“L.A. Ink” and “Miami Ink” producer Original Media agreed to create a reality show featuring pro-wrestling personality “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Daily Variety reports. Original will soon pitch networks on the show, which has no involvement from WWE and won’t…
CBS’ consumer products unit started a licensing brand to take advantage of images associated with popular retro shows such as “The Brady Bunch” and “The Love Boat,” Daily Variety reports. Initial licensees for the Television City brand, which represents at…
HBO last night debuted its weekly documentary series with a feature on controversial director Roman Polanski, the Los Angeles Times reports. Other subjects of the series, which concludes Aug. 25, include Heidi Fleiss and a military recruiter at Louisiana high…
HBO ordered a half-hour comedy pilot about a Brooklyn writer who tries to recover from a breakup by becoming a private eye and living as a character from a Raymond Chandler novel, Daily Variety reports. “Bored to Death” is created…
CNN’s ratings jumped 50% from a year earlier to a prime-time average of 1.11 million viewers during the Democratic primary as its audience growth outstripped that of Fox News and MSNBC, the Los Angeles Times reports. CNN, shooting for the…
Time Warner Cable plans to almost double its New York-area high-definition channels to 100 by the end of the year in an attempt to stave off competition from Verizon’s FiOS fiber-optic service, Multichannel News reports, citing TWC Chief Operating Officer…
HBO will rebroadcast the 2003 documentary “Jim McKay: My World in My Words” three times between June 12 and June 16 in tribute to the award-winning sportscaster who died June 7, Broadcasting & Cable reports. On the other end of…
Former “Chicago Hope” star Rocky Carroll, who had a recurring role on “NCIS,” will become a regular on the CBS show, replacing Lauren Holly’s character, who was killed off, Daily Variety reports. Carroll’s other TV credits include “The Agency” and…
“Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels received a Lifetime Achievement award at the Webby Film & Video Awards last night for his contributions to online video, the Hollywood Reporter says. Judah Friedlander from “30 Rock” hosted the event, the newspaper…