YouTube has started cracking down on sexually explicit content on its site, the company announced today on its blog. The world’s most popular video-sharing site said it has started implementing stricter standards for mature content. “While videos featuring pornographic images…
HGTV is dealing with the sluggish economy and depressed real estate market by premiering shows that offer advice on better ways to buy and sell and to boost home equity. The new shows premiere Jan. 1 during an afternoon marathon…
National Geographic Channel has signed on as the first network to buy second-by-second audience data from the Nielsen Co.’s DigitalPlus service. DigitalPlus gets data from 330,000 set-top boxes used by Charter Communications subscribers in Los Angeles. The data is combined…
The Screen Actors Guild released a response to an advertisement from Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers media leaders blasting them for using funds to scold SAG rather than move discussion forward. The statement, as posted on SAG’s Web…
NBC News is denying reports that it will soon name chief White House correspondent David Gregory as host for “Meet the Press,” the Hollywood Reporter says. A spokeswoman for NBC News said, “We have no announcement to make and we…
Even as the Screen Actors Guild prepares for a strike authorization vote, the organization still has plans on Dec. 18 to announce nominees for its annual awards ceremony, Daily Variety reports. Angela Bassett and Eric McCormack have been tapped to…
Sci Fi Channel has given the greenlight to the “Battlestar Galactica” prequel “Caprica,” Daily Variety reports. The new series, set 50 years earlier in the “Battlestar” universe, has already produced a two-hour pilot. “Caprica” is expected to debut in early…
CBS has ordered an additional five episodes of its freshman series “Eleventh Hour,” TelevisionWeek reports. The extension brings the show’s first season to 18 episodes. “Hour” has averaged 12 million viewers per episode in its post-“CSI” time slot, the magazine…
Web-video service Joost is launching a new application for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch that will allow users to view content from its library for free, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The move may affect Apple’s own iTunes sales by allowing…
ABC’s pilot “Flash Forward” has added Courtney B. Vance and Jack Davenport as the first actors to join the cast, the Hollywood Reporter says. The series is based on Robert J. Sawyer’s novel about what happens in the world after…