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“The Office” will air following the Super Bowl on Feb. 1, Entertainment Weekly reports. An “Office” spinoff was supposed to premiere in the coveted post-game slot, but executive producer Greg Daniels is launching a different show starring Amy Poehler instead,…
Seth Green and Breckin Meyer are closing to signing on for multi-episode arcs on NBC’s “Heroes,” Entertainment Weekly reports, citing unnamed sources. They will play comic book fans who cross paths with one of the heroes and possibly serve as…
Time Warner is tackling digital piracy by airing programs earlier in international markets that usually receive shows months after they’ve aired in the United States, the New York Times reports. In Singapore, for example, the company will offer “Gossip Girl”…
Cablevision has launched Newsday TV, hoping to boost circulation for the Long Island, N.Y. newspaper it recently acquired, Multichannel News reports. Newsday TV, which is available on Channel 611 to iO TV digital cable, allows customers to instantly subscribe to…
Janine Turner and D.W. Moffett will join “Friday Night Lights” next season, Entertainment Weekly reports. The two will appear throughout the season as a married couple who move to Dillon with their hotshot quarterback son, the magazine says. —Vlada Gelman
While NBC reached its $1 billion ad sales goal for the Olympics, the network’s affiliates are having a tougher time with local Olympic ad sales due to the soft economy, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Some stations are at only a…
Some of the fireworks during the Olympic Opening Ceremony were computer-generated, the London Telegraph reports. The fireworks were set off at the stadium, but the difficulty and danger of filming the spectacle live via helicopter resulted in a pre-recorded, computer-generated…
More than 4 million unique users visited NBCOlympics.com on Aug. 9, according to Nielsen, MediaWeek reports. Yahoo’s Olympics site also reaped some of the Olympics fever, attracting 3.3 million unique visitors that same day, while AOL Olympics was in third…
Revenue for Liberty Media’s Starz Entertainment increased 8% to $275 million in the second quarter, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The premium channel also increased its subscriber base by 6%, while Encore subscribers grew 11%, the newspaper says. In addition, Liberty’s…
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor is in talks with HBO to turn his alternate reality game “Year Zero” into a two-season limited series, the Los Angeles Times reports. Reznor, who pitched the series to the cable network a little…