'TMZ' To Stay On Celebrity Beat For Three More Years

By Paige Albiniak
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Warner Bros.' TMZ has been renewed through the 2013-14 TV season in more than 75% of the country, including the Fox owned-and-operated stations, announced Ken Werner, president of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) on Tuesday (Jan. 4).

The entertainment news show, which started as a Web site in 2005 and then launched as a syndicated television program in 2007, is produced by Telepictures Productions and distributed by WBDTD. Harvey Levin and Jim Paratore are executive producers. TMZ covers entertainment, politics and sports. The show's companion Web site, TooFab.com, launched in April 2010 and now averages 2.2 million unique users, according to comScore.

Paige Albiniak
Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.