TV News: CBS, ABC, Fox make top three in prime time — With “The Big Bang Theory” leading the way, CBS won Thursday primetime in the 18-49 demo and total viewers. ABC was second on the night, thanks largely to “Grey’s Anatomy.”
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‘Big Bang’ tops Thursday TV ratings
The seventh season of ABC’s Supernanny debuts tonight at 8 p.m. ET with an episode about out-of-control teenagers, and marks the beginning of the show’s last season, as its star wants to move on to other things. Jo Frost said she’s leaving to focus on having a family of her own.
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Supernanny Jo Frost quitting after this season
TV News: ABC, CBS and Fox all neck and neck in demos — Entertainment lineups on ABC and CBS battled to a demo draw among the broadcasters on Monday, but Fox figures to challenge or perhaps take the lead when numbers for its World Series finale — in which the San Francisco Giants prevailed — come in later today.
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Tight ratings race on Monday
TV News: Sitcom’s rise as ratings power recalls legendary NBC laffer — More than a quarter-century after its debut, “The Cosby Show” is still spoken of reverently in the world of TV for how it revived a genre and transformed a network.
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‘Modern Family’ is a ‘Cosby’ celebre
TV News: $1.5 million grant to fund international health series — ABC News’ highly unusual arrangement with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help fund its coverage of health crises in the Third World has raised red flags among journo watchdogs. But others suggest the pact may be a portent of things to come for news orgs even at for-profit congloms like Disney.
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ABC News receives Gates Foundation support
TV News: Network picks up comedy based on website — ABC is taking some “Awkward Family Photos.”
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ABC snaps up ‘Awkward Family Photos’
ABC has changed the name of its upcoming weight loss series Obese to Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition, which has already been renewed for a second season. The name change connects the show to the network’s other feel-good makeover series, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and to the original, now-cancelled version that gave people plastic surgery. Each episode of the midseason show follows one individual for a year as he or she loses weight.
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ABC renews, renames its obesity reality series Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition
TV News: Director developing ‘I, PI’ with Scheuring — McG is teaming with “Prison Break” creator Paul Scheuring to develop a private eye series at ABC.
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ABC, McG eye detective series
TV News: New ABC Entertainment prexy meets with reporters — As new ABC Entertainment Group prexy Paul Lee met with reporters Sunday, the Alphabet net remained in full damage control mode.
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Lee takes a bow at TCA
TV News: Alphabet finalizes deal with exec to head programming, prod’n — ABC’s exec shuffle at the top is complete.
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It’s official: Lee to head ABC Entertainment
