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TIME: CW's Easy Money "Best New Network Show"

Time | Posted 10.09.2008 | Entertainment


ou might be surprised to hear that the best new network show of the fall season may well be on The CW, shunted onto a throwaway night that the network...

Gossip Girl Ratings Significantly Up From Last Year, Lift CW

AdAge | Brian Steinberg | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media


NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- CBS, Fox and the CW are off to the best starts in the new fall TV season, according to a new report from Interpublic Group of ...

How CWTV.com Became One Giant Viral Marketplace

Guardian | Sarah Hughes | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media


In the back of a limo a boy rings a girl to tell her he won't be able to make their date. She looks down at the remains of the Chinese takeaway she's ...

Why "Smallville" is Still Super

Ed Martin | Posted 09.17.2008 | Entertainment


Ed Martin

  It’s a problem that plagues almost every drama series on broadcast television that is not a procedural crime drama: How to keep the narra...

"Gossip Girl," "One Tree Hill" Lift CW To Best Monday Ever

Hollywood Reporter | James Hibberd | Posted 09.17.2008 | Media


The perpetual fifth-wheel network is starting to look like a big-league player on Monday nights. The CW had its highest-rated Monday in the network's...

"90210" Gives CW Highest Rated Premiere In Network's History

New York Times | Benjamin Toff | Posted 09.04.2008 | Media


"90210," the reincarnated version of the 1990s series "Beverly Hills: 90210," made an impressive debut in the ratings on Tuesday, setting a record as ...

First "90210" Cliffhanger of the Season: Is Something Wrong With the Show?

Ed Martin | Posted 08.19.2008 | Entertainment


Ed Martin

In a truly unexpected turn of events, The CW has decided to not make the premiere of its upcoming drama 90210 available to critics and members of the media early.

Gossip Girl and 90210: The CW's Day at TCA

Ed Martin | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business


Ed Martin

Critics enjoy picking on Gossip Girl because its television ratings are very small, even though its demographics are young and desirable.

Meeting Penn and Blake

Joe Satran | Posted 07.20.2008 | Entertainment


Joe Satran

A solid chunk of the appeal of Gossip Girl lies in the sense that the actors on the show really are their characters, so there was no way I was going to pass up an opportunity to meet one of the stars.

Advertisers Rate 2008 Upfront Events in JackMyers.com Survey

Ed Martin | Posted 06.05.2008 | Media


Ed Martin

Advertising executives agree: By every measure, Univision produced the best Upfront event of 2008.

"Farmer Wants A Wife" Ratings Bizarrely Close To Those Of Mega-Hyped "Gossip Girl"

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 05.28.2008 | Media


LOS ANGELES — The glossy, big-city world of "Gossip Girls" is far afield of the modest, small-town doings of "Farmer Wants a Wife." Logic dicta...

Network TV Upfront Week 2008: Not So Bad After All

Ed Martin | Posted 05.22.2008 | Entertainment


Ed Martin

We had been led to expect networks to roll over and play dead in the wake of the WGA strike and amid the recession -- but almost all the networks rallied in grand style for Upfronts 2008.

CW Network May Fold If Ratings Don't Improve: Report

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 05.16.2008 | Media


The CW has a tortured relationship with the Web. Last month the youth-oriented network tried to stop ratings declines for its "hit" show "Gossip Girl"...

"Gossip Girl" Pulled Offline For Being TOO Successful

Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo | Andrew Wallenstein | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment


The CW network is taking aim at an unlikely competitive threat: its own Web site. The network said Thursday that episodes of its series "Gossip Girl"...

'90210' Spinoff On Fast Track Back To Primetime

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 03.13.2008 | Entertainment


The most popular zip code on television is back. The CW network is developing a contemporary spinoff of Aaron Spelling's seminal 1990s teen soap "Bev...

CW Planning "90210" Spinoff

The Hollywood Reporter | Nellie Andreeva | Posted 03.13.2008 | Media


The most popular ZIP code on television is coming back. The CW is developing a contemporary spinoff of Aaron Spelling's seminal 1990s teen soap "Beve...

CW Cutting Comedy Department

AP | Posted 03.04.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — With only one comedy yet given the go-ahead for next fall's schedule, the CW network is eliminating its comedy department as part of ...

Writers' Strike May Create Opportunities For Smaller Networks: "It's Not A Rerun If You've Never Watched The Show In The First Place"

Variety | MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, JOSEF ADALIAN | Posted 11.23.2007 | Media


In 1988, a writers strike helped steer viewers to the fledgling Fox network. Now, the 2007 scribe shutdown could give another upstart, the CW, a neede...

For Big Media, No News Is Good News

Timothy Karr | Posted 11.13.2007 | Media


Timothy Karr

The CW network continues to broadcast no news in some markets without the slightest blink from the bureaucrats who are duty sworn to protect our airwaves from abuse.

Top 5 Chuck Bass Moments From This Week's Gossip Girl

Danny Shea | Posted 10.11.2007 | Entertainment


Danny Shea

I've distilled 44 minutes of primetime TV into 90 seconds of splendor to give you Chuck Bass' top five moments, from the insane outfits to the ridiculous luxury brand-dropping to the straight-up asshole comments he's becoming known for.

Review Roundup: "Aliens in America" Gets Good Grades

Danny Shea | Posted 10.01.2007 | Entertainment


Danny Shea

The reviews are in for The CW's newest high school sitcom Aliens in America, which premiered Monday Night. Though somewhat mixed, they suggest an extremely promising coming-of-age series that succeeds in blending comedy and social commentary.

Gossip Girl: Why Alessandra Stanley Got It Wrong And What You Can Look Forward To Tonight

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 09.19.2007 | Media


The show, as many of you will learn tonight, is nothing short of spectacular, and the parental subplots Stanley finds so disarming actually help drive the show's plotlines in important ways.