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D.L. Hughley was not happy. It was moments before shooting was to begin on a November sweeps episode of the UPN show The Hughleys, based on the actor's life and [...]

Michael Eisner looks as if he's just happened by a lab at the Smithsonian Institute where they're sorting through prehistoric remains. Of course since the man who is standing stage [...]

Nancy Dubuc isn't afraid to stick her neck out. she did, after all, launch unconventional tough-guy series like Ice Road Truckers and Ax Men on history, a network that was [...]

A couple of characters in the CBS sitcom Gary Unmarried rip into buckets of KFC's grilled chicken--the takeout bags and logos clearly visible in the camera frame--and rave about how [...]

All eyes in the tiny meeting room at Tribune Entertainment's booth at the NATPE convention focused on David Kirschner. The executive producer of Gene Roddenberry's Battleground Earth popped a video [...]

Whether it's midnight on a Tuesday or 5 a.m. on a weekend, chances are Kathy Olvany Riordan is leaving voice mail--for herself. Wanting a reminder when she gets to the [...]

A master stroke for Redstone gets trashed at the last minute Just when it looked as if Viacom would succeed in remaking itself, late Friday the last piece of the [...]

Andy Hill, president of CBS Productions, wanted to create an old-school, quintessentially American musical TV show for the syndication market. But after a recent discussion with his international executives, he [...]

The top floors of MCA/Universal's Black Tower in Los Angeles are filled with scaffolding, ladders, drop cloths, paint rollers and cans, evidence of what will be a makeover for the [...]

Edgar Bronfman Jr. knows what it means to marry a packaged goods product with the supercharged aura of Hollywood and come up a winner. Nearly a decade ago, after being [...]

Byline: T.L. Stanley Advertising Age Try this for uplifting: A monster truck with a self-proclaimed redneck comedian from 'Blue Collar TV'' behind the wheel arrives to help turn a downtrodden [...]

Byline: T.L. Stanley Advertising Age Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox, scanning the TV dial for a cache of young male action-movie fans, have inked separate deals with Time Warner's [...]

Byline: T.L. Stanley Special to TelevisionWeek If TNT's television movie 'Door to Door'' wins any of the dozen Emmys it's nominated for, Barbara Walters and HBO could be thanked. The [...]

When you're personally recruited by Barry Diller, co-chief of Vivendi Universal's entertainment group and one of the most formidable media moguls in the world, is failure an option? Lucky for [...]

Some television executives like to tell members of the creative community, ``I'm one of you. I really get it. They just make me wear this suit.'' Don't necessarily believe it, [...]

When David Nutter signed on to direct a segment of the World War II miniseries ``Band of Brothers'' for HBO last year, it was a return to his roots in [...]

Al Kahn wanted to control his own destiny. Like a number of independent producers and program suppliers, he liked the idea of having a piece of broadcast real estate to [...]

WITH SPLASHY, THEATRICAL-QUALITY PROMO CAMPAIGNS--AND A FOCUS ON ITS SHOWS' EMOTIONAL CORE--THE WB IS SETTING A SIZZLING PACE. If ever there were a target for the 'shout louder' approach to [...]

NICK EXECUTIVE KAUFMAN COAXED FRESH, DIAL-MOVING IDEAS FROM THE BLUE-CHIP BRANDS ENLISTED FOR THE NETWORK'S CROWN JEWEL, THE RUGRATS MOVIE. Mott's could have taken Baby Dil-sized steps into the world [...]

Advertiser: Keebler Agency: Leo Burnett, Chicago Begins: November Budget: $9 million Media: TV, pop Continuing to reinvigorate top brands, Keebler is restaging its Wheatables line as a wholesome snack for [...]

T.L. STANLEY It was the Wrench That Stole Christmas. That's what the folks at Leo Burnett had in mind with their holiday advertising and promotional campaign for True Value Hardware. [...]

At The WB, skewed family values owe a debt to the Bundys T.L. Stanley There's the battle-scarred parents, their teen-goddess daughter, and an intellectually challenged son - all bound by [...]

There was a good reason why OutCast Communications rebranded itself as The OutCast Agency earlier this year. The 13-year-old firm wanted to show the world that it's left traditional PR [...]

In many ways, Russell Weiner was the target customer for his own ad campaign. After all, Weiner, who became CMO for Domino's two years ago, says he ate a lot [...]

To launch a game-changing movie like James Cameron's Avatar, executives at 20th Century Fox knew they needed a good marketing game plan. Among the audience members to address were the [...]

Christmas 2009 was coming, but Lionel headquarters wasn't sure how much Santa would be bringing. They'd just cut the ribbon on the model-train company's first retail shop in New York's [...]

Everyone knows eBay is the place where you can rummage through the contents of grandma's attic and bid what you think is fair for a milk glass vase. But in [...]

In a new Hispanic market commercial for Domino's Pizza, close-knit neighbors play a game of telephone. As the famous kids' game goes, they pass along the information person to person. [...]

The scene was set for some real telenovela-style melodrama. Passion, power struggles, betrayal, high-stakes finances--it was all there. This past winter, after four years of bitter legal wrangling, New York-based [...]

LISA WEINSTEIN DOESN'T THINK OF herself as pushy. This year's Media All-Star for Planning says her job is simply to persuade blue-chip clients at Mindshare Chicago that they need to [...]

TV VIEWERS CAN'T SEEM to escape Virginia Madsen these days. No, she's not a Hollywood bad girl being exposed and dissected by tabloid TV shows, or the star of a [...]

MCI'S 1-800-Collect launches a monthlong promotional program today with the WB's action drama, Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, the first-ever tie-in for the show, which has caught ratings fire in its [...]

In the pilot of his new fall series for UPN, Hit, Andrew Dice Clay swaggers across the screen playing a character very similar to Andrew Dice Clay. He insults women [...]

First-run programming part of year-round, brand-building effort While most networks lapse into summer doldrums with reruns, Fox is going against the tide by pouring millions of dollars into original programming [...]

Jr., the protege of TCI's John Malone, was the prime mover from that company. The first announcement came from Comcast and Microsoft. 'This was an attractive investment for Microsoft because [...]

Networks are paying megabucks for blockbuster feature films, striking some precedent-setting deals for the likes of Universal's Lost Worm and Warner Bros.' Batman & Robin. Executives say the ratings generally [...]

The network TV upfront, expected to begin moving this week, will again take place amidst a pall of declining ratings and shares as cable continues its inexorable march toward parity. [...]

Now even buyers are admitting that prime Even the most poker-faced media buyers are now starting to admit that, despite eroding ratings and shares, the broadcast networks will likely break [...]

ABC is proving that you can go home again in the worm of daytime soap operas. The network has created a nine-week stunt during which it is airing vintage episodes [...]

By this time next year, television viewers across the country could be watching movies at home with nearly all the trappings of an in-theater experience: a crystal-clear picture on a [...]

'King of the Hill' brand-extension strategy follows fan requests This rising star at Fox has spawned a number of dedicated Web sites and soon will grace a line of T-shirts [...]

Tribune Co. execs last week gave a vote of confidence to The WB. Tribune invested an additional $21 million in its netlet, bringing to nearly $50 million its overall investment. [...]

The battle plans have been drawn with painstaking attention to detail, with maneuvers mapped out and color-coded on a huge bulletin board, allowing for no missteps. Each team is dispersed [...]

The 'Home Improvement' producers have filed suit against their production parmer, Wait Disney Television, charging that the studio will not shop the successful series to anyone other than ABC. Wind [...]

When John Symes, president of MGM Worldwide Television, hired Trilogy Entertainment in 1994 to resurrect The Outer Limits for Showtime, he was taking his first tentative step toward resuscitating what [...]

At first, Joss Whedon was afraid he might be asked to turn his script for the hit movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer into Goosebumps Lite for television. But Whedon says [...]

Top PBS programmer to nearly triple original output next season WNET, one of the major programming providers for public TV, plans to spend more than $50 million on new episodes [...]

Oprah. Rosie. If there is such a thing, these larger-than-life figures are down-home megastars. Though they have made millions--Oprah, in fact, is the highest-paid woman in entertainment-their syndicated talk shows [...]

Their show has been dubbed a Brady Bunch for the '90s, but that's not exactly what Judd Pillot and John Peaslee had in mind when they created Something So Right. [...]

Children's TV producers are planning the join together to respond to the FCC's new regulations on educational programming. Members of Hollywood's creative community took their first formal step toward speaking [...]