According to Variety, the latest front in Hollywood's labor war is over hair, makeup and limos. Insiders told the trade paper that ABC and ABC Studios will not pick up the tab for its talent attending the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Jan. 27, set to air on TNT and TBS. In less contentious Read More
Speaking of Quarterlife, its star, Lolita Davidovich will play a recurring role on freshman ABC drama Dirty Sexy Money. The show has received a full-season pickup, according to The Hollywood Reporter. ABC launched the strongest slate of series this fall, including the top new drama "Private Practice," the top new comedy "Samantha Who?" and Read More
Ugly Betty’s Mark Indelicato, decked out in a tux with a candy-apple red vest, lead a Broadway-like performance of "One Singular Sensation," to open up ABC’s Upfront presentation yesterday afternoon. America Ferrera and the rest of the cast joined him, kicking up their heels in a chorus line. (We see a very special Read More
This afternoon ABC presents its 2007-2008 schedule to media and ad reps at Lincoln Center; to get things started this morning, the network released the lineup to press.“We’re heading into the new season with a strong lineup of returning shows that we’ve developed and nurtured over the past few years,” ABC Entertainment President Read More
Hillary Clinton picked up the guy who ran John Kerry's New Hampshire operation. Cory Booker met with fund-raisers to plan an event for Hillary Barack Obama. Former NY1 producer David Chalian is named political director of ABC News. Scott Sala thinks I should "bother the crap" out of Andrew Cuomo until Read More
On the afternoon of Feb. 9, the cast and crew of ABC News’ Nightline convened quietly in the network’s Times Square studio to shoot two secret pilots of an hour-long version of the half-hour 11:30 p.m. news show, according to three sources familiar with the project. The test versions were prepared for ABC and Disney Read More
It’s just past 8 a.m. on the set of ABC’s Good Morning America, and Samantha Finck is crying like a baby. She is a baby--Samantha is one-sixth of three separate sets of Finck twins appearing on the show today--and just minutes to air, she’s wailing so loudly the production assistants jam fingers in their ears. Read More
Dec. 18 was another terrifyingly mild day in New York City. At noon, the temperature in Central Park was a toasty 58 degrees. Somewhere near the North Pole, another giant hunk of ice may have been melting off into a swelling Arctic Ocean, but over on 10th Avenue, the Channel 2 afternoon news team was Read More
On the desk in Shelley Ross’s soon-to-be former office—room 911, not incidentally, at ABC headquarters on 66th Street—is a photograph in a black leather Gucci frame of Ms. Ross, Charles Manson and future Fox News Channel chairman and C.E.O. Roger Ailes. Ms. Ross was 28 at the time the picture was taken, in June 1981, Read More
On the desk in Shelley Ross’s soon-to-be former office—room 911, not incidentally, at ABC headquarters on 66th Street—is a photograph in a black leather Gucci frame of Ms. Ross, Charles Manson and future Fox News Channel chairman and C.E.O. Roger Ailes.
Ms. Ross was 28 at the time the picture was taken, in June 1981, Read MoreRudy Giuliani has just filed to set up a presidential exploratory committee with the Federal Election Commission, ABC News is reporting. This should, for now, put to rest speculation about whether Giuliani's recent establishment of an exploratory committee at the state level meant that he was somehow less than serious about running for president. Read More
Around lunchtime on Nov. 7, a dozen broadcast news reporters sat in a locked, windowless room on an upper floor at the Time Warner Center. The reporters—two from each of the five television networks and another pair from the Associated Press; altogether, a little election night Noah’s Ark—had been stripped of their cell phones, BlackBerries Read More
On Oct. 12, Good Morning America aired the first part of Diane Sawyer’s exclusive interview with a twitching, sweaty, contrite Mel Gibson—by far the biggest of this fall’s big gets—beginning at 7:30 a.m. The next day, the news was devastating: Early ratings reports had the Today show beating Good Morning America by 1.5 million viewers, Read More
On Oct. 12, Good Morning America aired the first part of Diane Sawyer’s exclusive interview with a twitching, sweaty, contrite Mel Gibson—by far the biggest of this fall’s big gets—beginning at 7:30 a.m. The next day, the news was devastating: Early ratings reports had the Today show beating Good Morning America by 1.5 million viewers, Read More
The scandal surrounding Florida Rep. Mark Foley is reverberating pretty loudly in New York. First, the seat of upstate Republican Rep. Tom Reynolds is likely to become more competitive as it becomes known that, as head of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, Reynolds may have been aware Foley's inappropriate emails a year ago. Read More
