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ABC Renames 'High School' Contest Show

ABC's highly anticipated music contest show this summer has a new working title: High School Musical: Get in the Picture. Along with the title change also comes word of what the network will award the show's grand prize winner.

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Media Rights Capital to Program CW's Sun. Night Prime Block

The CW Network is farming out its Sunday night, ratings-challenged prime-time programming block to Media Rights Capital, an independent film, television and video studio, in a time buy deal.

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McPherson Promoted

McPherson Signs New Deal With ABC as Ent. President

Steve McPherson has signed a new multi-year agreement to remain on as entertainment president at ABC. His current four-year deal was to end this year.

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New Univision Novela's Ratings 'En Fuego'

New Univision novela Fuego en la Sangre (Burning for Revenge), during its premiere week of April 28-May 2, delivered the highest ratings in key demos for a novela premiere in the Hispanic network's history, drawing an average 2.97 million adult 18-49 viewers, 1.9 million adult 18-34 viewers and 5.1 million total viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research data.

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Tonys Get a 'Whoopi' Cushion

Whoopi Goldberg will host the 62nd Annual Tony Awards on CBS on Sunday, June 15, from 6-11 p.m., the network announced today (May 8).

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The Programming Insider: Friday 5/09/08

2008-05-09

Before I get into the overnights rating results, let me focus on CBS' Survivor: Micronesia for a moment. Erik…are you crazy? Nuts? Cuckoo? Meshugenah? Could you believe he fell for that scheme to give the immunity necklace to Natalie? As James appropriately noted, this is now the dumbest move in the history of the Survivor franchise. All I can say at this point is…go Cirie!

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Mr. TV: In Mom's Honor

With Mother's Day this Sunday, I thought I would dedicate this week’s column to the grand matriarchs of the small screen who are the real brains behind any classic TV family.

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