Topic: TV Dramas

Murder Capital of TV World?

It used to be that Cabot Cove, home of Jessica Fletcher and Murder She Wrote used to be the most violent place to live in TV land--after all there was a murder committed there each week. Now, it seems, despite the record-low crime ...READ»

McDreamy's Sweater

Have you ever been distracted from the melodramatic interactions between the attractive doctors on Grey's Anatomy with the thought "I wonder where I could buy that sweater?" If so, than you are the target audience for a new ...READ»

Need A New Wardrobe? Shop TV

I am a self-professed "Grey's Anatomy" junkie and every week I look forward to that Thursday night fix when I'll find out what will unfold next in the show's thrilling plot. I'm certainly not alone when it comes to having a primetime ...READ»

Hit Man (Part 1)

Tony Soprano is back (finally). Six Feet Under is tops (now). And Chris Albrecht is smiling (really). The head of HBO is the most original mind in television. Here's his program for innovation.READ»

Three Successful Viral Marketing Campaigns

1. Levi's Big Flip When Levi's first assumed an alter ego ("Unbuttoned Films") and uploaded a YouTube video titled "Guys backflip into jeans," it wasn't expecting sky-high exposure. But since its May 2008 ...READ»

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Courting Viewers

Can Steve Koonin save another cable network?READ»

Eat This American Idol

A friend of mine who works for a record label was telling me how he and his coworkers are obsessed with CBS's new music industry dramedy "Love Monkey" (much in the same self-obsessed vein as us media folk and our beloved gawker.com). ...READ»

Hollywood vs. Bentonville?

Report just in: A dark tide appears to be looming over digital movie downloads, as word came today that retailer colossus Wal-Mart has issued warnings of retaliation to some of Hollywood's key players, should they elect to sell ...READ»

Did HBO's 'True Blood' Campaign Achieve Immortality or Just Plain Suck?

Sunday night played host to an anxiously-awaited television event on our newly all-digital TV signals (and we're not talking about the Lakers' victory). It was the premiere of the second season of True Blood, the vampiric HBO show ...READ»

Eulogy to Tony Soprano or HBO?

HBO once again succeeded with last night's Sopranos au voir in architecting the water cooler moment to trump all water cooler moments. As the Washington Post's Tom Shales dubbed it, "the greatest double-take--by the audience--in the ...READ»

Judge the Nudge

1. Paper Route USA Today became the nation's largest daily newspaper by getting inertia on its side. Twenty-two percent of its average daily circulation of 2.3 million readers comes from getting its paper distributed in ...READ»

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Update

Fast Deals Some of the 50 Most Innovative Companies we cited in March have found one another as intriguing as we did. We named Pure Digital Technologies, maker of the supersimple Flip digital video recorders, No. 7; that month, ...READ»

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What 'Splatter' Means for the Future of Netflix

We learned yesterday that Netflix is partnering with legendary low-budget filmmaker Roger Corman to produce online miniseries Splatter. And viewers get to vote on which characters live or die on the episodes, which premiere Oct. ...READ»

Brave New Mouse

When Disney-ABC agreed to sell its prime-time hits on Apple's iTunes, the deal set off a revolution inside the media giant. Now a digital team with the spirit of a startup is reinventing TV--And the industry is following.READ»

The Sopranos Deal

With A&E buying the rights to HBO's critical hit The Sopranos, a new record has been set for a network buying rerun rights. At $2.5 million per episode, some may call it a steal. This could have a domino effect, not unlike the ...READ»

Lights, Camera...

My neighborhood is once again being used for a film shoot. A few years ago, the Ironbound section of Newark, NJ (so named because it's surrounded by railroad tracks) was the backdrop for The Sopranos. Now, a few blocks down from my ...READ»

Reading List: Desperate Networks

Desperate Networks shows how network TV got stuck on "smoking hot hits.READ»