Emmy-winning reality producer Evan Weinstein has inked an overall deal with CBS. Under the one-year pact, which has an option for a second, Weinstein will continue to work on the network's reality series The Amazing Race 6, scheduled for Saturday nights in the fall, while developing unscripted projects for the network. Weinstein has worked on Jerry Bruckheimer's globe-trotting reality show since its first installment in 2001, rising to supervising producer. As part of the producing team of the third cycle of Amazing Race, Weinstein won an Emmy for best reality/competition program last year. Weinstein, whose credits include ABC's Profiles From the Front Line and Fox's Paradise Hotel, is repped by Bill Thompson at Rebel Entertainment Partners.
As the war in Iraq nears the one-week mark, broadcast networks are laboring to strike the right balance between breaking news and their usual schedules. With many advertisers shunning war-related news coverage, networks stand to lose millions of dollars by pre-empting regular programming for the fighting in Iraq. That has left network schedulers searching for what a network spokesman described as a "delicate balance" in a conflict yielding only intermittent news developments, at least so far. "It's been coming out in piecemeal fashion," NBC News spokeswoman Allison Gollust said of the war news. ABC devoted its primetime Sunday to the 75th Anniversary Academy Awards, but "we were poised to come back on the air at a moment's notice," ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider said Sunday. "As you can see from monitoring cable channels, there is not a lot of breaking news right now." After war broke out Wednesday night, only ABC remained in full-time war mode Thursday and Friday, while CBS and NBC returned to their regular primetime lineups except for one-hour specials on the war each night. In fact, amid the war coverage, ABC quietly announced Monday that it has yanked two low-rated series: Monday's Veritas: The Quest and the Tuesday reality series The Family. Two Thursday reality series -- Are You Hot? and Profiles From the Front Line -- have been pulled as well. For now, all are expected to be replaced with war-related coverage.
- 3/25/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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