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Articles tagged "tv schedules"NewsGreat plotlines and network stumbles draw more viewers to cable TVby 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...  NewsTV and summer: The light last longerby Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][24.Jun.08] :. We’re still getting the summer lightweights this week as the networks trot out every feeble reality show short of someone repeatedly getting hit with a pie. Though, that I might watch. In one... NewsFuture focus: Here’s what you can look forward to in the 2008-09 TV seasonby Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)][5.Jun.08] :. To hear the broadcast networks tell it, there’s plenty on television this summer. And if we’re talking watching people fall off giant rubber balls on ABC’s “Wipeout”... NewsUSA’s ‘In Plain Sight’ leads cable’s summer paradeby 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... NewsIt’s time to call it a season — almostby Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][19.May.08] :. We’re entering - technically - the last week of the broadcast TV season, and I say “technically” because ABC still has some action next week, including the two-hour season finale of... NewsGrave days at the network upfrontsby Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][19.May.08] :. The upfronts - the annual ritual when broadcast television networks present their fall lineups to advertisers - have a weeklong festival of Barnumesque bluster lubricated by liquor and advertising... First-place Fox adding just two new shows to its fall scheduleby Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][16.May.08] :. Not needing much new programming after beating the other networks senseless in the Nielsen ratings this season, and not having much to choose from anyway after a writers’ strike laid waste to... Which network shows will live and which won’t next seasonby Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][15.May.08] :. I have a pretty solid list here of which network shows got canceled and renewed as the nets announced their fall schedules this week, but first, let me tell you a story. There once was a show named... For fall, ‘CSI’ also stands for ‘comedy strategy implemented’ on CBSby Glenn Garvin [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][15.May.08] :. CBS, for the past decade a network built around “CSI” and its gory crime-drama clones, Wednesday unveiled a fall schedule intended to make its viewers laugh as well as gag. The network... The TV choices for fall are generating little heatby Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][14.May.08] :. We’re midway through the TV networks announcing their new fall schedules, and so far, the biggest news involves a couple cartoons, a spinoff of “Beverly Hills, 90210,” and some guy... Networks hyping fall programs lessby Jonathan Storm [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][13.May.08] :. In spring, an advertiser’s fancy used to turn to gala, big-star entertainment and lots of cocktails and huge shrimp. But times are tough. Monday, the boys and girls from Madison Avenue... Save the peanuts, ‘Jericho’ is gone — and other network maneuveringby Rick Kushman [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][26.Mar.08] :. This is a weird time in the TV world, which, I know, sounds fairly redundant. Still. In a normal year, we’d be hitting the stretch when networks try out second-string series that no one... New female-centric shows for ABC, NBCby Chuck Barney [Contra Costa Times (MCT)][4.Jan.08] :. Ever since “Sex and the City” left the air, television programmers have been trying - mainly in vain - to fill the fancy Manolo Blahniks of Carrie Bradshaw and her gal pals. Those... |
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