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Starz has renewed “Crash,” its first original drama series, for a second season, the Hollywood Reporter says. The show will drop about half its story lines in the next season under the direction of a new creative team led by…
Fox Reality Channel has ordered a third season of the “The Academy,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The show will switch to tracking firefighter recruits from police cadets, the trade paper says. —Aimee Picchi
Carl Icahn disclosed in a filing he has increased his stake in Lionsgate to more than 14% and might become a more active shareholder, the Hollywood Reporter says. His investment of 16.5 million shares at about $6.80 a piece means…
Kaplan-Stahler-Gumer-Braun partner Alan Braun is leaving the agency to join CAA, the Hollywood Reporter says. Clients who will follow him to CAA include Intuitive Entertainment of “Millionaire Matchmaker” and Authentic Entertainment of “Flipping Out,” the trade paper says. —Aimee Picchi
Television stations shouldn’t switch to digital transmission before April 16, the FCC said in its second order implementing the DTV date-delay bill, Multichannel News reports. -Aimee Picchi
Several network pilots added to their casts, with Jimmy Wolk being tapped for the lead in ABC’s untitled Daniel Cerone pilot, the Hollywood Reporter says. Joel McHale has been hired for the lead on NBC’s comedy “Community,” and Jaime Ray…
Peter Chernin, president of Fox parent News Corp., would be owed about $40 million in deferred pay and pension funds as well as other perks if he were to leave the company after his contract runs out in June, Business…
Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game broadcast on TNT attracted a 20% larger television audience than last year’s game, Daily Variety reports. For the weekend’s All-Star events from Phoenix, overall ratings rose 26% from a year earlier, the newspaper says. —Danny King
Gospel Music Channel will air footage of a Blind Boys of Alabama concert from New Orleans the day before the Blind Boys new CD “Live in New Orleans” is released on Feb. 24, Multichannel News reports. The group, recipients of…
U.S. cable leader Comcast will carry men’s channel MavTV in high definition, though it hasn’t disclosed when the network will debut, Web site TVPredictions.com reports. Charter, Cablevision and Verizon’sFiOS already air the channel, which features sports, gaming programs and women,…