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Programming at Oprah Winfrey’s new OWN network was on the minds of those who went to hear Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav in a keynote presentation at NATPE, but he wasn’t giving up many details, B&C reports. Zaslav did say…
NBC isn’t the only network that abandoned the upfront format, only to announce a return to it this year, B&C reports. Univision Communications, which opted out last year in favor of regional meetings, is scheduling a full presentation during upfront…
Verizon’s FiOS is no longer growing at quite the fast pace that it was, Multichannel News reports. In the fourth quarter, the service added 153,000 subscribers for both TV and Internet services, ending the year with 2.9 million FiOS TV…
Singer and comedian "Weird Al" Yankovic is developing a live-action made-for-TV movie for Cartoon Network, B&C reports. The film will center on a teenager; Yankovic would have a supporting or guest role. He would also direct, if it gets picked…
ABC Family is getting close to giving a greenlight to an hourlong drama based on the young adult novel “Huge,” reports The Hollywood Reporter. The book, by Sasha Paley, explores girls’ body image issues and is set at a weight-loss…
Oscar winner Forest Whitaker may be headed to series TV as the star of a “Criminal Minds” spinoff on CBS, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Whitaker, who did a memorable arc on FX’s "The Shield," is in final negotiations to star…
A coalition of women’s groups wants CBS to drop a planned Super Bowl ad — paid for by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family — the Associated Press reports. The ad will feature college football star Tim Tebow and his…
One of the 24 semifinalists on this season’s "American Idol" has been replaced in the Fox reality competition because his father breached the show’s confidentiality rules, the New York Post reports. The Post, citing the ‘Idol’ spoiler Web site Joe’s…