Category: News

Are Private Eyes Back in Style on TV?

Word around town (that’s L.A. to everybody who isn’t “in” that particular town) is that CBS Studios has optioned Michael Koryta’s novel about private investigator Lincoln Perry,A Welcome Grave for a TV series to be produced by the Kennedy/Marshall Company.

We find this report refreshing because, taken on its face, it means that Kennedy/Marshall thinks this should be a series and convinced CBS to put up some money for them to develop it. Because they wouldn’t dream of using their own money…because if it’s at all possible production companies never do. They always pass the hat to a network. read article

Whoa, Kinda Looks Like the DISH CEO is an…Well, How Does ‘Arrogant Putz’ Sound?

Saw this on The Consumerist, a – maybe the – top consumer protection side on the web. Not a healthy way to start the day:

Know Your Enemy Dept. Meet Dish Boss Charlie Ergen

Dish CEO Says His Customers Don’t Watch AMC Because “They Live In Farms & Ranches” – by Chris Morran

To all you Dish subscribers who have to go over to your friends’ houses to watch Breaking Bad because you no longer have AMC, the satellite service’s CEO has a message for you: Stop complaining and don’t watch good TV, because he never has. read article

LB: Billy Crystal is Getting $4 mil to Write a Book on Aging

All I can say is that it’d better be a lot funnier than I’m finding the actual fact of aging to be.

Billy today

A whole lot.

Billy the day after tomorrow

Okay, that’s pretty funny. read article

MELISSA & JOEY Just Won Some Weird Demographic

But we know it’s “highly coveted,” right?

We know who Melissa Joan Hart is, but who’re these other peeps?

ABC Family’s suggested headline says it all:

“Melissa & Joey” Ranks as Cable TV’s #1 Telecast at 8 O’Clock for the 10th Consecutive Week in Women 18-34 and for the 7th in Women 18-49; read article

SATURDAY MORNING SLAM?

No, it isn’t an iHop breakfast. It’s something even more sinister:

TeamTVWriter Press Service has just learned (read “We got a press release”) that the WWE and Saban Brands have joined forces to produce SATURDAY MORNING SLAM, a kids show on the WC. It’s the first time in over a decade that the WWE has had a show in a kids time slot, and if that doesn’t prove that society is breaking down, nothing does. read article