The various editions of the "Real Housewives" series on Bravo have more than domestic drama in common: A wife from nearly every season has faced serious real estate issues, reports real estate site Zillow.com. According to the story, 12 of…
LIN stations have gone dark in six markets in a retransmission fight with cable company Mediacom, reports B&C. The stations are WALA-TV/WFNA-TV, Mobile-Pensacola; WOOD-TV/WOTV, Grand Rapids; WANE-TV, Fort Wayne; WLUK-TV, Green Bay; WTHI-TV, Terre Haute; and WLFI-TV, Lafayette, Ind. LIN…
CBS has given a pilot production commitment to "Cougar Town" creator Bill Lawrence and former "How I Met Your Mother" executive producer Greg Malins, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is a multicamera workplace comedy from Lawrence’s Doozer production…
Just three months after walking out on his longtime position with NBC Sports, Dick Ebersol is rejoining the division as a special adviser, according to several senior NBC executives commenting for a report in The New York Times. Ebersol will…
Just a few weeks after he sold a legal drama to Fox, Greg Berlanti (“Everwood,” “Brothers & Sisters,” “Dirty Sexy Money”) has sold a cop show to CBS, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Berlanti’s new drama is “Golden Boy,” part…
A think tank better known for arguing against government control in the media space is calling for increased scrutiny over Google by the Federal Trade Commission, Multichannel News reports. The Media Institute, an independent First Amendment think tank, told the…
One of the stars of “Pulp Fiction” has sold a script to CBS for a legal show, Deadline.com reports. The project arises from Samuel L. Jackson’s deal with CBS TV Studios. Jackson has brought in writer Rob Bragin (“Greek”) for…
One of the co-creators of ABC’s "No Ordinary Family" has been inked to a new script deal with the network for another light drama, described as a cross between "Moonlighting" and "Early Edition," reports Deadline.com. The story, from Jon Feldman,…
TVGuide.com has surveyed its users to determine which of the new television shows for fall are the most eagerly anticipated. The results: Fox’s “Terra Nova” tops the list, followed by CW’s “Ringer” and NBC’s “Prime Suspect.” “Terra Nova” is a…
In a sign that Google’s new social network faces an uphill fight in its attempt to woo consumers away from Facebook, the amount of time U.S. users spend on the new Google+ service has been stagnating, reports Bloomberg. For the…