“Arrested Development” creator Mitch Hurwitz is adapting Australian comedy “Sit Down, Shut Up” as an animated series for Fox, Daily Variety reports. The original show, about high school teachers in a fishing village, ran for 13 episodes in 2001, the…
“Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil” debuts tomorrow night on Comedy Central, putting the often volcanic comic in the unlikely role of a judge, the New York Times reports. The show pits cultural figures Donald Trump vs. Viagra, or Oprah…
TVWeek’s Daisy Whitney is telling us exactly what the South by Southwest conference is all about. The annual gathering has brought together Web content creators and technologists to mingle, Twitter, blog, vlog and party hard in Austin. For full video…
Online video studio ON Networks and the South by Southwest Interactive Conference selected Web comedy “The Guild” as the best original production at the inaugural Greenlight Awards competition. The award, announced today, is designed to select the next big breakout…
Online video production studio Next New Networks inked a deal to distribute its Web shows on AOL Video at http://video.aol.com, marking Next New Networks’ first deal with a major Web portal. Under the deal, AOL will start carrying Next New…
The NBC-Fox online video joint venture Hulu inked several new film and TV studio deals in time for its official launch Wednesday. The site has been operating as a beta for the last several months and goes live Wednesday with…
Lionsgate announced two promotions in its television arm today. Barbara Wall and Andy Richley were named executive vice president and vice president of development, respectively, of television at the independent entertainment studio. Ms. Wall, who joined Lionsgate in 2005, previously…
Starcom MediaVest Group named Ken Taylor as president and general manager of a reconfigured GM Planworks, which handles media buying and planning for General Motors. Mr. Taylor, a Starcom veteran, succeeds Dennis Donlin, who announced plans to leave last week….
Google today completed its $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick, acting quickly after the European Union gave its final approval to the deal that combines the world’s largest search marketer and the world’s largest ad-serving company. “We are thrilled that our…
Cisco Systems has made a strategic investment in GridNetworks, an Internet television startup. Seattle-based GridNetworks aims to provide a delivery system for streaming HDTV and film to computers and television via the Internet, and to furnish content providers with distribution…