Microsoft is revisiting a partnership with Yahoo involving advertisements that run next to Internet searches, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the process it didn’t identify. The move by Microsoft appears to be an attempt to stop…
HBO defended the accuracy of “Recount,” its film about the legal battle between Democratic candidate Al Gore and future President George W. Bush, by citing interviews with 40 people directly involved in the process, the Los Angeles Times reports. The…
One-time Internet sensation Amanda Congdon is returning to the Web after deals with ABC News and HBO in the mainstream media didn’t work out, the New York Times reports. Ms. Congdon is working on what she calls “an interactive variety…
Senator John McCain told a series of jokes about his age during an appearance of “Saturday Night Live,” the Associated Press reports. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee also appeared in a mock campaign ad for himself and urged Democrats not…
RDF USA is planning to air an updated version of the old wish-fulfillment gameshow “Queen for a Day” after acquiring its rights from the son of the show’s creator, the Hollywood Reporter says. RFD will update the series, which originally…
20th Century Fox Television signed a two-year seven-figure agreement with “My Name is Earl” executive producer Bobby Bowman, the Hollywood Reporter says. Bowman, who has also worked on Fox TV’s “Family Guy” and “Yes, Dear,” will continue help develop new…
Cablevision will add CBS College Sports to one of its sports programming packages in July, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The former CSTV, acquired by CBS in January, is already available in about 25 million homes, Broadcasting & Cable says. —…
Networks publicizing their shows to Emmy voters are cutting the fees they pay to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences by replacing the DVDs they send out with a password-protected Web site, the New York Times reports. Some networks…
CBS Paramount signed Jeffrey Bell as showrunner for “Harper’s Island,” which it’s reworking for a mid-season launch, the Hollywood Reporter says. Bell will write the first episode in the murder mystery series about friends meeting on a Seattle-area island for…