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Cable Won’t Take Memorial Day Off

By: R. Thomas Umstead | May 20 2013 (All day)

Several cable networks are hoping to generate some ratings sizzle this Memorial Day with new original movies, miniseries and scripted fare set to debut over the...

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MCNBRIEFS

By: MCN Staff | May 13 2013 (All day)

Ovation Quadruples Original-Series Hours

New York — Ovation, whose 2013 got off to an inauspicious start when it was dropped...

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A+E Networks Have Big Ambitions

By: R. Thomas Umstead | May 13 2013 (All day)

NEW YORK — A+E Networks is not content to battle just its cable-network competitors: the company is taking the fight to the broadcast networks.

Calling...

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FAMILY TREE

By: Michael Demenchuk | May 6 2013 (All day)

If you’re a fan of the Christopher Guest-directed theatrical mockumentaries — A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, Waiting for Guff man et. al....

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Going Off the Grid — And Occasionally Naked

By: R. Thomas Umstead | May 6 2013 (All day)

Discovery Channel, Travel Channel and TNT will look to offer new wrinkles to the venerable survival-based competition reality series genre with news shows set to...

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Review: 'Inside Amy Schumer'

By: Kent Gibbons | Apr 29 2013 (All day)

The sketches (scripted vignettes) here are clever, oh-so-topical and funny. Star Amy Schumer can do clueless, self-absorbed, nice girl, all of it credibly. Even...

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Digital Shares Stage as Upfronts Roll On

By: R. THOMAS UMSTEAD | Apr 29 2013 (All day)

NEW YORK — Major digital-media initiatives shared center stage with new original series as part of cable networks’ latest round of upfront presentations...

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Review: 'Brain Games'

By: Kent Gibbons | Apr 22 2013 - 10:17am

“Pay attention: this is a test.” That’s the first thing you hear from host Jason Silva as this catchy new show kicks off, with a challenge to...

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Review: 'Rectify'

By: Kent Gibbons | Apr 22 2013 - 10:00am

This astonishing six-part drama grips you from the opening scene, in prison, where Daniel Holden, played by Aden Young, is about to be released after nearly 20...

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FS1 Jumps Into the Ring

By: R. Thomas Umstead | Apr 22 2013 (All day)

The new Fox Sports 1 national sports service will deliver a weekly one-two punch of ring sports action when it launches this summer.

The network — set...

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