ABC is taking a trip to “Cougar Town” with Courteney Cox and “Scrubs” creator Bill Lawrence. “Scrubs” creator Bill Lawrence. In what will be her first half-hour comedy project since “Friends,” Ms. Cox will play an attractive and newly single…
NBC reality chief Craig Plestis could soon be leaving the network, with BBC executive Paul Telegdy in talks to jump to the Peacock. While a source close to Mr. Plestis flatly denied a report that Mr. Plestis was on his…
Sci Fi Channel next year will start airing a video game-competition show produced by Samsung Electronics and Granada America, Broadcasting & Cable reports. “WCG GameQuest,” slated to start with eight episodes, will feature 12 contestants battling for prizes that include…
Cable company Cox Communications next year will start providing caller ID information on television screens of customers who get both phone and cable service, Multichannel News reports. Cox, the eighth-largest U.S. phone company, will follow Time Warner Cable and Cablevision…
Promax/BDA added 16 new members to its board of directors, including Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment Executive Vice President Gordon Ho and Comcast Interactive Media Vice President John Young, TVNewsday reports. Fox Broadcasting Executive Vice President Joe Earley and Warner…
Disney Media Networks promoted Peter Seymour to executive vice president of strategy and research, TVNewsday reports. Seymour, who will report to Disney Media Network co-chairs Anne Sweeney and George Bodenheimer, will oversee media planning for Disney’s ABC unit as well…
Television shows aired double the number of partially or unbleeped prime-time curse words last year that they did in 1998, with far more instances of harsher words like f*** and s***, TVNewsday reports, citing a Parents Television Council report. TV…
Barack Obama has certainly been leading the advertising spending, but the Republican National Committee has dramatically increased its spending in the presidential race in the last two weeks. The party’s independent expenditure arm has spent $25 million to air anti-Obama…
Former “Dukes of Hazzard” star John Schneider will appear in three episodes of ABC’s “Dirty Sexy Money,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Schneider, who appears regularly on ABC’s “The Secret Life of an American Teenager,” will play a congressman paid off by…