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HBO Leads Producers Guild of America Award Nominations

With five total nominations, HBO leads all networks with the most 2007 Producers Guild of America Awards nominations following the announcement of additional television PGA contenders Wednesday. Fox and NBC are nipping HBO’s heels with four total nominations of their…

‘Dirt’ Gets Down With Viewers

The commercial-free premiere of FX’s new original series “Dirt” attracted 3.4 million viewers Tuesday night.FX said the figure was similar to the number of viewers who tuned in to the 2006 season premieres of “Rescue Me” and “The Shield.”The figures…

Fox Cancels ‘The O.C.’

Fox has canceled its teen soap drama “The O.C.”The show’s last episode will air Feb. 22, finishing out its fourth season, the network announced Wednesday. “‘The O.C.’ season four finale will also be the series finale,” said Josh Schwartz, the…

NBC Universal Pulls Plug on ‘Mullally’

The first syndication casualty of the season got the axe Wednesday, as NBC Universal informed staff of “The Megan Mullally Show” that the series was being cancelled.Production is being shut down immediately and airings of the first-run talk show strip…

Yahoo to Offer ‘Apprentice’ Game

Yahoo on Jan. 7 will debut an online contest in conjunction with the upcoming premiere of the sixth season of NBC’s “The Apprentice.”Yahoo’s game, called “The Intern,” lets fans predict each week what will happen on the show. The winner…

Axelrod to Sit In on ‘Saturday Early Show’

(Corrects Russ Mitchell’s New Duties)A Cinderella-style search for Tracy Smith’s next co-anchor on “The Saturday Early Show” will begin Jan. 13, when CBS News White House correspondent Jim Axelrod sits in for the first of three times. Founding co-anchor Russ…

Walters Makes Trump Clarification, Praises O’Donnell

Donald Trump got a feud-related clarification and a rebuttal from Barbara Walters on “The View” Wednesday.The clarification, which Ms. Walters said she was reading at the behest of ABC, referred to comments “The View’s” Rosie O’Donnell made last month as…

Sony, Stringer to Be Honored

The Museum of Television & Radio will honor Sony Chairman and CEO Sir Howard Stringer and Sony Corp. at its Feb. 8 gala in New York.Mr. Stringer’s and the company’s contributions to the media, technology and entertainment industries will be…

Fiesta Bowl Ratings Peak Late in the Game

Football fans tuned in after midnight for the wild finish of Monday night’s Fiesta Bowl, the first of the college Bowl Championship Series games on Fox.From midnight to 12:51 a.m. ET, when spunky underdog Boise State scored on three trick…

Time Warner Cable to Carry Fox Business Channel

News Corp. and Time Warner Cable have completed a long-term deal under which the cable operator will carry the long-planned Fox News business channel when it launches.The agreement also gives Time Warner Cable retransmission consent to carry signals from all…