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E! has apologized for what it called "the insensitive classification of Michael J Fox’s Parkinson’s diagnosis" after it used a pop-up graphic on its Golden Globes preshow that characterized the actor’s Parkinson’s disease as a “fun fact,” reports Deadline.com. The…
Discovery Communications and Scripps Networks Interactive have ended talks about a merger, squashing the possibility that the two cable-television network operators might join forces, reports The Wall Street Journal. The discussions had all been in the early stages, the story…
The Weather Channel has mounted an offensive against DirecTV. Writing on the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog, Joe Flint reports that the move comes amid concerns that the pay-TV provider will drop the network when the current contract extension…
AMC has taken the wraps off its premiere plans for the first half of “Mad Men’s" final season and the “Breaking Bad” spinoff “Better Call Saul.” The Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker reports that "Mad Men" will premiere in mid-April,…
WGN has ordered an ambitious project: a 10-part scripted series called “Ten Commandments,” which will feature 10 different filmmakers, with each giving one of the Commandments a modern interpretation, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker. The filmmakers include Gus…
Jacqueline Bisset was so overcome with emotion when she won a Golden Globe Sunday night that at first, when she got to the microphone, she didn’t say anything. And then "during her speech, the ‘Dancing on the Edge’ actress was…
HBO is breaking out the new season of its Lena Dunham comedy series "Girls" with the help of YouTube. Mashable reports that the pay-cable channel is putting the first two episodes of the third season of “Girls” on the online…
A drama series airing on Sundance Channel has been picked up for a second season. Deadline.com reports that the cable channel ordered season two of the French drama “The Returned” (“Les Revenants"). The report describes the series as “probably the…
BBC America has greenlighted a project set in the Cold War and focusing on espionage. The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports that the six-episode miniseries, “The Game,” comes from “Being Human” creator Toby Whithouse and stars Brian Cox. "Tom Hughes,…
Hallmark Channel is adapting the “Chesapeake Shores” novels by Sherryl Woods for television, The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed reports. The 10-book series is about the O’Briens, a multigenerational family who reunite in their hometown on Chesapeake Bay. The series began…