Articles tagged "cable tv"

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Cable’s healthy summer crop

by Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[24.Jul.09] :. For the next few weeks, I plan to spend most of my waking hours thinking, talking and writing about television. But with back-to-back trips to San Diego’s fabled Comic-Con and the Television...

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Sitcoms alive and well on cable, but who cares?

by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Jul.09] :. There were two questions that people used to ask me. One was, “So what’s with this reality TV deal?” And the other was, “What happened to all the great sitcoms? Is there ever...

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Change is coming to cable TV

by Aaron Barnhart [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Jun.09] :. Cable TV is flying high. More original shows are on this summer than at any time in non-network history, led by TNT with eight different series including “The Closer,” “Saving...

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It’s an exciting — and also frightening — time to be in network TV

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[21.Jul.08] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - There’s a constant, if subtle drumbeat running through the press sessions here. Network execs keep saying that despite the hinky fall season coming at us with fewer new...

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Great plotlines and network stumbles draw more viewers to cable TV

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[14.Jul.08] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The Oasis at the Beverly Hilton is a large outdoor courtyard surrounded by sleek hotel towers. It’s decorated with a wide, flat fountain, palm trees, mood lighting. Last...

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Cable offerings previewed at press tour run the gamut

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[10.Jul.08] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The cable networks have been meeting with TV critics here all week, and in their range - of both subjects and quality - it’s a pretty solid tour of the TV universe. On...

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Eurocinema is the TV channel for people who like subtitles

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[2.Jul.08] :. MIAMI - When Sebastian Perioche arrived at Harvard to start work on his MBA 12 years ago, he was shocked. Everybody in Paris had told him Boston was one of America’s most cosmopolitan cities,...

 

USA’s ‘In Plain Sight’ leads cable’s summer parade

by Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[29.May.08] :. Although the broadcast TV season just ended and the nets are about to fall into the giant hole they dig every year with lame reality shows - Example A: ABC brings back “The Mole” on...

 

For political coverage, cable has become king

by Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[22.Apr.08] :. WASHINGTON—When the polls close in Pennsylvania Tuesday night, network television viewers will have a choice: They can watch Kristi Yamaguchi flash some cunning new moves on ABC’s...