An episode of NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” this fall will feature Josh Charles and Teri Polo, who played a couple on Aaron Sorkin’s series “Sports Night,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Polo and Charles will play a husband and wife whose…
Online video leader YouTube will stream coverage of Beijing’s Olympic Games to 77 countries where digital rights haven’t been sold, the Associated Press reports, citing the International Olympic Committee. Olympics news, highlights and daily clips will be sent primarily to…
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said today that his company would add six regional television channels in India, the New York Times reports. News Corp. also launched a new stock index, called the Dow Jones India Titans, to track stock…
Cablevision received a favorable court ruling today related to its pending launch of a digital video recorder service after a federal appeals court in Manhattan threw out an earlier ruling blocking its release, Reuters reports. Film and TV content producers…
The Sept. 5 fundraising event “Stand Up to Cancer” could be spreading to other networks. ABC, CBS and NBC have given the greenlight for producers to offer the show to any cable network that wants it, TelevisionWeek reports. The only…
While widespread interest in the presidential election campaign is boosting many media outlets, including the cable news channels, it hasn’t halted skidding ratings at the network evening newscasts, the New York Times reports. The lower ratings at NBC, ABC and…
Next summer’s Television Critics Association press tour has been scheduled three weeks later than usual, placing the major promotional event after the fan-driven Comic-Con, the Hollywood Reporter says. TCA will bring networks together for critics July 28 through Aug. 1,…
Despite a relatively poor track record, the TV business loves remakes and a new batch is in the works, TelevisionWeek columnist Josef Adalian says. Apparently programming execs are slow to grasp the lessons provided by the short-lived reincarnations of “Night…
The executive producer of NBC’s “Today” show refers to himself as “an Olympics geek,” according to the Los Angeles Times. The morning show will serve as one of the network’s key promotional vehicles for the game, and Jim Bell says…
Station groups are sending staffers to Beijing to bring back he local angle of Olympic events, TelevisionWeek reports. Staffers in China will be feeding lives shots, producing stories for station Web sites and blogging. “They will work very, very hard,”…