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Fringe Gets Full-Season Order

Christopher Rosen — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:20:09 -0400

Good news for fans of absurd science fiction! Fox has picked up J.J. Abrams' Fringe for a full season order. After an iffy pilot and slack ratings, Fringe has become a moderate hit since being paired with House on Tuesday nights. Its audience has grown and stabilized, two good signs for a network show, and now Fringe sits on an average of roughly ten million viewers per week. read more »

Super Spurlock Signs Deal With Fox

Gillian Reagan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:28:08 -0500

New York's Morgan Spurlock, the indie doc film director who gave us Super Size Me and the upcoming Sundance entry Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, has just signed a deal with Fox to develop both "scripted and nonscripted" fare with Fox, according to Variety. read more »

In Defense of David Cross

Matt Haber — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 07:24:49 -0500

A few weeks’ work on a kiddy flick in exchange for the down payment on a house with a stream seemed logical enough to 43-year-old comedian David Cross, but to a certain Internet-empowered subset of his fans, this was nothing short of a betrayal. read more »

Strike News: Fox Postpones 24, Eschewing Partial Season, While ABC Goes Ahead With Lost

Observer Staff — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:15:01 -0500

Fox and ABC came to opposite conclusions about what to do with two popular shows with seasons left incomplete when the writers' strike begain. Fox is postponing the premiere of its popular series, 24, rather than begin to air a season that isn't finished; but ABC will go ahead and air episodes of Lost, which is also incomplete. read more »

Maxim Gets Stuff-ed, And More

Observer Staff — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:35:04 -0400

Yesterday, Alpha Media Group--the name for the investors backed by Quadrangle Capital Partners who bought Maxim, Blender and Stuff from Dennis Publishing yesterday for more than $240 million--announced plans to fold Stuff, the shopping-centered T&A men's magazine, and resurrect it as a regular section in its lad mag, Maxim.

Maxim and Blender will be the chief beneficiaries of the new owners' money and time from now on, with plans to increase the rate-base for Blender, the music and lifestyle magazine, to 1 million by January 2009.

Maxim will get "Stuff for Men" as a section of the magazine, now that the title no longer has to compete with FHM magazine, the other lad-shopping mag.

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If They Did It

Rebecca Dana — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0500

In April 2006, celebrity publisher Judith Regan began working on what she called "Project Miami." It read more »

If They Did It

Rebecca Dana — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 19:00:00 -0500

In April 2006, celebrity publisher Judith Regan began working on what she called "Project Miami read more »

Getting Mixed Messages on Terror Threat—And Giving Them, Too

Rebecca Dana — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:00:00 -0400

By any measure, Oct. 6 was a bountiful and tricky day for television news. read more »

Getting Mixed Messages on Terror Threat-And Giving Them, Too

Rebecca Dana — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:00:00 -0400

By any measure, Oct. read more »

Ailes Claims New Fox Turf

Rebecca Dana — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 20:00:00 -0400

First Roger Ailes took over part of Lachlan Murdoch’s old job. Now, according to a News Corp. read more »