Jim Rutenberg

Articles by Jim Rutenberg

Bob Iger Rules TV … With Help From Regis

by Jim Rutenberg
Feb. 20th, 2000, 7:00 pm
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Bob Iger, the handsome, gleaming, departing head of ABC, sat at a center table in the vast Waldorf-A  read more »

Get Well, Dave, but Why Not Hire Guest Hosts?

by Jim Rutenberg
Jan. 23rd, 2000, 7:00 pm
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Best wishes on a speedy recovery. Sure was a great run up to the operation. Top form with Hillary.  read more »

Broadband Killed the TV Star … World Domination For Ted Turner? … Did NBC Just Get Weak?

by Jim Rutenberg
Jan. 16th, 2000, 7:00 pm
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After a run of roughly 50 years, the age of network television came to an end on Sunday, Jan.  read more »

Odd Alliance: ABC, CBS, Fox Make Strange New Alliance …

by Jim Rutenberg
Jan. 9th, 2000, 7:00 pm
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ABC and CBS have teamed up with Fox News in an effort to take on Ted Turner's CNN and, while they're  read more »

Odd Alliance: ABC, CBS, Fox Make Strange New Alliance …

by Jim Rutenberg
Jan. 9th, 2000, 7:00 pm
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ABC and CBS have teamed up with Fox News in an effort to take on Ted Turner's CNN and, while they're  read more »

New York Likes to Watch... TV !

by Jim Rutenberg
Nov. 28th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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If television is a mirror for the culture that watches it, then New York dreams about money more tha  read more »

Insider Apology? Michael Eisner Phones Don Hewitt With Regrets

by Jim Rutenberg
Nov. 21st, 1999, 7:00 pm
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The week after the Walt Disney Company's Touchstone Pictures released The Insider , Disney chief exe  read more »

Dan Kellison of Man Show Is 'Whipped' Husband at Home

by Jim Rutenberg
Nov. 7th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Daniel Kellison, executive producer of The Man Show , pointed to the stacks of boxes filled with bab  read more »

Bryant Gumbel's Producer Weighs In on Early Show … Suddenly Canceled Executive Producers Speak

by Jim Rutenberg
Nov. 7th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, Nov. 3CBS's new Early Show debuted with Bryant Gumbel and Jane Clayson on Monday, Nov.  read more »

Two Saturday Night Live Stars Feud

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Oct. 31st, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, Oct. 27Chris Kattan was nowhere to be seen during the Oct.  read more »

Comic Book Geeks Fight Chris Carter Over Harsh Realm

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Oct. 17th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, Oct. 13Andrew Paquette and James Hudnall are a couple of comic book geeks.  read more »

Broadband Babies of 1999

by Jim Rutenberg
Oct. 3rd, 1999, 7:00 pm
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If the Internet is like the TV business, then we are now in 1945 or so.  read more »

Eisner Squeezes ABC-Adds Commercials to Prime-Time Lineup

by Jim Rutenberg
Sep. 12th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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ABC has ordered the producers of its prime-time programs to trim their shows by at least 30 seconds  read more »

Andy Richter Sells Himself ... Amy Sedaris Works a Double Shift

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Aug. 22nd, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, August 18Andy Richter, who has announced he will leave the sidekick position on Late Nigh  read more »

SNL 's Killer Contract

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Aug. 15th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, August 11From John Belushi in the 70's to Eddie Murphy in the 80's and Mike Myers in the  read more »

Betty White on Lousy Sitcoms … Paul Haggis Is Back

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Aug. 1st, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, July 28Betty White, 77, is returning to prime time this fall, in a CBS sitcom called Ladi  read more »

Return of Bryant Gumbel: Karmazin Bets $30 Million on New CBS Morning Show

by Jim Rutenberg
Jul. 25th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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For years, CBS has employed two men who have been powerhouses in the potentially very profitable bus  read more »

Raunchy Bleepin' Fox Sitcom-but Do You Care?

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Jul. 25th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, July 21Television reporters received the following document, reproduced here verbatim, on  read more »

Conan's New Deal; Tom Green's Shtick

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Jul. 18th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, July 14Is Conan O'Brien building a late-night empire à la David Letterman's Worldwide Pa  read more »

Diller Gets Springer … WB Gets Aliens

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Jul. 11th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, July 7Barry Diller gave the order in the spring of '98: no more fighting on The Jerry Spr  read more »

'Newman!' Have We Got a Sitcom Idea for You!

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Jun. 27th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, June 23Wayne Knight, who played Newman on Seinfeld , went on Late Night With Conan O'Brie  read more »

The Woman Who Wrote Neve's Big Kiss; Anthony Michael Hall Reforms

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Jun. 20th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, June 16Last year, a crew working with 60 Minutes ' Ed Bradley put a miniature camera on a  read more »

Lou Dobbs: Space Cowboy or Space Cadet?

by Jim Rutenberg
Jun. 20th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Lou Dobbs stood atop an overgrown foothill on his 300-plusacre,Sussex County, N.J., estate and looke  read more »

NBC's Opposite of The Opposite of Sex ?

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Jun. 13th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, June 9Don Roos has an unlikely deal at NBC: to make a TV show based on his 1998 movie The  read more »

Craig Kilborn: Small Ratings, Big Money

by Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
Jun. 6th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday June 2His ratings may be small, but Craiggers is going to be making big money for CBS, acc  read more »

James Cameron: King of Murdoch's World?

by William Berlind, Jim Rutenberg and Peter Bogdanovich
May. 30th, 1999, 7:00 pm
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Wednesday, May 26Shae D'Lyn plays Dharma's kooky and cute friend on the cute ABC sitcom Dharma & Gre  read more »