Viewers are upset by an intrusive ad for “The Bill Engvall Show” that aired during “Family Guy” on TBS, the New York Post reports. The spot features Engvall walking into the bottom of the screen and pausing the currently playing…
Trista and Ryan Sutter, who met on the first season of “The Bachelorette,” are shopping a reality show, the New York Post reports, citing unnamed sources. Trista recently met with Sheraton Kalouria, the president of Martha Stewart’s TV production company,…
MTV is planning a spinoff of “The Hills” starring Whitney Port, US Weekly reports, citing an unnamed source. The series will follow Port as she becomes a bicoastal employee for PR firm People’s Revolution, the magazine says. The article did…
The board of directors of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association approved a plan that would align a variety of national annual industry meetings and events within one week in the spring and one week in the fall. The cable…
VH1 has greenlighted eight episodes of “Scream Queens,” Reuters reports. The reality competition series will position 10 unknown actresses for a “major” role in a Lionsgate horror film, the wire service says. —Vlada Gelman
Formal bidding for the Weather Channel is over, with owner Landmark Communications now in direct talks with Time Warner Inc. and a group composed of NBC Universal, Blackstone Group and Bain Capital, Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources. Both sides are…
VH1 and VH1 Classic will premiere the documentary “Elton John: Me, Myself and I” in the U.S. on June 12 at 9 p.m., Multichannel News reports. The retrospective will feature special effects that take viewers back in time through John’s…
About a dozen independent cable networks, including WealthTV, HDNet, the Hispanic Information & Telecommunications Network and the Horror Channel, have joined to form the National Association of Independent Networks, Multichannel News reports. The group is asking the Federal Communications Commission…
Sony Corp. will add YouTube and Wired.com to its Internet Video Link module, AP reports. Yahoo, AOL, Sports Illustrated and Style.com already provide video for the device, which fits into Sony’s LCD flat-panel TVs, the wire service says. —Vlada Gelman
The Discovery Channel will present “When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions” on June 15 and June 22 at 9 p.m., the Miami Herald reports. The program will feature 50 years’ worth of restored space mission footage in high-definition format,…