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"Gossip Girl" Threesome Prompts Parents Television Council Campaign Against Show

AP | FRAZIER MOORE | Posted 11.05.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — On-air promos for a sexual threesome on an upcoming episode of "Gossip Girl" have spurred the Parents Television Council to ask affil...

The CW Cancels Mischa Barton's 'Beautiful Life' After TWO Episodes

AP | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — The CW network's "The Beautiful Life: TBL" has become the first television series from the new fall crop to be canceled. The network...

Melrose Place Recap: Episode 3

Tasha Gordon-Solmon | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment


Tasha Gordon-Solmon

What's wrong in paradise this week? Riley hasn't changed her Facebook status to "engaged" and Jonah is devastated. Time for another misunderstanding that will irrationally culminate in a huge fight.

Will CBS Be the Wal-Mart of Media?

Jack Myers | Posted 07.23.2009 | Business


Jack Myers

Among all major media companies, CBS is best positioned to emerge as the low-cost leader.

Tyra Banks On The CW 12 Hours/Week!

New York Post | Posted 06.22.2009 | Media


The little network aimed at younger women has signed over an unprecedented 12 hours of airtime per week to the former supermodel starting next fall, i...

'Gossip Girl' Stars In Shorts: Who Wore The Look Better? (POLL)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 06.23.2009 | Entertainment


The CW is having their annual upfronts at New York's Madison Square Garden on Thursday, and the leading ladies of "Gossip Girl" both showed up in shor...

CW Courts Texting, Social Media Crowd With New Shows

New York Times | STUART ELLIOTT | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media

Read More: The CW, Media News

IF the different ways to watch television could be likened to a TV dinner, the TV set is still the Salisbury steak or fried chicken main course. (Or p...

CW Gives Sunday Programming Back to Affiliates

AP | Nellie Andreeva | Posted 06.05.2009 | Media

Read More: CW Sundays, The CW, Cw, Media News

NEW YORK — The CW television network is shutting down on Sunday nights. The network is negotiating to turn over the time to its affiliates. Vie...

Gossip Girl Goes Over to the Dark Side (Again)

Disgrasian | Posted 01.11.2009 | Entertainment


Disgrasian

Season 2's "White Party," is a fitting metaphor for what Gossip Girl really is pretty, rich white people trapped in a particular ring of hell where life is one neverending party.

The CW Confirms It's Looking For "Gossip Girl" Spin Off

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media


The CW confirmed Thursday that it's looking at ways to spin off its hit "Gossip Girl" for next season. CW entertainment president Dawn Ostroff told T...

"Melrose Place" Remake Eyed

AP | Posted 11.28.2008 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Having done well with a remake of "Beverly Hills 90210" this season, the CW network is considering a remake of that show's spinoff, "...

Kids In Expensive Clothes: The CW Finds Secret To Success

New York Times | Posted 11.25.2008 | Entertainment


CW, the part-time television network that a year ago looked like much less than the sum of the two mini-networks from which it emerged, is offering a ...

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

Time | Posted 11.09.2008 | 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 11.07.2008 | 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 10.22.2008 | 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 10.18.2008 | 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 10.18.2008 | 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 10.05.2008 | 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 09.19.2008 | 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 07.29.2008 | 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 07.28.2008 | 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.

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

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 06.05.2008 | 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 05.30.2008 | 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 05.24.2008 | 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 04.26.2008 | 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"...