The National Telecommunications & Information Administration is giving a mixed message about the digital-television transition, with its DTV2009.gov Web site telling visitors that the switch will happen on Feb. 17, while its “coupon program update” section notes the transition will…
Lionsgate lost $93.4 million in the fiscal third quarter compared with a profit of $7.3 million in the year-earlier period, after a double-digit decline in home video sales and three weak movie releases for the quarter ended Dec. 31, Daily…
The competition to snare interviews with the woman who gave birth to octuplets and her family has created its own controversy, with ABC paying for an interview with the woman’s mother, the Los Angeles Times reports. The network paid to…
Anne Heche has been hired to co-star on the HBO series “Hung,” a comedy about a well-endowed high school basketball coach that’s expected to debut in June, the Hollywood Reporter says. Heche replaces Kristin Bauer, who played the coach’s remarried…
Kelsey Grammer will direct Lifetime’s pilot of “Alligator Point,” a comedy which will star Cybill Shepherd as the owner of an oyster bar in Florida, the Hollywood Reporter says. Other actors cast for the pilot, a project from Steve Stark…
The Fox drama pilot “Maggie Hill,” about a female surgeon with schizophrenia, has nabbed Stephen Hopkins as its director, while Mark Pellington has will direct the CBS drama pilot “Back” and Todd Holland will be at the helm of Fox’s…
NBC has made a cast-contingent pilot order for “100 Questions for Charlotte Payne,” a comedy from writer Chris Moynihan, the Hollywood Reporter says. Produced by UMS and Tagline, the pilot follows a young woman in New York dealing with dating…
ABC Family has renewed the drama “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” for a second season, while the first season is slated to wrap up on March 23. It is the highest-rated original series on the network, the Hollywood…
“One Life to Live” star Phil Carey, who played the tycoon Asa Buchanan on the ABC soap for almost three decades, died Feb. 6 following a battle with lung cancer, the Hollywood Reporter says. He was 83. On the show,…
Spike TV has greenlighted the half-hour comedy “Players” from former “Upright Citizens Brigade” regular Matt Walsh, Daily Variety reports. Spike TV has ordered 10 episodes from executive producer and creator Walsh, who will play the fun-loving owner of a sports…