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‘Housewives’ Gets New Kids

“Desperate Housewives,” which jumped ahead five years at the end of last season’s finale, has recast the Scavos’ four kids, the Hollywood Reporter says. Joshua Moore will play Parker, while Charles and Max Carver take over as twins Porter and…

MTV Unveils Music Guide

MTV has created an online music guide that helps viewers learn more about the music played on MTV channels and shows, the Hollywood Reporter says. Soundtrack.mtv.com has real-time listings and short clips of the music played on shows such as…

Fitzgerald Joins Josephson Entertainment TV

Susie Fitzgerald has been named president of Barry Josephson’s 20th Century Fox TV-based Josephson Entertainment Television, Daily Variety reports. Fitzgerald has worked for Darren Star Prods. for the past three years and nurtured “The Sopranos” while at Brillstein-Grey, the newspaper…

Texas Station Sets DTV Test

CBS-owned independent station KTXA in Dallas-Fort Worth will conduct an analog signal switch-off test on July 23 between 7 and 9 p.m., TVNewsday reports. Engineers will shut off the station’s analog transmitter for about 15 seconds, during which only viewers…

Veteran TV Director Guzman Dies

Claudio Guzman died Saturday of pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 80. Guzman produced the children’s program “Villa Alegre” for PBS and directed episodes of nearly 30 TV shows, including “The…

Producers to Meet With SAG Reps

A small delegation from the Screen Actors Guild will meet with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers on Wednesday, Multichannel News reports. The AMPTP has said the meeting will not change its contract offer to the actors, but…

Yahoo’s Gilford Heads to Comcast

Karin Gilford has left her position as general manager at Yahoo Entertainment to join Comcast, Multichannel News reports. It is not yet known what Gilford’s role will be at Comcast, the newspaper says. Gilford oversaw programming, content and business strategies…

ABC Station Sites Add ESPN Video

Ten of ABC’s owned-and-operated stations will add ESPN video to their Web sites, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The video player will consist of game highlights, sports news and clips, the newspaper says. The “Sports” sections of the station sites also…

Post-Newsweek Eyes WTVJ-NBC 6

The Washington Post’s Post-Newsweek Stations is expected to buy WTVJ-NBC 6 from NBC Universal, the Miami Herald reports, citing unnamed industry sources. NBC, which put up the station for sale in March, could make $350 million-$400 million from the sale,…

Hume Stepping Down as Fox News Anchor

Brit Hume will resign from his position as anchor of Fox News’ “Special Report” after the election, TVNewser reports. However, Hume will remain with the network in a senior statesman role, the Washington Post notes. —Vlada Gelman