

Hammer, chairwoman of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, is cable’s queen and, since the departure of Judy McGrath from Viacom last May, possibly its most important executive. Hammer has ridden that resolve and those instincts to a position of enormous influence and financial power in cable television. The Best is Yet to Come - S6 Ep1 - Chesapeake. Memories are Made of This - S6 Ep2 - Chesapeake Shores on. Night and Day - S6 Ep3 - Chesapeake Shores on Hallmark. Thats All There is To That - S6 Ep4 - Chesapeake Shores on Hallmark. Hammer’s astute programming instincts and of a quality her mentor, Barry Diller, called “a steely resolve.”Ī decade later, Ms. Its Not For Me to Say - S6 Ep7 - Chesapeake Shores on Hallmark. 1 spot in cable ratings for two weeks, an early sign of Ms. “Taken” vaulted the fledgling network to the No. Her choice: the 10-year-old Dakota Fanning. She pushed the show’s studio, Dreamworks, and its renowned producer, Steven Spielberg, for a different actress. The SciFi channel was emerging as a destination for fans of the genre, largely on her strategy of reviving the mini-series.īut looking at the first day of shooting “Taken,” an alien abduction series with what then was the outrageous budget of $40 million, she knew the lead child actress was not strong enough.

Early in Bonnie Hammer’s first stint running a cable network, she knew something was wrong.
