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Al Gore’s Current Media has canceled plans for an initial public offering, Multichannel News reports. The company, which operates Current TV, blamed “current market conditions,” the trade paper says, citing a regulatory filing. —Aimee Picchi
WLNE-TV in Providence, R.I., and reporter Parker Gavigan have been named in a lawsuit seeking at least $5 million that was filed by entertainment company Edge 1 Productions, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The company accuses WLNE of “falsely labeling [Edge…
Original content featuring outdoor sports is thriving, with offerings ranging from ESPN2’s ESPN Outdoors and Versus’ Versus Country to the World Fishing Network and Outdoor Channel, Multichannel News reports. The Sportsman Channel is making a big push to become a…
Lake Bell has been cast in a lead role on the HBO series “How to Make It in America,” the Hollywood Reporter says. She was a guest star on the show’s pilot, which is about two young men trying to…
The HBO comedy pilot “The Wonderful Maladys” has tapped Adam Scott and Zak Orth, the Hollywood Reporter says. Orth will play the playwright husband of Molly Parker’s character, while Scott will play the ex-husband of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character, the…
More than 100 Los Angeles Times staffers have banded together to call the newspaper’s decision to place an ad for NBC’s “Southland” on its front page “embarrassing and demoralizing,” MediaMemo reports. The petition circulating through the organization’s newsroom comes after…
Chris Rock is planning to wrap up his series “Everybody Hates Chris” on The CW, which has yet to be picked up for another season, WENN reports. The show is coming to the end of its fourth season with the…
More TiVo users record programs airing at 8 and 9 p.m. than 10 p.m. shows, Multichannel News reports, citing data gathered by the DVR service from its subscribers. For viewing data for the month of February from ABC, CBS, Fox…
A man who said he was a crew member of the hijacked Maersk Alabama called CNN and talked with anchor Kyra Phillips, TVNewser reports. “So now we’re just trying to offer them whatever we can. Food. But it’s not working…
T.R. Knight’s character George on “Grey’s Anatomy” will go to war and be wounded, perhaps mortally, by the end of the season, Entertainment Weekly reports. In separate television news, James Callis of “Battlestar Galactica” and Sarah Drew of “Everwood” will…