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Sportsvision, the company that created on-screen first-down markers and other graphics for football broadcasts, will supply graphics for E! Entertainment’s pre-Academy Awards show, Multichannel News says. The graphics will be used for such purposes as showing celebrity arrivals and tracking…
ABC Family won’t bring back the science fiction-comedy “The Middleman” for a second season, the New York Post reports. The show will be released on DVD this year while the planned season finale, which was never shot, will be presented…
Sci Fi Channel is looking to order a series based on the Wizard of Oz-inspired miniseries “Tin Man,” Web site io9 reports. The show set network audience records when it aired last year, the Web site says. —Danny King
Jerry Springer said he might return to hosting “America’s Got Talent” after focusing on his London theater role in “Chicago,” the New York Post reports. “I would like to do ‘Talent’ again one day. I love the show and want…
The three finalists on “American Idol” are honing their images, with single mom Alexis Grace working on creating a sexier wardrobe and hair, the Associated Press reports. For Danny Gokey, whose wife recently died of a congenital heart defect, he…
27-year-old Jade Goody, a former candidate on the British version of “Big Brother,” isn’t turning off the television cameras as she dies of cervical cancer that has spread to her liver and bowels, the Associated Press reports. A television show…
If necessary, the National Telecommunications & Information Administration will put homes with analog-only television reception at the top of the list for DTV converter-box coupons, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The NTIA “has directed the TV converter box coupon program to…
Disney has bought online children’s art company Kerpoof Studios for an undisclosed amount, the Hollywood Reporter says. The technology, which allows children to make artwork, write stories and put together short movies, has been incorporated into Disney.com, and Disney said…
ESPN, Inc. and the Sun Belt Conference are renewing a multiyear rights deal for football, men’s and women’s basketball and Olympics sports, Multichannel News reports. That will increase the number of Sun Belt telecasts beginning in the 2009-2010 school year….
Actor and author Dorothy Bridges, the wife of Lloyd Bridges and mother of Beau, Jeff and Lucinda, died Feb. 16 in Los Angeles, the Hollywood Reporter says. She was 93, the trade paper reports. She and her late husband, who…