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Showtime Passes on ‘Side Effects’

Showtime has decided not to greenlight “Possible Side Effects,” meaning the network has now passed over four pilots, Daily Variety reports. While it’s unclear why Showtime skipped “Side Effects,” created by Tim Robbins, some speculate it may be due to…

Bravo Developing Products from Shows

Bravo is developing products derived from its shows such as “Top Chef” to be touted on television and sold on the network’s Web site, the New York Times reports. Items include “Top Chef”-branded flower arrangements from Teleflora and designs from…

‘Dallas DNA’ Stirs Controversy

“Dallas DNA,” which starts airing April 28 on Investigation Discovery, will explore how the use of DNA evidence is freeing people incorrectly convicted but is also stirring controversy over whether it exploits those same people, USA Today reports. “I wholeheartedly…

HBO to Tap Into ‘Grey Gardens’

HBO is set to air the latest version of “Grey Gardens,” originally a 1975 documentary about the two Edith Beales, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who lived in a complicated relationship in a crumbling, animal-infested house, the…

PBS to Air Native American Series

PBS will kick off the documentary series “We Shall Remain” today with an episode directed by Ric Burns and Chris Eyre, a Native American director, the New York Times reports. The two have paired to tell the story of Tecumseh,…

‘Top Model’ Redo Goes Smoothly

The second attempt at a New York audition for “America’s Next Top Model” went smoothly, unlike the first try four weeks ago, which ended in a stampede, the New York Times reports. An estimated 1,200 women attended the audition, which…

Glenn Beck to Make Comedy Tour

Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck will perform six live comedy shows in June in cities including Phoenix and San Diego, the Associated Press reports. He’ll mix humor with his reimagination of Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense,” and calls his…

Fox’s Wallace Trained From Childhood for TV Biz

Chris Wallace, the host of “Fox News Sunday” and director of political coverage for Fox News, prepared for his television career from childhood, when he would pretend to be a newsman with stepfather Bill Leonard, the former CBS News president,…

‘Around the World’ a Tough Pitch

“The Amazing Race” winner Alex Boylan thought his idea for making a TV show about trying to travel around the world for free would get networks jumping, but no one bit, the New York Daily News reports. Boylan made the…

Port of ‘The City’ Lost Promotion?

Whitney Port of “The City” was passed over for a promotion at Diane von Furstenberg, the New York Post reports, citing a source. A co-worker instead was picked for the job as a publicist for the company in London, the…