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Jack Black will host Spike TV’s 2008 Video Game Awards, airing Dec. 14. The live HD broadcast will feature previews of games coming out in 2009, including the world premiere of Brütal Legend gameplay from designer Tim Schafer and Double…
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At the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ 6th Annual Emmy Awards for Business and Financial Reporting, awards went to news divisions including CBS News and ABC News, as well as TV news stalwarts including Brian Ross and David…
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network has named Timothy Kuryak and Jill Dickerson as vice presidents of programming. The duo will oversee nonscripted programming, working with producers, writers, agents and distributors, in addition to editorial management with outside production. Mr. Kuryak…
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, stars of the Adult Swim series “Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!,” will start on a 20-show tour through the U.S. next month, Multichannel News reports. The duo, which will put on a variety…
Ted Rogers, founder and chief executive officer of Canada’s Rogers Communications, has died of congestive heart failure at his Toronto home at age 75, Multichannel News reports. Rogers’ company, founded when Ted Rogers started Rogers Radio Broadcasting in the 1960s,…
ABC will be rolling out three new dramas in the spring: “Castle,” “Cupid” and “The Unusuals.” “Castle,” from ABC Studios, stars Nathan Fillion as Richard Castle, a mystery novelist who teams up with an NYPD detective investigating homicides copied from…
Cable stocks will outperform the rest of the stock market during the economic downturn because much of the industry already has faced stock price declines, Multichannel News says, citing Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen. Satellite and telephone companies haven’t…
U.K.-based BT Vision has landed video-on-demand rights to Twentieth Century Fox films such as Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones documentary “Shine a Light” and M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Happening,” Daily Variety reports. Older films such as “Die Hard” and “I, Robot”…