War can be hell on public television. It just can’t contain any “fucks” or “shits” before 10 p.m.
Scenes of war on PBS in which soldiers use profanity have been cut or elaborately avoided in two upcoming Frontline documentaries. According to the journalists and PBS executives responsible, these edits have been made for Read More
The city of New York is a magnificent place to be, if you’re on television. At least nine of the coming fall shows take the city’s wonderfulness as their theme or inspiration—10, if you count the one about Los Angeles that’s really about New York.
Of those, Six Degrees, the ABC drama executive-produced by J.J. Read More
On Sept. 20, Al Gore’s Current TV network plans to announce a partnership with Yahoo!, according to two sources familiar with the deal.
That coupling will mean a higher profile for the tiny, quirky 24-hour network—channel 103 on the Time Warner dial. Current debuted a year ago to raised eyebrows and predictions of imminent demise. Read More
The city of New York is a magnificent place to be, if you’re on television. At least nine of the coming fall shows take the city’s wonderfulness as their theme or inspiration—10, if you count the one about Los Angeles that’s really about New York.
Of those, Six Degrees, the ABC drama executive-produced by Read More
Jonathan LaPook is a popular Upper West Side gastroenterologist who specializes in CBS.
Over his quarter-century in medicine, he has consulted with some of that network’s most important figures: former news division president Howard Stringer; Andrew Lack, the creator of the newsmagazine West 57th and a former senior executive producer of CBS Reports; and Read More
“Touch my Peabody,” Brian Williams said.
The award sits on a small glass table by the door of the NBC Nightly News anchor’s third-floor office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza.
Mr. Williams won the prize this year for NBC’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina, the national calamity during which the boy-journalist personally groomed by Tom Read More
The first round of auditions for Joan Rivers’ untitled Bravo talk show occurred during the second week of July in a steamy studio space on West 54th Street, near the former Studio 54 and “one door down from Gold’s Gym,” said Ben Russell, one of the aspirants. “Very strategic.”
Mr. Russell works in fashion and Read More
In the summer of 2000, Melanie Martinez—who was fired a few weeks ago as the host of the PBS kids program The Good Night Show—responded to an ad in Backstage. Someone was seeking a “young-looking” actress who could play a short role in a public-service announcement.
“No nudity,” the ad promised.
Fifty women auditioned Read More
In a colorful e-mail to one ABC News colleague, Chris Cuomo—son of Mario, brother of Andrew; he of the perfect hair, bone structure and political pedigree—doubted his chances of winning Charlie Gibson’s seat on Good Morning America.
“I think I (though allegedly testing the best) am not under serious consideration, which I accept, but do Read More
In a colorful e-mail to one ABC News colleague, Chris Cuomo—son of Mario, brother of Andrew; he of the perfect hair, bone structure and political pedigree—doubted his chances of winning Charlie Gibson’s seat on Good Morning America.
“I think I (though allegedly testing the best) am not under serious consideration, which I accept, but do Read More
