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Time Warner Chief Jeff Bewkes Says He’s Open To Acquisitions, If Cheap: UBS Confab

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday December 6, 2011 @ 11:59am PSTTags: CNN, Jeff Bewkes, Jeff Bewkes Time Warner, Law & Order, Netflix, TBS, The Big Bang Theory, The Dark Knight, THe Wizarding World Of Harry Potter, Time Warner, TNT, Universal Islands of Adventure, Warner Bros, Without A Trace

Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes needed a better joke writer to help him acknowledge the anniversary of the blunder he made at last year’s UBS Annual Global Media and Communications Conference when he wrote off Netflix, comparing it to the Albanian army trying to take over the world. He had to eat those words as Time Warner, along with just about everyone else, began licensing programming to the online streaming service. “This is the appropriate place to point out that the Albanian army did take over the world. Alexander the Great? It’s close.” The line only elicited a few chuckles from analysts, but they didn’t seem to mind after hearing Bewkes say a lot of things they wanted to hear. Time Warner’s ad sales have been ”up double digits (since the upfront market) and are holding.” Although 4Q was a little soft, ”some of that is advertisers pulling stuff forward to the upfront. … We’re looking fine for the first quarter,” especially with the return of NBA games.

He also assured investors that they don’t have to be concerned about Warner Bros’ prospects following the end of the Harry Potter film series. He said that within hours, the Harry Potter presence that has done so much for Universal’s Islands of Adventure park in Orlando “will move in a material way in that direction” — suggesting that the company and Comcast will confirm reports that Universal Studios Hollywood will get a version of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction. ”Everybody stay tuned.” He also says that the studio has high hopes for additional franchises including the Batman/Dark Knight series. READ MORE »

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Now I Know Why ‘L&O: LA’ Was Such Crap

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Wednesday October 6, 2010 @ 6:01pm PDTTags: Dick Wolf, Dick Wolf Law & Order: LA, Law & Order, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order:LA, TV



UPDATE: Deadline commenters are so right: 2nd LOLA outing tonight was vastly improved story- and dialogue-wise. Plus, Terence Howard nailed it. That said, I do hope the next Hollywood plot will suck less…

Previous: Tonight is the 2nd episode of Law & Order: Los Angeles after the first one sucked. Following that unfortunate debut, Dick Wolf stopped by Kate Mantilini restaurant in Beverly Hills for breakfast and conversation with Los Angeles magazine about the series and the city. Look, I love all things Law & Order, and  René Balcer, and the franchise’s writing and plotting. But LOLA reeked bigtime. Now I know why: here’s what Wolf said about his desire to have the show portray LA stereotypes: “It is the way of fruits and nuts. We are trying to fulfill an expectation of what LA is about. The first episode was very deliberate — it’s not going to be Hollywood every week, but I thought it really was the best way to introduce the show, to show that it was really different from the New York version.” Well, Dick, you thought wrong. That was precisely the problem with the first show, and I fear it’s going to be the problem with the series’ view of Hollywood as it pertains to LA: You can be cynical. You can be subversive. But, jeez, you just can’t be so obvious and boring. There wasn’t one thing in that first crapfest that didn’t insult my veteran LA resident’s intelligence.

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USA Picks Up ‘Law & Order: CI’ For Final Season With Star Vincent D’Onofrio & Gives Dick Wolf Pilot Commitment For New Project

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 21, 2010 @ 1:00pm PDTTags: Jeff Goldblum, Law & Order, Law & Order: CI Final Season, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Criminal Intent USA, Vince D'Onofrio
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: After months of negotiations, USA Network has closed a deal to bring Law & Order: Criminal Intent back for an 8-episode 10th season with the series’ original star Vincent D’Onofrio, who will return as Detective Robert Goren, a … Read More »

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TCA: Dick Wolf Confirms Mothership ‘Law & Order’ Series Is Dead

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday July 30, 2010 @ 11:56am PDTTags: Dick Wolf, Dick Wolfe Law & Order, Law & Order, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order:LA, LOLA, TCA, TV
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“I can confirm that (Law & Order) has moved into the history books, the franchise creator Dick Wolf said at the opening of the TCA session for the latest spinoff, Law & Order: Los Angeles, putting an end to any speculation that the show still may find a new home. … Read More »

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UTA Signs ‘L&O’ Veteran Rene Balcer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday July 27, 2010 @ 2:38pm PDTTags: Agents, Law & Order, Law & Order Franchise, Law & Order:LA, NBC, TV, TV Shows, UTA
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EXCLUSIVE: Rene Balcer, a 20-year veteran of the Law & Order franchise, has signed with UTA, the agency that also represents the franchise creator Dick Wolf. For the past 8-10 years, Balcer was at CAA. Balcer serves as executive producer/showrunner … Read More »

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Richard Desmond Offers $150M For Five

By TIM ADLER in London | Monday July 19, 2010 @ 2:38am PDTTags: Big Brother, British TV, CSI, Endemol, Five, Law & Order, Richard Desmond, Richard Desmond Five, UK Channel Five Bids

FiveThe newspaper tycoon is in pole position to win control of Five, reports the Sunday Times. Deadline predicted Desmond would take over the channel three weeks ago. Desmond will honour long-term US programming contracts for shows include CSI and Law & … Read More »

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Skeet Ulrich To Star In ‘Law & Order: LA’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday July 7, 2010 @ 12:00pm PDTTags: Dick Wolf, Law & Order, Law & Order:LA, Peter Jankowski, Skeet Ulrich, Skeet Ulrich Law & Order: LA, TV, TV Casting
Nellie Andreeva

skeetulrichSkeet Ulrich is set to star in NBC’s latest Law & Order spinoff, Law & Order: Los Angeles. The former Jericho star is the first actor tapped for the Dick Wolf-produced series, which had cast a wide net for its … Read More »

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UPDATE: Dick Wolf Loses Back-End Cable Deal Arbitration To NBC Universal

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday April 3, 2008 @ 2:01pm PDTTags: Dick Wolf, Finance, Law, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Networks, TV

dwolf.jpgEveryone is very tight-lipped. But I’ve confirmed that Dick Wolf just lost an arbitration proceeding to NBC Universal over back-end agreements on two of his Law & Order series. This occurred the same week that all three of his … Read More »

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