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Time Warner Earnings: Growth From Networks Can't Offset Publishing Declines - Posted 4 days, 4 hours ago
As we wait to hear about layoffs coming out of Time Inc. today, we got a chance to look at the magazine publisher's parent Time Warner's third quarter earnings. The company reported a 5 percent decline in revenues compared to the third quarter of last year -- they dropped to $7.1 billion.... [FishBowlNY]

Time Warner May Sell Off Magazines Eventually, Or Not - Posted September 28, 2009
Time Warner is completing its spin-off of AOL later this year, a deal that has led many to speculate that the media company might jettison its Time Inc. magazine division, from which its prestigious media name is derived. Adding to the speculation, last week Gordon Crawford, the managing director of... [FishBowlNY]

Memoirist Richard Farrell Discusses Addiction And Writing On The Menu - Posted August 10, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, host Jason Boog of GalleyCat was joined by co-host Kevin Allocca, editor of TVNewser, and memoirist Richard Farrell. Farrell spoke about his memoir "What's Left of Us," the story of his heroin addiction and the life experiences that came along with it. After... [FishBowlNY]

Press Readies For "Beer Summit"|HBO's Real Tru Blood Drink Tastes OK|NYT Sports Reporter Reveals How He Got Steroid Names|Can Photo Agency Demotix Succeed?|What If Top 10% Of NYT Reporters Started Their Own Company? - Posted July 30, 2009
FishbowlDC: Everyone is getting ready for Obama's "Beer Summit" tonight. AgencySpy: HBO has come up with an actual Tru Blood product to market alongside it's hit vampire show "True Blood," and it apparently doesn't taste that bad. One taster said: "Compared to most soft drinks, it's refreshing and not too sweet. It... [FishBowlNY]

Time Warner, MSLO Release Earnings Numbers - Posted July 29, 2009
Two big public media companies, Time Warner Inc. and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia released their second quarter earnings numbers today, with both reporting revenue declines. MSLO said revenues dropped to $57.0 million in the second quarter of of this year, compared to $77.1 million during the same period last year. "Lower revenues... [FishBowlNY]

The Bloodcopy Blog Controversy|New Yorker's Unique Cover|Shuttered East West To Relaunch|AOL's Shields Departs|Newspaper Association's Montly Mag Goes Digital - Posted May 26, 2009
AgencySpy: The Bloodcopy blog controversy that arose this weekend turned out to be a campaign by Gawker Media and ad agency Campfire for HBO's "True Blood." UnBeige: The latest New Yorker has a cover picture "painted" on an iPhone. (And a profile of NYT investor Carlos Slim) Folio: Shuttered magazine East West, which... [FishBowlNY]

Portfolio.com Survives|Larry Kramer Talks Media|Americans Are Really Unhappy With Their Newspapers|Why Journalists Deserve Low Pay|HBO publicist Chandler Dies - Posted May 20, 2009
FishbowlDC: Condé Nast passes Portfolio.com, the last remaining vestiges of the now-defunct business magazine, on to its American City Business Journals group. MediaBistro: Polaris Ventures Senior Adviser Larry Kramer talks about the changing business model of traditional media companies. BusinessWeek: A survey shows that Americans are more satisfied with airlines and cell phone... [FishBowlNY]

TNT's New Series Only Good For One Reason - Posted December 7, 2008
As HBO and Showtime have dominated the TV series areas with "The Sopranos" and "Weeds" and even AMC has created the award-winning "Mad Men," TNT is getting in on the act with a the new series "The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice" premiering Sunday on the cable network. Apart from being... [FishBowlLA]

Horrors, Polanski May Have To Thank An Unknown When He Gets His Next Oscar - Posted December 3, 2008
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski may have to thank L.A.-based indie documentary-maker Marina Zenovich if he's able to overturn his sexual misconduct charges and return to the U.S. again after 30 years. Zenovich, who is an old pal of FBLA, had been working on the doc "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" for more... [FishBowlLA]

Does Rupert Murdoch Have an Obama-Shaped Hole in his Heart? - Posted November 17, 2008
Today's New York Times is speculating whether Rupert Murdoch has a soft spot for Barack Obama. Anyone who keeps up with the New York Post can't help but be aware that the Senator and now President-elect has rarely been subject to the infamous (and endlessly entertaining) lacerations of the Post's... [FishBowlNY]

Zenovich And Doc Subject Polanski Expected To Meet In Italy - Posted November 7, 2008
Marina Zenovich, a Los Angeles-based director who created "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired," a doc about the notorious statutory 1977 rape case against the famed director of such films as "Chinatown" and "Rosemary's Baby," will finally get to fully meet her subject at Italy's Turin Film Festival in mid-November. Zenovich tells FBLA... [FishBowlLA]

Sacha Baron Cohen's Bruno Just Says No To Gays -- Or Does He? - Posted November 3, 2008
A disguised Sacha Baron Cohen marched with anti-gay activists to support the California Proposition 8, which would ban the recently enacted California allowance of gay and lesbian marriage, Associated Press reports. The British comedian is working on a film based on the fictional character Bruno, a gay Austrian fashion reporter who conducted... [FishBowlLA]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted July 18, 2008
Mad Men, Getting Madder: Scott Collins adds to the uproar by TV critics and boob tube junkies who continuously berate us for not watching Mad Men. They all say we're missing something... but riddle us this, Collins: If the show is so great, why isn't it on HBO? Britney Gives It... [FishBowlLA]

Tina Brown Gets HBO Deal - Posted December 18, 2007
Things have really changed at HBO. Without Chris Albrecht, the cable giant is looking to Tina Brown for fresh ideas, according to Liz Smith. Smith writes: The amazing Tina Brown is in a newly struck, first-look deal to bring projects and story ideas to HBO,TV network that also seems to understand "buzz"... [FishBowlLA]

Ullman Readies New Showtime Series - Posted September 10, 2007
Is America ready for more Tracey Ullman? The comedic actress is prepping a return to the small-screen that will again showcase her diverse talents as she dresses up and creates a variety of new characters for a new series called State of the Union. This time it's for Showtime (rather than... [FishBowlLA]

James Gandolfini Goes To Iraq - Posted August 13, 2007
Post-Sopranos, James Gandolfini's next project is a documentary for HBO on the Iraq War. Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq is debuting on Sunday, September 9 on the pay cable channel. The film features exec producer Gandolfini interviewing numerous disabled veterans... From the press release: "In a war that has left more... [FishBowlNY]

Black Donnellys Fans are Crackers--Consistent, but Crackers - Posted July 17, 2007
The Black Donnellys, axed by NBC, has a strange fan base. Hoping for a pick-up by HBO, they sent crackers to Carolyn Strauss, cuz the Donnelly family owns the Firecracker Lounge, and obviously, sending things that explode is a poor idea. Not that sending 400 lbs of snack food is... [FishBowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted July 3, 2007
We're Glad, Too: The last line of this Robert Lloyd review of Coma, an HBO docu about traumatic brain injury is, "Mostly, you just think, 'I'm glad it isn't me.'" We felt the same way -- but about reviewing it. We're glad it wasn't our assignemnt; the show sounds unbearably depressing. Bad... [FishBowlLA]

Quality TV Costs "Unsustainable" - Posted May 10, 2007
Television production costs are higher than ever, says Joshua Chaffin in the Financial Times: The cost of making a one-hour drama episode has tripled in the past 15 years from about $1m in the early 1990s to $2.7m, according to some studio executives. HBO raised the bar, with The Sopranos in 1999.Then, to... [FishBowlLA]

LAT in 90 Seconds - Posted May 9, 2007
Paris Hilton's Appeal: Not expected to do much good. Debatable Significance: Glenn Reynolds and Robert McChesney continue their week-long debate about the future of media, particularly whether traditional media has any value in the face of citizen journalism. Great fun. Entourage Getting Canceled: No, not the HBO show. Actual celebrity entourages. They're as... [FishBowlLA]

Chris Albrecht: I'm Sorry, See Ya Later - Posted May 8, 2007
HBO employees got a memo from Chris Albrecht apologizing for the whole arrested in Vegas mess, and announcing his taking temporary leave of absence. And that whole anonymous part notwithstanding, he'd been sober in AA for 13 years. (The WOW Report has that part wrong). Two years ago, he thought he... [FishBowlLA]

In The Trades: Dolls, Drag Queens and How-to - Posted April 2, 2007
Abigail Breslin and former child actor, Jodie Foster, are thisclose to signing a deal to star in Nim's Island, a fantasy. Breslin will also star in the first American Girl movie, based on the dolls. First of seemingly hundreds. Sydney Pollack will direct Recount for HBO. The film will show the "human... [FishBowlLA]

In The Trades: Dolls, Idols, - Posted February 21, 2007
HBO and American Girl have made a deal to develop films, series, specials and documentaries, based on the American Girl dolls. Better idea would be dolls based on HBO products: G-String Divas, The Sopranos or Sex and the City. Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick, eps of American Idol, will produce... [FishBowlLA]

Tom Sizemore Series Focus on Healing, Atoning and Avoiding a Train Wreck - Posted January 3, 2007
VH1executives must be a cyncial lot, as they're offering a new reality series in January, Shooting Sizemore, (wasn't this Super Sizemore--or is that the fake penis' show?). The fun starts the moment Tom Sizemore steps out of rehab, as he works toward rebuilding his life and his career. Ha!... [FishBowlLA]

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