HBO will air original documentaries every Monday night from June 9 through Aug. 25, Daily Variety reports. Roman Polanski and Heidi Fleiss are among the subjects to be profiled by the films, the newspaper says. — Danny King
ABC called off plans to air “Circus of the Stars” as a reality show after NBC’s plans for its “Celebrity Circus” series helped make casting for the ABC show more challenging, Daily Variety reports. ABC decided to cancel the show…
Kristin Booth will replace Jennie Garth as the female lead role in the CBS comedy pilot “My Best Friend’s Girl,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Meanwhile, Fox signed Jerry O’Connell for its comedy pilot “The Inn,” the newspaper reports. Also, Denis…
Walt Disney’s ABC Studios signed author Jennifer Weiner to a two-year, seven-figure development agreement, Daily Variety reports. Fox turned Ms. Weiner’s “In Her Shoes” into a 2005 movie while Universal and DreamWorks are both adapting her work to film, the…
Bravo has received complaints about the bleeped-out profanity regularly appearing on its “Top Chef” series, the New York Times reports. Chef Tom Colicchio, lead judge on “Top Chef,” apologized on his blog for “excessive” bad language the day last week’s…
Fox yesterday started airing a public service campaign using the environmental friendly theme “Green It. Mean it,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The weeklong effort includes spots with Kelsey Grammer from “Back to You” and Lisa Edelstein and Omar Epps from…
The Screen Actors Guild, accused by the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists of trying to lure the cast of the soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” to its union, never did so, Web site DeadlineHollywoodDaily reports, citing…
Nickelodeon promoted 11-year company veteran Mark Taylor to vice president and general manager of Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, Calif., Daily Variety reports. Taylor, who will run what Nickelodeon calls the most prolific U.S. television-animation studio, will oversee such shows…
Madeline Lee Gilford, who was a stage actress and Broadway producer before appearing in television shows such as “Sex and the City” and “Law & Order,” died in New York this week at age 87, Daily Variety reports. Ms. Gilford,…