Some cable dramas are facing tough times, USA Today reports. New shows including A&E’s “The Beast” and TNT’s “Trust Me,” as well as returning series such as HBO’s “Big Love” and FX’s “Damages” have turned in disappointing Nielsen numbers, the…
Kathryn Hahn, who appeared in “Revolutionary Road,” has been cast as one-half of the besotted, fashion-obsessed friends in the pilot of Fox’s remake of “Absolutely Fabulous,” while Mark Valley has been hired to play the lead in the network’s drama…
Tribune Co. Innovation chief Lee Abrams says in a memo that the news anchors at the company’s TV stations are too “plastic” looking, reports the New Times of Broward-Palm Beach, Fla. “Most local TV stations are a parody of themselves,”…
“Boardwalk Empire,” Martin Scorsese’s drama pilot for HBO about Prohibition-era bootleggers in Atlantic City, has cast Aleksa Palladino, Paul Sparks, Shea Whigham and Anthony Laciura, the Hollywood Reporter says. Meanwhile, Rob Brown has been tapped for the HBO drama pilot…
Ad agency holding company reported that its fourth-quarter net income fell 14% as clients cut back on spending, Dow Jones reports. Omnicom already has laid off 5% of its workforce and ad spending is expected to weaken further, the wire…
“Lost” actor Daniel Dae Kim said that some of the mysteries surrounded the show’s smoke monster will be revealed in upcoming episodes, the Associated Press reports. Kim also tells the wire service that his character and his wife are unlikely…
ABC News’ Diane Sawyer is focusing on her home region, Appalachia, in a special airing Friday called “Hidden America: Children of the Mountains,” the New York Daily News reports. A Kentucky native, Sawyer tells the paper she’s familiar with the…
Just weeks before the much-anticipated release of the feature film “Watchmen,” ABC has decided to move forward with a comedic take on the superheroes-among-us genre. The network Tuesday said it has greenlit a remake of the British import “No Heroics,”…
The FCC has begun approaching church leaders and other community figures to help spread the word about the digital TV switch, the Los Angeles Times reports. FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein asked members of the Baptist Ministries Conference of Los Angeles…