All not 'Lost' on Wed.
Despite having "American Idol" playing in its sand dune, "Lost" finished Wednesday night a strong No. 2 in the adults 18-49 demographic as the island mystery continued to shock, according to preliminary ratings estimates from Nielsen Media Research.
On Point: Colbert
He's not a news commentator, but he plays one on TV. He's an actor, a producer, a writer, a satirist. A very good satirist at that.
ABC works on sked
ABC got busy putting the pieces of its 2006-07 schedule together Wednesday, handing series orders to the dramas "The Nine," "Six Degrees" and "Day Break" and comedies "In Case of Emergency," "Help Me Help You" and "Notes From the Underbelly."
Dis TV ups Frons
ABC Daytime president Brian Frons has been elevated to president of Disney-ABC Television Group.
Broadcaster dies
Larry Attebery, a journalist who covered Los Angeles for more than three decades and became a familiar face anchoring and reporting for KTTV and KCOP, has died. He was 73.
Bravo programs
Bravo announced Wednesday a raft of new programming that will populate a 52-week schedule of originals on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
CBS, Gibney ink deal
CBS Paramount Television is developing a white-collar crime drama for next season with the writer-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room."
N.Y. tax credit
With Harvey Weinstein and New York film commissioner Katherine Oliver by his side, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans Wednesday to allocate $30 million a year for the city's film and television tax incentive program through 2011.
TWC wireless bid
Time Warner Cable has submitted a "short form" with the FCC that allows it and its partners in a wireless joint venture to bid on wireless spectrum in a government auction scheduled for next month, CEO Glenn Britt said here Wednesday.
Pair join forces
Yahoo! Inc., NBC Universal Television Group and NBC Uni's Telemundo are joining forces in an effort to become a Hispanic Internet powerhouse with a new venture dubbed Yahoo! Telemundo, the companies said Wednesday.
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Top shows in total viewers
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American Idol, Wednesday, Fox |
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American Idol, Tuesday, Fox |
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CSI, CBS |
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House, Fox |
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Grey's Anatomy, ABC |
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Desperate Housewives, ABC |
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CSI: Miami, CBS |
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Without a Trace, CBS |
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House, May 3, Fox |
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Survivor: Panama, CBS |
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Fatal Contact
ABC's chilling made-for-TV pic about an avian flu pandemic delivers the goods with a wallop to the gut.
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TV Reporter
Tom Selleck hopes that his turn as "Jesse Stone" on telefilms for CBS will give him staying power at the network.
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Apple Corps
Looking back, the market correction that followed a record year for primetime ad sales could be the beginning of the end of the upfront as we've all come to know.
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Testing power
Scores gleaned from audience samples become valuable currency as broadcasters decide which shows merit series orders for fall schedules.
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Broadcast bank
Sales remain huge at TV's upfront market, which has slowed broadcasters' taste for new digital channels.
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 TV features
Channel changes
Complete survey of network pilot orders for the 2006-07 television season, analysis and dialogues with the network entertainment chiefs.
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Screen savers
IPTV technology promises to provide another channel for content distribution to consumers using the increasingly ubiquitous Internet.
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CBS Par inks one of the smartest guys in the room
