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Clint Black Signs on as Exec VP of ‘American Storytellers’

Country music star and Grammy winner Clint Black has signed on as an executive producer of the upcoming “American Storytellers” anthology series, reports Variety. No network is yet attached to the project, which will mine country music songs for drama…

Fast Cars Teamed with Live Music for Global Concert Series Coming in Fall

Universal Music Group International and Formula One are teaming up for a series of concerts airing live from Grand Prix racing events, Billboard reports. The "F1 Rocks" concert series begins in September at the Singapore race. Six to eight concerts,…

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Gives Birth to a Third Child, a Boy

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the ladies of ABC’s “The View,” gave birth to her third child Sunday afternoon in New York, the Associated Press reports. The child, a boy, was named Isaiah Timothy. His dad is former NFL player Tim…

Economic Woes Hitting Pay Cable

New corporate earnings reports indicate that pay cable networks including Starz, Encore, HBO and Showtime are feeling the effects of the economic downturn, says The Hollywood Reporter. Subscriber growth is slowing or, in some cases, user cancellations are leading to…

Oprah Winfrey Named in Plagiarism Suit Seeking $1 Trillion (No, That’s Not a Typo)

A poet named Damon Lloyd Goffe has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Oprah Winfrey seeking an astounding $1 trillion, NBC Chicago reports. Goffe wrote "A Tome of Poetry" which he claims has been substantially used/plagiarized in Winfrey’s Internet-published work "Pieces of My Soul."…

Showrunner of ‘The Unit’ Says Show Only Ended Because Wrong Studio Owned it

Speaking with candor about the harsh reality of today’s TV business, Shawn Ryan, showrunner and excutive producer of "The Unit," calls it as he sees it, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. Noting that "Medium," which was canceled by NBC and picked…

Jay, Conan, Dave, Craig … Never Mind Them, What Does Wanda Sykes Think?

When Wanda Sykes talks, people usually laugh, and starting in September on her new Fox late night show, she’ll be getting those laughs by skewering the week that was, reports USA Today. Taking over the "Mad TV" spot on Saturdays at…

Advertisers Flee ‘Glenn Beck’ for Other Fox News Shows After Pres. Obama Called ‘Racist’

There’s a price to pay for calling President Obama anti-white and a racist, according to the Huffington Post. Advertisers, including Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and Lawyers.com, have pulled their commercials from Glenn Beck’s Fox talk show, citing his comments…

ABC’s ‘This Week’ Tops NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ for the First Time in a Decade

Could NBC be second-guessing its choice of David Gregory to take over “Meet The Press”? You have to wonder in light of the fact that “This Week With George Stephanopoulos" was the No. 1 newsmaker show on Sunday, Aug. 2, in…

Report: Broadcast Network Upfront Close to Wrapping; Will End Down a Whopping 22 Percent; Much Inventory Held Back For Scatter

The 2009-10 broadcast network television primetime upfront market is expected to conclude this week down 22 percent to $7.2 billion from last year’s $9.25 billion, Mediaweek reports. Mediaweek says the main reason for the disparity was that the five major broadcast networks held back…