With several television shows featuring recession themes slated to hit networks’ schedules, the question is whether viewers will want to watch shows with stressful themes, Broadcasting & Cable reports. "Viewers want to be entertained and escape their economic situation. To be reminded…
Ray Romano has been preparing for his new show "Men of a Certain Age" for years, Broadcasting & Cable reports. He tells the publication the show was delayed by the writer’s strike last year as he shopped the script, which was seen…
BBC America will begin its high-definition simulcast channel on July 20 with the broadcast of science-fiction shows such as "Torchwood" and "Dr. Who," Multichannel News reports. The network had wanted to start the HD channel last year, but needed time to develop…
Edie Falco is leaving Carmela Soprano behind with her title role in Showtime’s "Nurse Jackie," the New York Times reports. Ms. Falco is playing a New York City emergency-room nurse with short hair, unpainted nails and a lack of make-up, the newspaper says….
After PBS placed an episode of "Time Team America," a show that doesn’t debut until July, on its online video player, the show about archeologists became the site’s most viewed, the New York Times reports. The show, based on a British series called…
Stephen Colbert tells the Los Angeles Times that he’s "thrilled" by a recent Ohio State University study that found most conservatives it polled viewed Colbert was also conservative. "From the very beginning, I wanted to jump back and forth over the…
The television division of Brillstein Entertainment Partners has hired former BermanBraun and Warner Bros. TV executive Rachel Kaplan as executive vice president, Daily Variety reports. Kaplan will develop scripted and nonscripted projects with Brillstein Entertainment Partners TV President Peter Traugott, the trade paper says….
Nadya Suleman, the woman who gave birth to octuplets in January and was given the nickname Octomom, has signed an agreement to star in a reality television show, the Associated Press reports. She’ll be filmed for a proposed TV show by 3Ball…
Casting for "The Real Housewives of D.C." may prove harder than for the other shows in the franchise because of the wariness of powerful women in the city to risk their reputations, the Associated Press reports. "But it’s unlikely that a working woman…
The Ski Channel will be available on AT&T’s U-Verse multichannel video service beginning June 1, Multichannel News says. Ski Channel Chairman Steve Bellamy tells the trade paper the channel will be a fee-based on demand service, and that the network is currently…