Carolyn Dursi has been promoted to senior vice president of executive recruiting at Cablevision Systems. Ms. Dursi’s duties will include overseeing the recruitment of senior talent across all of Cablevision’s business units, including corporate, cable, News 12 Networks and Rainbow…
Roger Bart has been cast in ABC’s untitled David Hemingson pilot from 20th Century Fox TV, Daily Variety reports. Bart will play a volatile but likable partner at a law firm, where he works alongside his wife, the newspaper says….
James D’Arcy has been cast as the lead in Fox’s two-hour pilot “Virtuality,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The sci-fi drama about Earth’s first starship, which is on a 10-year journey to a distant solar system, comes from “Battlestar Galactica” executive…
The three broadcast networks’ flagship anchors launched an unprecedented campaign against cancer Wednesday with their joint appearances on all three networks’ morning shows. They were promoting a Sept. 5 simulcast on ABC, CBS and NBC to raise money and consciousness…
The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists reached an agreement with the major studios early Wednesday, Daily Variety reports. The studios still need to make a deal with the Screen Actors Guild to eliminate the threat of a crippling…
What happens when you put two hardened Web-video vets in front of a camera? Daisy Whitney’s latest “New Media Minute!” In her latest report, Ms. Whitney catches up with iJustine (real name Justine Ezarik) who rose to online video fame…
ABC, CBS, and NBC are teaming up to simulcast a primetime telethon in September to raise money for cancer research, the New York Times reports. CBS “Evening News” anchor Katie Couric, Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News Tonight” and Brian…
Networks suffering from declining ratings are pushing reality-show producers to cut costs, the Hollywood Reporter says. Long thought of as the cheaper cousin scripted shows, reality shows may face shortened production shoots and exclusively indoor locales in order to reduce…
The American Federation of Television & Radio Artists failed to reach a tentative agreement with studios yesterday after the actors continued to refuse to allow for online clips to be aired without their consent, Daily Variety reports. The guild and…