Halle Berry (L), Camryn Manheim (M) and Goran Visnjic (R) film a scene for TV show ‘Extant’ on February 14, 2014 in Los Angeles, California *CBS on Tuesday announced a slew of premiere dates for its summer 2014 slate, including Steven Spielberg’s science fiction series “Extant,” starring Halle Berry. The mystery thriller, which has the […]
*Starz has made changes to its Encore pack of channels citing the nation’s evolving demographics and focusing on groups who turn up in numbers within the premium pay TV category. That translates to shuffling some of its eight Encore-branded channels to target baby boomers, African American and Latino audiences and the company acquiring older […]
*A new petition published on Change.org is calling for Oprah Winfrey’s network to remove her friend and business partner Tyler Perry from OWN‘s airwaves, claiming that the filmmaker “perpetuates stereotypes” about the black community. The petition, created by Eva Vega, uses the infamous phrase from MSNBC’s Toure to describe Perry’s shows as “malt liquor” for […]
More bad news for NBC: The one-time No. 1 network has fallen to fifth place in the Nielsen TV ratings during the important February sweeps period, according to Deadline.com. Sweeps occurs four weeks each year, when networks inundate TV audiences with hairpin plot turns, tear-inducing weddings, jaw-dropping deaths and more major moments all in the […]
Ready for a channel devoted to nothing but “The Simpsons?” Don’t laugh, it is one idea News Corp. Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey threw out when speaking Tuesday at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media Communications & Entertainment Conference in Beverly Hills. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/14/simpsons-channel-fox_n_962782.html Article Courtesy of The Huffington Post