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TNT Picks Up "Southland," Canceled By NBC

AP | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — Cable network TNT says it has rescued the shot-down NBC cop drama "Southland" and will bring it back in the new year. Beginning Jan....

DirecTV, TBS, TNT To Put Shows Online

AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media


DirecTV Group Inc. is in talks with the TBS and TNT cable networks to offer their shows online, according to two people familiar with the discussions....

TNT Admits To Never Actually Broadcasting the First Half of The Shawshank Redemption

The Hollywood Ham | Posted 08.30.2009 | Comedy


The Hollywood Ham

"Most Shawshank fans claim they can watch it from any point and it doesn't affect the viewing experience," explained one TNT exec.

Nurses on TV: HawthoRNe is Strong Stuff

Barbara Ficarra | Posted 07.18.2009 | Entertainment


Barbara Ficarra

I'm delighted to see that the new TV series HawthoRNe avoids most of the media stereotypes of nursing, portraying a nurse character that is strong, determined, smart and assertive.

May 2009 Cable Rankings: TNT #1 In Primetime, Fox News Top 5 In Primetime and Total Day

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 07.05.2009 | Media


Fox News ranked #4 in total viewers among all cable channels in primetime for the month of May 2009, according to Nielsen Media Research. TNT rode NB...

Charles Barkley Returning To TNT After Drunk Driving Arrest

Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 03.21.2009 | Media


NEW YORK -- "NBA on TNT" analyst Charles Barkley, on leave since January after a drunken driving arrest in Arizona, will return this week. Turner S...

NBA All Star Game Ratings Up

Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media


NEW YORK -- On the heels of record ratings for the Boston Celtics-Los Angeles Lakers game earlier this month, TNT's All-Star Game ratings are on a rol...

The Big Bad Business of Television

Norman Horowitz | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media


Norman Horowitz

I just loved the following taken from a "trade report": NBC replaced scripted series with talk show host Jay Leno in its Monday to Friday 10 p.m. tim...

Spelling Ted Without Ed

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 01.02.2009 | Media


Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

For such a surprising life, Ted's memoir is exceptionally unsurprising. In Call Me Ted, he is serially and simultaneously a rebel and an establishment figure.

"Raising The Bar" Lost Nearly 71% Of Its Audience Since Season Premiere

MediaWeek | Anthony Curpi | Posted 10.30.2008 | Media


Four episodes into its first-season run, TNT's Raising the Bar last week was tossed out of the nest, flung into the thick of broadcast's premiere week...

TNT Greenlights Cop Drama From Jerry Bruckheimer, CSI Creator

Hollywood Reporter | Kimberly Nordyke and Nellie Andreeva | Posted 10.27.2008 | Media


s part of its effort to ramp up original programming, TNT has its sights set on two cop-themed procedural dramas, one from the "CSI" duo of Jerry Bruc...

"The Closer" Spinoff In The Works

THR | Posted 10.05.2008 | Entertainment


The biggest drama on cable is eyeing a spinoff. The forces behind TNT's "The Closer," including creator/executive producer James Duff, are working o...

Raising The Bar: 7.7 Million Viewers — On Cable?

New York Post | Michael Starr | Posted 10.04.2008 | Media


I don't know what they're doing over there at TNT - but they're definitely doing something right. Monday's premiere of TNT's new legal drama, "Raisin...

Embrace Your Grace

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 09.11.2008 | Living


Cathleen Falsani

Grace is, by my definition, something unexpected. So it should have been no great surprise to me to discover a great blessing of grace in, of all ...

Cable Channels Gain On Broadcast Networks

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media


AS the cable channels that populate the television dial conclude their advance advertising sales, they have something to celebrate: they made much gre...

Television Unplugged? The Verdict on This Year's TV Upfronts

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media


Jerry Weinstein

Think of it as the Big Bang of Video.