Word: abc
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sopranos viewer is still two fewer eyeballs for those new-car ads. "[The networks] are afraid to endorse controversial and innovative programming because they're afraid they'll lose the mainstream, but they're losing much of it anyway," says David Milch, who co-created NYPD Blue for ABC and is now developing a western for HBO. "The truth is, the public--the mainstream--will respond to that programming...
DIED. DR. MARNIE ROSE, 28, of brain cancer. Her battle against the tumor was followed by millions on the six-week ABC reality series Houston Medical...
Monk the series was also let go from the big leagues. It was developed for ABC, which passed on this charming but quirky comedy-drama. But now that Monk is a hit on cable--and ABC is starved for hits of its own--it seems ABC's opinion of the series has improved. The network exercised a clause that gave it the right to rerun the show, and it's now airing Monk repeats Tuesdays...
...common for network shows to cut rerun deals on cable (the Law & Order family, 24). But Monk's reverse trip shows how business has changed for ABC and TV as a whole. Monk was in development at ABC back in the heyday of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which now seems as quaint a turn-of-the-century phenomenon as gains on one's 401(k). Since then, the network has tumbled from first place to fourth in the ratings, and it has started looking outside for help. Earlier this month, it made a production deal with HBO (owned...
...networks, but plenty of other practices aren't, such as sending flowers or paying for travel. And dirty tricks don't cost anything--like the Good Morning America booker who, a rival claims, impersonated a Today booker on the phone to grab an interview away from the NBC show. ABC denies it. Isn't this fun? --By Benjamin Nugent and Richard Zoglin