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Mel's Diner 
Jimmy Kimmel: Two Nut-Averse Italians Walk Into a Taco Shop...
WHO: Jimmy Kimmel, host/executive producer, Jimmy Kimmel Live WHERE: Loteria Grill, Hollywood, Calif. WHEN: Mon., Feb. 9, dinner THE DISH: Jimmy Kimmel is a self-described student of the late-night TV ga ... More
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Interviews with TV industry figures over their favorite meals.
Station to Station
WCMH Launches Interactive Newscast
Media General’s WCMH Columbus launches an interactive 5:30 p news Monday, tapping the likes of Facebook and Twitter to give viewers a voice in the program. Anchors Cabot Rea and Ellie Merritt will deliver the @5:30 on 4 news from their computers in the newsroom. WCMH is an NBC affiliate ... More
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Station to Station covers the odds, ends, ups and downs of the local televison business across America
Beyond the Box
Dollhouse's Online Dollplay
This is the kind of thing I can get obsessed with. To promote Joss Whedon’s latest drama – Dollhouse, which premieres tonight on Fox at 9 p.m. ET – the network also is launching an online “participation drama” called “Dollplay.” To get obsessed yourself, go to ... More
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A blog covering the world of multiplatform video, including mobile TV, IPTV, user-generated video and video blogs.
BC/DC: Eggerton on Washington
Feb. 17: Inside the Meltdown
I got an e-mail Friday letting me know that Frontline was doing a show on Feb. 17 called “Inside the Meltdown.” Can you blame me for thinking it was a documentary on the digital transition. It is actually a look at the economic transitioned from bad to worse. The hydra-dated DTV transition callendar has more circles than there are under the eyes of DTV staffers tryin ... More
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BC/DC is the media executives' must-see view from Washington, delivered by yours truly without the aid of rose-colored glasses and without the need, quite yet, of bifocals.
BC Beat
Laughing About Important Things
A show entitled Important Things in today’s world would most likely have one thinking about recessionary economics and foreign relations and not so much about a mop-topped 35-year-old making doodles on an easel and offering up minimalist deadpanned one-liners. But what Demetri Martin deems “important” might not equate with what everyone else does. The comed ... More
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Commentary, analysis and observations on the business of television from the staff of Broadcasting & Cable. Edited by Senior Editor Joel Topcik.
Fates & Fortunes
Eyeballs to the set
Consultants are putting together their own fates and fortunes. EARLE JONES, a consulting guru and CLIFF ABROMATS, a former News Director have added GRAEME NEWELL who’s got the promotion thing nailed. The three have formed a new company targeting emotional branding as a way to get eyeballs to TV screens. Cool. Abromats Newell ils the name. ... More
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Fates & Fortunes follows the comings and goings of the people who work in the TV industry.
BC Review
Post-Super Bowl "Office": Big Platform, Wrong Approach
Sunday after the Super Bowl, NBC presents a special one-hour episode of The Office – one designed to introduce many, many millions of viewers to a show that, despite its regular appearance on the network’s Thursday night schedule, has yet to attract the audience it deserves. ... More
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The BC Review offers one-stop shopping for TV fanatics, with a roundup of the latest reviews from the leading critics, featuring resident BC Review critic/blogger David Bianculli.
Sponsored Content: Family Court
The Judge
Judge Penny and I both received great feedback following our recent promotional tour on the east coast. We connected with lots of different station personnel and people were genuinely touched by spending time with the Judge. Here’s what one station manager had to say in an email to Judge Penny: “It was an absolute pleasure hosting you at our statio ... More
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Blog sponsored by Family Court Written by Monday is Ritch Colbert, Principal for Program Partners and the Honorable Judge Penny Brown Reynolds and Thursday is Judge Penny Brown Reynolds
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A Welcome Voice
I often describe Marie as a “person in full,” borrowing from Tom Wolf. She is a single, working mother of eight children, seven of them living with her at home. Years ago she had a very public bout with post-partum depression. In the past year alone she experienced a divorce (her second), the death of a parent, a teenage son going through rehab, a new mo ... More
