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D’Amato Takes Bench for 20th

Former New York state Sen. Alfonse D’Amato and Twentieth Television are preparing to shoot a court show pilot featuring D’Amato, the Hollywood Reporter says. The show would encourage D’Amato, who was known for his comical filibusters in the Senate, to…

ShineReveille Sets London Screenings

ShineReveille will host show screenings in London for foreign buyers in September, Daily Variety reports. Among the programs screened will be “Surviving Suburbia,” “In Harm’s Way,” “Valentine, Inc.,” “Easy Money,” “F.A.T. City” and animated series “The Goode Family,” the newspaper…

Fox Shoots ‘Mental’ in Bogota

Jacqueline McKenzie, Derek Webster, Nicholas Gonzalez and Marisa Ramirez have been added to the cast of “Mental,” the first English-language Fox original series to shoot at the new Fox Telecolombia studios in Bogota, Colombia, Daily Variety reports. Some key department…

Time Warner Not Planning NBCU Buy, But …

Time Warner Inc. CEO Jeffrey Bewkes said the company does not have any plans to buy NBC Universal, but would consider it if General Electric put the division up for sale, Reuters reports. GE said earlier this year that it…

Final ‘Shield’ Set for Sept. 2

The new season of “The Shield” will premiere Sept. 2, according to the FX Web site, the Chicago Tribune reports. The upcoming season will be the show’s last, the newspaper notes. —Vlada Gelman

BBC America on Top of Times Climber

BBC America plans a summer airing for a documentary about Alain Robert, who free-climbed the New York Times building in Times Square last week, the New York Post reports. “The Human Spider,” which premiered in April in Britain, will air…

PTC Attacks CBS’ ‘Swingtown’

The Parents Television Council is urging all CBS affiliates to preempt the new drama “Swingtown,” TVNewsday reports. The group is especially targeting affiliates in the Central and Mountain time zones, where the program comes airs at 9 p.m., the Web…

CBS Upfront Haul at $2.5 Billion

CBS is expected to take in $2.5 billion at an average 8% cost-per-thousand-viewers increase as it nears the end of its prime-time upfront, Mediaweek reports. The total, which excludes the prime-time NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship inventory, is $50 million more…

The N Hires Media Agency

The N has signed media agency Media Storm to promote its 24-hour teen network, Media Daily News reports. The agency will develop off-air consumer campaigns for the network’s original and acquired programming, as well as the-n.com, the Web site reports….

Celebrities Sign Up for ‘Feud’

NBC’s “Celebrity Family Feud,” which debuts July 1, will feature the casts of “The Office,” “American Gladiators” and “My Name Is Earl,” Entertainment Weekly reports. Other personalities and their families who are set to compete for charity include Kathie Lee…