Linda Moss

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Cable’s TCA Tour: From Toothless Dogs To Naked Men In a Locker Room

Beverly Hills, Calif.—After four long and busy days here in Beverly Hills, cable’s portion of the Television Critics Association is wrapping up. The event had its moments, to be sure. I admit that my eyes welled up when I saw the clip from WE tv’s The Locator, which is about a man who helps adopted people track down their blood relations. In the video, we were... More

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Cable TCA Tour Lacks Some Big Guns This Year

TV writers—yours truly included—return to the Left Coast this week for the first Television Critics Association tour in a year where cable will kick off an event that normally takes place twice annually, in the winter and summer. The Writers Guild of America strike earlier this year not only hit Hollywood in the wallet, it put the kibosh on the January press tour, which had to... More

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Google Stumbles During Ad-Research Dog-And-Pony Show

Note to Google guys: Do your homework before addressing an auditorium that’s packed with advertising-research executives. There were several cringe-worthy moments at the Advertising Research Foundation’s conference when Google was questioned about two of its media-buying initiatives , namely Google TV Ads and Google Ad Planner. Both Keval Desai, Google’s director of... More

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Who Will OWN Up as CEO of Oprah’s Cable Network?

Oprah Winfrey and Discovery Communications are lining up the management team for the daytime diva’s new cable network, which will debut in the second half of next year—a reincarnation of Discovery Health Channel. The first shoe dropped yesterday, with the announcement that Robin Schwartz, president of Regency Television, had been appointed president of OWN: The Oprah... More

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It’s a Chick Thing: 'Bridezillas' and 'Sex and the City'

I spent Tuesday morning literally in the heart of Times Square, on the island between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, alongside a 10-foot tall slice of wedding cake, decorated with more than 50 gallons of butter cream frosting. In a stunt celebrating the fifth season of Bridezillas,  WE had 10 brides-to-be—clad in wedding dresses, white helmets, and sneakers—scamper up the... More