Comcast Entertainment Group has promoted Steve Dolcemaschio to chief operating officer. He will oversee finance and business operations, including long-range financial planning, daily operations and the company’s strategic business development, for E! Entertainment, the Style Network, G4 and FearNet. Mr….
Snoop Dogg will host his own variety talk show, “Dogg After Dark,” for MTV beginning Feb. 17 at 9 p.m. The show will feature celebrity interviews, sketch-comedy segments and musical performances from its set at Hollywood Boulevard hot spot The…
Oxygen will launch “Pretty Wicked,” a competition reality series about inner beauty, on March 31. The eight-episode series will challenge girls to “beautify” their insides for a grand prize of $50,000. “America’s Next Top Model” winner CariDee English will host…
A new survey found that marketers cut budget more sharply than previously predicted. The Association of National Advertisers found that 37% of marketers say they plan to reduce budgets by more than 20%. When they were surveyed in August, only…
Lionsgate has gotten the green light to produce a pilot for the first original show commissioned for Epix, the new cable service being launched by Viacom, Lionsgate and two other studios. The new show, “Tough Trade,” is about a Nashville…
NBC has greenlit eight episodes of a reality series from self-help guru Tony Robbins and “Biggest Loser” producer Reveille, TelevisionWeek reports. The show, which aims to radically improve the lives of participants, won’t involve surgery, million-dollar prizes or drill sergeant-like…
MyNetworkTV, launched in 2006 as a sixth broadcast network, is shifting towards a “programming service model” featuring syndicated shows and the WWE for its 2009-10 season, partly to reduce costs, TVWeek reports. MyNetwork will continue to air “WWE Friday Night…
Television stations are facing a fuzzy future as their viewership and advertising decline, while network executives discuss taking shows directly to cable, where networks can garner reliable subscriber fees during an ad slump, the Wall Street Journal reports. Still, a…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will be a contestant on the next season of “Dancing With the Stars,” which begins March 9, the Los Angeles Times reports. After quitting Apple two decades ago, he’s been working on various projects and last…
The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers are expected Tuesday to announce they’ll restart contract talks, most likely on Feb. 17, the Hollywood Reporter says. Meanwhile, fired chief negotiator Doug Allen wrote an open…