How do you get the media’s attention for an adapted telenovela that’s full of dirt? Send them cleaning supplies! The press kit was impossible to ignore— a fire-engine red mop bucket filled with cleaning gloves, a feather duster and sponge, along with a DVD and custom-made press booklet. The message that went with it: whomever holds the dirt, holds the power. Lifetime mailed out 700 of the kits. The clean sweep paid off with the program becoming Lifetime’s fastest-growing drama ever.

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In a Wednesday editorial call reported on by the trades, MSNBC SVP, Newsgathering Scott Matthews outlined when the cable network will break away from NBC News as part of the Versant spinoff from NBCUniversal

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