Archive for the ‘polls’ Category

TV By the Numbers had previously reported that the creator of Scrubs, Bill Lawrence, was definitely calling it quits after the current season, its first on ABC, finishes.  But now The Hollywood Reporter is saying that there may have been a change of heart…at least on the part of ABC and the Lawrence.  Zach Braff [...]

According to the consultants and researchers at The Diffusion Group, 76% of adult broadband consumers are interested in having a widget toolbar on their primary TV - 28% say it would be extremely valuable.  TDG goes on to compare widgets on TV to mobile apps and the impact they’ve had on hardware development by Apple, [...]

There has been a lot of chatter across the blogosphere this week about socializing around TV.  Most of it began when Hulu announced that it was adding a variety of social features so that users could share their TV-watching habits with their friends.  The reviews are mixed so far as building a community doesn’t appear [...]

It’s official, or at least as close to official as you can get to being official - the Arrested Development movie is actually going to happen.  According to E!Online’s Watch with Kristin, Michael Cera was the lone holdout of the original cast and he has now signed on to do the movie.
Arrested Development fans are [...]

One of the more imprortant and contentious topics within the television industry these days is the Federal mandate for TV stations to disable their analog tranmissions for a couple of reasons according to the FCC’s The Digital TV Transition website:
1. Moving off analog signals frees up the broadcast spectrum for public services such as police [...]