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Daily Archives : Aug 12, 2011

Disney Halts Production of Feature Film Version of the TV Classic ‘The Lone Ranger’ To Have Starred Johnny Depp as Tonto. Read Why the Studio Shuttered the Production

"In a stunning development, Disney has shut down production on ‘The Lone Ranger,’ the Gore Verbinski-directed period Western that was to star Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the title character," writes Mike Fleming at Deadline.com. Fleming continues,…

Report Says Upcoming ABC News Special on Jackie Kennedy Onassis Secret Tapes Will Reveal Her Affair With Major Hollywood Star. ABC Responds Saying Report is ‘Totally Erroneous’

In September ABC News will broadcast tapes Jackie Kennedy (later Onassis) made months after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In the tapes she is interviewed by well-known Kennedy historian Arthur Schlesinger. The telecast will be the first time…

Time Warner Snags Fox Prime-Time Shows for VOD Service

Time Warner Cable and Fox have signed an accord that will put a wide range of Fox’s prime-time programs on TWC’s Primetime On Demand VOD service, Multichannel News reports. The deal, which does not cover Fox’s TV Everywhere online service,…

New Reality Show From Ashton Kutcher Tackles an Unlikely Topic

The latest reality television creation from executive producers Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, the creators of "Punk’d" and "Beauty and the Geek," is set in the Department of Motor Vehicles, reports Entertainment Weekly. TruTV has given "California DMV: Field Offices"…

Sitcom Veteran — a Seven-Time Emmy Nominee — Lands New NBC Comedy

A veteran sitcom star who received seven consecutive Emmy nominations for one show from 2000 to 2006 will return to comedy as the mom on NBC’s "Whitney," reports Deadline.com. The star is Jane Kaszmarek, who was a perennial Emmy nominee…

Real-Life Witches Appalled by HBO’s ‘True Blood’ — They Say Real Witches Would Never Act This Way

The popular HBO vampire series “True Blood” has come in for its share of criticism over sex and violence, but now it is coming under fire for something else altogether, Reuters reports. The community of witches appears to be up…

One of the 12 People Who Designed the Original IBM PC Says the Reign of the Personal Computer Is Coming to an End

As the IBM personal computer marks its 30th anniversary, one of the 12 engineers who designed the original says the reign of the PC is about to end, the U.K. paper The Register reports. Mark Dean, IBM’s Middle East and…

Will TBS Face Fallout for Its Clumsy Handling of the ‘Lopez’ Cancellation?

TBS gave only 36 hours’ notice to George Lopez that it was pulling the plug on his self-proclaimed “baddest show in late-night” — a decision that is sure to have repercussions. TVWeek Open Mic blogger Hillary Atkin examines how the…

The ‘Baddest Show in Late-Night’ Is No More — and TBS May Have to Face the Consequences

The “baddest show in late-night,” as host George Lopez called it, is now relegated to the history books — and if there is such a thing, the television business etiquette books, under the chapter of “How Not to Fire Your…

Emmy Winner Joins Cast of ‘Nurse Jackie’

Showtime’s dark comedy “Nurse Jackie” is getting a new cast member — a familiar TV face who already has won an Emmy for his sitcom work, Deadline.com reports. Bobby Cannavale, who received an Emmy for his guest stint on NBC’s…