Julia Ormond will star in Lifetime Movie Network’s “The Wronged Man,” premiering in November. The film will reunite Ms. Ormond with Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, with whom she appears in the feature “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” “The Wronged Man” is…
Fox Business Network is launching a new Web show Monday at noon ET. “FoxBusiness.com Live” will be hosted by Fox Business Network’s Jenna Lee and Connell McShane, who will report on breaking financial news and interview business leaders, politicians and…
One million Microsoft Xbox 360 users are using Netflix’s streaming video service, the video rental company said, according to Reuters. Users who have streamed Netflix titles through the Xbox Live community have viewed more than 1.5 billion minutes of movies,…
Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books has acquired the rights to a memoir by Patrick Swayze, Crain’s New York Business reports. Swayze will write the book with his wife, Lisa Niemi, about the days before and after he learned he had…
Larry King wasn’t always just another pretty face on television. I first got hooked on the King when he was a late-night radio host on the Mutual Radio Network during the 1980s. Growing up in Las Vegas, I dreamed of…
‘Buffy’ Creator Admits He’s Not That Fond of Vampires, but He Loves ‘Battlestar’
President Obama’s aides have alerted the broadcasters that he wants to address the nation in prime time three times this month, a move that could cost the networks more than $9 million in lost ad revenue, the Washington Post says….
What’s clear, now that the pilot drama orders are finishing up, is that the networks are leaning heavily toward crime dramas and self-contained procedurals for the next season, while complicated story lines or unusual topics have fallen out of favor,…
The CW is again joining forces with “Gossip Girl” publisher Alloy Entertainment, greenlighting a one-hour drama pilot based on the book series “The Vampire Diaries,” TelevisionWeek reports. “Scream” writer Kevin Williamson is on board to write and executive produce “Vampire,”…