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You've read the book, you've seen the 3D film, the next logical step is to recreate the zany but decidedly English tale at your live event. Calmer Karma has a [...]

By Ben Grossman On a road trip about 10 years ago when I was working in pro sports, we stayed at a hotel with a Hooters next door. Having never [...]

Company: APC, West Kingstown, R.I. Agency: In-house Market: VARs, technology integrators Quick Chase: Yes, we like the testimonial in the top half of the ad. Yes, we like the display [...]

by R. Thomas Umstead 'Battlestar Galactica' Prequel's Pilot Gets Heavy Digital Exposure Syfy hopes to build momentum for its highly anticipated series Caprica by allowing Web sites to stream the [...]

The European Space Agency (ESA) is providing support to OpenSky and SkyLogic in the provision of a complete service offering for consumer 3-D TV broadcast. The assistance is being provided [...]

By Alex Weprin Show will adapt Ellen, Conan guest Keith Barry's stage act Discovery Channel is close to ordering a reality series starring Irish magician and mentalist Keith Barry, with [...]

By Melissa Grego Exec may replace shows but stands by three-night TNT slate TNT will probably stick with six scripted series next summer, as it did this season for the [...]

ICIS news, ICIS Chemical Business's sister real-time news service, has a new daily video reporting service, ICIS news TV. The short, easy-to-watch shows are packed with the latest developments in [...]

ICIS news, ICIS Chemical Business's sister real-time news service, has a new daily video reporting service, ICIS news TV. The short, easy-to-watch shows are packed with the latest developments in [...]

American Agri-Women has received a grant from USDA to produce a television program for farm and ranch women, which is planned to air nationwide in 2009. Six months of programming [...]

By Ben Grossman Gibbons expected to land job Mike Gibbons is expected to be named executive producer of the new TBS late-night show hosted by George Lopez that is scheduled [...]

Byline: Ann Marie Kerwin While we here at Water Cooler try to uphold the proper journalistic distance on the subjects we cover, we are only human after all. Which is [...]

By Claire Atkinson Verizon, Walmart, J&J all signed on to original shows The programming department at Viacom's forty-something-focused network, TV Land, is busy rolling out a summer schedule of feel-good [...]

By Marisa Guthrie Network banks on well-received development, commitment to originals While executives at ABC and CBS invoked NBC's Jay Leno move as an opportunity for a viewer grab at [...]

By Paige Albiniak Originals could be headed to CW affils Sundays ABC Studios wants to produce original episodes of Reaper , an hour-long dramedy, to syndicate to CW affiliates for [...]

Byline: Jeff VanDam Media Outlets Studied: CNBC's Fast Money, Gene Marcial's 'Inside Wall Street' (Business Week), the Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha's Long Ideas, Forbes.com's Guru Insights, Forbes.com's Investing Ideas, SmartMoney's [...]

Sponsorship trailers for the interactive TV series will appear on Channel 4 and MTV Base featuring winners from the contest The NSPCC and MySpace have kicked off a major online […]

Byline: Valerie Block Fox's 24 started with promise this season but has left me cold lately. Too many absurd plot twists. ABC's Desperate Housewives is another prime-time disappointment. But one [...]

By Paige Albiniak CTD offering repeats of Star Trek series CBS Television Distribution is logically going where it's been before: It's returning Star Trek: The Next Generation to syndication. Stations [...]

By Allison Romano Izzy Povich and the MSNBC show host form a natural bond Managing feisty news anchors is a challenge for any producer, but Izzy Povich, executive producer of [...]

By Melissa Grego and Stephanie Robbins In their first appearance in front of TV critics since being charged with reviving NBC's primetime schedule in a reorganization at NBC Universal's TV [...]

By Ben Grossman and Alex Weprin NBC may even sell green-room sponsorship While plans for NBC's new late-night franchise featuring Jimmy Fallon are still being formulated, network and show execs [...]

Edited by Rob Edelstein Zingers Fly Fast and Furious at TCA Tour Rob Edelstein Broadcast and cable networks come to the Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour to spread some [...]

By Melissa Grego 30 Rock and The Office may get the buzz, but Chuck Lorre's shows get the viewers The Dish: Chuck Lorre says he is in the middle of [...]

By Ben Grossman A candid talk with the NBC Universal CEO about keeping Leno and remaking the television model It would hard for anyone at NBC Universal's broadcast network to [...]

Staff Here's our list of upcoming original cable programming from Oct. 27, 2008, to February 2009. 'Original programming' means brand-new premieres, no acquired shows or fare available via broadcast television, [...]

by Staff Original series returning to cable networks between Oct. 27, 2008, and Feb. 28, 2009. Series are listed by network and date. BBC AMERICA Dragons Den Dec. 22 Top [...]

Edited by Joel Topcik Bravo Acquires First Season of 'Swingtown' Joel Topcik Bravo has cut a deal with CBS Paramount Network Television to acquire rights to the entire 13-episode first [...]

By Alex Weprin TNT gave second- and third-season pickups, respectively, to dramas Raising the Bar and Saving Grace . Freshman legal series Raising the Bar , from producer Steven Bochco, [...]

Byline: Richard Tedesco TNT is carrying on its branded micro-series strategy with the debut last week of crime thriller 'Blank Slate,' sponsored by Acura, with two more short-form dramas coming [...]

Clips from top BBC programmes including Fawlty Towers, Top Gear and Planet Earth are to be made available to download to mobile as part of a digital marketing trial from […]

By Paige Albiniak Twentieth Television and Mark Burnett Productions are expected to announce that Fox's popular primetime game show, Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? , will be available [...]

By Kate Bacon The Saturday morning e-mail was from a friend I've known since kindergarten. It was very simple--one line, 'check this out'--and a link to a TV station Website [...]

By Ben Grossman Like Friday Night Lights deal, it will lend a hand It saved Passions . It saved Friday Night Lights . It almost saved The Riches . And [...]

by Staff June A&E Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal Series June 16 ADULT SWIM Fat Guy Stuck in Internet Series June 15 BRAVO Bravo's A-List Awards Special June 12 [...]

By Staff Running a network's alternative division these days is no easy task. A tumultuous television season and the evolving business model have trained an even brighter spotlight on the [...]

Anne Becker National Geographic Channel is making a bet on music this summer. In a bid to bring in younger viewers and maximize its stable of programming from international units, [...]

By Ben Grossman Production company RDF USA wants to bring back Queen for a Day , a show that first launched on network television 61 years ago. The company will [...]

By Paige Albiniak Compared with other genres, they rule CBS' Judge Judy is having the best year of any first-run show in syndication. It's the only first-run show able to [...]

A TV provider claims dodgy signals and limited selections onboard cruise ships will soon be things of the past. Robin Searle reports from Miami CRUISE passengers could soon be settling [...]

Mad Men, a drama set in a fictional US ad agency in the 60s, is about to make its debut on BBC Four. Here, five veteran adlanders tell us what [...]

Usually, in product placement, you put a star in a car. But it's even better when the star is the car. NBC has high hopes for 'Knight Rider,'' the exhumed [...]

By Paige Albiniak Marie Osmond, Wizard unveiled Syndicators rarely use the annual National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) convention to launch a new show anymore, but last week, two [...]

by Todd Spangler Bright House Networks' Tampa Bay system is deploying what it calls the largest 'Start Over' service to date, with the network-based on-demand service to be available to [...]

by R. Thomas Umstead Goal: To Match Buzz of Rivals' Fare, Buttress Movies Starz is gearing up to take on Home Box Office and Showtime with scripted series. The Liberty [...]

Byline: CLAUDE BRODESSER-AKNER Kitt, the car star of the 1980s hit series 'Knight Rider,'' is set for a return to our screens next month with the Mustang Shelby GT500KR as [...]

Helen Fry of Tehachapi, Calif., is 64 years old and wheelchair-bound. Doing what she loves best-studying-once meant a twisty 50-mile journey down State Highway 58 from the mountain community in […]