Two black men who said they were “lookin’ for love” and auditioned last summer for the popular ABC reality television show The Bachelor sued the network on Wednesday, saying they were rejected because of their race.
CBS, ABC Step Up Mobile DTV Commitment
CBS commits to simulcasting the Dyle mobile DTV service at four of its O&Os and has given permission to five affiliates to get on board. ABC has given the go-ahead to its affiliates in Dallas and Orlando. In addition, NBC has given its affiliate in Austin, Texas, permission to air its signal on the condition that it uses Dyle’s conditional access. For all that’s going on at NAB 2012, click here.
The soap opera is set to have its 50th anniversary next April. However, the network announced that the daytime talk show The Revolution was being canceled.
April’s morning showdown concludes with Good Morning America shrinking the gap and the final tally standing in Today‘s favor, with four days of victories among total viewers and a sweep with adults 25-54.
The network’s freshman singing competition Duets will launch Thursday, May 24, with a two-hour premiere.
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It was hailed as a potential successor to Desperate Housewives and was launched behind the departing veteran dramedy. Now ABC’s midseason dramedy GCB will test drive Housewives‘ Sunday 9 p.m. time slot.
It’s a one-week role for the former co-host of Today, the main rival to GMA in morning television. Couric will be filling in for Robin Roberts, who has the week off.
Don Mischer will serve as executive producer of the 64th annual telecast slotted for Sept. 23, 2012 on ABC.
ABC is on the verge of issuing formal early renewals to a batch of scripted series, including freshman hits Once Upon a Time and Revenge and established players Modern Family, Castle and Grey’s Anatomy.
In a sign of how this year’s broadcast upfront conversations may shape up, Walt Disney‘s ABC has begun talking to media buyers about purchasing ads in programs such as Modern Family both when they air live and wherever they’re available on demand — including the full-episode player on ABC’s website, cable systems’ video-on-demand channels and iPad and iPhone apps.
Wednesday’s arguements will be crucial to framing nine days of conflicting testimony for the jury, which has heard from Nicollette Sheridan, Marc Cherry, actor James Denton and a host of writers, producers and others affiliated with the ABC series.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jurors in Nicollette Sheridan’s wrongful termination case heard a set worker Tuesday describe an email he believed called for the destruction of files related to the […]
ABC is the second network (following The CW) to let loose with its May finale schedule, and among the dates is the day Desperate Housewives will wrap up its eighth and final season.
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says a new ABC television series is evidence that the entertainment industry harbors anti-Christian bias. Gingrich is criticizing the comedy-drama “GCB,” […]
The summer series will have American Idol season one alum Kelly Clarkson as well as Jennifer Nettles, Lionel Richie and Robin Thicke combing the country in search of undiscovered talent to mentor.
With a dozen weeks to go before the 2011-12 broadcast season wheezes to a halt, ABC is suspended in a nearly airless equipoise between triumph and futility. For every new series that has landed on the network’s primetime schedule like a stunned carp, there’s been an equal number of easy, breezy hits. Will the four new shows the network has on deck be enough to pull it out of its rut?
