ABC: America's Song-and-Dance Network

Ugly Betty’s Mark Indelicato, decked out in a tux with a candy-apple red vest, lead a Broadway-like performance of "One Singular Sensation," to open up ABC’s Upfront presentation yesterday afternoon. America Ferrera and the rest of the cast joined him, kicking up their heels in a chorus line. (We see a very Read More

ABC's Aggressive 2007

This afternoon ABC presents its 2007-2008 schedule to media and ad reps at Lincoln Center; to get things started this morning, the network released the lineup to press. “We’re heading into the new season with a strong lineup of returning shows that we’ve developed and nurtured over the past few years,” ABC Read More

Nightline Seeks Lebensraum

On the afternoon of Feb. 9, the cast and crew of ABC News’ Nightline convened quietly in the network’s Times Square studio to shoot two secret pilots of an hour-long version of the half-hour 11:30 p.m. news show, according to three sources familiar with the project.

The test versions were prepared for ABC and Read More

Today’s Wake-Up

It’s just past 8 a.m. on the set of ABC’s Good Morning America, and Samantha Finck is crying like a baby. She is a baby–Samantha is one-sixth of three separate sets of Finck twins appearing on the show today–and just minutes to air, she’s wailing so loudly the production assistants jam fingers in their ears. Read More

Good Night, ABC! TV Tabloid Empress Packs Up and Leaves

On the desk in Shelley Ross’s soon-to-be former office—room 911, not incidentally, at ABC headquarters on 66th Street—is a photograph in a black leather Gucci frame of Ms. Ross, Charles Manson and future Fox News Channel chairman and C.E.O. Roger Ailes.

Ms. Ross was 28 at the time the picture was taken, in June 1981, Read More

Good Night, ABC! TV Tabloid Empress Packs Up and Leaves

On the desk in Shelley Ross’s soon-to-be former office—room 911, not incidentally, at ABC headquarters on 66th Street—is a photograph in a black leather Gucci frame of Ms. Ross, Charles Manson and future Fox News Channel chairman and C.E.O. Roger Ailes.

Ms. Ross was 28 at the time the picture was taken, in June Read More