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When Nahnatchka Khan set out to adapt Eddie Huang's memoir for television, she had no plans of shifting any industry narratives. The veteran scribe just wanted her pilot, which focused [...]

MIAMI It's tough going it alone. Over the past year, Spanish-lingo programming distribs in the Americas inked co-production deals, other alliances and snapped up formats with a vengeance, a trend [...]

Over 40 percent of full power local television stations in the U.S. could have to vacate their current TV channel assignment under the FCC's National Broadband Plan, and a minimum [...]

SEOUL - As South Korean TV broadcasters brace themselves for a transition into the satellite and digital-TV era, their programming reflects a decided preference for the past - Korea's past, [...]

BANGKOK -- Broadcasting in Thailand is facing three major issues at present: a weak baht (the Thai currency), the move into the digital age and a broadcast bill that remains [...]

Slow but steady seems to be the motto these days of the Slovak TV industry. None of the country's major TV outlets report significant new activity in the past six [...]

LONDON - Although TV drama and films will be in demand at this year's MIPCOM, U.K. buyers continue to question the confab's place in the TV calendar. Jeff Ford, controller [...]

Film 20 aims for better balance in negotiations with b'casters BERLIN -- '(In a couple of years) any German production company with sales of less than DM100 million ($46.7 million) [...]

Historical dramas lord it over primetime fare SEOUL Kings and queens of ancient Korea rule primetime TV: All four broadcasters are showing historical dramas, and as each show airs twice [...]

Documentary-style shows bode poorly for acting opportunities in the coming season. The numbers are in, and reality-based programming has proven quite lucrative for the major networks, seeing primetime success with [...]

Heard the buzz about the upcoming TV season? If so, congratulations: You're about the only one who has. While bitching about just how bad the new fall shows look is [...]

White Cherry Entertainment's Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss have produced the Tony Awards ceremony and live telecast since 2003. They're now in the final stretch for this year's show, hosted [...]

CHICAGO -- In the years that it will take a la carte program pricing to radically alter media and entertainment economics, there will be countless developments in digital content production [...]

LONDON -- The United Kingdom's commercial TV regulator, the Independent Television Commission, hauled out some big guns Wednesday to examine potential abuses in the relationship between independent television producers and [...]

ROME -- Italian state broadcaster RAT has come under new fire from the country's center-left opposition over its alleged muzzling of Enzo Biagi, a veteran TV commentator accused by Prime [...]

The Big Six networks just pulled in a near-record $8 billion in upfront ad revenue. So why is nobody on Broadcast Row smiling? Despite the good news from Madison Avenue, [...]

Welcome to Vanilla Time. According to new surveys, vanilla is suddenly the most popular flavor in food and beverages--even entertainment. Anyone analyzing the new TV programming lineups or release schedules [...]

Two new TV series skedded for fall have inadvertently set a paradigm for the nets' upcoming season. In ABC's 'That Was Then' and the WB's 'Do Over,' the shows' lead [...]

MADRID Two years ago, under then-prexy Juan Villalonga, Spanish telco giant Telefonica looked set to buy up much of Latin American TV single-handedly. Telefonica's control of Argentine TV net Telefe [...]

The past year brought dramatic changes to the kids programming landscape in North America. Fox Family Worldwide was snapped up by ABC, adding ABC Family to the ranks of Disney-controlled [...]

Each time a new movie channel launch is announced, there seems to be a different opinion about the prospects for all these new services. Recent times have seen the launches [...]

Is 2006 OVER ALREADY? You might be forgiven for thinking exactly that, given the Nine Network's eagerness to close out the 2006 ratings year. Spring had barely sprung when in [...]

SYDNEY The greatest threat to the success of reality television is unreality, according to one of the genre's most successful producers. Faking and overhyping could kill it dead in ratings [...]

SYDNEY What's the matter with kids today? For a start, they're more picky than ever about what they watch on TV. No longer interested in serials, children want self-contained episodes, [...]

SYDNEY With three big rating seasons under its belt and a fourth pending, 'Big Brother' is showing off its legs for Southern Star Endemol. 'I can see it going for [...]

MONTREAL Canuck terrestrial web CTV, which often used to trail rival Global Network, is garnering boffo ratings thanks to savvy U.S. acquisitions and one monster local success story. It's a [...]

NEW YORK Barry Diller has grabbed headlines as a media mogul and a guru of Internet and electronic commerce. His latest claim to fame is less glamorous: A fly in [...]

BERLIN While communist pro-paganda hasn't exactly returned to Germany's airwaves East German chic is definitely back in fashion. It's been 14 years since fall of the Berlin Wall opened East [...]

With no end in sight to the reality TV tidal wave, actors and writers have been in a tizzy. But there is one unscripted skein that may ease the worries [...]

SYDNEY Australia's TV networks are not known for being innovative, but lately their copycattery has scaled new heights. Last year four of the five nets launched new local drama skeins--two [...]

EDINBURGH, Scotland -- After three days of passionate debate, conferences and parties in Scotland's capital city, it was clear that the annual pilgrimage of TV executives known as the Guardian [...]

A group of technology and entertainment experts has determined that three-way convergence of the TV telephone and personal computer is a ways off or may not happen at all. The [...]

SINGAPORE Established broadcaster MediaCorp and newcomer SPH MediaWorks are waging a war of words in the local press. MediaWorks CEO Lee Cheok Yew is angry that MediaCorp gets more public [...]

Nothing rattled the cages in the network executive suites last week more than the Nielsen news that the Learning Channel's celebrity edition of 'Trading Spaces' drew a larger adults 18-49 [...]

Reality TV has spawned a hot new sub-genre: Call it 'B-Level Celebrities Making an Ass of Themselves in Primetime.' And viewers apparently can't get enough. NBC's 'Fear Factor' last week [...]

Nothing like the creation of a 22 million-subscriber MSO to cap off a tumultuous year in which industry consolidation continued unabated. Indeed, Comcast Corp. finally got AT&T Broadband, after it [...]

A familiar mantra is greeting media companies who want a piece of the explosive Spanish-language market: pay to play -- pay a lot to play. General Electric Co.'s NBC did [...]

MILAN, ITALY - After almost three months of tough bargaining, the major players in Italy's nascent digital television industry have reached a general agreement on a common digital TV platform. [...]

TV Cameras Appear in the Federal Courts? THIS could be a historic week for televised coverage of the federal courts. On Sept. 12, the Judicial Conference, a group of 27 [...]