NBC is working on a new dance-themed competition series with reality producers Nigel Lythgoe and Simon Fuller, to be hosted by “Lord of the Dance” Michael Flatley. The series, tentatively titled “Superstar Dancers of the World,” will bring together teams…
Given the success of Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” and ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” NBC is getting in the dance competition series game with a new show of its own, the Hollywood Reporter says. Nigel Lythgoe and…
HBO is currently developing a biopic about former Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham, the Hollywood Reporter says. Graham oversaw the paper’s Watergate coverage, which lead to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. The script is being written by Joan Didion…
Correspondent Steve Kroft talks to TVNewser about how “60 Minutes” managed to score Barack Obama’s first interview as president-elect. “We went and started working on a profile before he declared his candidacy,” Kroft tells TVNewser. “I can remember the first…
CBS is giving a thumbs-up to first-year comedies “Gary Unmarried” and “Worst Week.” The network Friday ordered a full season of “Gary” and three additional episodes of “Worst Week.” Both moves had been expected. In the case of “Gary,” CBS…
Discovery Communications has signed on as a client of TRA’s Media TRAnalytics, the 370,000 household, single-source database that matches second-by-second information from home set-top boxes to actual product purchases, DMNews reports. “What TRA has is really interesting for us and…
Apparently you can break barriers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue but not at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Entertainment Weekly discusses the ho-hum selection of Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins to the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” which leaves them curious as to…
“Saturday Night Live” alum Maya Rudolph will make an appearance on NBC’s “Kath & Kim,” TV Guide reports. Rudolph will play a spiritual guide who helps Phil, played by John Michael Higgins, to lose weight. Rudolph’s character also becomes a…
MSNBC’s Dan Abrams will make a cameo as himself in a new film that lifts heavily from the Valerie Plame-Judith Miller saga titled “Nothing But the Truth,” Portfolio reports. Abrams joins an all-star cast that includes Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon,…
Cable operators issued a letter to the Federal Communications Commission asking the commission not to establish a uniform price for attaching to utility poles, Broadcasting & Cable says. In the letter, cable operators said broadband providers should pay the same…