Small Screen Roundup: 1/18/08
NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker may cancel the glitzy presentation the company holds every May to introduce prime-time television series to advertisers, affiliates and the media. Yahoo! TV via Reuters has more on this story.
Coming Soon has the official announcement that Nashville Star and American Gladiators are joining “NBC’s All-American Summer” leading up to NBC Universal’s exclusive coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
CNN spreads the word that Stephen Colbert’s popular portrait is now having a six-week showing at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery. “We agreed to go along with the joke and hang it for a short time in between the bathrooms,” said museum spokeswoman Bethany Bentley.
Talk show host Charlie Rose is returning to CBS News, acting as a correspondent for 60 Minutes, reports MSN TV / The Associated Press. In the meantime, Rose will continue his own show at PBS.
Salty Stix lists ten shows it feels should have been movies: Xena, Pushing Daisies, Dark Angel, Ed, Prison Break, Love Monkey, 24, The Pretender, Journeyman and Deadwood.
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