Programming Briefs
By Staff -- Multichannel News, 12/21/2003 7:00:00 PM
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Cable Shows Span Golden Globe Nods Dish's Local-Into-Local Hits the Century Mark Sportsman Snares Four Small Ops HBO, NFL Films Recall Super Bowl I Showtime to Air 'Titus' Star's Special |
Cable Shows Span Golden Globe Nods
Los Angeles— Cable's programming class of 2003 is well represented among Golden Globe nominations, with an entry in every category.
FX's plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck joins Home Box Office's Six Feet Under in the battle for best drama series, along with Fox's 24, CBS's CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and NBC's The West Wing.
Cable has better odds in the musical or comedy series categories with USA Network's Monk, BBC America's The Office and HBO's Sex and the City all in the hunt. Their competition to supplant last year's winner, HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm — Fox's Arrested Development; and NBC's Will & Grace.
Nip/Tuck's Joely Richardson has also been nominated as best actress, drama, where she'll vie with Frances Conroy from HBO's Six Feet Under. While FX's gritty cop drama The Shield wasn't among this year's drama nominees, its lead actor, Michael Chiklis, gets a chance to defend his Golden Globe award from last year.
On the comedy side, Sex and the City's Sarah Jessica Parker and Bitty Schram from Monk are in the actress mix, while Ricky Gervais from The Office will try to unseat Tony Shalhoub, who has again been nominated for his obsessive-compulsive detective turn in Monk.
The industry will chalk up a winner in the made-for-television miniseries or movie category with HBO claiming three entries —Angels in America, My House in Umbria and Normal— while Showtime had the remaining two with Soldier's Girl and Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone.
Cable is also a shoo-in the actor and actresses, miniseries or TV movie areas, garnering all five nominees in both categories, and is in pretty good stead for supporting actors and actresses in those regards, with four of the five nominees in each.
The awards will be presented on Jan. 25.
Dish's Local-Into-Local Hits the Century Mark
Littleton, Colo. — With the recent addition of Charleston-Huntington, W.Va., EchoStar Communications Corp.'s Dish Network is now providing local broadcast channels in 100 markets.
The direct-broadcast satellite provider said it now offers 820 local channels to more than 90 million TV households in 44 states and the District of Columbia, representing over 83% of the population.
Sportsman Snares Four Small Ops
Big Bend, Wisc. —The Sportsman Channel— an around-the-clock network offering hunting and fishing programming — has snared carriage deals with a quartet of small operators: CMA, Armstrong Cable Services, Buckeye CableSystem and Blue Ridge Communications.
The network, which also has a carriage deal with the National Cable Television Cooperative, now counts some 10 million subscribers, 2.7 million of which are full-time.
HBO, NFL Films Recall Super Bowl I
New York— Time was the Super Bowl didn't command much of the nation's attention. HBO Sports will team up with NFL Films to explore the birth of the "Big Game" that has become an unofficial national holiday with the documentary The Wild Ride to Super Bowl I.
The documentary, which debuts on the premium network Jan. 26, will focus on the events leading up to the initial Super Bowl between the National Football League champion Green Bay Packers and their counterparts from the American Football League, the Kansas City Chiefs. Actor Liev Schreiber will narrate the film.
Showtime to Air 'Titus' Star's Special
New York—Showtime will air a comedy special featuring Fox sitcom Titus star Christopher Titus sometime in 2004.
The one-hour special will be based on Titus' one-man show, Normal Rockwell Is Bleeding, according to Showtime.
The announcement follows a similar comedy special arrangement with Dave Chapelle, also slated to premiere in 2004.
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