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Daily Archives : Aug 10, 2012

Olympic Gold Medalist Signed for Reality Show

A U.S. athlete who won an Olympic gold medal Sunday has already signed to do a reality show, Deadline.com reports. Sanya Richards-Ross, who won the women’s 400-meter race, will star in a pilot for WE tv, the story reports. The…

Report: NBC Has Already Sold $200 Million in Ads for the 2014 Winter Olympics

NBCUniversal has already sold $200 million in advertising for its 2014 broadcast of the Winter Olympics, which will be held in the Russian city of Sochi, reports Brian Steinberg in Advertising Age. "The London Games created an enormous amount of…

NBCU Has Sold $200M in Ad Time for 2014 Winter Olympics — Delayed Telecasts Likely to Continue, Despite Outcry on Twitter

By Brian SteinbergAdvertising Age Early social-media brickbats thrown at NBC Universal over its Summer Olympics broadcast aren’t likely to have a radical effect on the company’s plans for covering the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sochi. The…

Reunion of Celebrity Couple Highlights ‘Mother of All Roasts’

“Welcome to menopause-apalooza,” said Jane Lynch, opening up the show. The star of "Glee," who is rapidly becoming the female equivalent of Neil Patrick Harris when it comes to classy/comedic hosting and in this case roasting, was likely referring to…

Two New Fox Comedies to Get Advance Screenings in 10 Cities

Two new Fox comedies will get advance screenings in 10 cities on Aug. 26, followed by Q&A sessions in person and online with the shows’ stars, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. The shows are "Ben and Kate" and "The Mindy Project."…

GSN Expands Its Horizons With Pickup of New Series

GSN is pushing into genres outside its stable of studio game shows, picking up a reality series called "Family Trade," about a Vermont-based car dealership that barters with customers, reports B&C. The show will focus on G Stone Motors, a…

CBS TV Studios Developing Private Eye Series

CBS Television Studios has bought the Michael Koryta private eye novel "A Welcome Grave" and will develop the story for a series to be produced by the Kennedy/Marshall Company, reports Deadline.com. The book is the third in the Lincoln Perry…

Stalking Drama in Development at Lifetime

Lifetime is developing a pilot about a prosecutor who wrote the California law on stalking, based on the book, "Whisper of Fear: The True Story of the Prosecutor Who Stalks the Stalkers," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The two-hour back-door…

AMC Working Around Dish Blackout by Providing Live Streams of Two Premieres

AMC Networks and Dish Network continue to battle each other, with AMC announcing that it will provide live streams of two premieres to Dish customers, enabling them to watch the shows despite a blackout on Dish’s systems, reports the New…