Category: Television News

July 20, 2008

Mad Men take top honors at Television Critics Awards

Filed under: Television Awards, Television News - 20 Jul 2008

The AMC drama Mad Men, which earned 16 Primetime Emmy nominations earlier this week, took home three Television Critics Association (TCA) Awards this weekend at the 24th annual TCA Awards.

It won awards for Program of the Year, Outstanding Achievement in …

Imagen Foundation to present top honours to Tony Plana, Rodrigo Garcia and Ligiah Villalobos

The Imagen Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging positive and accurate portrayal of Latino characters and production storylines in film and television, will present special awards to three prominent industry insiders this year.

Actor Tony Plana will be honoured …

July 19, 2008

Showtime orders 12 episodes of Nurse Jackie

Filed under: Television News - 19 Jul 2008

Three-time Emmy(R) Award winner Edie Falco is coming to a New York City hospital for SHOWTIME’s new half-hour single camera dark comedy series NURSE JACKIE (working title), it was jointly announced today by Robert Greenblatt, President of Entertainment for Showtime, …

July 17, 2008

2008 Primetime Emmy nominations are out

Filed under: Television Awards, Television News - 17 Jul 2008

The nominees for the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced earlier today.

Notably absent on the list of best dramas is Battlestar Galactica. This, along with the failure to include Mary McDonnell on the list of best actresses, is probably the …

July 13, 2008

Crash series to premiere on Starz October 17

Filed under: Television News - 13 Jul 2008

“Crash,” the first original drama series from Starz Entertainment, co-produced with Lionsgate, will premiere Friday, October 17 at 10:00 p.m. (et/pt) on Starz.

Inspired by the Academy Award(R)-winning Best Motion Picture of 2006, “Crash” is a provocative new 13-episode drama starring …

July 11, 2008

TV Trends: Consumers Demand Control

Filed under: Television News - 11 Jul 2008

Research and Markets has announced the addition of eMarketer’s new report “TV Trends: Consumers Demand Control” to their offering.

This TV Trends: Consumers Demand Control report addresses the question of why television content stays much the same, while the …

DIRECTV customers schedule more than 1 million DVR recordings using the Internet and mobile phones

Filed under: Television News - 11 Jul 2008

DIRECTV customers nationwide are embracing a new way to remotely record their favorite shows to their DVRs with the DIRECTV DVR Scheduler. This week, the DVR Scheduler reached a milestone with more than one million recordings scheduled remotely through the …

Independent Television Festival announces official selections

The independent television movement is taking Hollywood by storm with high quality post sound companies and now celebrities, too, jumping on board. James Cromwell stars and Executive Produces Hitfactor; John Leguizamo and Nick Cannon both lend their talents to the …

July 8, 2008

“Elvis: Viva Las Vegas” special to launch this August on DVD and Blu-ray

Filed under: Film Industry News, Television News - 08 Jul 2008

In just a few weeks, the groundbreaking television event that tells the story of how Elvis Presley, the King of Rock-and-Roll, reinvented Las Vegas - and how it reinvented him - will take the nation by storm.

Thirty-one years after Elvis …

Star Search Casting exposes the latest entertainment frauds and scams

Filed under: Film Industry News, Television News - 08 Jul 2008

As the number of scams targeting aspiring actors, singers, dancers and models escalate, and scammers become more sophisticated in their methods, it can be tricky to identify the difference between a scam and a legitimate opportunity. In response to the …

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