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‘Modern Family’ and HBO’s ‘Temple Grandin’ sweeps list of Emmy winners of 2010

Behind The Scenes TV — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:59:42 +0000

The 2010 Emmy winners list is complete. Among the 2010 Emmy winners list is Modern Family, the 2010 Emmy winners for Outstanding Comedy Series, and the show that took home the most Emmy Award this year. Combining the Creative Arts Emmy’s with the Primetime Emmy’s that they won, Modern Family won a total of six 2010 Emmy’s. That was the most for any show that was honored this year. The mini-series The Pacific led the overall awards with eight wins, while Temple Grandin won seven awards in the categories for made for television films. It was an amazing two weeks for all three projects, but Sunday night belonged to Modern Family.

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Making of HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’

Behind The Scenes TV — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:39:08 +0000

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Situation on ‘Jersey Shore’ to make $5 million

Behind The Scenes TV — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 01:56:14 +0000

The ab-tastic star of MTV’s reality show ‘Jersey Shore’ is on the fast track to make some real money. With endorsement deals in the works, Mike Sorrentino’s payday is set to be more than most TV stars working today. That’s because the show is a breakout hit that has saved MTV from the doldrums of TV ratings.

As the sophomore season of MTV’s pop-culture phenomenon “Jersey Shore” continues to gobble up the biggest ratings the network has seen in seven years — answering the prayers of the many of its executives who spoke of a gloomy prognosis before the “Shore” — breakout star Sorrentino (aka the Situation) has jumped at the opportunity to capitalize on his fame. By year’s end, the 29-year-old stands to earn more than $5 million, a source familiar with his finances told THR.

Pay TV lose subscribers to online destinations

Behind The Scenes TV — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:08:32 +0000

So you’re tired of paying hefty cable bills for your pay TV options? Join the crowd - supposedly everyone is feeling the pinch in this economy as loads of subscribers are abandoning cable TV for watching TV online. The movement has been gaining steam but it’s not yet a tipping point for the cable industry as is still controls content from playing online.

The subscription television industry—including cable, satellite and telecommunications companies—suffered its first drop in total subscribers in the second quarter, according to research firm SNL Kagan.

The firm cited the weak U.S. economy as the main culprit for the decline, along with the aftereffects of the government-mandated transition to a digital broadcast spectrum. The stumble comes at a fragile time for the TV business as it navigates the transition to digital media.

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Michael J Fox returns to TV in guest spot

Behind The Scenes TV — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:48:50 +0000

Michael J Fox hasn’t been on a TV show in a long time since Spin City in the 90s (and recently on Rescue Me). Battling Parkinson’s disease, he has limited his TV appearances until now. He will be returning in a guest role on the TV show The Good Wife this fall.

For The Good Wife, Fox will play a lawyer named Simon Canning, who Keller describes as “a cynical litigator who goes against Alicia Florrick — played by Good Wife Emmy-nominated star Julianna Margulies — in a class action suit against a large pharmaceutical company.” She also reveals in her article that Fox’s character will also be suffering from Parkinson’s disease, which he will use to his advantage during the trial to gain sympathy for the huge corporation.

Why it pays to be a young, complicated drama series

Behind The Scenes TV — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:11:39 +0000

The Emmy for drama series is handed out as the final award of the night for a reason. With all due respect to comedy, it truly is the kingmaker of the television industry — just ask the folks at AMC, whose network will never be the same thanks to its back-to-back wins for “Mad Men.”

But the shows that get nominated reveal a different theme each year.

This time, it’s clear: A show should be young and complicated if it wants a berth in the top six. The eldest in this year’s drama series lineup, “Lost,” is also the only show that won’t be back next year, and it’s hardly old at six seasons. Not one of the other nominated drama series (”Men,” “Breaking Bad,” “Dexter,” “True Blood” and “The Good Wife”) has more than four seasons under its belt.

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‘Baywatch’ stars - then and now

Behind The Scenes TV — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:21:41 +0000

“Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff was honored at a Comedy Central Roast on Sunday, and the event was a veritable L.A. County Lifeguard Patrol reunion. Actresses Traci Bingham, Gena Lee Nolin, and Nicole Eggert were in attendance to support their former co-star – and to promote a new show.

The three beach bunnies are set to star in a “Baywatch”-centric reality program called “Back to the Bay,” where they will live and work together in a seaside home. As part of the gang prepares their return to the airwaves, let’s take a look at how the “Baywatch” cast has changed over the past two decades, in a photo gallery of now and thens. Fans can catch the David Hasselhoff roast on Sunday, August 15 at 10pm / 9c.

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Pay Cable TV spares no expense on costly original dramas

Behind The Scenes TV — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:22:33 +0000

For its new gangster series “Boardwalk Empire,” HBO built a $5 million, 300-foot-long boardwalk on the Brooklyn waterfront to recreate Atlantic City circa 1920. The set required 150 tons of steel and includes historical elements like the Baby Incubator, an actual nursery where tourists could gawk at tiny, premature infants.

The 12 episodes produced for the first season employed more than 300 crew members, 225 actors in speaking roles and 1,000 extras. It took about 200 days to shoot, twice what a standard network drama would take.

Sumptuous historical epics have long been part of screen entertainment, from Cecil B. DeMille to “Gone With the Wind,” “Ben-Hur” to “Braveheart.” Now, a Renaissance is flourishing, and in an unlikely spot—cable TV. As broadcast networks cut back and fill the prime-time schedule with reality shows made on the cheap, pay-cable channels are splurging on lavish period pieces, and spending big money to mount these productions. Many of these series strive for high quality. Virtually all of them also take advantage of the looser cable environment to portray grisly violence, heaving décolletage and more.

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Detroit battles bad image in TV shows

Behind The Scenes TV — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:57:36 +0000

From reality TV shows to a new, fictional ABC crime drama, Detroit is getting the Hollywood treatment lately — but not everyone is enjoying the spotlight.

Mayor Dave Bing already ended the Detroit Police Department’s two-year relationship with A&E’s “First 48″ — a reality show highlighting the first hours of homicide investigations. Last week, he said he was stunned when he saw a teaser featuring then-Police Chief Warren Evans promoting a proposed reality TV series, “The Chief.”

But it isn’t just reality shows that are raising eyebrows. City officials plan to meet Tuesday about the ABC-TV fall show “Detroit 1-8-7,” a fictional series focusing on homicide detectives in the city.

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How the epic ‘Pillars of the Earth’ was built for TV

Behind The Scenes TV — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:06:36 +0000

Transforming Ken Follett best-seller The Pillars of the Earth into a TV miniseries took almost as much time as the construction of Kingsbridge Cathedral, his novel’s mythical 12th-century architectural masterpiece.

More than 20 years after Pillars‘ release, Follett’s sweeping medieval tale of war, deceit and power-mongering — starring Donald Sutherland, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and Eddie Redmayne — premieres as a Starz Channel eight-part series tonight (10 ET/PT).

“It’s my best book, and I wasn’t going to take any chances on a story that couldn’t be told in less than six hours,” says Follett, the former British newspaperman who has had far faster Hollywood turnarounds with his thrillers Eye of the Needle and The Third Twin, among seven of his 19 books that have been turned into theatrical releases, TV movies or miniseries.

The nearly 1,000-page Pillars— which has sold more than 14 million copies in 30 languages and has been turned into three board games and a just-released iPad app — was envisioned as a one-night FX Channel movie in 2002, says Rola Bauer of Germany-based Tandem Communications, which secured financing for the miniseries.

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