TV reporters in Chicago tell the Chicago Tribune what they wear when it’s freezing out. “I’m wearing a scarf, three pairs of socks, a pair of long johns,” WBBM-TV’s Mike Puccinelli told the paper on a cold morning. “I asked…
A meeting scheduled for Sunday by Screen Actors Guild interim national executive director David White is likely to be used as a forum for firing former SAG executive director Doug Allen—again, the Hollywood Reporter says. Much as President Barack Obama…
Imagine Television is working on a number of comedies, seeking its next “Arrested Development,” Daily Variety reports. One of the projects, a single-camera show called “The Chairman of Chatsworth,” is loosely based on Imagine partner Brian Grazer’s father, with “a…
HBO has renewed “Big Love” for a fourth season, the Hollywood Reporter says. The drama about a polygamous family has picked up viewers each week during the current season, the trade paper says. Sunday’s episode drew 1.5 million viewers, a…
TV Guide has relisted programming for The CW and MTV, a month after pulling the networks from the magazine’s listings, Daily Variety reports. In making the change, TV Guide has now removed listings for broadcast network Ion and cable networks…
LL Cool J and Chris O’Donnell and are in discussions to star in a spinoff of CBS’ “NCIS,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The pilot, which would air as an “NCIS” episode in the spring, would feature O’Donnell in the role…
MTV is launching a new series based on the Web site CollegeHumor.com, USA Today reports. “It’s not a sketch show. It’s not purely scripted comedy. It’s a scripted, long-form comedy starring real-life people playing fictionalized versions of themselves,” Tony DiSanto,…
Anna Torv and Mark Valley, co-stars of the Fox series “Fringe,” were quietly married last month, the Associated Press reports. Valley plays Torv’s secret lover who may have been killed after betraying her on the show. —Jon Lafayette
Christine Baranski will be appearling in at lest three episodes of “Ugly Betty,” Entertainment Weekly says. Ms. Baranski, coming off a guest stint on “The Big Bang Theory,” plays the mother of Betty’s new love interest in the ABC series….
A&E’s new reality show features a family that runs a pest-control business led by Billy Breatherton, an exterminator who seems to love animals, a review in the New York Times says. “Watching Mr. Bretherton get rid of snakes, bats, raccoons…