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Upfront: Cable's Final Numbers Up
To be sure, the deal-making took place before the recent economic troubles, but the cable industry posted a record high in upfront dollars this year, pulling in a combined $7.65 billion--a 9.3% volume gain over ...
Cable TV stocking up on comedy
Cable TV is getting a lot funnier these days. Some of the fun is still being rented from the broadcast networks -- late last month, Lifetime ponied up about $750,000 for reruns of Twentieth TV's "How I Met Your ...
USA Tops in Q3, But Many Cable Networks Gain
Top four networks in Q3 2008 mirror those from last year. By Alex Weprin -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/1/2008 6:38:00 PM USA Network , with its powerful "Characters Welcome" slogan, was the top-rated basic-cable ...
Here's your sign, EIU: 'Blue Collar' comic comes to town
Click here to see a full size version of this weekend's cover of The Verge ! As he prepares to play a round of golf on a Friday morning in Park City, Utah, comedian Bill Engvall describes what he enjoys about ...
'Gary Unmarried' just another sitcom for the ex-files
By ROBERT PHILPOT Sitcoms about families - at least the traditional ones with still-married mom and dad with two kids - have disappeared from network TV, with cable taking up the slack with such series as ...
Gordon Ramsay, Bill Engvall will be in TV picture longer
Gordon Ramsay and Bill Engvall are true TV stars. Any doubts, just consider their latest deals.
Where are the family comedies these days? They're a rare commodity on the big three plus Fox, and even if you include the animated clans on The Family Guy and The Simpsons and American Dad , you can count the ...
TBS orders 3rd season of 'Engvall'
Actress Jennifer Lawrence, a cast member in "Bill Engvall", arrives at the Turner Broadcasting Television Critics Association party in Beverly Hills, California on July 11, 2008.
Season three ordered for The Bill Engvall Show on TBS
Written and created by Engvall and Michael Leeson , who also serve as executive producers with J.P. Williams .
High Heat: MLB, Nets Pitch $65 Million Ad Campaign
Major League Baseball and its television partners FOX and TBS Thursday will begin running celebrity-studded ads promoting the upcoming postseason, spending a record $65 million to remind fans that "there's only ...
'Juno,' 'The Wire' finalists for Humanitas
The writers behind "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," "Juno" and "Lars and the Real Girl" have been named finalists in the 2008 Humanitas Prize feature film category.
Fair concerts from reverent to raucous
The Evergreen State Fair in Monroe opens the musical portion of its 100th anniversary with Grammy-winning Christian alt-rock band Jars of Clay.
TBS Deems Bill Engvall Not Unwatchable Enough, Gives Valerie Bertinelli a Sitcom
Oh, TBS. Despite the sporadic relief of Office re-runs and the less-awful-than-all-the-other-orginial-series-on-its-network My Boys , there's really no better way to slap a slogan like "Very Funny" in the face ...
Valerie Bertinelli Gets a Sitcom
Who knew that Valerie Bertinelli would parlay her Jenny Craig stint into something other than a rockin' bod? Variety says that the classic TV star has signed on to star in a new TBS sitcom.
Bill Engvall to Perform His Hilarious Comedy Routine at Treasure Island
Comedian Bill Engvall will perform his side-splitting stand-up routine Friday, August 29 at 9 p.m. Star of "The Bill Engvall Show," Engvall will perform a one-night only engagement inside the Treasure Island ...
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
Has a real-life romance ever ruined your favorite show for you?
Every Thursday night after work, I plop down on my sofa and set my DVR to play My Boys , the Jordana Spiro-starring show that's one of the most underrated comedies on TV today.
Ellen Gray: 'My Boys' finale airing tonight
MY BOYS. 10 tonight, TBS. NOW THAT I'm finally caught up with TBS' "My Boys" - just one of the several shows worth watching that I've managed to lose track of this summer - it's airing its season finale ...
Nancy Travis as Susan worries that Bill might cheat on her on "The Bill Engvall Show." Enrico Colantoni as Sgt.
HDTV Listings for July 31, 2008
TBS has ' The Bill Engvall Show ' at 9 p.m. and ' My Boys ' at 9:30 p.m. ESPN HD kicks off the Summer X Games 14 at 9 p.m. Discovery keeps Shark Week going with 'Mysteries of the Shark Coast' at 9 p.m. Spike TV ...
HDTV Listings for July 24, 2008
TBS lines up The Bill Engvall Show at 9 p.m. followed by My Boys at 9:30 p.m. USA brings Burn Notice at 10 p.m. NBC has Fear Itself at 10 p.m. CBS slides Flashpoint into its new day at 10 p.m. ABC has Hopkins ...