The fourth season of the boxing reality competition “The Contender” will include a slew of familiar faces, including new host Tony Danza, ESPN.com reports. Joining Danza will be challengers Darnell “Ding-A-Ling Man” Wilson and Rico Hoye. The series is currently…
Hunter Parrish of “Weeds” is now a theater star thanks to encouragement from his co-star and TV mom Mary-Louise Parker, USA Today reports. The 21-year-old actor recently began a stint in Broadway’s “Spring Awakening.” Parker was there to see his…
The Griffin Group Inc., founded by late talk show host Merv Griffin, is suing financially troubled “Tonight Show” legend Ed McMahon, the Associated Press reports. Griffin Group claims McMahon hasn’t repaid a $100,000 loan from 2005, according to the wire…
The recent Telecom-Cable Industry Satisfaction Report says that cable’s customer satisfaction scored a 60 out of 100, Multichannel News reports. While Cox Communications scored a 66, the sector’s average was brought down by poorer scores for Comcast Corp., which earned…
Fox is high on “Pineapple Express” director David Gordon Green. The network has greenlit a pilot presentation for “Good Vibes,” a half-hour animated comedy written by Mr. Green. The project, from 20th Century Fox TV, is described as a coming-of-age…
By making a night of it, ABC came out a winner Friday, drawing 11.04 million viewers for the first of three presidential debates between Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidate John McCain. The network led all broadcast and cable…
NBC Universal’s 2008 Beijing Olympic Games coverage on the NBC Olympics Mobile Web site attracted 6.5 million unique visitors and 36 million page views, according to Omniture. The mobile Web site also garnered 826,000 mobile video views and 300,000 total…
The Screen Actors Guild is asking the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers’ Nick Counter, Fox President Peter Chernin and Disney President Bob Iger to return to the bargaining table for the first time since June 30, the Hollywood…
To help out your Monday Wall Street hangover, CNN’s “American Morning” will run a special series tomorrow through Thursday to be hosted by Gerri Willis, TVNewser reports. Tuesday tackles 401Ks while the next two installments deal with loans and banking….
Beginning Feb. 1, AT&T will sell DirecTV as a co-branded satellite TV service, MediaPost reports. The satellite company will be enveloped into the AT&T Advanced TV video portfolio and join AT&T U once the telecommunications giant’s deal with Dish Network…