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I LOVE JENNI

By: KENT GIBBONS | Apr 8 2013 (All day)

As season three of this pioneering Hispanic celebrity reality series begins, several dramas are going on, all against the backdrop of the biggest drama of all...

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Multicultural Networks Getting More Original

By: R. Thomas Umstead | Apr 8 2013 (All day)

Multicultural networks have detailed plans to offer new original programming for African- American viewers over the next year as part of upfront presentations....

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Millennials Are So Yesterday

By: R. Thomas Umstead | Apr 1 2013 (All day)

For kids’ cable networks, the much-discussed millennial demographic is so yesterday.

Networks ranging from Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney Channel...

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Exotic Foods Pique Viewers’ Appetites

By: R. Thomas Umstead | Mar 25 2013 (All day)

For years, food-themed cable shows have successfully cooked up traditional American dishes to feed the appetites of viewers, but recently a new crop of ethnic and...

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Review: Bates Motel

By: R. Thomas Umstead | Mar 18 2013 (All day)

A&E will offer a re-imagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho in a new original series, Bates Motel.

The series, billed as a prequel...

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Praying for a Hit

By: R. Thomas Umstead | Mar 18 2013 (All day)

With Easter right around the corner, cable is looking for some heavenly ratings intervention for several Christian-themed shows.

Networks including GMC,...

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Nick Takes ‘Post-Millennial’ Tack

By: R. Thomas Umstead | Mar 4 2013 (All day)

NEW YORK — Nickelodeon will turn its original programming focus toward serving post-millennial viewers in an effort to help revive its sagging ratings,...

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Review: Vikings

By: Kent Gibbons | Feb 25 2013 (All day)

Apologies if, like me, hearing the name Vikings cues up Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song” in your brain. But this series is that infectious...

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‘Killing’ in the Ratings

By: MCN Staff | Feb 25 2013 (All day)

National Geographic Channel’s Feb. 17 premiere of docu-movie Killing Lincoln drew a network-record 3.4 million viewers while introducing its viewers...

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OUT THERE

By: Michael Demenchuk | Feb 18 2013 (All day)

IFC becomes the latest cable network to tread what’s become the well-worn turf of adult animation with Out There, a surreal high school coming-of-age...

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