Madelyn Hammond Rejoins Variety - Posted December 11, 2007
Variety Entertainment Group announced a new job -- and a former hire. Former Associate Publisher of Variety, Madelyn Hammond, has been plucked to become Variety's Chief Marketing Officer, a position the company has never had. The press release explains it all:... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 10.30.07 - Posted October 30, 2007
Good morning Washington. You guys love the holiday season. AFP reports, "The White House on Monday announced the recipients of the 2007 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honor, including a Cuban dissident, Liberia's president, and a beloved US author. ... The other five winners include the 1992 Nobel economics prize... [FishBowlDC]

THR Loses Another Staffer to Variety: Tatiana Siegel - Posted August 14, 2007
The Hollywood Reporter recently recruited Elizabeth Guider from Daily Variety to be the trade paper's new editor-in-chief, but this week Variety struck back and snagged yet another of THR's staffers. This time, it's film reporter Tatiana Siegel who is making the move down Wilshire Boulevard to join Var's team. On staff,... [FishBowlLA]

THR Loses Another Staffer to Variety: Tatiana Siegel - Posted August 14, 2007
The Hollywood Reporter recently recruited Elizabeth Guider from Daily Variety to be the trade paper's new editor-in-chief, but this week Variety struck back and snagged yet another of THR's staffers. This time, it's film reporter Tatiana Siegel who is making the move down Wilshire Boulevard to join Var's team. On staff,... [FishBowlLA]

Variety as Consumer Advocate-- Style Sheriffs Still in Town? - Posted August 2, 2007
Will the new editor of Variety's Stylephile, Laura Repstad, continue the blog's retail vigilante posse? Or will she stop letting the Style Sheriffs blackmail retail outlets? Style Sheriffs Thank BCBG You may recall that a reader recently engaged the Style Sheriffs to settle a dispute with BCBG. In short, she... [FishBowlLA]

Robbed At The Mirror Awards - Posted June 14, 2007
Andersen, Auletta, Kurtz also shut out The first annual Mirror Awards were presented at a Meredith Vieira-hosted luncheon today at the W hotel in Midtown, and our mediabistro.com mothership — a finalist in the media information services category — lost to HealthNewsReview.org. In other words, we were robbed. Still, we weren't the only... [FishBowlNY]

Peter Bart Not Getting Knocked Up Any Time Soon - Posted June 5, 2007
Peter Bart didn't much care for Judd Apatow's Knocked Up. And, it seems, he cares even less for other reviewers' takes on the film. He spends so much of his sourpuss review skewering what other critics have said about the movie, that he sounds like ... well, like us. Earlier: Knocked Up Ripped... [FishBowlLA]

Tooting Our Own Horn: MediaBistro.com Up For Mirror Award - Posted May 21, 2007
Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications today announced the finalists in its first-ever Mirror Awards, which honors excellence in media-industry reporting. And we're on the list -- in the Excellence in Media Information Services category. Go us! For the full list, check out the site. Meredith Vieira will serve as MC... [FishBowlLA]

Anne Thompson, Cynthia Littleton Move to Variety - Posted March 5, 2007
Nikki Finke's got the scoop on Anne Thompson's move from The Hollywood Reporter to Variety, along with editor Cynthia Littleton. Littleton is the editor at THR but will be deputy editor for news development at Variety, and Thompson, FBLA has learned, will be deputy editor of Variety.com, working with Dana... [FishBowlLA]

In The Trades: Heads Roll, Queens Rule, Lawyers Drool - Posted February 9, 2007
Jim Samples has stepped down as head of the Cartoon Network, after the edgy if stupid Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing effort blew up (or looked like it could) in Boston. Sarah, the Dutchess of York, aka the other Fergie, gets a producer credit on a project about Queen Victoria that... [FishBowlLA]

In The Trades: Heads Roll, Queens Rule, Lawyers Drool - Posted February 9, 2007
Jim Samples has stepped down as head of the Cartoon Network, after the edgy if stupid Aqua Teen Hunger Force marketing effort blew up (or looked like it could) in Boston. Sarah, the Dutchess of York, aka the other Fergie, gets a producer credit on a project about Queen Victoria that... [FishBowlLA]

In the Trades - Posted February 2, 2007
ABC has a new reality project in the works called The Golden Cage, from EP John de Mol, creator of Fear Factor and Big Brother. Ten contestants live in a high end mansion with all the trappings of the filthy rich--servants, lavish parties, great food, etc. The thing is,... [FishBowlLA]

In the Trades: Reality, Antiquity, Infamy - Posted February 2, 2007
ABC has a new reality project in the works called The Golden Cage, from EP John de Mol, creator of Fear Factor and Big Brother. Ten contestants live in a high end mansion with all the trappings of the filthy rich--servants, lavish parties, great food, etc. The thing is,... [FishBowlLA]

Variety to Provide On-Camera Talent for Reelz Channel - Posted January 24, 2007
Variety, the show-biz bible, has struck a deal with Reelz Channel--writers appear as correspondents and analysts on the Dailies show and Reelz puts a camera in the newsroom. Rod Perth, head of the cable channel, said The goal for this network is to become for movie fans what the Food Network is for... [FishBowlLA]

Variety to Provide On-Camera Talent for Reelz Channel - Posted January 24, 2007
Variety, the show-biz bible, has struck a deal with Reelz Channel--writers appear as correspondents and analysts on the Dailies show and Reelz puts a camera in the newsroom. Rod Perth, head of the cable channel, said The goal for this network is to become for movie fans what the Food Network is for... [FishBowlLA]