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TV Review: ‘The Moment,’‘Deep South Paranormal’
“The Moment” is a good idea, stretched rather uncomfortably and beyond its weight to fill an hour. People who abandoned careers in exciting fields — in the first two episodes, sports photography and...
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‘Sharknado’ Takes Social Media By Storm
Sometimes a movie comes along that just perfectly captures the zeitgeist. Sometimes a movie comes along that is so bad it's good. And sometimes a movie comes along with a one-word title that says it all.
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Top German Cabler Inks News Deal With BBC
ODESSA, Ukraine — Germany’s largest cable operator Kabel Deutschland is make BBC World News available for free to subscribers across major parts of Germany. The channel will now be available in more...
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BBC Worldwide Reports Slight Increase In Profits
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the Brit pubcaster, reported a 1% rise in profit to £156 million ($236 million) for 2012/13, it revealed in its annual review. The company grew headline sales by 3%...
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TV Review: ‘Fox Sports 1’s Crowd Goes Wild’
There’s really no such thing as reinventing a sports network at this point in the game, and Fox Sports 1 — which launched over the weekend as a complement, more than an alternative, to ESPN — isn’t...
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Ron Howard’s ‘Rush’ for Independent Film Financing
“Rush,” the high-octane car racing film about the public rivalry between legendary Formula One drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt during the 1970s, has all the markings of Tinseltown’s latest flashy...
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Fox Sports 1 Averages 160,000 Viewers Nightly in First Week
Numbers are in for the first full week of national sports channel Fox Sports 1, and the net has left plenty of room for improvement. Nielsen estimates that FS1 averaged 161,000 viewers in primetime, a...
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‘Arsenio Hall Show’ Posts Strong Ratings in Premiere Week
Arsenio Hall is off to a good ratings start with his new latenight program, which scored the highest-rated premiere week for any syndicated talkshow in key demos in seven years. Overall, according to...
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Hulu Pacts with BBC for ‘Doctor Who,’‘Fawlty Towers’ and Other Brit TV Fare
Hulu is bulking up its subscription biz for Anglophiles, in a multiyear pact with BBC Worldwide North America that will add 2,000 episodes to Hulu Plus. The 144 BBC titles covered under the deal will...
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‘Copper’ Cancelled by BBC America
BBC America is pulling the plug on “Copper,” the network has confirmed to Variety. Drama from Tom Fontana and Will Rokos debuted on the cabler in August 2012, and kicked off its second season this...
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