ATLANTA (AP) — Ashley Ross of the reality TV show “Little Women: Atlanta” has died in a head-on crash on a Georgia road, police and her representative confirmed Tuesday. Ross, […]
Truckers, loggers, moonshiners and folks who fish with their hands give some cable networks a decidedly, uh, rural accent.
After years of mostly defying the siren call of reality, networks like USA, TNT and AMC plan to launch a slate of reality programming in the coming months. Don Draper and Brenda Leigh Johnson, meet your new neighbors: Comic book geeks, treasure hunters and the U.S. Coast Guard, among others.
Advertisers Ride The Rise Of Cable Reality
Reality shows on cable, once looked at by advertisers as the ugly stepchild of broadcast primetime scripted programming, have become the darlings of national marketers, with networks such as Bravo, TLC, E! and VH1 rubbing their hands in anticipation of this year’s upfront buying. Shows like Bravo’s Top Chef and its Real Housewives series, TLC’s Cake Boss and Police Women series, VH1’s Mob Wives, and E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians, just to name a few, are putting these networks in play for big time upfront ad dollars.
