ESPN is looking to court the young viewers who watch stuff like skateboarding, snowboarding and motocross where they live, online, with the ESPN Action Sports Network, the Los Angeles Times reports. The network is a hub of individual Internet sites,…
HBO has given a go-ahead to “How to Make It in America,” a comedy pilot from Mark Wahlberg’s Closest to the Hole and Stephen Levinson’s Leverage, the Hollywood Reporter says. HBO producer Rob Weiss also is a part of the…
Search companies are racing to figure out the best way to search for and find all of the video turning up on the Web, USA Today reports. Companies including Blinkx and EveryZing are hoping they can beat Google in the…
“Long Way Down,” a new series appearing on the Fox Reality Channel, is a hip, liberating documentary capturing a motorcycle trip from Scotland to South Africa taken by actor Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, Tom Shales of the Washington Post…
A band from New York’s Lower East Side that plays kiddie parties by day and Black Sabbath by night is featured in a new comedy series coming to IFC, the New York Times reports. The cast for the series is…
Josh Lucas will star in Tim Robbins’ pilot for “Possible Side Effects,” a drama about a dysfunctional family, the Hollywood Reporter says. Robbins wrote and is set to direct the pilot for Showtime, in addition to serving as executive producer…
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia reported a second-quarter profit, but company officials warned at advertising revenue is trending down for the rest of the year, the Wall Street Journal reports. MSLO’s results were boosted by a 57% rise in merchandise revenue,…
CNN’s series “Black in America” set a record for viewers for a documentary in the demographic targeted by news programmers, the New York Times reports. Almost half the program’s viewers were African Americans, the paper adds.
Jed Mescon, host of the morning show on WRCB-TV, Chattanooga, has been suspended for promoting a barbecue event sponsored by a local Kiwanis club on air, the Chattanoogan reports. The station’s new news director had told on-air talent to focus…