Defamer (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
newVideoPlayer("/benkyle_def.flv", 506, 423,""); He speaks! In the midst of fending off the rumors swirling about his job security, NBC head honcho Ben Silverman has taken time out to become a...
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Deadline Hollywood's Nikki Finke is reporting that NBC Entertainment co-chairman Ben Silverman will be appearing this season on HBO's glitzy Hollywood fantasia Entourage . As Ms. Finke writes: Fox mogul Tom Rothman and NBC mogul about to go-go Ben Silverman will appear in cameos this fall as well as ABC's The View and film critics Richard Roeper and Michael Phillips. Now exactly whose idea is that...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
TV News: Ed Carroll, Keith Samples also to appear -- The New York Television Festival is bringing industry bigwigs to powwow with indie TV producers for the event's fourth edition.
Lost Remote (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Shelly Palmer has this blast on HuffPost to counter remarks made by Ben Silverman, co-head of programming for the NBC Television Network. Sliverman said: “We’re managing for margin and not for ratings.” Palmer writes: “There is nothing technology can do to help or hurt this strategy. It is truly the end of broadcast television.” And [...]
Defamer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
At NBC's TCA press conference yesterday, network co-chairs Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff confirmed their plans to eject Jay Leno from The Tonight Show via jerry-rigged catapult device on May 29,...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Filed under: Industry , TCA Press Tour , Life , Reality-Free Just to be complete, I wanted to go over a few more tidbits from the NBC executive session with entertainment co-chiefs Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff. We already know about Leno copying Kimmel , and the late night news that came out of it, and we already know about the non-spin-off and the actual spin-off for The Office . But what else...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Jay Leno got all Andy Kaufman at a press conference yesterday, showing up in a bald cap and a pasted-on goatee as a fake reporter. He asked when the host will say his final monologue on the Tonight Show and be replaced by Conan O'Brien. Co-chairman Marc Graboff then announced that Mr. Leno's last night would be on May 29, 2009. Mr. O'Brien will take over starting June 1. But what will Mr. Leno do...
The TV addict (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
By: Kevin Kelly, Special TCA Correspondent NBC head honchos Marc Graboff and Ben Silverman, both the co-chairmen of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios took the stage to talk about all things NBC, which pretty much became the “Amy Poehler / Office Spinoff / Jay Leno” panel. Amy Poehler is leaving SNL this season after her baby [...]
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Filed under: Late Night , Industry , Talk Show , TCA Press Tour , Reality-Free Taking a cue from ABC, NBC had Jay Leno pose as a reporter and ask NBC's two-headed entertainment chief, Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff, about when Leno would be leaving and when Conan would be starting. Only, instead of just wearing a baseball cap like Kimmel did, Leno donned a bald cap and beard to make him seem extra...
The Mayor of Television (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Much as Jimmy Kimmel portrayed a reporter during ABC Entertainment president Stephen McPherson's TV Press Tour session, Leno interrupted the press conference for NBC co-chairmen Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff with some questions of his own. Leno, sitting in the...
NewTeeVee (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Ben Silverman: quarterlife a “Disappointment;” co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio says the show didn’t even do half of what he expected it to do. (TVWeek) Raindance.TV Secures $1 Million; first round for the UK new media film distributor. (Variety) TurnHere Releases Real Estate Video Product; for its Deluxe Snapshot Video, company will assemble [...]
Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
In case you haven’t noticed, the business of broadcast television is in trouble. Ratings have been trending down year over year for more than 30 years and there’s no end in sight. Most pundits blame this audience fragmentation on outside forces like the proliferation of cable channels, DVDs, video gaming, DVR’s and most recently online [...]
