SPIDER-MAN: BROADWAY’S COSTLIEST FLOP?

Apparently concluding that Broadway producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark planned to keep pushing back the official premiere of the musical ad infinitum, New York theater critics decided to break protocol Tuesday and review it while it was still in previews. They unanimously damned the $65-million production. Michael Riedel, who writes the “Broadway Matinee” [...]

WILL MTV CANCEL SKINS?

A report appearing in the New York Post on Wednesday quoting an MTV source as saying that the racy new teen drama Skins “may soon be off the air — for good” quickly drew a denial from the cable channel, which issued a statement saying, “MTV stands by the US adaptation of Skins and the [...]

WILL PARKER SPITZER LOSE PARKER?

Conservative commentator Kathleen Parker is about to be dumped from CNN’s low-rated Parker Spitzer, according to the New York Post, which cited an unnamed insider. The source told the newspaper that Parker was being removed from the show “due to a lack of chemistry” with Spitzer and “dismal ratings.” The Post also took note of [...]

OPRAH’S OWN NETWORK NABS SOLID REVIEWS

The reviews have been mostly positive for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN cable network, which launched on Saturday, New Year’s Day. The New York Times‘s Alessandra Stanley remarked that the network is “a place where cynicism takes a holiday and mockery hasn’t yet been invented. … a ‘meaningful, mindful’ cable network that seeks its own truth and [...]

FORD RACES AWAY FROM MADE IN DAGENHAM

Perhaps understandably, the Ford Motor Co. has declined to participate in any part of the promotional campaign for Sony Pictures Classics’ Made in Dagenham, the critically praised British comedy about a 1968 equal-pay strike by women at a Ford plant in the U.K. The New York Post‘s “Page Six” column quoted a source connected with [...]

WAS LARA SPENCER SHAFTED BY CBS CHIEF?

The decision to install former Access Hollywood co-anchor Nancy O’Dell as the new co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight has riled not only The Insider host Lara Spencer, who reportedly had been promised the job after Mary Hart stepped down but also Linda Bell Blue, the executive producer of both Entertainment Tonight and The Insider. According to [...]

REPORT: WILL SMITH FEUDING WITH MEN IN BACK PRODUCERS

Feuding between Will Smith on the one hand and director Barry Sonnenfeld and the producers on the other has resulted in production of Sony’s Men in Black III being halted in New York, the New York Post‘s “Page Six” gossip column reported today (Tuesday), citing unnamed sources. The newspaper said that Smith and the filmmakers [...]

PARKER SPITZER RATINGS DECLINE

Ratings for CNN’s Parker Spitzer slid again on Wednesday, its third day on the air. The new Crossfire-type show drew 501,000 viewers, versus 513,000 on Tuesday and 454,000 on Monday. It remained in last place among the cable TV shows at 8:00 p.m., with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly leading the pack with 3.47 million viewers, [...]

IGER ORDERING OVERHAUL OF ABC

Disney chief Robert Iger is focusing his attention on “remaking” the company’s ABC television network and is putting pressure on Anne Sweeney, president of Disney/ABC Television Group and newly appointed ABC entertainment chief Paul Lee “to find hits and get them on the air fast,” the New York Post reported today (Tuesday), citing unnamed ABC [...]

MORGAN CONCEDES HE’S TALKING TO CNN

For the first time, America’s Got Talent judge Piers Morgan has confirmed that he is in talks with CNN “for a primetime position.” It has been widely reported that Morgan is in line to succeed Larry King when King steps down in the fall. Buttonholed by New York Times TV reporter Brian Stelter at the [...]

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