flops
Pan Am was a show last season that was more a drama of TV survival than a drama on screen. It will not be long until the networks start trotting out a lineup of shiny new television shows to try to...
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Big Four Losing the High Ground with Dramas
Showtime's Homeland won an Emmy for best drama and Claire Danes won for best actress in a drama. During Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue for the Emmy Awards on ABC Sunday night, he pointed out that for the...
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