SoapNet has ordered a second season of “General Hospital: Night Shift,” Multichannel News reports. Production on the 13 episodes will begin next month, with the premiere set for July 22 at 11 p.m., the newspaper says. “Night Shift’s” debut on…
CMT will repurpose NBC’s “Nashville Star,” which joins the network June 9 after five seasons on USA Network, Daily Variety reports. Each episode will air on CMT Friday at 8 p.m., four days after its premiere on NBC, the newspaper…
Premium cable channel Starz inked its first affiliation deal today for its broadband video service via a partnership with Verizon. Under the multiyear agreement, Verizon will carry Starz movies online. The movies will be accessible on a subscription basis to…
Tori Spelling will reprise her role as Donna Martin in The CW’s “90210,” The CW and CBS Paramount Network Television announced. Spelling’s Donna will be featured in guest-starring appearances as the owner of a hip Beverly Hills store that the…
The American Federation of Television & Radio Artists is nearing an agreement for a new contract with the studios after 16 days of negotiations, Daily Variety reports. The Screen Actors Guild, whose contract with the studios expires along with AFTRA’s…
About 10 million homes will lose all programming and 25 million home have at least one television that won’t be able to receive programming after next February’s switchover to digital broadcasts, the New York Times reports, citing Nielsen Media Research….
Dick Martin, who with Dan Rowan launched the NBC comedy-variety show “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” in 1968, died of respiratory failure in Santa Monica, Calif. at age 86, the New York Times reports. Martin also directed shows such as “Archie…
Media Rights Capital, which acquired CW’s Sunday night programming time slots, will air a reality show, a comedy and two dramas starting in September, Daily Variety reports. The shows include “Surviving Suburbia,” from “Reba”’s Kevin Abbott, and “In Harm’s Way,”…
Presidential-campaign spending may top $800 million this year, up from $650 million in 2004, TelevisionWeek reports, citing TNS Media Intelligence. Republican candidate John McCain may boost spending to differentiate himself from President George W. Bush while Democratic candidate Barack Obama…
CBS News’ Bob Schieffer will postpone his planned retirement from “Face the Nation,” TelevisionWeek reports. Schieffer decided he wouldn’t step down after next January’s presidential inauguration when CBS News and Sports President Sean McManus asked him to stay on longer,…