Tony Burman has been named managing director of Al Jazeera English, Online Media Daily reports. Burman plans to extend the reach of the English-language version of the Arabic news network into North America, the Web site says. Berman previously was…
Lauren Lee Smith will join the cast of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” as a regular next season, the Hollywood Reporter says. Smith will play a smart, flirtatious and nonconformist CSI hired for the night shift by William Petersen’s character, the…
Nielsen has closed on its purchase of IAG Research for $225 million, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Nielsen hopes to combine its ratings and demographics statistics with the consumer-engagement researcher’s psychographic information in order to help advertisers better understand how viewers…
Daphne Zuniga and Greg Evigan have joined the cast of the Hallmark Channel TV movie “Mail Order Bride,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Zuniga will play a woman who pretends to be a mail-order bride in order to escape from a…
ABC has tapped Mike Fresco to direct his brother Victor Fresco’s untitled comedy presentation, the Hollywood Reporter says. The single-camera office comedy revolves around a moral guy trying to do the right thing in an amoral world, the newspaper notes….
VH1 has purchased reruns of ABC’s “The Bachelor” to repurpose on the cable channel, Daily Variety reports. More than 130 hours of the program will begin airing on VH1 the first week of June, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
The upfront advertising presentations have wrapped up in New York and TVWeek.com’s Upfront Navigator page has all the networks’ schedules posted. Also browse the publication’s full news coverage of upfront week, including exclusive video interviews with leading executives at Fox,…
The viability of the CW network is questionable if ratings don’t rebound, the Wall Street Journal reports. Either CBS Corp. or Warner Bros., the partners behind the network, may withdraw their support if the situation doesn’t improve this year, according…
The Fox television network will trim the number of advertisements in two of its new shows by about half and seek higher prices for those spots, TelevisionWeek reports. On both “Fringe” and “Dollhouse,” the network will test whether having fewer…
The American Federation of Television & Radio Artists made progress in its eighth day of talks with the studios and may continue negotiations through the weekend, Daily Variety reports. AFTRA is believed to be more likely to have an agreement…