OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has named Timothy Kuryak and Jill Dickerson as vice presidents of programming. The duo will oversee nonscripted programming, working with producers, writers, agents and distributors, in addition to editorial management with outside production. Mr. Kuryak…
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, stars of the Adult Swim series “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!,” will start on a 20-show tour through the U.S. next month, Multichannel News reports. The duo, which will put on a variety…
Ted Rogers, founder and chief executive officer of Canada’s Rogers Communications, has died of congestive heart failure at his Toronto home at age 75, Multichannel News reports. Rogers’ company, founded when Ted Rogers started Rogers Radio Broadcasting in the 1960s,…
ABC will be rolling out three new dramas in the spring: “Castle,” “Cupid” and “The Unusuals.” “Castle,” from ABC Studios, stars Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, a mystery novelist who teams up with an NYPD detective investigating homicides copied from…
Cable stocks will outperform the rest of the stock market during the economic downturn because much of the industry already has faced stock price declines, Multichannel News says, citing Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen. Satellite and telephone companies haven’t…
U.K.-based BT Vision has landed video-on-demand rights to Twentieth Century Fox films such as Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones documentary “Shine a Light” and M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Happening,” Daily Variety reports. Older films such as “Die Hard” and “I, Robot”…
NBC Universal parent General Electric said its fourth-quarter earnings will be at the low end of its forecast range due to higher expenses related to the shrinking of its GE Capital unit, the Associated Press reports. Also, the company may…
Disney Channel has ordered additional episodes for the third season of “Hannah Montana” in addition to ordering a second season of its new series “The Suite Life on Deck.” “Montana,” starring teen sensation Miley Cyrus, is the top basic-cable series…
Technology company Cell Journalist launched an iPhone application today that lets citizen journalists share news, information and events with local media outlets, the company announced today. The iPhone capability links into the existing Cell Journalist technology that is used by…
Original programming returns to Saturdays on CBS starting Jan. 3, with “Game Show in My Head” set to air at 8 and 8:30 p.m., the network announced today. “Head,” which has Ashton Kutcher as one of its executive producers, involves…