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TLC Lines Up for More ‘Ink’

 TLC has ordered a fourth season for its popular reality show "L.A. Ink," Variety reports.  The show follows the day-to-day dealings of tattoo artist Kat Von D and her West Hollywood tattoo parlor.  According to Variety, production is underway for…

Oprah Winfrey Network Announces New Series Dealing With Eating Disorders

On Oprah Winfrey’s new network, OWN, one of the new series will deal with people suffering from eating disorders, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The name of the show is "Inside Rehab," and it will accompany a group of patients when they…

NBC Pushing ‘Late Night’ Host for Emmy Gig

NBC is broadcasting this year’s Emmy Awards presentation and has been promoting "Late Night" star Jimmy Fallon to the TV Academy board members as the right choice to host, reports Variety. The announcement is expected to be made next week….

Time Warner Cable Boasts Strong Increase in Revenue

Exceeding industry expectations, Time Warner Cable’s first-quarter revenue was up 5.4 percent from this time last year and its cash flow increased by 10.9 percent, reports Multichannel News. It was the first time in two years that the company posted…

Who’s Responsible for the ‘American Idol’ Overruns That Are Causing DVRs to Miss the Ending of ‘Glee’?

For the second consecutive week, Tuesday’s broadast of "American Idol" ran longer than an hour, creating DVR havoc among fans of "Glee," which followed "Idol," reports TV critic Alan Sepinwall. Fox has no control over the "Idol" broadcast, short of…

Four ‘NCIS’ Stars Could Walk At End of This Season

CBS’ "NCIS" could lose four integral members of the cast — Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum and Sean Murray — over a contract dispute, reports Deadline.com. Each of the stars’ contracts with the show end with this season. Negotiations…

E! Orders Eating Disorder Series Called ‘What’s Eating You?’

E! Entertainment Television has ordered six episodes of a program focusing on compulsive eating disorders titled "What’s Eating You?," TheWrap.com reports.  The series, which will debut in October, will focus on people suffering from life-threatening eating disorders as they work…

Lagging CNN Sells on Its Credibility

By Jon Lafayette With cable news channels turning increasingly argumentative, part of CNN’s pitch to ad buyers is that its style of old-fashioned journalism is a better environment for advertisers. While much attention has been paid to the decline in…

RTDNA Study: More TV News Despite Less Manpower

By Hillary Atkin There is more television news on the air but fewer jobs in the business these days, according to a just-released annual study conducted by the Radio Television Digital News Association and Hofstra University. The bottom line in…

ESPN’s Erin Andrews Reaches for the Stars

She’s achieved notoriety far beyond the sidelines of any sporting event. At press time, ESPN sportscaster Erin Andrews was one of the finalists on ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.” After graduating in 2000 from the University of Florida with a…