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Peter Gallagher has been tapped for the third season of “Californication,” Daily Variety reports. He’ll play a university dean who deals with David Duchovny’s character, the trade paper says. —Aimee Picchi
Wanda Sykes, who will perform at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner next month has been trying out jokes about President Obama, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ms. Sykes, who appears in “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “The New Adventures of…
Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg said he still finds the proposal from the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers “unacceptable,” Daily Variety reports. Rosenberg joined about 100 protesters outside the AMPTP’s headquarters on Thursday, telling the crowd, “The…
Journal Communications is ordering a 6% pay cut for most employees, with on-air broadcast talent at Journal Broadcast Group being asked to negotiate payroll reductions, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. In return for the pay reduction, employees will get 10…
The Sports Broadcasting Act is drawing some interest and may come under scrutiny in Congress, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The 1961 antitrust exemption enables the NFL to collectively negotiate for television rights, which Senate Commerce Committee minority staffer Ivy Johnson…
FX’s “Rescue Me” returns Tuesday with a 22-episode fifth season after a long absence, the Associated Press reports. Michael J. Fox guest stars in several episodes as an obnoxious guy in a wheelchair dating the wife of star Denis Leary’s…
The MLB Network will mix vintage film of famous plays with computer-generated graphics to create vignettes that will lead in to the channel’s schedule of Thursday night ballgames, USA Today reports. The plays include Willie Mays’ 1954 back-to-the-plate catch and…
In a review, the Wall Street Journal says that HBO’s ‘In Treatment” returns for a second season “with its radiant intelligence intact.” The paper says “Its vivid, cliché-free writing has always been ‘In Treatment’s’ singular strength. That’s even truer in…
“Today” will air the first live broadcast with former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer since he was forced out of office from a sex scandal, TVNewser reports. Matt Lauer will interview Spitzer on Monday and the scandal will be one…
News Corp. Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch doesn’t think the economy will bounce back any time soon. “I think the long-term situation is still very dangerous,” Mr. Murdoch said, responding to questions at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s Cable…