HGTV will premiere a TV show version of the “Rate My Space” Web site tonight, the New York Times reports. The Web site, which asks strangers to judge user-submitted photos of home renovations, has had more than 150 million page…
“NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams will host “Meet the Press” Sunday. The headline guests will be Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C. Both were scheduled to appear on last Sunday’s edition of the show, for which…
Rainbow Media today reorganized the management structure of its newly acquired Sundance Channel, putting it under Evan Shapiro, who had been running Rainbow’s independent film channel IFC tv. Mr. Shapiro, currently executive VP and general manager of IFC, was named…
The Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors will host “The Reality of Reality,” a panel of discussing the impact, future and all aspects of reality television, June 26 in Beverly Hills. Executive Albert Fisher will chair the panel, which will…
After long, often acrimonious negotiations, Big Ten Network reached a long-term carriage agreement with Comcast that puts the channel on the expanded basic tier during the upcoming football and basketball seasons in the eight states where the conference’s 11 colleges…
History has added Paul Cabana, Julian Hobbs and Russ McCarroll to its programming roster of executive producers. All three will work on developing and producing new content for the cable network. “By attracting the best talent in the business, we…
The University of Notre Dame and NBC Sports plan to announce a new five-year agreement under which NBC will televise Fighting Irish home football games through 2015, the network said. The extension provides NBC rights to eight Notre Dame home…
Sen. Barack Obama is formally renouncing public financing for the fall campaign, a decision expected to dramatically kick up his ad spending this fall. If he had accepted public funds, the Illinois senator’s campaign would have received $84 million, but…
The cable news networks have begun closing upfront deals, ad sales executives and media buyers say. In yet another sign that the upfront is alive and kicking harder than expected, network executives say buyers have come to them earlier than…
Reality TV maven Mark Burnett and “Two and a Half Men” co-creator Chuck Lorre are getting stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which greenlights honorees, announced Wednesday that the two producers will be among…