Comedian Wyatt Cenac has joined Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with John Stewart” as a correspondent, Daily Variety reports. Cenac comes from the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe in Los Angeles and has served as a writer and voice talent…
MSNBC announced it will create a new company, MSNBC Films, which will focus on creating and funding feature-length documentary films, the Hollywood Reporter says. The new company will help filmmakers in a variety of ways, including development, funding and production,…
Game Show Network has announced hosts for its upcoming incarnations of classic relationship games shows, the Hollywood Reporter says. Kim Coles has been added as host for a “The Dating Game” pilot while Judy Gold will serve as pilot host…
“Battlestar Gallactica’s” Tricia Helfer has been added as co-star to Fox’s dual personalities drama pilot, “Inseparable,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Helfer , who signed a holding deal with Fox in April, will play a psychiatrist that works with a police…
Circle of Confusion Productions has signed a one-year exclusive development deal with Sony Pictures Television, the Hollywood Reporter says. The company will work on developing about a dozen projects for Sony for the span of the partnership, which comes with…
Use of new media is increasing, but is newer necessarily better? A new study from GroupM tracking interactive media projects says new media will amount to 15% of global advertising in 2009. In addition, Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI) released…
Ever notice how the guy with the accent always sounds like the smartest guy in the room? “Every marketing agency in New York needs to have a strategist with a British accent, and I am MPG’s,” quips Guy Forestier-Walker, senior…
It’s time to start the 2009 award show season. VH1 this week announced that the 14th annual “Critics’ Choice Awards” will appear live on Jan. 8, the first major awards telecast in the new year. The show, televised from the…
Google continued to build its lead in the search market in May, registering 4.6 billion searches, according to Nielsen Online. Top rival Yahoo saw its number of searches drop more than 13%. Those market shares translate into cash when it…
ABC’s “Lost” steered the island toward four trophies at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror’s 34th annual Saturn Awards. Winning for network television series, actor Matthew Fox, supporting actor Michael Emerson and supporting actress Elizabeth Mitchell, “Lost” returned…