She won’t be vice president, but an interview with Gov. Sarah Palin is still being pursued by many of TV’s biggest names, the Huffington Post reports. The governor’s office has fielded requests from Barbara Walters, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King and…
“House” is moving to Mondays and “Bones” is moving to Thursday as Fox plans to shake up its midseason prime time line up, TelevisionWeek says. The new series “Dollhouse” from Joss Whedon will air on Fridays, starting Feb. 13. —Jon…
ABC Studios is asking its series producers to reduce their budgets by 2% as part of a company-wide cost-cutting initiative at Walt Disney Co., Daily Variety reports. Decisions about where to cut are being left up to the showrunners, the…
Dylan McDermott will play the lead character in Jerry Bruckheimer’s drama pilot for TNT titled “The Line,” the Hollywood Reporter says. McDermott plays a veteran undercover LAPD officer running a secret unit, the trade paper says. —Jon Lafayette
Plans for a series about how Batman’s sidekick Robin grew up have been scrapped by the CW and Warner Bros. TV, Daily Variety reports. “The Graysons” had been given a put pilot commitment, but “the concept didn’t fit the current…
Cablevision Systems says it is no longer actively considering the sale of assets including the cable networks in its Rainbow Media division, the Wall Street Journal says. Declarations by the Dolan family, which controls the cable operator, that it would…
With “Heroes” struggling in the ratings and executive producers Jeph Loeb and Jesse Alexander out of the pictures, former writer Bryan Fuller may return to the NBC series, Entertainment Weekly says. Fuller is currently working on “Pushing Daisies” on ABC…
The Chicago Sun-Times found the mystery man Oprah Winfrey was leaning on (and crying on) at Barack Obama’s victory celebration. He’s Sam Perry, an Obama supporter from California, and he’ll be on Oprah’s show Friday. —Jon Lafayette
With the election over, the personalities at MSNBC are again taking pot shots at one another, TVBarn.com says. Joe Scarborough and Chris Matthews had one exchange, and the network’s comet, Rachel Maddow, was reportedly being compared to Ashleigh Banfield (remember…
No more pet food and kitty litter as sponsors on Animal Planet, Advertising Age says. The channel has toughened up its programming and is creating customized vignettes to attract advertisers including Pizza Hut, Honda and Mattel, the paper says. —Jon…