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ABC, SoapNet Mull Soap Spinoffs

ABC Daytime President Brian Frons said there have been talks with SoapNet to spin off “One Life to Live” for prime-time, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. SoapNet, which has been successful with spinoff “General Hospital: Nightshift,” also is considering a…

Vogue Launches Fashion Web Series

Vogue and IMG’s fashion and media divisions have teamed up for “Model.Live,” a Web reality series about the fashion industry, with Express as a lead sponsor, the Wall Street Journal reports. Twelve eight-minute episodes will kick off Aug. 19 on…

Emmys Sans Host?

The 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 21 may go hostless, the Los Angeles Times reports. Executive Producer Ken Ehrlich told the newspaper, “We do shows without hosts all the time. At this point, we’re still looking into it.”…

E! Sets Pam Anderson Show Debut

E! will premiere Pamela Anderson’s reality show “Pam: Girl on the Loose” on Aug. 3, Zap2it.com reports. The series will follow Anderson, who is one of the executive producers, as she balances life as mother, working actress and animal-rights activist,…

NBC’s Silverman Seeks Profits, Not Ratings

NBC Entertainment Co-Chairmen Ben Silverman and Marc Graboff said they decided to focus less on programming and ratings last year and more on squeezing out additional profit from the margins, the New York Post reports. NBC Entertainment has instituted cost-cutting…

Media General Q2 Revenues Fall

Media General’s broadcasting profits dipped 17% to $14.9 million for the second quarter, with broadcast revenues and advertising sales falling 5.7% and 5%, respectively, Media Daily News reports. Although national and local ad spot dollars were low, the company pointed…

Malthe Joins Sci Fi Mini

Natassia Malthe has been cast in the Sci Fi Channel miniseries “Mirabilis,” which has been given the green light, the Hollywood Reporter says. Malthe will play the love interest of David James Elliott’s character in the four-hour miniseries, which centers…

NBC Retooling ‘Kath & Kim’?

Director Paul Feig has left NBC’s “Kath & Kim,” which has been the subject of rumors that it is being revamped, Entertainment Weekly reports. NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios Co-Chairman Ben Silverman told the magazine that while Feig has…

‘Bounty Hunter’ Brings in Ratings

A&E’s “Dog the Bounty Hunter” returned for its fifth season on July 16 with 2.7 million viewers, Multichannel News reports. The season premiere pulled in 1.4 million viewers in the adults 18-49 and 25-54 demos, the newspaper says. Meanwhile, the…

JibJab Video Racks Up Views

Viral video makers JibJab’s latest parody, “Time for Some Campaignin’,” debuted July 16 to more than a million views in its first 24 hours on the Internet, MediaWeek reports. The majority of the views came from MSN Video, which signed…