NBCU executive Ben Silverman has left the company in order to pursue a new venture with IAC. Silverman, who came under fire for a lack of hits and h...
The last straw has to be Patti Blagojevich, likening Janice Dickinson and her kleptomania to an opponent her husband once faced in an election.
I've had to really examine my need to write about the finale of The Hills before actually putting pen to paper.
Execs put garbage on TV because people watch it -- its more relaxing to watch garbage than to actually take it out.
Media mogul David Geffen is seriously interested in purchasing a large stake in The New York Times Company. Rumors of Geffen's interest have increas...
Well, it could've been worse. As 2008 mercifully ends, we're left to ponder a year in which the real and the surreal were pretty much indistinguishable, where insanity actually became tedium.
To figure out how NBC got to this point, let's look back at some influential decisions by reading through actual transcripts between NBC execs.
Moving Leno to Conan's early lead-in will create a stronger Conan Tonight Show by allowing him the breathing room to adjust to the earlier time slot and build his own audience.
After Conan O'Brien takes over the Tonight Show in May, Jay Leno will begin hosting a show at 10pm on NBC. The move coincides with Jeff Zucker's pla...
James Bond: Quantum of Solace took in $70.4 million this weekend to top the Box Office. Quantum of Solace t...
"In TV today," Silverman commented at last week's Monaco Media Forum in Monte Carlo, "it's difficult to manage an advertising downturn, but we're developing other businesses."
Be sure to check out full coverage of the TCA at Ed Martin Live at TCAIt was a Television Critics Association tour like no other. For the first time i...
All of the professional explanations for the decline of broadcast television ratings seem to agree that the problem comes from outside forces and an unavoidable changing landscape. I disagree.
The fact that Ben Silverman is not only successful but has become so via the control of so much of NBC programming is all the proof you need of both the existence and virility of pacts with Satan.
What interests me about NBC's decision to take the show to a fourth hour is the impact it will have on shelf space (the industry term for time slots available on linear television).
