Former HBO CEO Chris Albrecht will executive produce a series about the Borgia family for the French production company Lagardere Entertainment and Canal Plus, Daily Variety says. The 12-episode first season will be filmed in English to help sales of…
“90210” executive producer Rebecca Rand Kirshner Sinclair signed a new seven-figure agreement with CBS Paramount to serve as the show’s executive producer and showrunner for the next two seasons, the Hollywood Reporter says. The CW show’s current showrunners, Gabe Sachs…
Gene Stein has been promoted to head of television at BermanBraun, overseeing development and production of the company’s shows, Daily Variety reports. Stein had joined BermanBraun in September as head of unscripted programming, the trade paper says. —Aimee Picchi
Don Hewitt, who created “60 Minutes” for CBS News, recalls legendary newman Ed Murrow and his “Murrow’s Boys” in the Huffington Post. “Where we’re going to find another bunch like them is beyond me. For that matter, where we’re going…
“Grey’s Anatomy” has signed Jessica Capshaw to a contract calling for the actress to appear in the show’s remaining episodes this season, with an option to return as a regular next fall, Entertainment Weekly reports. Capshaw joined last month as…
Cablevision Systems, which bought Newsday last year, says it plans to charge for reading the newspaper online, Reuters says. “Our goal was and is to use our electronic network assets and subscriber relationships to transform the way news is distributed,”…
Singer Jewel is suffering tendinitis in her knees but the condition won’t keep her from participating on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars,” the Associated Press reports. Jewel will be competing against her husband rodeo star Ty Murray, the wire service…
Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Dhani Jones is featured on a new series on the Travel Channel visiting various countries and trying out the native sports, USA Today reports. On one episode of “Dhani Tackles the Globe, he loses to a 170-pounder…
Tom Selleck returns Sunday to CBS as Jesse Stone, the police chief of Paradise, Mass., for the latest installment of a series of television movies “that just keeps get richer,” the New York Times says in a review of “Thin…