NBC struck a deal with DirecTV to air a third season of “Friday Night Lights,” Web site DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com reports. DirecTV, which picked up the former NBC soap “Passions,” will share costs of the low-rated but critically acclaimed show, while cooperating…
As Friday’s deadline approaches for bids on the Weather Channel, people involved in the talks say a long list of media companies and private equity firms have expressed interest, the New York Times reports. Landmark Communications put the cable channel…
Fox will air a two-hour “24” episode this fall as a prequel to the start of the show’s seventh season next January, the Hollywood Reporter says. The prequel will catch viewers up to the new season, which will air after…
CBS may be sued by at least one child participant in reality show “Kid Nation,” Web site DeadlineHollywoodDaily reports, citing an industry executive it didn’t identify. The potential plaintiff may seek close to $10 million, whereas CBS is willing to…
The Directors Guild of America ratified an agreement with ABC, CBS and NBC that covers members in sports, news and operations. The three-year agreement, which includes annual wage boosts, goes into effect in July, DGA said yesterday. —Danny King
A plan by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to give new terms to incumbent Federal Communications Commission members was quashed when FCC Chairman Kevin Martin refused to agree to a specific resignation date, Multichannel News reports, citing people it didn’t…
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league may file an FCC complaint in an effort to force Time Warner Cable to carry the NFL Network and get Comcast to put the network on a more popular subscription tier, Multichannel News…
Executive Producer Tom Hanks said an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning book on John Adams needed to be in the form of a miniseries because a two-hour film wouldn’t have done the story of the former U.S. president justice,…
Fox head of business affairs Lee Bartlett is likely to join United Kingdom network ITV as its chief operating officer of global content, Daily Variety reports. ITV Global Content Director Dawn Airey declined to confirm the hiring, only saying there’d…
The Paley Center for Media’s Los Angeles branch will host a comedy series this year that will feature “The Sarah Silverman Program,” George Carlin and the cast of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” Ms Silverman and her cast members will…