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Cable channels such as HBO, FX and AMC cleaned up at the Golden Globes Sunday night, winning all but one award in the TV categories. The sole non-cable TV winner was NBC’s Tina Fey for “30 Rock.” (The Boston Globe/Associated Press 1/13)
Extras on HBO
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association decided to allow all media outlets to carry live coverage of Sunday’s news conference announcing the winners of the Golden Globe Awards. This year’s show was reduced to a half-hour news conference televised by many outlets. (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-fi-globes12jan12,0,7064334.story 1/12)
ABC Studios is exercising its force majeure privilege and terminating the contracts of some two dozen writing and non-writing producers who had development deals with Disney-owned outfit. The Hollywood writers strike is having “a significant detrimental impact,” says ABC. (http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=8add473a-ba54-44a5-bd40-e3cef324d12d 1/11)
Incoming Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes has many challenges ahead of him at the sprawling, stalled media conglomerate: the floundering AOL, the “nongrowth” Time Inc., a battered stock price. “If I were Jeff, I would shoot myself,” jokes his predecessor, Dick Parsons. (http://nymag.com/news/features/42831 1/13)
MTV Networks and Bravo have given nods of approval to new series that are being spun off successful reality shows. On MTV, the pampered cast of “Super Sweet 16″ will have to rough it with indigenous tribes around the world in “Exiled!” Meanwhile, Bravo is developing “The Real Housewives of New York” to capitalize on the ratings generated by current hit “The Real Housewives of Orange County.” (Broadcasting & Cable 1/14)
In a move showing increased optimism in the cable industry in general and Comcast in particular, investment firm Dodge & Cox has upped its stake in the country’s top cable company. According to SEC filings, Dodge & Cox now owns 11.4% of Comcast’s Class A shares as opposed to 7.9% last March. (The Hollywood Reporter 1/14)
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