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Former DirecTV chief Eddy Hartenstein is being considered to replace David Hiller as the Los Angeles Times’ new publisher, Deadline Hollywood Daily reports. Hartenstein served as DirecTV’s CEO, chairman, vice chairman and president from the company’s creation in 1990 until…
A study conducted by Integrated Media Measurement Inc. found that about half of those viewers who consume TV programs online are using the Internet as a substitute for watching shows on TV, AdAge reports. The other 50% use the Web…
Nickelodeon has ordered 20 episodes of “True Jackson, VP,” Daily Variety reports. The new series, which joins the network’s “TeeNick” lineup, stars Keke Palmer as the 15-year-old head of a fashion label’s youth division, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
Fox will premiere reality show “Secret Millionaire” on Dec. 3 with a two-hour episode, Daily Variety reports. Four additional episodes will air in December, preempting Wednesday comedies “’Til Death” and “Do Not Disturb” for three weeks and bumping “Kitchen Nightmares”…
Nickelodeon will launch a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game for the show “Avatar: The Last Airbender” in September, Online Media Daily reports. The MMO game, “Avatar: Legends of the Arena,” will be available in 10 languages across 81 markets, with…
Luke Perry, Julie Bowen and Sara Gilbert will guest star in the season premiere of “Law & Order: SVU,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Perry and Bowen will play a couple accused of abusing their foster child, with Gilbert playing the child’s…
DirecTV would like to make more deals to save broadcast shows, as it has done with “Passions” and “Friday Night Lights,” in order to retain subscribers and attract new customers, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Eric Shanks, DirecTV’s executive VP of…
Revenue for McGraw-Hill’s broadcasting group dipped 1% to $26.5 million in the second quarter of 2008 compared with last year, TVNewsday reports. While the group saw gains in political advertising, local and national advertising was down, the Web site notes….
BET President of Entertainment Reginald Hudlin has raised concerns about whether his greenlight of a series based on the “Black Panther” comic, for which he is a writer, is an ethical conflict, the Los Angeles Times reports. Hudlin, who is…