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TelevisionWeek

Editor	Greg Baumann
Categories	Television
Weekly
Year founded	1982
First issue	1982
Final issue	May 2009
Company	Crain Communications Inc.
Country	United States
Based in	Los Angeles, California, Detroit, Michigan
Language	English
Website	TVWeek.com

TelevisionWeek is a trade magazine delivering news, analysis and data on television and media. It was founded in 1982 as Electronic Media. It is currently owned by Crain Communications Inc.. The current editor is Greg Baumann. The corporate and circulation departments are based at Crain's headquarters in Detroit, Michigan. However, the editorial department is based in Los Angeles, California.

In addition, TelevisionWeek provides coverage of other entertainment and media technologies as they continue to emerge, including broadband, On Demand, viral video and HDTV.

Content[link]

The content of TelevisionWeek currently appears in a weekly print magazine and on many electronic platforms, including a website, daily e-mail newsletters, blogs, and video.

Print[link]

The print edition of TelelvisonWeek is a glossy newspaper published weekly and delivered nationally and internationally, with broad coverage of television and digital media including industry news, analysis, technology, and ratings from Nielsen Media Research. The print magazine stopped publication at the end of May 2009 but continues as a online publication.

Website[link]

The magazine's website, TVWeek.com, features a number of blogs, some are created by the publication's editors, others, such as Access Hollywood Confidential, by Access Hollywood producer Rob Silverstein, are created by members of the television community. Among its notable columnists are Inside Edition's Deborah Norville, and Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic Tom Shales.

Video media[link]

In 2007, TelevisonWeek launched WebVideoReport, a Crain Communications publication aimed at web video creators and the practice of generating revenue and marketing goods and services in the emerging market. It combines daily news on the web video industry, case studies on companies that are exploring the medium, and how-to articles from industry leaders that lay out the nuts and bolts of creating, distributing, and monetizing web video.

Corporate[link]

The editorial department of TelevisionWeek is based in Los Angeles, California. Its parent company, Detroit-based Crain Communications, is a privately held publishing company with more than 30 magazines, including Advertising Age, Creativity, Crain's New York Business, Crain's Chicago Business, Crain's Detroit Business, Crain's Cleveland Business, and Automotive News. The corporate and circulation departments of TelevisionWeek, as with all of the Crain publications, are based at Crain's headquarters in downtown Detroit.

External links[link]

• Official website

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Bobby Kahn is a Democratic American political activist and the former chairman of the Democratic Party of the U.S. state of Georgia. Kahn was elected chairman in 2004; his term expired in 2007. He previously served as chief of staff under former Governor Roy Barnes.

External links[link]

• Democratic Party of Georgia web site

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Bonnie Hunt
Hunt at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Bonnie Lynne Hunt (1961-09-22) September 22, 1961 (age 50)[1] Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, comedienne, writer, director, presenter, producer, talk show host
Years active	1984–present
Spouse	John Murphy (m. 1988–2006) «start: (1988)–end+1: (2007)»"Marriage: John Murphy to Bonnie Hunt" Location: (linkback:http://en-wiki.pop.wn.com/index.php/Bonnie_Hunt)

Bonnie Lynne Hunt (born September 22, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, writer, director, television producer and daytime television host.

Early life[link]

Hunt, who was born in Chicago, Illinois, is the daughter of Alice E. (née Jatczak), a homemaker, and Robert Edward Hunt, an electrician.^[2] Her mother is of Polish descent and her father was of Irish and Belgian ancestry.^[3][4][5] She was raised in a large Catholic family,^[4] and has three older brothers, Patrick, Kevin, and Tom, two older sisters, Cathy and Carol, and one younger sister, Mary. Hunt was educated in Catholic schools and attended St. Ferdinand Grammar School and Notre Dame High School for Girls in Chicago.

In 1982, Hunt worked as an oncology nurse at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. In 1984, she co-founded An Impulsive Thing, an improvisational comedy troupe, with Holly Wortell, Andy Miller and John Gripentrog. Hunt also performed as a member of Chicago's world-famous The Second City, joining in 1986.

Career[link]

In 1990, Hunt played a role on the NBC show Grand, a comedy that lasted a season and a half. Hunt refused to become a cast member of Saturday Night Live because the show's producers generally frowned on her preferred improvisational style.^[6] In 1992, she turned down a higher-paying role on Designing Women^[6] to co-star in Davis Rules with Jonathan Winters, Randy Quaid, and Audrey Meadows.

In 1993, Hunt teamed with good friend David Letterman to produce The Building, a short-lived sitcom that was modeled after early-1950s television shows. The show was also filmed live; mistakes, accidents, and forgotten lines were often left in the aired episode. Hunt and Letterman re-teamed in 1995 with The Bonnie Hunt Show (later retitled Bonnie), which featured many of the same cast members as The Building and the same loose style. The show was praised by critics but was canceled after 11 of the 13 episodes produced were aired. In 2002, Hunt returned to television with Life with Bonnie, a show known for clean and offbeat humor. Her role on that show earned her a 2004 Emmy nomination, her first. Despite fair ratings, the show was canceled in its second season. Hunt announced on Live with Regis and Kelly that ABC had offered her another sitcom, in which she would have played a divorced detective. This pilot, Let Go (also known as Crimes and Dating), was not picked up for the fall 2006 schedule.

Hunt co-wrote, directed, and co-starred in the 2000 film Return to Me, a romantic comedy starring David Duchovny and Minnie Driver. It was filmed in her Chicago neighborhood and included bit parts for a number of her relatives. The film, which received a positive reception from critics,^[7] was largely influenced by Hunt's blue-collar Catholic upbringing in Chicago.^[8]

Hunt starred as Alice Newton opposite Charles Grodin in the popular children's films Beethoven and Beethoven's 2nd. She played opposite Robin Williams in Jumanji as well as opposite Steve Martin in Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel. She played the sister of Renée Zellweger in the movie Jerry Maguire and Jan Edgecomb opposite Tom Hanks in the film adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Green Mile. Also, she played the biological mother, Grace Bellamy, of Mark Austin (played by Kip Pardue) in Loggerheads, a 2005 independent film written and directed by Tim Kirkman. She has provided her voice for a total of four Pixar films: A Bug's Life as Rosie the black widow spider; Monsters, Inc. as training supervisor Mrs. Flint; Cars as the heroine Sally Carrera; and Toy Story 3 as Dolly. In addition, Hunt received a writing credit on the film Cars, and reprised her role in the sequel Cars 2.

[edit] The Bonnie Hunt Show

In 2007 Bonnie Hunt taped a pilot episode for Telepictures. The pilot was approved and the talk show was created. The Bonnie Hunt Show premiered on Monday, September 8, 2008. The show's set design was a tribute to Dean Martin and on the walls are pictures of historic television personalities as well as Hunt's family members. The show was inspired by the format of Live with Regis and Kelly with the host and guests often interacting with the audience. Many of show's staffers were longtime friends of Hunt's from Chicago. The show typically started with an opening monologue followed by guest interviews and games played with the audience. Hunt's mother Alice often appeared in webcasts from her home in Chicago. A characteristic of the show was Hunt's over-the-top faux indignation at non-PG language after which she would enjoy the double-entendre drenched material she had pretended to poo-poo. The Bonnie Hunt Show taped in Culver City, California and was viewed in 17 of the top 20 US television markets in the United States. In its first year, the show was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards: for opening theme, hairstyle, and makeup. It won the Gracie Award for "Outstanding Talk Show" in 2009. In 2010, Hunt was nominated for "Outstanding Talk Show Host" at the Daytime Emmy Awards. The final episode aired Wednesday, May 26, 2010.

Personal life[link]

Hunt married investment banker John Murphy in 1988. However, during her June 6, 2006, appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, she mentioned that she was single again. She has no children.

Hunt's hometown is Chicago^[9] and she is a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, having not missed an Opening Day at Wrigley Field since 1977. She is also a supporter of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, of which she is an honorary board member.^[10]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bonnie Hunt

• Bonnie Hunt at the Internet Movie Database

Marc Cherry
Marc Cherry at the Log Cabin Republicans' "Courage To Lead" dinner in June of 2006
Born	(1962-03-23) March 23, 1962 (age 50) Oklahoma
Occupation	Film & television producer, director, screenwriter.

Marc Cherry (born March 23, 1962) is an American writer and producer, best known for creating the show Desperate Housewives. Cherry is currently developing a new series Devious Maids.

Early life and career[link]

Cherry was born in Long Beach and lived briefly in Oklahoma. His father was an accountant which required the family to relocate to California. After graduating from Troy High School in Fullerton, California, Cherry graduated from California State University, Fullerton's theater program and initially considered a career in performance. After winning $15,000 as a contestant on The $100,000 Pyramid in 1986,^[1] he decided to move to Hollywood and pursue writing work. His move came at a bad time; the 1988 writer's strike hit as soon as Cherry arrived. Cherry broke into the industry by working as Designing Women star Dixie Carter's personal assistant.^[2]

In 1990, he became a writer and producer for the long-running hit sitcom The Golden Girls. Cherry wrote for the show, and its short lived spinoff The Golden Palace.

When those shows concluded, Cherry co-created The 5 Mrs. Buchanans. The concept of the show centered around the matriarch of the family (played by Eileen Heckart) and the wives of her four sons. The show had a brief run on CBS during the 1994-1995 season.

Cherry also co-created The Crew (1995). On his own, he later created Some of My Best Friends, a 2001 sitcom that was based in part on the film Kiss Me, Guido.

[edit] Desperate Housewives

In 2002, a conversation with his mother inspired him to develop a show about the fractured lives of four upper middle class suburban women. After HBO, FOX, CBS, NBC, Showtime, and Lifetime all passed on the show, Cherry got his big break when his agent was arrested and sent to jail for embezzlement. His new agents brought the show to ABC, which decided to pick it up. The series, Desperate Housewives, was an immediate ratings smash and generated enormous national (and subsequently, international) debate. Cherry received several lucrative offers from various parties, but chose to sign a long-term deal with Touchstone, since their network had shown faith in Desperate Housewives when no one else would.

The show was a phenomenon for much of its first season, but was criticized by TV critics who said the second season of Desperate Housewives was not as creative or as good as the first. Viewers seemed to agree, since the ratings dropped as the season progressed.

Cherry has featured several actors on "Housewives" that he has worked with before; Mark Moses, who played Paul Young, and Harriet Sansom Harris, who played Felicia Tilman, were both cast members of The 5 Mrs. Buchanans. In season three, Cherry cast former boss Dixie Carter in the role of Gloria Hodge, Orson's unhinged mother. Actor Alec Mapa, who appeared in Some of My Best Friends, appears on "Housewives" in a recurring role as Gabrielle's stylist.

Cherry appeared in a cameo as one of Susan's moving men on the final episode of Desperate Housewives.

Lawsuit[link]

On April 5, 2010, former Desperate Housewives cast member Nicollette Sheridan filed a $20 million lawsuit against Cherry and ABC, alleging that he had assaulted her on set and wrongfully terminated her contract. Sheridan also alleged in her lawsuit that Cherry was abusive to other actors and writers on the show. ABC said in a statement that they had investigated similar claims made by Sheridan and found them to be of no merit.^[3][4]

The stars of Desperate Housewives (Teri Hatcher, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross and Eva Longoria) have pledged their support to help Marc Cherry in his battle against assault allegations made by Sheridan.^[5][6][7] At the end of 2010, she removed abuse claims from the suit.^[8][9]

In February 2011, Sheridan won a battle in her Desperate Housewives lawsuit when a judge ruled the actress does not have to give further testimony about conversations with a lawyer she consulted.^[10] Sheridan's lawsuit had a hearing on May 3, 2011, followed by a trial which is tentatively scheduled for June 8, 2011.^[11][12][13]

For the second time, Sheridan averted another legal challenge to her lawsuit against Cherry. The trial is currently underway.^[14]

A judge limited Sheridan's damages in the Desperate Housewives case.^[15]

On March 13, 2012, Marc Cherry emerged victorious in the suit when the battery charge against Cherry was dismissed by the judge. ^[16] The wrongful termination suit against ABC/Disney is still pending, but Cherry is no longer a defendant in the suit.

Other credits[link]

Cherry appeared as himself in an episode of Arrested Development, which was created by fellow Golden Girls writer Mitchell Hurwitz.

Political affiliation[link]

Cherry was described in an article about him in Newsweek as a "somewhat conservative, gay Republican."^[17]

On June 29, 2006, Cherry accepted Log Cabin Republicans' American Visibility Award at a dinner in Hollywood where the main award recipient was California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who received the club's "Courage To Lead" Award.^[18]

References[link]

Steven Bochco
Bochco and Barbara Bosson
Born	Steven Ronald Bozovic (1943-12-16) December 16, 1943 (age 68) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Television producer, writer

Steven Ronald Bochco (born December 16, 1943) is a US television producer and writer. He has developed a number of popular television hits including Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, as well as some notable flops such as Cop Rock.^[1]

Life and career[link]

Early life[link]

Bochco was born in New York City, the son of Mimi, a painter, and Rudolph Bozovic, a concert violinist.^[2] He is Serbian. He was educated in Manhattan at the High School of Music and Art. His elder sister is actress Joanna Frank. In 1961, he enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (after merging with the Mellon Institute in 1967 known as Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh to study playwriting and theater. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Theater in 1966, having also had an MCA Writing Fellowship.

Career[link]

Bochco went to work for Universal Pictures as a writer and then story editor on Ironside, Columbo, McMillan & Wife and the short-lived Lorne Greene and Ben Murphy series, Griff, as well as Delvecchio and The Invisible Man. He wrote the screenplay for the 1968 TV movie The Counterfeit Killer and worked on Silent Running (1972) and Double Indemnity (1973). He left Universal in 1978 to go to MTM Enterprises where he had greater scope for producing. His first effort there was the short-lived CBS police drama Paris, notable as the first show on which James Earl Jones played a lead role.

He achieved major success for NBC with the police drama Hill Street Blues. It ran from 1981 to 1987 and Bochco was credited as co-creator and also wrote and produced. The series also garnered considerable critical acclaim and many awards, and was nominated for a total of 98 Emmy Awards throughout its run. Bochco was fired from MTM in 1985 following the failure of Bay City Blues (1983).

Bochco moved to 20th Century Fox (which now owns the MTM library) where he co-created and produced L.A. Law (1986–1994) which aired on NBC. This series was also widely acclaimed and a regular award winner, but also achieved far higher ratings success than Hill Street Blues had enjoyed.

In 1987, Bochco co-created the half-hour dramedy Hooperman which starred John Ritter but was canceled after two seasons, despite Bochco offering to take over direct day-to-day control of a third season. Hooperman was part of a lucrative deal with ABC in 1987 to create and produce ten new TV series, which prompted Bochco to form Steven Bochco Productions. From this deal came Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989–1993) and the 1990 musical flop Cop Rock, which combined straight police drama with live-action Broadway singing and dancing. It was one of his most high-profile failures. In 1992, Bochco created an animated television series, Capitol Critters, along with Nat Mauldin and Michael Wagner.

After a lull, Bochco co-created the long-running NYPD Blue (1993–2005) with David Milch. Initially controversial at the time, the show was created with the express intention of changing the nature of network one-hour drama to compete with the more adult fare broadcast on cable networks. Other projects in this period that failed to take off include Murder One (1995–1997), Brooklyn South (1997), City of Angels (2000), Philly (2001), and Over There (2005). All five shows failed to match Bochco's earlier success though Murder One and Over There garnered critical praise and have developed cult followings.

In 2005, Bochco took charge of Commander in Chief (2005–2006) which was the creation of Rod Lurie and brought in a new writing team. However, in spring 2006, he left the show because of conflicts with ABC, and shortly afterward the program was canceled. Bochco described his experience on the show as "horrible."^[3] In 2006 Bochco produced a pilot ABC show, Hollis and Rae,^[4] and was reported at the same time to be developing a baseball drama and another legal drama for ABC in partnership with Chris Gerolmo.^[5]

It was announced in March 2007 that he has taken his first steps into internet TV with the 44-episode Cafe Confidential, each episode being 60-seconds of unscripted "confessions" by members of the public.^[6] Yet another legal drama entitled Raising the Bar was produced for TNT, this time in partnership with David Feige, although it was cancelled in December 2009 during the second season.^[7][8]

According to an interview with Bochco published in September 2007, he is now winding down his involvement with network television, feeling that his tastes and current fashions in TV drama no longer coincide.^[3] "The network executives stay the same age and I keep getting older and it creates a different kind of relationship. When I was doing my stuff at NBC with Brandon (Tartikoff) and Hill Street, we were contemporaries," says Bochco.^[9] "When I sit down (now), they're sitting in a room with someone who's old enough to be their father and I'm not sure they want to sit in a room with their fathers."^[9]

In 2008 Bochco argued that the new home for quality prime time drama is cable, where "the atmosphere is far friendlier and the creative environment more conducive to doing original work", and that "most of what's passing for primetime drama these days isn't very good."^[10]

His impact on the nature of American prime time network television drama is considerable: prior to Hill Street Blues it was rare for American straight drama shows to have story arcs, i.e. several stories running over many episodes (with the exception of prime time soap operas such as Dallas). It was also rare to have a large regular cast. The structure of the modern "ensemble" television drama comes from Bochco who many regard as having changed the "language" of television drama.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life[link]

In 1969, he married actress Barbara Bosson, who appeared as a regular on Hill Street Blues. They had two children before divorcing in 1997. He is currently married to Dayna Kalins (m. August 12, 2000). His son, Jesse Bochco, by his first wife, was a producer/director on NYPD Blue and directed the pilot episode of Raising the Bar. Jesse Bochco also appeared as Captain Furillo's son, Frank Jr. (with Bosson playing his mother) on Hill Street Blues, as well as a director in his own right. Jesse has directed several episodes of his father's shows, including NYPD Blue, Philly, Over There and Raising the Bar.

Awards[link]

Emmy Awards[link]

• 1981 Outstanding Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues
• 1981 Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues, "Hill Street Station" (premiere episode)
• 1982 Outstanding Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues
• 1982 Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues, "Freedom's Last Stand"
• 1983 Outstanding Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues
• 1984 Outstanding Drama Series, for Hill Street Blues
• 1987 Outstanding Drama Series, for L.A. Law
• 1987 Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series, for L.A. Law, "The Venus Butterfly"
• 1989 Outstanding Drama Series, for L.A. Law
• 1995 Outstanding Drama Series, for NYPD Blue

Humanitas Prize[link]

• 1981 60-minute Category, for Hill Street Blues
• 1999 90-Minute Category, for NYPD Blue

Edgar Awards[link]

• 1982 Best Episode in a TV Series Teleplay, for Hill Street Blues, "Hill Street Station"
• 1995 Best Episode in a TV Series Teleplay, for NYPD Blue, "Simone Says"

Directors Guild of America[link]

• 1999 Diversity Award

Writers Guild of America[link]

• 1994 Laurel Award for TV Writing Achievement

Bibliography[link]

• Death by Hollywood: A Novel (2003). New York: Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6156-3.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Steven Bochco at the Internet Movie Database
• Bio
• Steven Bochco Interview at Archive of American Television