Dana Delany may follow Nicolette Sheridan’s exit from ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Delany’s character will be part of a plot twist involving a camping trip and a shooting, the magazine says. —Danny King
20th Century Fox launched its Internet-television service by debuting its FlopTV in Italy, Daily Variety reports. The comedy-oriented channel allows users to access the service, which includes user-generated content, via personal computer, mobile phones and videogame consoles, the newspaper says….
Fox President Peter Chernin, the No. 2 executive to Rupert Murdoch at Fox parent News Corp, will step down when his contract expires in June to become a producer at the company, Web site DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com reports, citing a person familiar…
Rev. Al Sharpton, along with New York City council members, is organizing a petition to try to get the Federal Communications Commission to rescind a waiver allowing Fox parent News Corp. to own two New York-area television stations, Broadcasting &…
Comcast’s investment in interactive advertising cooperative Canoe will have little effect on the U.S. cable leader’s earnings this year, Multichannel News says, citing Comcast Chief Operating Officer Steve Burke. Still, Comcast has maintained its pace of advertising in the venture,…
Overall spending on media and communications will fall .4% in 2009, according to private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson, revising downward an earlier estimate. The new projection was generated in response to the economic downturn. The revised forecast is down…
Formal bidding for the rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics will begin soon, according to Jacques Rogge, head of the International Olympic Committee, Reuters reports. “We have had a lot of interest from broadcasters for 2014 and 2016,” Rogge…
Joy Behar of “The View” is returning to Harrah’s in Atlantic city to do her standup act, the New York Daily News reports. She tells the newspaper she feels at home in a casino, because her father “liked to play…
NYC Media’s “City Drive Live” channel is a hypnotizing block of live coverage from New York’s traffic cameras, the New York Daily News says. The show, on Time Warner Cable’s channel 93, is a calming alternative to the bad news…