Topic: FX
Fox sold out its ad inventory for the UEFA Champions League Final in record time, clearing the decks a good six weeks before Chelsea and Bayern Munich will square off…
From 1981 to 2009, NBC aired just three series in the Thursday 10 p.m. time slot: Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and ER. Celebrated by critics and viewers alike, these…
Mad Men may be the ultimate critical darling and The Walking Dead a relentless devourer of GRPs, but the most transformative show on basic cable is actually a broadcast hand-me-down. According…
It was another banner year for the national cable networks, as overall ad sales in 2011 surpassed the $22 billion mark. Having crunched the numbers for all ad-supported cable nets, the…
Trouble at its U.K. print division may have made a rocky 2011 for News Corp, but the media conglomerate defied expectations by pulling out of its three-straight-quarter streak of year-on-year…
The network president hasn’t seen so much as a script outline, and the star spent most of last year careening through a very public self-immolation. Yet for all the uncertainty…
Television is a football-delivery mechanism that occasionally transmits the odd episode of NCIS, so it should come as no surprise that National Football League and college games accounted for the…
After the usual huffing and puffing in public, DirecTV and Fox Networks finally reached a carriage agreement about six hours before channels such as FX, Nat Geo, and 13 regional…
Before AMC’s The Walking Dead lurched into America’s living rooms last Halloween, horror rarely made much of an impact on the tube. Aside from occasional flashes of brilliance (Buffy the…
Something violent and bloody lies around every corner of the sprawling Victorian mansion. Not to mention, a neighbor unsubtly warns: "You're going to die in there." Would you buy the…
