Yahoo is preparing a slate of original programs to launch this fall, with eight short-form series to debut starting Oct. 3, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. The lineup includes "The Failure Club" from filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, known…
Even after being downgraded to a tropical storm, Hurricane Irene delivered record ratings for the Weather Channel, with Saturday’s numbers representing the network’s highest-rated entire day in its 29-year history, reports The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog. One 15-minute…
"The Sector," a sci-fi action-crime series from Ridley and Tony Scott’s Scott Free Prods., may get picked up by Discovery’s Science after Cinemax passed on it, reports Deadline.com. Described as an action-crime show similar to "Blade Runner" and "District 9,"…
AOL, the onetime darling of the late 1990s Internet boom, is considering going private, according to the New York Post. Early discussions have focused on finding a price that might convince AOL’s management to consider investing in taking the company…
Billionaire Carl Icahn has agreed to sell all of his holdings in Lionsgate Entertainment, ending his three-year attempt to take over the film and television studio, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. In what the article calls a…
A high-powered Hollywood duo is joining forces to develop a drama series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Steven Spielberg and Stephen King are working on an adaptation of King’s “Under the Dome” for Showtime. DreamWorks will produce the project, which…
History’s upcoming miniseries “The Hatfields and McCoys” has added a few Hollywood mainstays to a lineup that already boasted Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton as the rival family patriarchs, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Joining the project are Tom Berenger,…
Oscar-winning actor George Clooney has backed out of a big-screen remake of a classic TV series, reports Deadline.com. The project, Steven Soderbergh’s remake of the 1960s TV spy series "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," is still on track for Warner Bros….
TNT has picked up a new drama to be executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, with a script from Greg Plageman, the writer of CBS’s new drama series "Person of Interest," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show, "Bishop to Pawn,"…
20th Century Fox has hired a new executive VP, domestic publicity, replacing former Executive VP of Publicity and Field Marketing Carol Sewell, who left Fox in May, TheWrap reports. The studio hired Bumble Ward, the woman behind the Bumble Ward…