GMC Signs Kim Fields

Cable
channel GMC (the Gospel Music Channel) has signed a first-look deal with
actress/producer/director Kim Fields (Facts of Life, Living Single).

GMC gets
first dibs on scripted and nonscripted fare from Fields, whose directing
credits include Tyler Perry's House of Payne and Kenan & Kel.

Fields will
either produce, direct, act in or write for the shows for the channel,
which specializes in family and "uplifting music" programming.

John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.