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Lifetime has signed Rosie O’Donnell to star in its original movie “America,” based on E.R. Frank’s book of the same name, Multichannel News reports. The show will air Feb. 28 and follows a 17-year old who navigates the foster-care system,…
About half of the commercial breaks during National Football League broadcasts include advertisements that feature violence, sex, alcohol or drugs, with much of the violence coming from spots pitching the networks’ own shows, the Associated Press reports, citing a study…
Former “L.A. Law” star Corbin Bernsen formed an independent production company that will make films for specifically-targeted audiences, the Hollywood Reporter says. Team Cherokee Productions’ first feature will be “Rust,” a faith-based title co-produced with Kipling Film Productions and Mission…
The Dr. Cuddy character from Fox’s “House” isn’t being written out of the show at the end of this season, Entertainment Weekly reports. Additionally, Warner Bros. is planning to release a season 2 DVD of “Pushing Daisies” while ABC’s “Ugly…
Spanish-language network Televisa and publishing company Impremedia reached an agreement allowing Impremedia to distribute digital downloads, ringtones, games and other products related to Televisa’s television shows, Daily Variety reports. Televisa last week reached a $600 million out-of-court settlement with Univision,…
Robert McDowell, a commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission, spoke out against the so-called “fairness doctrine” that requires broadcasters to air both sides of issues that may be controversial, Multichannel News says. The doctrine, deemed unconstitutional two decades ago, would…
Walt Disney cut 400 jobs at its ABC television division, or about 4% of the division’s workforce, with ABC News accounting for 100 of the positions that were either cut or not replaced after prior staff departures, Daily Variety says….
Sony’s fourth-quarter earnings fell 95% on a combination of declining television revenue within its electronics division, falling sales from its Sony Pictures Television unit and a strengthening yen, Daily Variety reports. With Bravia TV declining during the holiday season, Sony…
Sunday night’s simulcast of the Screen Actors Guild Awards on TBS and TNT drew the smallest audience since the two networks began airing them together in 2006. TNT, which had telecast the show exclusively from 1998 through 2005, posted a…
The House of Representatives opened its debate on delaying the digital TV transition late Tuesday, with Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., expressing regret about the extra expense the delay would create for broadcasters, but adding, “at this juncture we simply have…