The Emmy Awards will move to Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater from the Shrine Auditorium this September, Daily Variety reports. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences signed a 10-year agreement with Nokia owner Anschutz Entertainment Group. The Academy also plans…
Marley Shelton, who appeared in “Grindhouse,” will play the female lead in Jerry Bruckheimer’s CBS series “Eleventh Hour,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Ms. Shelton will play the bodyguard to a government science advisor, played by Rufus Sewell, who saves people…
A Comcast-led group created to provide a standard format for interactive advertising across the largest cable companies isn’t a joint venture, as previously reported, Multichannel News reports, citing a cable executive it didn’t identify. The so-called Project Canoe is “more…
ESPN Deportes will be available Time Warner Cable’s Los Angeles homes, adding as many as 1 million customers to the Spanish-language sports network’s total, Multichannel News reports. ESPN Deportes will be available to 6 million households, three quarters of which…
Malvin Wald, who co-wrote the 1948 crime film “The Naked City,” died in Sherman Oaks, Calif., at age 90, the New York Times reports. The film, Oscar-nominated for its screenwriting, was the basis for a television spinoff that ran from…
The South by Southwest conference this week in Austin is drawing Web video producers, networks and talent, and Daisy Whitney is covering the event live on video for TVWeek and Beet.TV. Daisy is scoring interviews with Lindsay Campbell of Wallstrip…
By the time you read this, I will be in Austin. For those of you who aren’t in the ultra hip know, that means I’ll be at South by Southwest. That’s SXSW, for the hipness-impaired. I’ll be there Sunday March…
Oxygen Media named Amy Introcaso-Davis as senior VP of original programming and development, bringing another Bravo executive to the network acquired by NBC Universal last year. Ms. Introcaso-Davis had been senior VP of development and production at Bravo, having joined…
NBC has widened its late-night lead over CBS since the Writers Guild of America strike ended Feb. 12, Television Week reports. For the two weeks after the end of the strike, NBC’s “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” averaged 49%…
“Gilmore Girls,” “Everwood” and “What I Like About You” will be part of a Web site that will bring the WB television network back to life, Media Week reports. Ad supported WB.com would run five-minute versions of episodes from shows…