A special six-hour live Halloween edition of “Ghost Hunters” drew 2.1 million total viewers on Friday night, making Sci Fi Channel the most-watched cable entertainment network for the night, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The special wrapped up the network’s 250…
Fox Television Studios is teaming up with foreign production companies for a new project, “Defying Gravity,” about a team of international astronauts on a mission through the solar system, the Hollywood Reporter says. Other companies on board include Canada’s CTV,…
Lauren Holly, Jennifer Westfeldt and David Sutcliffe have been tapped to star in the Hallmark Channel original movie “Think Again,” scheduled to debut on Valentine’s Day, the Hollywood Reporter says. Sutcliffe will play a man who goes back in time…
Fox will premiere its season of ’24’ with two two-hour episodes on Jan. 11 and Jan. 12 before returning to regular programming the following week, Daily Variety reports. The network on Nov. 23 will air the two-hour “24: Redemption,” which…
Fox parent News Corp. has canceled its annual holiday party at New York’s Manhattan Hilton, perhaps signaling the effect of the economic downturn on TV companies, TVNewser reports. News Corp. reports fiscal first-quarter earnings later this week. —Danny King
Starz Entertainment acquired cable television broadcast rights from studios that include Lionsgate, IFC and Samuel Goldwyn Co. to premier films such as the Javier Bardem-starring “Goya’s Ghost” and “P2,” starring Rachel Nichols and Wes Bentley, Multichannel News says. Starz also…
Google and Yahoo amended their advertising partnership to shrink the scale of the agreement, a move aimed to appease regulators concerned about antitrust violations, the Associated Press says, citing people familiar with the process. The two Internet giants shortened the…
Brooke Smith from “Grey’s Anatomy” has been cut from the show, signaling that ABC may have been uncomfortable with the direction a story line involving her character’s lesbian relationship was going, Entertainment Weekly reports. Smith, whose Dr. Erica Hahn was…
Gene Nelson, who hosted Sacramento’s first locally produced television show in 1953, has died at age 87, the Monterey Herald reports. “Sacramento Varieties,” which premiered on what’s now Fox 40, was the first of a handful of entertainment shows hosted…