The newly-formed Italian American Network (IA Net) has named James K. Picinich as its inaugural vice president of programming and development. Mr. Picinich comes to IA Net from WCBS-TV in New York, where he was the director of broadcast administration….
VH1’s “Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” will return for a second season in October, featuring celebrity patients Jeff Conaway, Sean Stewart, Amber Smith, Rodney King, Nikki McKibbon, Steven Adler and Tawny Kitaen as they undergo detoxification and treatment at a…
Arsenio Hall is returning to prime-time television as host of “Funniest Moments,” a home-video blooper show for MyNetworkTV. Mr. Hall hosted and executive produced “The Arsenio Hall Show,” a late-night talk show that ran from 1989-94 and won multiple Primetime…
ShineReveille will host show screenings in London for foreign buyers in September, Daily Variety reports. Among the programs screened will be “Surviving Suburbia,” “In Harm’s Way,” “Valentine, Inc.,” “Easy Money,” “F.A.T. City” and animated series “The Goode Family,” the newspaper…
Jacqueline McKenzie, Derek Webster, Nicholas Gonzalez and Marisa Ramirez have been added to the cast of “Mental,” the first English-language Fox original series to shoot at the new Fox Telecolombia studios in Bogota, Colombia, Daily Variety reports. Some key department…
CBS collected $2.5 billion in advertising commitments, closing the 2008 upfront sales market for broadcast networks yesterday, AdAge says, citing a person familiar with the situation. That put the market’s total take slightly above last year’s with a total of…
Screen Actors Guild leaders at rally in Hollywood yesterday accused both the studios and fellow union the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists of weakening actors’ position in labor negotiations, Daily Variety reports. AFTRA’s tentative agreement with the studios…
Time Warner Inc. cable networks’ upfront advertising sales are “at the high end” of cable networks, Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes said at a telecommunications conference yesterday. Bewkes declined to be more specific about the performance of Time Warner’s networks,…
A cable-television advertising coalition that includes Comcast and Time Warner Cable today will name former Aegis Group head David Verklin chief executive of the group, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Canoe Ventures coalition has received $150 million in funding…