“CSI” creator Anthony Zuiker set up a two-year, first-look production deal for his Dare to Pass company at CBS Television Studios, and will develop both scripted and reality shows, Variety says. With president of production Matthew Weinberg, he’ll be looking…
Comedian Robin Williams has booked his first solo standup show on HBO since 2002 for December, Variety says. The show will be taped in Washington, D.C. during his upcoming tour, “Robin Williams: Weapons of Self-Destruction.” –Elizabeth Jensen
“How I Met Your Mother” executive producer Greg Malins and best-selling mystery novelist Harlan Coben have teamed up for a one-hour comedic drama about an uninhibited private-eye-turned-college-professor, The Hollywood Reporter says. The series has a script commitment at Fox. –Elizabeth…
Terry Kinney (“Oz,” “The Unusuals”) is joining CBS’ “The Mentalist” in a recurring role, The Hollywood Reporter says. He’ll play the head of the California Bureau of Investigation’s Serial Crimes Unit, helping track down the serial killer responsible for the…
Not since young JFK, Jr. saluted his slain father’s coffin has a child’s reaction to the loss of a parent so moved a global television audience. Paris Michael Katherine Jackson’s spontaneous, heartfelt tribute to her father was the highly emotional…