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A&E’s Next Drama Could Be About a Bipolar Cop

A&E gave a pilot order to a drama about an LAPD detective who has bipolar disorder, reports Variety. “The Quickening” would star Radha Mitchell (“Surrogates”) as a detective who can only do her job well if she doesn’t take her…

Pay Cable Channel Epix Sets a Launch Date

New pay channel Epix set a launch date, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The channel will go live on Oct. 30 with a lineup that includes the television and online premieres of Madonna’s two-hour concert "Sticky & Sweet: Live From Buenos…

Viewers Interested in ‘Discovering Ardi’

Some 1.8 million viewers tuned in to Discovery Channel’s Sunday night “Discovering Ardi” special on new advances in human evolution despite a short promotional window for the show, reports B&C. That was just shy of the nearly 2 million viewers who…

Oprah Winfrey Network Adds Sales Exec in Advance of Launch

Discovery Communications and AOL/Time Warner veteran Kathleen Kayse is joining OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, as executive VP of ad sales, where she’ll oversee ad sales strategy for both the channel and Oprah.com, reports Variety. Her resume includes time as…

Top Comedy Central Programming Exec Stepping Down

Comedy Central’s president of original programming and development is stepping down to return to producing, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Lauren Corrao had been at the network seven years and oversaw development of such shows as "Chappelle’s Show" and "RENO 911!"…

Are Layoffs Ahead for Current Media?

Current Media, the cable channel and Web site co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, may be about to lay off more of its San Francisco-based employees, reports nbcbayarea.com, citing a “source familiar with its plans.” The layoffs would come…

‘Family Guy’ Overtaking ‘Housewives’ as Sunday’s Big Hit

Just weeks into the new season, Fox’s "Family Guy" has landed somewhere it never had before — ahead of ABC’s "Desperate Housewives" in the ratings, according to The Hollywood Reporter, citing preliminary Nielsen figures. NBC won the night thanks to…

ABC Gives Sci-Fi Series Full-Season Order

On the heels of giving three sitcoms — "The Middle," "Cougar Town" and "Modern Family" — full-season commitments last week, ABC announced today that sci-fi series "FlashForward" has gotten the same order, reports The Hollywood Reporter. "FlashForward" is performing better…

Off-Network ‘Real Housewives’ Clears 60 Percent of U.S.

NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has sold Bravo’s "The Real Housewives" franchise to stations from NBC Local Media, Hearst Television and other broadcast groups, including CBS, LIN, Local TV, Media General, Post-Newsweek, Raycom and Sinclair. The series, which  makes its Monday-through-Friday off-network syndication…

Talk Show Host (Not Oprah) Tops TV Women in Earnings

The top earner among all women in primetime television over the past year, raking in $30 million, was a talk-show host — and NOT Oprah Winfrey. According to a report in Forbes.com, if you count monies from her talk show, her guest appearances and…