Modern Family

The major networks are very optimistic so far this new fall season, as every new show has launched above a 2.0 in the all-important 18–49 demo. Wednesday, the streak continued as ABC (Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)) and Fox Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ: FOXA)) saw continued success. ABC...

It is that time of the year again when networks reboot themselves with a brand new schedule and a brand new crop of rookie series. For investors, it is an important period as well, as it can give them a snapshot of how a network will do over the next season, and in many cases, how that will...

Over the past few years it has been Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS)'s ABC's policy not to renew many (if any) of its series until right before its annual upfront in May. This year, that won't be the case, as new ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey surprised audiences and analysts on Thursday...

NBC aired the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Monday night from the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) Theatre in Los Angeles and hosted by Seth Meyers. Through the laughs, tears, make-out shocks and all-around fun, the winners triumphed, as most agree deservingly, for their creative endeavors. Benzinga has...

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) may not be directly affected by Wednesday's Supreme Court ruling, but the streaming video giant could still be hurt by the fall of Aereo. The Supreme Court ruled that Aereo (which allows consumers to stream live TV for a fee) violated the Copyright Act of 1976. Unlike...

The Simpsons recently earned an impressive $1 million per episode from FXX, the spinoff network from FX. It's a huge deal that could be worth more than $750 million over the life of the series, assuming that the show continues to provide new episodes. If not, FXX will still have to pay more than...

It’s called TV Conversation Targeting and it’s Twitter's (NYSE: TWTR) latest and greatest new way to let advertisers target people who have tweeted about a certain show according to a company blog post Thursday. Only in this case, the targeting can occur even if the advertiser in question hasn’...

Remember when Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) was little more than an online video rental store? Times have changed. Sunday they changed some more as the video rental plus streaming video service won a best director Emmy for David Fincher of House of Cards. From a convenient way to rent DVDs to even...