After spending her whole career in the movies, Robin Seidner D’Elia is looking to make products the star of her new productions. Ms. Seidner was senior VP for national television promotions and marketing at New Line Cinema when the studio…
What if a kid won the competition on “Project Runway”? That’s almost the idea behind a new show on Nickelodeon called “True Jackson, VP,” which debuts Nov. 8. Fifteen-year-old Keke Palmer plays Jackson, an entrepreneurial youngster spotted by the head…
A new company says it has found a different way to measure online social media, and in doing so has found another way to look at how involved viewers are with television shows. Networked Insights, based in Madison, Wis., says…
Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said he never told Fox that he wanted Game 5 of the World Series to play to a finish, no matter how long rain delays lasted, the New York Times reports. For a while…
Comedy writer and producer Will Gluck is a busy person, currently involved in three different projects, the Hollywood Reporter says. He is currently developing a construction-worker themed comedy for Fox. At CBS he is working on “The Frozen Family,” about…
The executive producer of “The Simpsons” expects the long-running animated series to be picked up for three more years by Fox, the New York Post says. Al Jean tells the paper the cast is signed for three years, so there’s…
Veteran actress Cloris Leachman was voted off “Dancing With the Stars” on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Leachman told the judges she didn’t want her experience on the show to end, but Carrie Ann Inaba told the 82-year-old she should…
Cable network Fuse’s new series, “Redemption Song” is like an “American Idol” for bad girls, says the New York Post, which gives the show three stars. The would-be rockers on “Redemption Song” all have checkered pass–there’s a druggie, a stripper,…
Remember those guys from Budweiser’s ubiquitous “Whassup” spots? These days, they’re using the tagline to boost Democrat Barack Obama in an online video, the Wall Street Journal reports. In the ads, the buddies from the original ad call one another…