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Report: Michael Patrick King Finalizing Warner Bros. TV Deal

"Sex and the City" writer and producer Michael Patrick King is close to signing a "mega deal" with Warner Bros. Television, reports Nelllie Andreeva on Deadline.com.  King will create his own TV production company based at WBTV in the multi-year…

Disney Channel Working on ‘High School Musical’-Type Show With Ukulele

Disney Channel is working on a new original movie that melds "High School Musical" with a ukulele, The Hollywood Reporter reports.  The movie is based on the novel "Lemonade Mouth," which follows five Rhode Island freshmen who put together a…

VH1 to Air Reality Series About OCD Sufferers

VH1 next month will begin airing a series looking at sufferers of severe obsessive-compulsive disorders, TheWrap.com reports.  With E! and OWN picking up programs about eating disorders, cable television is clearly becoming the place to watch for shows about people’s…

Google to Debut Television Software for Android Mobile System

Google will introduce Android-based mobile television software at a May event, the Wall Street Journal reports. The technology will be shown to more than 3,000 developers at a Google-sponsored conference in San Francisco on May 19 and 20, although the…

ABC Family Cancels ’10 Things I Hate About You’

"10 Things I Hate About You" is meeting the chopping block, reports The Hollywood Reporter.  ABC Family has canceled the comedy show, which will finish its current sophomore season. The news was broken by executive producer Carter Covington on Twitter,…

Nielsen Planning Set-Top Box Test for Local Markets

Nielsen is planning to test whether set-top boxes can upgrade local market ratings, MediaPost reports.  The company will test a hybrid model combining set-top boxes with traditional panels in three undetermined markets. One will be a top-25 market using local…

Stephen King’s ‘Dark Tower’ Series Attracting TV, Film Deal With Howard, Grazer

 Stephen King is in discussions with Imagine Entertainment and Weed Road to make a television series and film trilogy from his "The Dark Tower" book series, Deadline.com reports.  Under the deal, the script would be written by Akiva Goldsman and…

Local Station Revenue May Hit $17 Billion in 2010

Television station sales may reach $17 billion in 2010, representing a 7.5 percent jump from the $15.8 billion in revenue recorded last year, B&C reports, citing data from BIA/Kelsey.  TV revenue in 10 states should rise 8 percent or more,…

CBS’ Moonves Skeptical of Application of 3D TV Outside of Sports Broadcasts

CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves said Wednesday that he was skeptical about the viability of 3D television outside of sports broadcasts, Reuters reports.  Moonves, speaking at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, said he saw tests of old…

GSN Jumps on the Betty White Bandwagon With ‘Match Game’ Marathon

UPDATED TO CORRECT DATE Betty White’s much-anticipated appearance on "Saturday Night Live" airs this Saturday Saturday, May 8, and GSN is looking to get ahead of Betty White lovefest with a seven-hour marathon of Betty White guest-starring episodes of "Match Game,"…