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After threatening to boycott the program if it moved to HBO, the four major broadcast networks have reached an agreement with The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to keep the Emmy Awards on broadcast television.
HBO, the pay television network that has been winning more than its fair share of Emmy Awards the past few years, stepped in and made an aggressive effort to buy the rights to the industry awards show. The broadcast networks threatened to boycott the show if it moved to HBO, even going so far as to threaten to withhold clips of nominated shows and actors that could be presented on the telecast. In the end, common sense prevailed and the academy renewed an eight-year agreement to keep the show on ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC on a rotating basis. The networks reportedly agreed to pay the television academy $5.5 million a year for the first four years of the agreement and $7.5 million for the last four. For more information on this agreement go to http://www.emmys.org/ News and notes from the world of television: Editor's note: In my last column I promised you a reviewShowtimenew Showtime movie "The Outsider" sDalying Tim Daly ("The Naomiive"), NaMulholland("Mulholland DriCarradineid Carradine ("Kung Fu")Curtishomas Curtis ("The Cactus Kid"). My preview copy from the network arrived late but I will have my review next week in time for the secondShowtime on Showtime. Sorry about the delay. No investigation needed here: Kim Delaney has received her walking papers from the new CBS series "CBS:Miami." Producers say that her characters absence will be explained on her final episode to air in late November. No doubt those fictional reasons won't be nearly as interesting as the real reasons she left the hit series. IDelaneyly, both Delaney and seCarusotar David Caruso had starred on the ABC series "NYPD BLUE." Neither were on the show at the same time, however. We can rebuild her: The USA Network is reportedly in pre-production on an updated version of "The Bionic Woman." The original 70s series was a spin-off from "The Six Million DollarLindseynd starred Lindsey Wagner as a former tennis pro turned superdon't Most people don't remember this, but Wagner won an Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Dramatic Series for her performance. |
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