The guessing game about Bonnie Hammer’s next job is over. With her contract as head of NBC Universal’s top two cable networks expiring, the company was looking for new titles and new responsibilities to give Ms. Hammer to keep her…
Women with significant equity in emerging media companies looking for funding now can apply to AllThingsMedia. A new joint venture capital forum formed by the Paley Center for Media and Springboard Enterprises, AllThings aims to help female entrepreneurs gain access…
Tribune Co. San Diego television station KSWB will switch its network affiliation to Fox from the CW and will add as many as four hours of news to daily programming, Television Week reports. Tribune, the second-largest owner of Fox affiliates,…
Elisabeth Murdoch, daughter of News Corp. media titan Rupert, is proving her own mettle in the television business, the New York Times reports. In a rare interview, Ms. Murdoch notes she wouldn’t rule out a return to her dad’s business….
HBO spent more than $20 million producing six episodes of the Lily Tomlin-starring “12 Miles of Bad Road” before canceling it after deciding it wasn’t original enough for the Time Warner-owned cable network, the Wall Street Journal reports. HBO’s new…
Fox News Channel political talk show host Chris Wallace took his colleagues on “Fox & Friends” to task for playing a clip of presidential candidate Barack Obama’s comments on race out of context, the New York Times reports. Mr. Wallace…
Entertainment employment rose while film and television shoots fell during the weeks following the end of the Writer Guild of America strike Feb. 12, Daily Variety reports. Returning TV and film workers helped boost California employment in the information sector…
“Scrubs” returned to production to finish a pre-writers strike episode for NBC as well as to make a handful of new episodes likely to be picked up by ABC, the Hollywood Reporter says, citing people it didn’t identify. ABC will…
HBO ordered pilot episodes of “Suburban Shootout,” directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and Darren Star’s “Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl,” the Hollywood Reporter says. “Shootout,” written by Michelle Ashford, is based on a U.K. series that ran for two seasons…
Yahoo is producing a daily show on the Web that recaps the previous day on television in an effort to boost online viewership, Television Week reports. “Primetime in No Time,” part of a TV-summary genre that includes E!’s “The Soup,”…