Back to top IMAX Building Boom Will See Digital Switch IMAX is engaged in a "construction boom" that will see the number of IMAX theaters in North America increase by nearly 80 percent by the end of next year, USA Today reported today. Many of the new venues, it indicated, will deploy digital projectors instead of the enormous machines that have been required in the past to project images from gigantic reels of 70mm film stock onto the oversized screen. Some of the movies that will be converted into the IMAX format this year include Speed Racer, Kung Fu Panda, The Dark Knight, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the animated Monsters vs. Aliens. IMAX officials said they were also talking to sports teams about using the new digital projection systems for theatrical presentations of live sports events. Merriman Curhan Ford analyst Eric Wold told the newspaper, "The new [IMAX] theater pace will be huge over the next two years. And I predict them turning profitable in the fourth quarter and staying profitable ever after." Back to top New York A Hotbed Of Pirates, A.G. Says New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, claiming that 50 percent of all pirated movies are sold in New York, has chastised judges for being too lenient with those caught taping movies in theaters with camcorders. Cuomo told a New York news conference on Monday that first-time offenders should be fined as much as $1,000 and up to a year in jail and that repeat offenders should be charged with committing a felony. (Currently movie piracy is treated as a misdemeanor.) "We need a new law on the books of the state that punishes this act like the crime it is," Cuomo said. Also attending Cuomo's news conference were MPAA chief Dan Glickman, writer-comedienne Tina Fey, and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker. Back to top CBS Comedy and Drama Shows Cross Over Although many viewers might conclude that CBS's comedy Two and a Half Men and its drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation have little, if anything in common, the writers of each show have teamed up to create two cross-over episodes in which the characters of one appear on the other. The first episode aired Monday night on Two and a Half Men in which a body was found lying on Charlie Sheen's bed. The CSI investigators arrived on the scene and on Thursday's episode (titled "Two and a Half Deaths") solve the crime. The Two and a Half Men episode gave ABC's indomitable Dancing With the Stars some strong competition Monday as it scored a solid 8.5 rating and a 13 share against the final half hour of Dancing, which drew a 12.3/18. Back to top 'Brothers & Sisters' Season Finale To Show Gay Wedding The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD) has applauded ABC and the producers of the series Brothers & Sisters for its decision to feature a ceremonial wedding of two gay characters in the show's season finale next Sunday. Last Sunday's episode featured the character Kevin, played by Matthew Rhys, proposing to Scotty, played by Luke MacFarlane, a scene that ended with the characters kissing. In a statement GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano said, "Kevin and Scotty's ceremony reflects the ongoing commitment of Brothers & Sisters and ABC to making visible the multi-dimensional lives of gay characters." Back to top Next Year's Super Bowl Spots: $3 Million Each A 30-second spot on next year's Super Bowl game will cost advertisers $3 million, the Wall Street Journal said today (Tuesday). The newspaper observed that while a few Super Bowl slots have sold for that much in the past, $3 million has never been the "entry price" for an advertiser. Nevertheless, the Journal observed, a few companies that purchase multiple spots during the game have already locked in lower prices in multi-year contracts that were negotiated earlier. Next year's game is due to be carried by NBC. Back to top Viewers Think Couric Should Remain As CBS Anchor If CBS drops Katie Couric as anchor of the CBS Evening News, most viewers would like to see her return to morning TV, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Not that viewers think that she should be dumped. Only 25 percent of those polled thought that she should be, while 46 percent said she should remain on the nightly news program. If she is forced to leave, 35 percent said she should return to morning duties, while 28 percent said she should become a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes. Another 17 percent said she should replace Larry King on CNN. Back to top Brokaw Has No Complaints About Kids Getting News From Stewart Tom Brokaw says that he is not concerned about reports that many more young people get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report than they do from the networks' nightly newscasts. in an interview with The Daily Iowan, the student newspaper at the University of Iowa, Brokaw said, "Jon Stewart and I have talked about this a lot, and it troubles him a lot because he is a very serious consumer of news. I keep reassuring him ... that what he is doing is important because what he is doing is bringing people to the subject matter, and they can't watch Jon for half-an-hour, and they can't watch Steven for half-an-hour, without having some interest [in] what else is going on in the world." Back to top After Snubbing iPods, NBC Embraces Zunes NBC Universal, which stopped selling TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store when Apple refused to allow it to set the prices for its product, has made a deal with Microsoft -- in which it will sell shows that can be viewed on Microsoft's Zune portable video player for $1.99 -- the same price that Apple was charging for them on iTunes. Shows from NBC's sibling cable networks will also be offered for downloading onto the Zune, including Comedy Central's South Park and MTV's The Hills. The Zune has been trying to make a dent in the portable media market, which is dominated by Apple's iPods and iPhones -- but without much success. Back to top NBC, Weinsteins Wrangle Over 'Project Runway' Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned Bravo to Lifetime, NBC Universal said Monday that it had signed Runway's creators and producers to a longterm contract. NBC had previously sued the Weinstein Co., maintaining that it had given NBC a right of first refusal to the show. Monday's announced deal with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will prevent the pair from accompanying the show to Lifetime. The Weinstein Co., which already had signed Heidi Klum to continue hosting the show and fashion guru Tim Gunn to continue as a judge, issued a terse statement calling Cutforth and Lipsitz "fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Back to top
Back to top New York A Hotbed Of Pirates, A.G. Says New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, claiming that 50 percent of all pirated movies are sold in New York, has chastised judges for being too lenient with those caught taping movies in theaters with camcorders. Cuomo told a New York news conference on Monday that first-time offenders should be fined as much as $1,000 and up to a year in jail and that repeat offenders should be charged with committing a felony. (Currently movie piracy is treated as a misdemeanor.) "We need a new law on the books of the state that punishes this act like the crime it is," Cuomo said. Also attending Cuomo's news conference were MPAA chief Dan Glickman, writer-comedienne Tina Fey, and NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker. Back to top CBS Comedy and Drama Shows Cross Over Although many viewers might conclude that CBS's comedy Two and a Half Men and its drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation have little, if anything in common, the writers of each show have teamed up to create two cross-over episodes in which the characters of one appear on the other. The first episode aired Monday night on Two and a Half Men in which a body was found lying on Charlie Sheen's bed. The CSI investigators arrived on the scene and on Thursday's episode (titled "Two and a Half Deaths") solve the crime. The Two and a Half Men episode gave ABC's indomitable Dancing With the Stars some strong competition Monday as it scored a solid 8.5 rating and a 13 share against the final half hour of Dancing, which drew a 12.3/18. Back to top 'Brothers & Sisters' Season Finale To Show Gay Wedding The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD) has applauded ABC and the producers of the series Brothers & Sisters for its decision to feature a ceremonial wedding of two gay characters in the show's season finale next Sunday. Last Sunday's episode featured the character Kevin, played by Matthew Rhys, proposing to Scotty, played by Luke MacFarlane, a scene that ended with the characters kissing. In a statement GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano said, "Kevin and Scotty's ceremony reflects the ongoing commitment of Brothers & Sisters and ABC to making visible the multi-dimensional lives of gay characters." Back to top Next Year's Super Bowl Spots: $3 Million Each A 30-second spot on next year's Super Bowl game will cost advertisers $3 million, the Wall Street Journal said today (Tuesday). The newspaper observed that while a few Super Bowl slots have sold for that much in the past, $3 million has never been the "entry price" for an advertiser. Nevertheless, the Journal observed, a few companies that purchase multiple spots during the game have already locked in lower prices in multi-year contracts that were negotiated earlier. Next year's game is due to be carried by NBC. Back to top Viewers Think Couric Should Remain As CBS Anchor If CBS drops Katie Couric as anchor of the CBS Evening News, most viewers would like to see her return to morning TV, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Not that viewers think that she should be dumped. Only 25 percent of those polled thought that she should be, while 46 percent said she should remain on the nightly news program. If she is forced to leave, 35 percent said she should return to morning duties, while 28 percent said she should become a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes. Another 17 percent said she should replace Larry King on CNN. Back to top Brokaw Has No Complaints About Kids Getting News From Stewart Tom Brokaw says that he is not concerned about reports that many more young people get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report than they do from the networks' nightly newscasts. in an interview with The Daily Iowan, the student newspaper at the University of Iowa, Brokaw said, "Jon Stewart and I have talked about this a lot, and it troubles him a lot because he is a very serious consumer of news. I keep reassuring him ... that what he is doing is important because what he is doing is bringing people to the subject matter, and they can't watch Jon for half-an-hour, and they can't watch Steven for half-an-hour, without having some interest [in] what else is going on in the world." Back to top After Snubbing iPods, NBC Embraces Zunes NBC Universal, which stopped selling TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store when Apple refused to allow it to set the prices for its product, has made a deal with Microsoft -- in which it will sell shows that can be viewed on Microsoft's Zune portable video player for $1.99 -- the same price that Apple was charging for them on iTunes. Shows from NBC's sibling cable networks will also be offered for downloading onto the Zune, including Comedy Central's South Park and MTV's The Hills. The Zune has been trying to make a dent in the portable media market, which is dominated by Apple's iPods and iPhones -- but without much success. Back to top NBC, Weinsteins Wrangle Over 'Project Runway' Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned Bravo to Lifetime, NBC Universal said Monday that it had signed Runway's creators and producers to a longterm contract. NBC had previously sued the Weinstein Co., maintaining that it had given NBC a right of first refusal to the show. Monday's announced deal with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will prevent the pair from accompanying the show to Lifetime. The Weinstein Co., which already had signed Heidi Klum to continue hosting the show and fashion guru Tim Gunn to continue as a judge, issued a terse statement calling Cutforth and Lipsitz "fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Back to top
Back to top CBS Comedy and Drama Shows Cross Over Although many viewers might conclude that CBS's comedy Two and a Half Men and its drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation have little, if anything in common, the writers of each show have teamed up to create two cross-over episodes in which the characters of one appear on the other. The first episode aired Monday night on Two and a Half Men in which a body was found lying on Charlie Sheen's bed. The CSI investigators arrived on the scene and on Thursday's episode (titled "Two and a Half Deaths") solve the crime. The Two and a Half Men episode gave ABC's indomitable Dancing With the Stars some strong competition Monday as it scored a solid 8.5 rating and a 13 share against the final half hour of Dancing, which drew a 12.3/18. Back to top 'Brothers & Sisters' Season Finale To Show Gay Wedding The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD) has applauded ABC and the producers of the series Brothers & Sisters for its decision to feature a ceremonial wedding of two gay characters in the show's season finale next Sunday. Last Sunday's episode featured the character Kevin, played by Matthew Rhys, proposing to Scotty, played by Luke MacFarlane, a scene that ended with the characters kissing. In a statement GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano said, "Kevin and Scotty's ceremony reflects the ongoing commitment of Brothers & Sisters and ABC to making visible the multi-dimensional lives of gay characters." Back to top Next Year's Super Bowl Spots: $3 Million Each A 30-second spot on next year's Super Bowl game will cost advertisers $3 million, the Wall Street Journal said today (Tuesday). The newspaper observed that while a few Super Bowl slots have sold for that much in the past, $3 million has never been the "entry price" for an advertiser. Nevertheless, the Journal observed, a few companies that purchase multiple spots during the game have already locked in lower prices in multi-year contracts that were negotiated earlier. Next year's game is due to be carried by NBC. Back to top Viewers Think Couric Should Remain As CBS Anchor If CBS drops Katie Couric as anchor of the CBS Evening News, most viewers would like to see her return to morning TV, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Not that viewers think that she should be dumped. Only 25 percent of those polled thought that she should be, while 46 percent said she should remain on the nightly news program. If she is forced to leave, 35 percent said she should return to morning duties, while 28 percent said she should become a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes. Another 17 percent said she should replace Larry King on CNN. Back to top Brokaw Has No Complaints About Kids Getting News From Stewart Tom Brokaw says that he is not concerned about reports that many more young people get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report than they do from the networks' nightly newscasts. in an interview with The Daily Iowan, the student newspaper at the University of Iowa, Brokaw said, "Jon Stewart and I have talked about this a lot, and it troubles him a lot because he is a very serious consumer of news. I keep reassuring him ... that what he is doing is important because what he is doing is bringing people to the subject matter, and they can't watch Jon for half-an-hour, and they can't watch Steven for half-an-hour, without having some interest [in] what else is going on in the world." Back to top After Snubbing iPods, NBC Embraces Zunes NBC Universal, which stopped selling TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store when Apple refused to allow it to set the prices for its product, has made a deal with Microsoft -- in which it will sell shows that can be viewed on Microsoft's Zune portable video player for $1.99 -- the same price that Apple was charging for them on iTunes. Shows from NBC's sibling cable networks will also be offered for downloading onto the Zune, including Comedy Central's South Park and MTV's The Hills. The Zune has been trying to make a dent in the portable media market, which is dominated by Apple's iPods and iPhones -- but without much success. Back to top NBC, Weinsteins Wrangle Over 'Project Runway' Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned Bravo to Lifetime, NBC Universal said Monday that it had signed Runway's creators and producers to a longterm contract. NBC had previously sued the Weinstein Co., maintaining that it had given NBC a right of first refusal to the show. Monday's announced deal with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will prevent the pair from accompanying the show to Lifetime. The Weinstein Co., which already had signed Heidi Klum to continue hosting the show and fashion guru Tim Gunn to continue as a judge, issued a terse statement calling Cutforth and Lipsitz "fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Back to top
Back to top 'Brothers & Sisters' Season Finale To Show Gay Wedding The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD) has applauded ABC and the producers of the series Brothers & Sisters for its decision to feature a ceremonial wedding of two gay characters in the show's season finale next Sunday. Last Sunday's episode featured the character Kevin, played by Matthew Rhys, proposing to Scotty, played by Luke MacFarlane, a scene that ended with the characters kissing. In a statement GLAAD President Neil G. Giuliano said, "Kevin and Scotty's ceremony reflects the ongoing commitment of Brothers & Sisters and ABC to making visible the multi-dimensional lives of gay characters." Back to top Next Year's Super Bowl Spots: $3 Million Each A 30-second spot on next year's Super Bowl game will cost advertisers $3 million, the Wall Street Journal said today (Tuesday). The newspaper observed that while a few Super Bowl slots have sold for that much in the past, $3 million has never been the "entry price" for an advertiser. Nevertheless, the Journal observed, a few companies that purchase multiple spots during the game have already locked in lower prices in multi-year contracts that were negotiated earlier. Next year's game is due to be carried by NBC. Back to top Viewers Think Couric Should Remain As CBS Anchor If CBS drops Katie Couric as anchor of the CBS Evening News, most viewers would like to see her return to morning TV, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Not that viewers think that she should be dumped. Only 25 percent of those polled thought that she should be, while 46 percent said she should remain on the nightly news program. If she is forced to leave, 35 percent said she should return to morning duties, while 28 percent said she should become a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes. Another 17 percent said she should replace Larry King on CNN. Back to top Brokaw Has No Complaints About Kids Getting News From Stewart Tom Brokaw says that he is not concerned about reports that many more young people get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report than they do from the networks' nightly newscasts. in an interview with The Daily Iowan, the student newspaper at the University of Iowa, Brokaw said, "Jon Stewart and I have talked about this a lot, and it troubles him a lot because he is a very serious consumer of news. I keep reassuring him ... that what he is doing is important because what he is doing is bringing people to the subject matter, and they can't watch Jon for half-an-hour, and they can't watch Steven for half-an-hour, without having some interest [in] what else is going on in the world." Back to top After Snubbing iPods, NBC Embraces Zunes NBC Universal, which stopped selling TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store when Apple refused to allow it to set the prices for its product, has made a deal with Microsoft -- in which it will sell shows that can be viewed on Microsoft's Zune portable video player for $1.99 -- the same price that Apple was charging for them on iTunes. Shows from NBC's sibling cable networks will also be offered for downloading onto the Zune, including Comedy Central's South Park and MTV's The Hills. The Zune has been trying to make a dent in the portable media market, which is dominated by Apple's iPods and iPhones -- but without much success. Back to top NBC, Weinsteins Wrangle Over 'Project Runway' Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned Bravo to Lifetime, NBC Universal said Monday that it had signed Runway's creators and producers to a longterm contract. NBC had previously sued the Weinstein Co., maintaining that it had given NBC a right of first refusal to the show. Monday's announced deal with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will prevent the pair from accompanying the show to Lifetime. The Weinstein Co., which already had signed Heidi Klum to continue hosting the show and fashion guru Tim Gunn to continue as a judge, issued a terse statement calling Cutforth and Lipsitz "fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Back to top
Back to top Next Year's Super Bowl Spots: $3 Million Each A 30-second spot on next year's Super Bowl game will cost advertisers $3 million, the Wall Street Journal said today (Tuesday). The newspaper observed that while a few Super Bowl slots have sold for that much in the past, $3 million has never been the "entry price" for an advertiser. Nevertheless, the Journal observed, a few companies that purchase multiple spots during the game have already locked in lower prices in multi-year contracts that were negotiated earlier. Next year's game is due to be carried by NBC. Back to top Viewers Think Couric Should Remain As CBS Anchor If CBS drops Katie Couric as anchor of the CBS Evening News, most viewers would like to see her return to morning TV, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Not that viewers think that she should be dumped. Only 25 percent of those polled thought that she should be, while 46 percent said she should remain on the nightly news program. If she is forced to leave, 35 percent said she should return to morning duties, while 28 percent said she should become a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes. Another 17 percent said she should replace Larry King on CNN. Back to top Brokaw Has No Complaints About Kids Getting News From Stewart Tom Brokaw says that he is not concerned about reports that many more young people get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report than they do from the networks' nightly newscasts. in an interview with The Daily Iowan, the student newspaper at the University of Iowa, Brokaw said, "Jon Stewart and I have talked about this a lot, and it troubles him a lot because he is a very serious consumer of news. I keep reassuring him ... that what he is doing is important because what he is doing is bringing people to the subject matter, and they can't watch Jon for half-an-hour, and they can't watch Steven for half-an-hour, without having some interest [in] what else is going on in the world." Back to top After Snubbing iPods, NBC Embraces Zunes NBC Universal, which stopped selling TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store when Apple refused to allow it to set the prices for its product, has made a deal with Microsoft -- in which it will sell shows that can be viewed on Microsoft's Zune portable video player for $1.99 -- the same price that Apple was charging for them on iTunes. Shows from NBC's sibling cable networks will also be offered for downloading onto the Zune, including Comedy Central's South Park and MTV's The Hills. The Zune has been trying to make a dent in the portable media market, which is dominated by Apple's iPods and iPhones -- but without much success. Back to top NBC, Weinsteins Wrangle Over 'Project Runway' Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned Bravo to Lifetime, NBC Universal said Monday that it had signed Runway's creators and producers to a longterm contract. NBC had previously sued the Weinstein Co., maintaining that it had given NBC a right of first refusal to the show. Monday's announced deal with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will prevent the pair from accompanying the show to Lifetime. The Weinstein Co., which already had signed Heidi Klum to continue hosting the show and fashion guru Tim Gunn to continue as a judge, issued a terse statement calling Cutforth and Lipsitz "fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Back to top
Back to top Viewers Think Couric Should Remain As CBS Anchor If CBS drops Katie Couric as anchor of the CBS Evening News, most viewers would like to see her return to morning TV, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. Not that viewers think that she should be dumped. Only 25 percent of those polled thought that she should be, while 46 percent said she should remain on the nightly news program. If she is forced to leave, 35 percent said she should return to morning duties, while 28 percent said she should become a full-time correspondent for 60 Minutes. Another 17 percent said she should replace Larry King on CNN. Back to top Brokaw Has No Complaints About Kids Getting News From Stewart Tom Brokaw says that he is not concerned about reports that many more young people get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report than they do from the networks' nightly newscasts. in an interview with The Daily Iowan, the student newspaper at the University of Iowa, Brokaw said, "Jon Stewart and I have talked about this a lot, and it troubles him a lot because he is a very serious consumer of news. I keep reassuring him ... that what he is doing is important because what he is doing is bringing people to the subject matter, and they can't watch Jon for half-an-hour, and they can't watch Steven for half-an-hour, without having some interest [in] what else is going on in the world." Back to top After Snubbing iPods, NBC Embraces Zunes NBC Universal, which stopped selling TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store when Apple refused to allow it to set the prices for its product, has made a deal with Microsoft -- in which it will sell shows that can be viewed on Microsoft's Zune portable video player for $1.99 -- the same price that Apple was charging for them on iTunes. Shows from NBC's sibling cable networks will also be offered for downloading onto the Zune, including Comedy Central's South Park and MTV's The Hills. The Zune has been trying to make a dent in the portable media market, which is dominated by Apple's iPods and iPhones -- but without much success. Back to top NBC, Weinsteins Wrangle Over 'Project Runway' Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned Bravo to Lifetime, NBC Universal said Monday that it had signed Runway's creators and producers to a longterm contract. NBC had previously sued the Weinstein Co., maintaining that it had given NBC a right of first refusal to the show. Monday's announced deal with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will prevent the pair from accompanying the show to Lifetime. The Weinstein Co., which already had signed Heidi Klum to continue hosting the show and fashion guru Tim Gunn to continue as a judge, issued a terse statement calling Cutforth and Lipsitz "fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Back to top
Back to top Brokaw Has No Complaints About Kids Getting News From Stewart Tom Brokaw says that he is not concerned about reports that many more young people get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report than they do from the networks' nightly newscasts. in an interview with The Daily Iowan, the student newspaper at the University of Iowa, Brokaw said, "Jon Stewart and I have talked about this a lot, and it troubles him a lot because he is a very serious consumer of news. I keep reassuring him ... that what he is doing is important because what he is doing is bringing people to the subject matter, and they can't watch Jon for half-an-hour, and they can't watch Steven for half-an-hour, without having some interest [in] what else is going on in the world." Back to top After Snubbing iPods, NBC Embraces Zunes NBC Universal, which stopped selling TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store when Apple refused to allow it to set the prices for its product, has made a deal with Microsoft -- in which it will sell shows that can be viewed on Microsoft's Zune portable video player for $1.99 -- the same price that Apple was charging for them on iTunes. Shows from NBC's sibling cable networks will also be offered for downloading onto the Zune, including Comedy Central's South Park and MTV's The Hills. The Zune has been trying to make a dent in the portable media market, which is dominated by Apple's iPods and iPhones -- but without much success. Back to top NBC, Weinsteins Wrangle Over 'Project Runway' Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned Bravo to Lifetime, NBC Universal said Monday that it had signed Runway's creators and producers to a longterm contract. NBC had previously sued the Weinstein Co., maintaining that it had given NBC a right of first refusal to the show. Monday's announced deal with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will prevent the pair from accompanying the show to Lifetime. The Weinstein Co., which already had signed Heidi Klum to continue hosting the show and fashion guru Tim Gunn to continue as a judge, issued a terse statement calling Cutforth and Lipsitz "fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Back to top
Back to top After Snubbing iPods, NBC Embraces Zunes NBC Universal, which stopped selling TV shows on Apple's iTunes Store when Apple refused to allow it to set the prices for its product, has made a deal with Microsoft -- in which it will sell shows that can be viewed on Microsoft's Zune portable video player for $1.99 -- the same price that Apple was charging for them on iTunes. Shows from NBC's sibling cable networks will also be offered for downloading onto the Zune, including Comedy Central's South Park and MTV's The Hills. The Zune has been trying to make a dent in the portable media market, which is dominated by Apple's iPods and iPhones -- but without much success. Back to top NBC, Weinsteins Wrangle Over 'Project Runway' Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned Bravo to Lifetime, NBC Universal said Monday that it had signed Runway's creators and producers to a longterm contract. NBC had previously sued the Weinstein Co., maintaining that it had given NBC a right of first refusal to the show. Monday's announced deal with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will prevent the pair from accompanying the show to Lifetime. The Weinstein Co., which already had signed Heidi Klum to continue hosting the show and fashion guru Tim Gunn to continue as a judge, issued a terse statement calling Cutforth and Lipsitz "fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Back to top
Back to top NBC, Weinsteins Wrangle Over 'Project Runway' Continuing a highly charged game of chess with the Weinstein Co., which has announced plans to move its cable hit Project Runway from NBC-owned Bravo to Lifetime, NBC Universal said Monday that it had signed Runway's creators and producers to a longterm contract. NBC had previously sued the Weinstein Co., maintaining that it had given NBC a right of first refusal to the show. Monday's announced deal with Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz will prevent the pair from accompanying the show to Lifetime. The Weinstein Co., which already had signed Heidi Klum to continue hosting the show and fashion guru Tim Gunn to continue as a judge, issued a terse statement calling Cutforth and Lipsitz "fantastic producers, and we wish them well." Back to top
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