Troubled young actress Lindsay Lohan began shooting a guest appearance on ABC’s “Ugly Betty,” Usmagazine.com reports. Ms. Lohan plays a down-on-her-luck former high-school friend of series star America Ferrera’s character Betty. The move follows Britney Spears’ highly publicized cameo on…
Talks between the Screen Actors Guild and the studios were extended through at least tomorrow after the union took down its demand to have DVD residuals doubled, Daily Variety reports. SAG last Friday also dropped its pay-increase demands for TV…
Microsoft is reconsidering its Internet options after ending its three-month bidding effort for Yahoo after Yahoo demanded that Microsoft raise its $33 a share offer to $37 a share, the Wall Street Journal reports. Microsoft’s most recent bid was more…
TV Guide, in a multimillion-dollar agreement with NBC Universal, guaranteed that its promotions of the network’s shows would increase ratings, TelevisionWeek reports. The agreement included shows such as “Lipstick Jungle” and “American Gladiators,” whose ratings rose during the weeks they…
Telepictures Prods. is considering launching a daytime talk show based on the Warner Bros. Television Group website MomLogic.com, the Hollywood Reporter says. The projects could be ready for fall 2009. Another Telepictures Web site, TMZ.com, has become a successful syndicated…
The intense contest for the Democratic Presidential nomination is intensifying the Sunday morning battle between top rated “Meet the Press” with Tim Russert and upstart George Stephanopoulos of ABC’s “This Week,” the New York Times says. The hosts have similar…
Taylor Nelson Sofres rejected a $1.87 billion offer from WPP Group that would have created the world’s second-largest market research company after The Nielsen Co., the Wall Street Journal reports. WPP’s big was designed to block a merger with GfK…
Systems for predicting the winners and losers of realty TV shows like “American Idol” have proven less than perfect, the New York Times reports. Producers are not disturbed by the projections, although ratings for “Idol” are down 8% from last…
NBC Universal will have 3,600 hours of Summer Olympics coverage this year, up from about 1,200 in Athens four years ago, in an effort to recoup its $894 million investment in Olympics broadcast rights, Daily Variety reports. Events from the…
MTV next month will debut a reality show featuring actresses looking to replace the star of a musical based on the movie “Legally Blonde,” Daily Variety reports. The eight-episode season, which will follow 10 actresses trying to win the part,…