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By Leah Hochbaum

Across the world, programming trends change like seasons — a winter of comedy makes way for a dramatic springtime, which turns like the color of leaves (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

NBC Universal’s new chairperson and chief executive Jeff Zucker made waves late last year when he announced that in an effort to cut costs, the (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

International pop star Justin Timberlake made his acting debut last year in crime thriller Edison Force. But the film, which also starred such stalwarts as Kevin (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

Satellite has long been the carrier of choice for niche channels, which are seeking the biggest possible audiences they can get. But the introduction of the (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

While the introduction of English-language telenovelas on the new MyNetworkTV hasn’t exactly been a resounding success in the U.S., the soapy series continue to dominate the (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

Is NATPE still the place to be in January? VideoAge visited several exhibitors to find out if NATPE is indeed the weakest of the three major (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

Although TV executives have complained that most of the markets that were once considered can’t-miss events are now just relics of the industry’s forgotten past, most (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

At the start of the 2006-2007 U.S. TV season, the popularity of serialized shows like Lost, 24 and Grey’s Anatomy led to glut of copycats (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

In years past, on U.S. television, many movies of the week (MOW or TV movies), if not about the diseases-of-the-week, had absurd names such as Mother, (…)

By Leah Hochbaum

Once upon a time there were but a few TV channels from many small companies. Viewers would turn the television’s manual dial and then sit back, (…)