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The Federal Communications Commission today approved the plan to separate Time Warner Cable from Time Warner. The main item still standing in the way of the spinoff is a tax letter from the Internal Revenue Service, according to analyst Craig…
NBC has greenlit eight episodes of a reality series from self-help guru Tony Robbins and “Biggest Loser” producer Reveille, TelevisionWeek reports. The show, which aims to radically improve the lives of participants, won’t involve surgery, million-dollar prizes or drill sergeant-like…
MyNetworkTV, launched in 2006 as a sixth broadcast network, is shifting towards a “programming service model” featuring syndicated shows and the WWE for its 2009-10 season, partly to reduce costs, TVWeek reports. MyNetwork will continue to air “WWE Friday Night…
Television stations are facing a fuzzy future as their viewership and advertising decline, while network executives discuss taking shows directly to cable, where networks can garner reliable subscriber fees during an ad slump, the Wall Street Journal reports. Still, a…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will be a contestant on the next season of “Dancing With the Stars,” which begins March 9, the Los Angeles Times reports. After quitting Apple two decades ago, he’s been working on various projects and last…
The Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers are expected Tuesday to announce they’ll restart contract talks, most likely on Feb. 17, the Hollywood Reporter says. Meanwhile, fired chief negotiator Doug Allen wrote an open…
The National Telecommunications & Information Administration is giving a mixed message about the digital-television transition, with its DTV2009.gov Web site telling visitors that the switch will happen on Feb. 17, while its “coupon program update” section notes the transition will…
Lionsgate lost $93.4 million in the fiscal third quarter compared with a profit of $7.3 million in the year-earlier period, after a double-digit decline in home video sales and three weak movie releases for the quarter ended Dec. 31, Daily…
The competition to snare interviews with the woman who gave birth to octuplets and her family has created its own controversy, with ABC paying for an interview with the woman’s mother, the Los Angeles Times reports. The network paid to…
Anne Heche has been hired to co-star on the HBO series “Hung,” a comedy about a well-endowed high school basketball coach that’s expected to debut in June, the Hollywood Reporter says. Heche replaces Kristin Bauer, who played the coach’s remarried…