Discovery Channel will air a documentary special about billionaire adventure Steve Fossett, who has been missing since September 2007, Daily Variety reports. “Steve Fossett: What Went Wrong” documents the discovery of Fossett’s airplane wreckage and belongings in the California mountains…
New TLC President Eileen O’Neill has hired fellow Planet Green veteran Amy Winter as senior VP of marketing-creative and operations. Ms. Winter will be part of the replacement for marketing Executive VP Regina DiMartino, who left the network shortly after…
Race-car driver and fifth-season “Dancing With the Stars” champion Helio Castroneves has been indicted on charges of conspiracy and tax evasion and is expected to appear in a Miami court today, TV Guide reports. Castroneves is accused of funneling millions…
Fresh from winning two major Emmy Awards in the drama categories, AMC announced it’s developing a new drama series with writer-executive producer Jonathan Hensleigh, based on the sci-fi novel “Red Mars,” says the Hollywood Reporter. Hensleigh will write and executive…
Codeblack Interactive is partnering with YouTube on original urban programming to be distributed by Google Content Network, Daily Variety reports. The first original show to appear on Codeblack’s YouTube channel will be created by “Boondocks” head writer Yamara Taylor. With…
Steven Weber, who had a recurring role last season on ABC’s “Brothers and Sisters,” has been cast in the network’s “Desperate Housewives,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Weber will play Julie Meyer’s professor and much older boyfriend. Weber and Andrea Bowen, who…
TVNewser caught up with CBS News’ Bob Schieffer at last night’s VP debate and asked him how he’s preparing to moderate the Oct. 15 debate between the presidential candidates. “I kind of do it the old-fashioned way,” he tells TVNewser….
The Biden-Palin vice-presidential debate Thursday night drew a bigger audience than last week’s debate between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain, according to Nielsen Media Research. Nearly 45% of all households in Nielsen’s top 55 markets watched the debates,…
Local stations owned by LIN Television were taken off Time Warner Cable after retransmission negotiations failed to reach a settlement by midnight Thursday night, according to reports in Buffalo Business First, the Green Bay Press-Gazette and other papers. LIN’s station…
Democratic and Republican campaign organizers breathed a sigh of relief for the most part after Thursday night’s vice-presidential prime-time debate, the Associated Press reports. Many viewers tuned in to see Republican nominee Sarah Palin fresh from her “bumbling interview performances”…