Rosie O’Donnell will executive produce and star in the upcoming Lifetime movie “America,” Daily Variety reports. The movie, scheduled for a February debut, will follow the story of a teenager in foster care. Producer Larry Sanitsky and writer Joyce Eliason…
Television networks are taking extra steps to ensure that exit polling data doesn’t leak as it has in past years, Daily Variety says. The networks are also are seeking to avoid making premature projections about which candidate has won various…
A fixture on the Chicago TV scene for 40 years, Warner Saunders is planning to retire in May as an anchor for NBC-owned WMAQ-TV, the Chicago Tribune reports. “I am very anxious to pursue my passion—diversity education,” Saunders tells the…
Singer Toni Braxton is the latest celebrity to get voted off ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” the Associated Press reports. Remaining stars include Brooke Burke, Lance Bass, Warren Sapp, Maurice Greene, Cody Linley, Cloris Leachman and Susan Lucci. — Jon…
Pay T.V. companies in Britain will be hard-hit by the current global economic crisis as subscribers are expected to downgrade or cancel their services altogether, Daily Variety reports, citing a Continental Research study. According to the London-based research firm, about…
CBS Interactive is expanding its original Web production with the scripted show “Novel Adventures,” slated to launch online in early November, the network announced today. Automaker Saturn will sponsor the series from creator Jonathan Prince, whose credits include “The Cleaner”…
News Corp. President-Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin is unleashing a broad defense of broadcasters against FCC indecency enforcement and warning starkly about the danger that a Supreme Court case could pose to First Amendment freedoms. Honored Tuesday night at the…
ABC has picked up sophomore drama “Private Practice” for a full season. The network ordered nine more episodes of the “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff Tuesday, according to sources familiar with the order. The move doesn’t come as a surprise given the…
YouTube’s audience jumped in September to nearly 82 million unique viewers watching more than 5.3 billion streams, according to the latest figures from Nielsen Online. That’s a huge boost from August, when the site’s 77 million unique visitors checked out…