“Desperate Housewives” star Nicollette Sheridan is moving away from Wisteria Lane, Extra reports. The newsmagazine has confirmed with a representative for the actress that she will be leaving after five seasons and is “looking forward to her next project,” the…
GroupM, a division of WPP, signed with the Nielsen Co. for a new ad-tracking service called KeepingTrac, MediaPost reports. With the new service, GroupM will be able to track ad campaigns in-flight and on the fly, as opposed to waiting…
Fox will premiere “The Adventures of Digger and Friends,” a series of vignettes based on Fox’s animated Gopher Cam character. The first of the five two-minute vignettes entitled “Channel Digger” will debut Feb. 15 during the NASCAR on Fox Daytona…
Michelle Jaconi will join CNN Worldwide as executive producer of “State of the Union With John King.” Ms. Jaconi served at NBC’s “Meet the Press” for 12 years, working her way up from intern to producer and political analyst. She…
Golf Channel and the LPGA Tour have signed a 10-year agreement, making the network the exclusive cable home of the tour beginning in 2010. The LPGA will get a rights fee agreement for domestic broadcast coverage. Nearly all LPGA Tour…
NBC Universal has selected Panasonic P2 camcorders for all of the NBC O&O stations in addition to CNBC and Telemundo, TVNewsday reports. The AG-HPX-300 camcorder goes for about $10,000, much less than other traditional cameras used by stations, and can…
Former “That ’70s Show” star-turned-producer Wilmer Valderrama is developing a family-friendly comedy, “Earth to Pablo,” for Nickelodeon, the Hollywood Reporter says. “That ’70s Show” writer-producer Philip Stark has been tapped to pen “Pablo,” the trade paper says. In the show…
Nielsen Co. has disbanded its NielsenConnect research unit and let go its president, Jon Mandel, MediaPost reports. Mandel, formerly an advertising executive, joined the company two years ago and says his departure is “amicable,” the site says. A Nielsen representative…
“The Bachelor” is hot. Thanks to compelling casting and some timely production changes, ABC and Warner Horizon TV’s long-running dating show franchise is experiencing an almost unprecedented ratings resurgence this season. Reversing a Nielsen slide that until recently had threatened…
SoapNet will premiere the docudrama “Southern Belles: Louisville” on May 21. Ten episodes of the one-hour series, which follows five Southern women, will air Thursdays at 10 p.m. The series joins recent SoapNet additions “Greg Behrendt’s Wake-Up” and “Being Erica,”…