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John Malone’s Liberty Media dropped an appeal against a ruling allowing IAC/InterActiveCorp’s Barry Diller to break up that company into five parts, which cuts Malone’s IAC voting rights, Daily Variety reports. Liberty will have the right to have a representative…
James Garner, who won a 1977 Emmy for “The Rockford Files,” is recovering from a stroke he had last week, Daily Variety reports. Garner, 80, won a SAG Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005, the magazine says. –Danny King
Dish Network said yesterday it wants a partner for the mobile-video service it bought for $712 million earlier this year, Multichannel News reports. The company is also trying to find a profitable business model and wants to settle on technological…
Chuck Lorre, the writer behind “Two and a Half Men” and other comedies, is reaching out to fans in a new way, using so-called “vanity cards” at the end of the show’s credits to write notes about subjects ranging from…
EchoStar, spun off from Dish Network earlier this year, will introduce its first cable-television product at the Cable Show in New Orleans next week, Multichannel News reports. SlingModem will be have cable-modem and SlingBox functions, the newspaper says. –Danny King
Lifetime signed Mena Suvari and Matthew Modine to star in a movie based on the life of Las Vegas casino scion Ted Binion, the Hollywood Reporter says. The film, tentatively titled “Sex & Lies in Sin City,” will be produced…
ABC today is expected to announce a 15-point index to help advertisers choose their best marketing opportunities on the Walt Disney-owned network, the Wall Street Journal reports. ABC’s “Advertising Value Index” will include such audience criteria as income, education level…
ABC is likely to keep next season’s prime-time schedule the same for Sundays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, which feature “Desperate Housewives,” “Private Practice” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” respectively, TelevisionWeek reports. The Walt Disney unit will likely schedule “Dancing With the Stars” on…
The CW is likely keep its “Gossip Girl”-anchored Mondays and “Smallville”-led Thursdays intact next season, and it will add “Beverly Hills, 90210” spinoff “90210” to its Thursdays, Daily Variety reports. “America’s Top Model,” featured on Wednesdays, will be programmed next…
After CBS recently ordered comedy “Worst Week” for a season, sister company CBS Paramount Television asked the show’s producer, NBC Universal Media Studios, to be a co-producer, TelevisionWeek reports. Universal may agree to the partnership if CBS schedules the show…