Malik Yoba and Warren Kole have joined the cast of Fox’s ABC Studios-produced Jekyll-and-Hyde drama pilot “Inseparable,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Meanwhile, Clea DuVall, Erik Jensen and Jose Pablo Cantillo join the network’s two-hour backdoor pilot “Virtuality,” from “Battlestar Galactica”…
PopTok, a free service that allows users to download studio movie and TV clips to e-mail and instant messaging, launches its beta platform today, the Hollywood Reporter says. The platform has partnerships with CBS, Lionsgate, Paramount, Sony BMG, Universal Pictures,…
Actress Grace Park told the Los Angeles Times that a “Battlestar Galactica” TV movie has been greenlit, Ain’t It Cool News reports. Filming is expected to start in August, but is contingent on whether there is an actors strike, the…
Nick at Nite has named Paul Ward as its executive VP of prime-time acquisitions and strategy for Nickelodeon and the MTVN Kids & Family Group, Daily Variety reports. Ward, an MTV veteran, will be responsible for acquiring off-network sitcoms for…
Barbara Bekkedahl has been named Bravo’s vice president of sales. Bekkedahl will oversee the Bravo sales team, working with sales management teams on the East and West coasts as well as the regional sales offices in Chicago and Detroit. Bekkedahl…
NBC Universal promoted Vivi Zigler to president of NBC Universal digital entertainment, a nod to her work in building NBC.com into a hub for consumers to watch the networks’ shows online. Previously executive VP of digital entertainment, Ms. Zigler will…
SXM and Ikea will co-produce “Easy to Assemble,” a scripted Web series written and created by and starring Illeana Douglas. The show follows Douglas and her celebrity friends, who will be named next week, as they try to assimilate into…
Spike TV will premiere Associated Television International’s unscripted series “Real Vice Cops Uncut” Aug. 6 at 10 p.m. The six half-hour episodes feature ride-alongs with local police agencies in Memphis, Tenn., and Orlando, Fla., as they take down criminals involved…
Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the Fox series “Family Guy,” has made a deal to produce a new program that will air on the Internet, distributed by Google’s AdSense ad targeting system, the New York Times reports. Ads will appear…
Although the current Screen Actors Guild contract with the studios expires Monday night, the guild’s national president Alan Rosenberg said in statement that SAG has not taken steps toward calling a strike, Deadline Hollywood Daily reports. If no eleventh-hour deal…