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Hoping to hit sitcom gold a second time, Fox has given a cast-contingent pilot order for “The Rednecks & Romeos,” from “That ’70s Show” co-creator and exec producer Mark Brazill and executive producer Tom Werner, says The Hollywood Reporter. Like…
PBS is hopeful that federal funding for public broadcasting will increase next year, to $450 million, president and CEO Paula Kerger told TV critics, the Associated Press reports. That would be a $20 million increase from the current appropriation. –Elizabeth…
On late Friday, the five voice stars of “Futurama” came to a deal to return to “Futurama,” ending a standoff and ensuring that the animated comedy will be ready for its 2010 Comedy Central revival, Variety says. –Elizabeth Jensen
Fox Reality Channel’s first VOD premiere offering will be for “Househusbands of Hollywood,” which will be available to digital customers 12 days before its cable debut on Aug. 15, says Multichannel News. The subsequent nine episodes will be available on…
USA Network renewed drama “In Plain Sight” for a third season, and is closing in on a renewal of its other Sunday drama, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” says The Hollywood Reporter. The network renewed its Thursday series “Burn Notice”…
Turrns out brutally honest “American Idol” judge Simon Cowell has known his share of humiliation. Witness this clip from TMZ of a 1982 installment of Britain’s “Top of the Pops,” in which he performs in a blue dog costume as…
Multiple law enforcement sources told TMZ that Michael Jackson spent his last hours in Dr. Conrad Murray’s bedroom in the doctor’s bed. Because Jackson did not want people going in and out of his room, he used Dr. Murray’s bedroom…
Judge Kara DioGuardi will return to Fox’s “American Idol” next season, People reports. Songwriter DioGuardi joined Randy Jackson, Paula Abdul and Simon Cowell on the judges’ panel last year for the show’s eighth season. –Tom Gilbert
Top executives at Time Warner’s pay cable channel HBO told TV critics gathered in Pasadena, Calif., this week that the network so far has been immune to the economic turmoil currently plaguing entertainment companies, the Los Angeles Times reports. HBO…
Veteran actor Lorenzo Lamas and his 25-year-old soap-star son A.J., who haven’t spoken since 2003, will reconcile on the E! Network’s new reality series “The Lamas Life,” the New York Post reports. Father and son have been estranged, according to…