Francis Capra will join the cast of NBC’s “Heroes” in a recurring role, TV Guide reports. His character, the villainous Jesse, will cross paths with Peter Petrelli, the magazine says. Capra’s casting could lead to a reunion with former “Veronica…
George Bodenheimer, president of ESPN and co-chairman of Walt Disney Co.’s Media Networks, said ESPN has 80% of its subscriber base under contract through 2012, Reuters reports. Bodenheimer announced the news to analysts at the Deutsche Bank Securities Media and…
Leichtman Research Group found that 34% of all U.S. households have at least one television set that will not work after the digital TV transition, Multichannel News reports. The company’s research also revealed that 84% of adults had heard of…
Nick Jr. has picked up its animated preschool series “Ni Hao, Kai-lan” for a second season. Twenty new episodes have been ordered of the half hour program, which premiered in February. The show follows a 5-year-old bilingual Chinese-American girl named…
House Telecommunications & Internet Subcommittee Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., said he believes Jacksonville, Fla., would be willing to follow in the footsteps of Wilmington, N.C., and pull the analog plug early, Broadcasting & Cable reports. FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin…
Production company Debmar-Mercury has named key staffers for daytime talk show “The Wendy Williams Show.” Deb Miller has been named director of the program. She is a former director of “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” and has earned an Emmy Award…
Break Media has teamed with Twisted Pictures, producers of the “Saw” movie franchise, for a full-length online feature horror film, “Vlog,” starring Web blogger Brooke Marks. Building up to Wednesday’s release of the film on Break.com, Ms. Marks led an…
Twentieth Century Fox has obtained U.S. rights to the Canadian comedy “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” the Hollywood Reporter says. No writer has been picked yet to adapt the series, about a Muslim community in a prairie town, the newspaper…
Full-length episodes of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” will be offered on Web video site Hulu, the Hollywood Reporter says. The move marks the first time Viacom programs will be available on the…