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Warner Bros. to Develop Content for Marketers

In the most aggressive move yet by a Hollywood studio to get into digital content and partner with advertisers, Warner Bros. is launching a division designed to create short-form broadband and mobile content for marketers. Aimed at satisfying advertisers’ growing…

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Writers Cover Varied Philosophical Ground

FX’s Landgraf Is High on ‘Sunny’

Renewal Likely for De Vito Series; ’30 Days’ Less Certain

Showtime Orders Three Pilots

The Showtime cable network has ordered a trio of scripted comedy pilots, including a new project from “Sex and the City” creator Darren Star, sources said. The half-hour projects include “Manchild” from Mr. Star, based on a BBC series about…

CBS Wins Thursday in Adults 18 to 49

CBS won Thursday in the adults 18 to 49 demographic on a night when most networks ran repeat programming.One of the few original programs on the night, CBS’s 8 p.m. (ET) summer reality series “Big Brother: All Stars” scored a…

PTC Charges NBC Allowed Emmycast Indecency

The Parents Television Council has filed an indecency complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, charging that T&A comments by Dame Helen Mirren and Calista Flockhart on Sunday night’s NBC broadcast of “The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards” should have been…

AOL Video Gets Exclusive Couric Clips

AOL Video posted a posted a pair of exclusive behind-the-scenes clips Thursday afternoon from Katie Couric’s preparations for her Sept. 5 “CBS Evening News” debut. The clips, shown on AOL.com/television, came to AOL via a special one-off deal with the…

NBC Flipping Wednesday Comedy Time Slots

NBC is swapping time periods for its two new Wednesday comedies, “30 Rock” and “Twenty Good Years.” The single-camera “30 Rock,” from “Saturday Night Live” writer and performer Tina Fey, is now slotted to air a half-hour earlier at 8…

‘Y&R’ Head Writer Latham Takes on Exec Producer Duties

Lynn Marie Latham has been named executive producer of CBS’s “The Young and the Restless.” She joined daytime’s most popular drama in February as head writer after having been an executive consultant to the soap. She’ll continue to function as…

CBS Paramount Clears Remastered ‘Trek’ in Syndication

Syndicator CBS Paramount Domestic Television is releasing digitally remastered episodes of the original “Star Trek” series, with all new special effects and music, to celebrate the billion-dollar sci-fi franchise’s 40th anniversary.This marks the first time in 16 years that the…