Entertainment Industry
Prime-Time Ratings: Weekend Highlights (Mediaweek.com)
Mediaweek.com - -Friday's Winners: The Mentalist R (CBS), The Presidential Debate – an average (and estimated) 29.53 million viewers from 9-10:30 p.m. More »
Ratings Box: What's Hot/What's Not (Mediaweek.com)
Mediaweek.com - Led by the two-hour season-premiere of Grey's Anatomy (and minus an original installment of CBS' competing CSI), ABC won this first Thursday of the 2008-09 season. Comparably, ABC's advantage over second-place CBS was a considerable 3.76 million viewers and 58 percent among adults 18-49. Third overall in households, total viewers and adults 18-49 was NBC, followed by Fox and the CW. More »
TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest (Mediaweek.com)
Mediaweek.com - Bravo has acquired the repeat rights to all 13 episodes of recent CBS summer drama Swingtown. Look for its launch on the cable network in October. More »
Marvel ups film unit outlook; inks deal with Paramount (Reuters)
Reuters - Marvel Entertainment Inc raised its film unit's 2008 revenue outlook following initial payments of $60 million from Viacom's Paramount Pictures -- the distributor of the comic book publisher's "Iron Man" movie. More »
EA sets video game deal with "300" director (Reuters)
Reuters - Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc has signed a deal for Hollywood director Zack Snyder, who made the hit 2006 film "300," to help develop video games, some of which may someday become movies themselves. More »
Coldplay and Duffy lead MTV Europe nominations (Reuters)
Reuters - English band Coldplay and Welsh soul singer Duffy lead the MTV Europe Music Awards nominations with three apiece, followed by U.S. pop star Britney Spears, shortlisted in the best album and best act categories. More »
Briton wins prize for "Mickey Mouse" Venice idea (Reuters)
Reuters - A proposal to turn the lagoon city of Venice into a Disney-style theme park has won a prize from a famed Venetian academy, even though it rejected the idea. More »
New York Sun shines for one more day (Reuters)
Reuters - The New York Sun, the daily newspaper started six years ago as a conservative-leaning alternative to The New York Times, will publish for at least one more day as its proprietors seek additional funding. More »
DISH tumbles after AT&T picks DirecTV (Reuters)
Reuters - Shares in DISH Network Corp fell more than 14 percent on Monday after phone company AT&T Inc said it would end a marketing agreement with the satellite company next year in favor of a pact with DISH's rival DIRECTV Group. More »
Newman planned for charitable legacy after death (AP)
AP - A friend of the late Paul Newman says the actor made plans for his charity work to continue after his death. More »