President Barack Obama has scheduled interviews with anchors at all the top television networks Tuesday, the Hollywood Reporter says. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News Channel will air the interviews, conducted separately, over the course of the afternoon and…
The CW is bringing back the supernatural drama “Reaper” on March 3, a few weeks earlier than originally planned, as part of a midseason makeover the network will announce today, the Hollywood Reporter says. The schedule change will place “Reaper”…
News Corp. should take a page from the U.S. government’s idea of splitting up “good banks” and “bad banks” by separating its growing assets from its bad assets, according to a report from Michael Nathanson of Sanford C. Bernstein, the…
CBS has greenlighted a pilot called “A Marriage” from “Thirtysomething” creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the Hollywood Reporter says. The pilot, their first for a network other than ABC, is a project about a marriage that works, the trade…
HBO has acquired rights to a book about the financial crisis that was recently sold for seven figures to Penguin imprint by Portfolio publisher Adrian Zackheim, Daily Variety reports. The book will be written by New York Times business writer…
CMT has renewed “Can You Duet” for a second season after the music-competition show scored as the highest-ever original-series premiere for the cable network, Daily Variety reports. The network plans to start the second season in June, the publication says….
ABC Family’s “Greek” will return for its third season without Frannie, the character played by Tiffany Dupont, Entertainment Weekly says. Although a representative for ABC Family declined to comment, a source says the decision was both creative and budgetary, the…
Lifetime has signed Rosie O’Donnell to star in its original movie “America,” based on E.R. Frank’s book of the same name, Multichannel News reports. The show will air Feb. 28 and follows a 17-year old who navigates the foster-care system,…
The Television Bureau of Advertising is considering re-evaluating again its forecast for 2009, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The organization already re-evaluated previous figures in November after the economy began taking a turn for the worse, the trade says. Initial forecasts…
Pittsburgh’s WPXI has an extra reason to celebrate after Sunday’s Super Bowl game, TVNewsday reports. The station’s VP/general manager Ray Carter says revenue for WPXI, which has positioned itself as Pittsburgh’s Steelers station, got a big “boost” in January and…