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I have learned that Universal Cable Productions has teamed with Shout! Factory to develop a TV series based on Bill Carter's best-selling 2006 book Desperate Networks. Carter, former longtime New York Times media reporter and current CNN contributor, will write the adaptation, which is in very early stages. Desperate N…

UPDATE, 8 AM: In an interview with Deadline this morning, Carter said he’d been invited on CNN yesterday to discuss the Brian Williams affair but knew that the murders in Charleston would rightfully be dominating the news. Instead he appeared this morning. Asked for his take on the demotion of the former NBC Nightly Ne…

Today is the deadline for New York Times staffers to apply for an above-normal buyout offer from the paper, which is looking to eliminate 100 positions in its latest cost-saving measure. Carter, who joined NYT as television reporter in 1989 after serving as TV critic at the Baltimore Sun, is among those taking the…