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The National Football League and NBC extended their “Sunday Night Football” deal for two years, through the 2013 season, which means that the league’s four major TV deals will all be up for renewal in 2014, says the Los Angeles…
Robert B. Clasen, the chairman and chief executive of Starz, said he’ll retire at the end of the year, Variety reports. Clasen, an industry veteran who has been in the cable business for 40 years, has been with Starz since…
Lifetime ordered a second season of 13 episodes of “Drop Dead Diva,” Variety reports. The dramedy series about a model reborn as a plus-sized lawyer had averaged 2.6 million viewers on Sundays. –Elizabeth Jensen
“Deadwood” alum John Hawkes is joining ABC’s “Lost” for its final season, playing the role of Lennon, The Hollywood Reporter says. The producers wouldn’t elaborate although the casting description calls the character an edgy spokesman for a powerful president of…
NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neill’s new reality show premiered on ABC Tuesday night, and according to the New York Times, the giant failed to conquer in the Nielsen ratings. “Shaq Vs.” drew just 4.3 million viewers, lagging behind NBC’s “America’s Got…
“Beverly Hillbillies” co-star Max Baer Jr. is thinking about buying a closed hotel-casino in Sparks, Nev., and opening Jethro’s Beverly Hillbillies Hotel and Casino, the Associated Press reports. Baer has a home in Lake Tahoe and already has approval to build…
CBS News’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday will be devoted entirely to its creator and former executive producer Don Hewitt, who passed away Wednesday, reports TVNewser. The “60 Minutes” correspondents will do individual segments on the newsman’s contributions to the TV…
Richard Hatch, the first "Survivor” winner, unexpectedly found himself back in jail yesterday after doing interviews with the "Today" show and NBC affiliate WJAR-TV and NBC’s “Access Hollywood.” According to the Associated Press, Hatch, who was under house arrest as he finished up…
CBS will promote its fall series by putting tiny video screens in thousands of copies of Entertainment Weekly, the Associated Press reports. The screens, just two and a quarter inches diagonally, will play about 40 minutes of clips from CBS series. A speaker…
A&E has decided to go forward with a reality series featuring Michael Jackson’s brothers, says The Hollywood Reporter’s Showbiz411 blog. The brothers filmed a one-hour pilot that was to have included a reunion with Michael, who died before they were…