For two decades Coleman labored in movies and TV shows as a talented but largely unnoticed performer. That changed abruptly in 1976 when he was cast as the incorrigibly corrupt mayor of the hamlet of Fernwood in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a satirical soap opera that was so over the top no network would touch it, forcing producer Norman Lear to syndicate it. Coleman won a an an Emmy Award for best supporting actor in Peter Levin’s 1987 small screen legal drama Sworn to Silence. Some of his recent credits include Ray Donovan and a recurring role on Boardwalk Empire, for which he won two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Coleman was 92.
Julia Phelps, Paramount Global’s EVP, chief communications and corporate marketing officer will leave the company at the end of May. Her group — which encompasses corporate communications, marketing, social impact, ESG, creative & strategy, production, board relations and events and brand experience — will report to studio chief Brian Robbins on an interim basis.
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Tegna CBS affiliate WBNS Columbus, Ohio, has named Dylan Robichaud as its weekday morning meteorologist effective May 20. Robichaud is NWA certified and will join the Doppler 10 weather team […]
The veteran award-winning broadcast news executive will be honored at the group’s annual gathering June 12-14 in Milwaukee.
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In this newly created corporate position, the former GM of KNTV and KMCC Las Vegas will oversee Scripps’ local news content strategy alongside Kate O’Brian, Scripps’ president of news.
Cox Media Group’s CBS and Telemundo affiliate KIRO Seattle has appointed Joe Antonelli director of sales starting Monday, June 3. He has more than 20 years of experience in broadcast TV, […]
