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Television’s biggest mystery: how long will pipeline for new programming be closed?
FILE - Janelle James, from left, Quinta Brunson, Lisa Ann Walter and Sheryl Lee Ralph pose in the press room with the award for best television series, musical or comedy for "Abbott Elementary" at the 80th annual Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023, in Beverly Hills, Calif. For decades, the week in May when television executives revealed what new shows were coming and which old ones were going spoke to the power and influence that ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox had over popular culture. This past week offered more evidence of how that is diminishing, draped in confusion about the future wrought by the Hollywood writers strike. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
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Search on for missing in deadly chocolate factory explosion in Pennsylvania
In this screen grab from video provided by WPVI-TV/6ABC, smoke rises from an explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading, Pa., Friday, March 24, 2023. (WPVI-TV/6ABC via AP)
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Ex-Trump aide Meadows, others ordered to testify in Capitol attack probe
FILE PHOTO: White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to reporters following a television interview, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. October 21, 2020. REUTERS/Al Drago/File Photo
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Mattea Roach to appear on Jeopardy! spinoff show
This image released by Sony Pictures Television shows Mattea Roach, a Canadian contestant on the game show "Jeopardy!" Canadian "Jeopardy" champion Mattea Roach will face off against her peers in a new spinoff show just picked up by ABC. "Jeopardy! Masters" will pit six recent super-champions against each other. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tyler Golden-Sony Pictures Television via AP *MANDATORY CREDIT*
arts
Barbara Walters, trailblazing news anchor with legendary drive for the big ‘get,’ dead at 93
FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2014 file photo, Barbara Walters addresses an audience at the John F. Kennedy School of Government on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Barbara Walters, the intrepid interviewer, anchor and program host who led the way as the first woman to become a TV news superstar during a network career remarkable for its duration and variety, has died, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. She was 93. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
inside the market
Market movers: Stocks that saw action on Thursday - and why
The logo of a Couche-Tard convenience store is seen in Montreal on Jan. 13, 2021.
basketball
ABC to air NCAA women’s basketball championship game for first time
FILE - Mississippi State center Teaira McCowan (15) and South Carolina forward A'ja Wilson (22) reach for the ball on the opening tipoff of the final of the NCAA women's college basketball tournament Final Four, Sunday, April 2, 2017, in Dallas. The NCAA women's basketball title game will be broadcast on ABC for the first time this season. The championship game, which usually airs in primetime, will be played at 3 p.m. ET. The Final Four is in Dallas this year. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
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Some 20 million watch primetime hearing of House Jan. 6 panel
A video showing former White House Advisor Ivanka Trump speaking during an interview with the Jan. 6 Committee is shown at the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, hearing Thursday, June 9, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
u.s. business
U.S. House panel to investigate nationwide baby formula shortage
A sign is posted at a CVS pharmacy indicating a shortage in the availability of baby food Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Charlotte, N.C. Parents in much of the U.S. are scrambling to find baby formula after a combination of supply disruptions and safety recalls have swept many of the leading brands from store shelves. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
opinion
Sports, comedy and seniors will decide the future of television
John Doyle
film
Oscars 2022: Six simple steps to save the dumpster fire Academy Awards, and Hollywood, too
(FILES) In this file photo taken on February 15, 2019, Oscar statues decorate an interior at the 91th annual Academy Awards Governors Ball press preview in Hollywood, California. - The Oscars will take place in late February in 2021 and 2022 to accommodate the Olympics, Super Bowl and other events, organizers said on June 11, 2019. Next year, the 92nd Oscars is set for February 9, but the following ceremonies will be on February 28, 2021 and February 27, 2022 -- the final Sundays of the month. "Timing of the 2022 Olympics, the Super Bowl and national holidays will keep the 2021 and 2022 dates on the last Sunday in February," the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and US network ABC said. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
inside the market
Wednesday’s small-cap stocks to watch
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Alec Baldwin to Stephanopoulos about death on movie set: ‘I didn’t pull the trigger’
This image released by ABC News shows actor-producer Alec Baldwin, left, during an interview with “Good Morning America” co-anchor George Stephanopoulos. The hour-long interview about the fatal shooting on the set of Baldwin's film “Rust,” will air Thursday, Dec. 2 at 9 p.m. EST on ABC. (Jeffrey Neira/ABC News via AP)
report on business
A strange IPO saga: Auto parts maker ABC has new private equity owners, but still trades on the TSX
FILE PHOTO: A screen shows a price of Canada's main stock index, the Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index, as it rose to a record high in Toronto, Ontario, Canada January 7, 2021. REUTERS/Chris Helgren/File Photo
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Cerberus Capital sells controlling stake in Canada’s ABC Technologies just weeks after IPO
television
ABC drama Big Sky criticized by Indigenous groups for insensitivity to MMIWG crisis
BIG SKY - Ryan Phillippe as Cody Hoyt in a scene from "Big Sky". An intense thriller that follows private detectives Cassie Dewell and Cody Hoyt as they join forces with his estranged wife and ex-cop, Jenny Hoyt, to search for two sisters who have been kidnapped by a truck driver on a remote highway in Montana. But when they discover that these are not the only girls who have disappeared in the area, they must race against the clock to find the women before it's too late. (ABC/Darko Sikman) RYAN PHILLIPPE
opinion
Grammys’ snub of Canadian pop superstar the Weeknd is just inexplicable
Brad Wheeler
opinion
Recommended: New drama Big Sky on horror in the American heartland
John Doyle
opinion
That was kooky: Trump and Biden duelling TV town halls were like ‘Crazy uncle’ versus Mister Rogers
John Doyle
world
Two Australian journalists in Sydney after tense standoff with Chinese police
This handout photograph taken and released on September 8, 2020 by ABC News shows Australian Broadcasting Corporation journalist Bill Birtles waving as he arrives in Sydney after leaving China over arrest fears, amid worsening diplomatic relations between the two countries. - Birtles and Australian Financial Review correspondent Michael Smith were rushed out of China overnight after Chinese police sought to question them, their employers on said September 8. (Photo by TARYN SOUTHCOMBE / ABC NEWS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / TARYN SOUTHCOMBE / ABC NEWS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS --- NO ARCHIVE --- (Photo by TARYN SOUTHCOMBE/ABC NEWS/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
The end of the Victoria’s Secret annual TV special is a vital cultural victory
John Doyle