Chace Crawford, star of the CW’s “Gossip Girl,” has left his reps at ICM for CAA, Deadline Hollywood Daily reports. Crawford took meetings with CAA earlier this week, fresh from his win as breakout TV star at the Teen Choice…
Lifetime’s drama pilot, “Drop Dead Diva,” has added Golden Brooks and April Bowlby to its cast, the Hollywood Reporter says. The series will focus on a deceased model-actress who is reincarnated as a successful attorney. Sony TV is producing the…
Award winning football analyst John Madden may be best know for the Madden NFL video game, now marking its 20th anniversary, USA Today reports. More than 70 million copies of the EA Sports game have been sold. Madden remains surprised…
Claims against former “Price is Right” host Bob Barker brought by an ex-staffer of the game show have been dismissed, the Associated Press reports. Former production assistant Deborah Curling had named Barker in a wrongful termination suit in Los Angeles…
Lisa Kudrow’s former manager, Scott Howard, is suing the “Friends” alum for compensation he says is still owed to him, the Hollywood Reporter says. In a suit filed last Friday in Los Angeles, Howard is seeking damages of at least…
Mark Wahlberg will cameo as himself in the fifth season of “Entourage,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Wahlberg, who is an executive producer on the HBO series, revealed that his scene will be alongside Jeremy Piven, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
Lifetime has ordered drama pilot “The Amazing Mrs. Novak,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The project, about a supermarket manager who unexpectedly becomes governor of New Jersey, comes from Vanessa Taylor, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
Google has cluttered embedded YouTube players with ads, the New York Times argues. The result looks “closer to the gaudiness of MySpace than the sterility of Google,” the newspaper says. Google has been experimenting with ad formats in order to…
Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” will feature special reports by senior foreign correspondent Rob Riggle from China next week, Multichannel News reports. Riggle will report from Beijing, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall, the newspaper says. “Rob…
Publicis Groupe has acquired Performics Search Marketing from Google, Online Media Daily reports. The unit will be integrated into Publicis’ VivaKi Nerve Center, which was created to develop new services, tools and partnerships through the leverage of Digitas, Starcom-MediaVest, Zenith-Optimedia…