General Motors will be the exclusive automotive sponsor of Planet Green, the new cable network being launched by Discovery Communications on June 4. As part of the deal, GM’s Chevrolet will be the premier sponsor of the series “Greensburg,” which…
News Corp.’s Fox will be the network ratings winner for the 2007-08 season as the Super Bowl and “American Idol” shielded it from audience declines stemming from the Writers Guild of America strike, Daily Variety reports. Fox’s ratings increased 5%…
Time Warner Cable, in a deal that will sever it from Time Warner Inc., will pay a dividend of $10.9 billion, including $9.25 billion to the parent company, TVWeek reports. Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes said the split leaves the…
ABC is getting ready to take another walk down the aisle with “Here Come the Newlyweds,” TVWeek reports. The network has quietly begun the process of casting contestants for another season of the competition reality series from Warner Horizon Television…
FX will revive its series “Rescue Me” this summer with 10 five-minute shorts that will air weekly on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET starting in June, MediaPost reports. The return of full episodes of the Dennis Leary series was delayed…
Reality-show impresario Mark Burnett will produce three series for Liquid Generation, the online animation site that plans to move into television programming, Daily Variety reports. Burnett will produce “Rapper in Chief,” “Witness Protection” and a yet-to-be-named third show, the newspaper…
Fox TV Studios reached an agreement with “Burn Notice” creator Matt Nix that will let him develop projects for the News Corp. unit while keeping him running the USA Network series, Daily Variety reports. Nix has already sold a spec…
USA Network ordered two 90-minute pilots in an effort to boost its character-driven programming, Daily Variety reports. “White Collar,” produced by Fox TV, features a con man partnered with an FBI agent, while “Royal Pains” is about an unemployed doctor…
Cable news networks briefly covered Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s primary victory in Kentucky before moving on to other news, signaling that news channels are accepting Barack Obama as the presumptive party winner, the New York Times reports. CNN and Fox…
Style Network ordered a reality series featuring an obese Georgia woman’s attempts to lose weight, the Hollywood Reporter says. “Ruby,” which chronicles Ruby Gettinger’s weight struggles, will debut later this year, the newspaper reports. –Danny King