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Daily Archives : Aug 8, 2014

‘Cheers’ Bar Finds a Home

The set of the long-running hit comedy “Cheers” has found a home. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the plan is for the set to go on display in James Comisar’s Museum of Television. CBS donated the set to Comisar’s nonprofit…

CBS Hands Out First Pilot Production Commitment of the Season

CBS has handed out the first pilot production commitment of this year’s pitch season. Writing on Deadline.com, Nellie Andreeva reports that the network bought “Austen’s Razor,” a drama executive produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and from Legendary Television. It will…

Bloomberg Shuts Down L.A. TV Operations, Cancels Sunday Morning Show

Bloomberg Media is cutting back in Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and New York City, including shutting down its Los Angeles television operations, reports TVNewser. Three jobs will be cut in Los Angeles, as will up to five jobs in New…

Good News for Fans of ‘Arrested Development’

Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos tells USA Today that he is “positive” another season of “Arrested Development” will be on the streaming service. “It’s just a matter of when,” he said. Sarandos added that it was a fair criticism…

‘Twin Peaks’ Star Joins ABC’s ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’

One of the stars of ABC’s macabre early-1990s David Lynch series “Twin Peaks” is joining the cast of the network’s current drama “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” TVLine reports that Kyle MacLachlan will portray Skye’s father on the series. The puzzle of…

NBCUniversal’s ‘DIG’ Finds a New Shooting Location After Pulling Out of Israel

The new NBCUniversal series “DIG,” which pulled out of Israel last month in response to continued military action in the region, as we reported previously, has set its sights on resuming filming in Croatia, Variety reports. The six-episode series, which…

What You Need to Know About This Week’s Revelation That a Russian Gang Has Stolen More Than 1 Billion (!) Username and Password Combinations Used by Consumers on the Internet. It’s Our Non-TV Story of the Day

“News broke late Tuesday [Aug 5, 2014] that Russian hackers have acquired over one billion username and password combinations, the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials,” writes Sam Frizell on the website of Time magazine. He continues, “It’s a…

Netflix Overtakes HBO in a Key Category

Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, has let the world know — in a posting on his Facebook account — that Netflix has finally overtaken HBO is a key category: “Minor milestone,” Hastings wrote, “last quarter we passed HBO [in]…

You May Have to Cover Your Eyes at Times, But a New Drama Series From Cinemax Is Worth a Peek

Cinemax is going in an entirely new direction tonight with the premiere of the ten-part series “The Knick,” from director Steven Soderbergh. Clive Owen stars as a brilliant, renegade and opiate-addicted surgeon wielding a scalpel in turn of the 20th…