Screen Actors Guild has started a campaign to give more than $25 million in unclaimed residuals due to 66,000 members ranging from Dick Clark to Frank Sinatra, Daily Variety reports. The guild has said much of the money hasn’t been…
“One Tree Hill” creator Mark Schwahn has been approached about directing an updated version of the series “Melrose Place,” Entertainment Weekly says. Original “Melrose” creator Darren Star has declined an offer to direct the remake, the magazine says. –Danny King
Internet Broadcasting is working with Associated Press on an Election Night service that gives broadcasters the chance to get election updates about every five minutes, instead of the typical rate of every 30 to 45 minutes, Broadcasting & Cable reports….
HGTV and carpet cleaner Stanley Steemer are putting a co-branded promotion, letting viewers of HGTV’s Web site upload pictures of their ugliest rooms while getting carpet-cleaning tips, Advertising Week reports. Stanley Steemer, which spent $45 million on advertising through the…
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will appear on “Saturday Night Live” tomorrow night, Daily Variety reports. McCain most recently appeared on “SNL” in May and hosted the show in 2002, the newspaper says. –Danny King
Walt Disney unit ESPN is planning to bid on broadcasting rights for German’s top soccer league, while German cable network Premier, whose biggest shareholder is Rupert Murdoch, may make a similar bid, Daily Variety reports. The rights would last as…
Univision’s WXTV 41 is the most-watched TV station in New York by adults 18-49 during the 6-8 p.m. weekday time period, an October audience survey found. WXTV attracted 147,000 viewers ages 18-49 in the time period, with WABC-TV coming in…
U.K. pay-cable service BSkyB said it boosted its fiscal first-quarter customer base by 87,000 to about 9.1 million, though its profit fell 13% from a year earlier as many customers downgraded their service to save money, Daily Variety reports. The…
CBS has used its TV content-filled Web site to bring down the average age of its audience members, as its median-aged Web viewer is 36 years old, or 17 years younger than its television audience, Advertising Week reports. CBS has…
Former “Sex and the City” cast member Willie Garson will appear on the USA pilot “White Collar,” playing a sidekick to one of the central characters, played by Matthew Bomer, the Hollywood Reporter says. Additionally, Alison Pill, whose credits include…