The CBS pilot "Vince Uncensored" has tapped Elizabeth Perkins to star, reports the Hollywood Reporter. She’s joining Michael Chiklis, who was cast in the title role earlier this month, the story notes. The project focuses on a man who decides…
PBS is making a major push to make sure its video is available for streaming. In an announcement, PBS notes, "PBS.org has grown so rapidly that comScore VideoMetrix listed it as the18th most popular site for video last month," said…
"DirecTV has an agreement with Starcom MediaVest Group, under which SMG has committed to spend $10 million to $20 million on household-addressable ads in 2011, reports Multichannel News. The story adds, "DirecTV’s addressable-ad system is intended to reach 10 million…
OWN has set the debut date for the documentary "Becoming Chaz," which tracks Chaz Bono’s gender reassignment surgery, reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The show will debut at 8 p.m. on May 10, and will be followed…
The CW’s "The Secret Circle" has cast Natasha Henstridge in the show based on a three-book series about witches from author L.J. Smith, reports TVGuide.com. She’ll play Dawn Chamberlain, who knows about the secret coven of witches in the town…
A planned British missile attack on one of Muammar Qaddafi’s compounds in Libya was called off after it was learned that the Libyans had brought journalists from CNN and Reuters to the site, Business Insider reports, citing a Fox News…
CBS may have washed its hands of "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen, but Fox could be interested in doing business with the actor, reports TMZ.com. Last Thursday, Sheen took a meeting with a trio of Fox execs,…
"West Wing" writer Rick Cleveland is adapting Barton Gellman’s best-selling biography of former Vice President Dick Cheney, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency," as a miniseries for HBO, reports Deadline.com. Paula Weinstein will executive produce the project, which will also incorporate…
NBC rolled out its summer 2011 schedule today, with the highlights including three new reality shows, the return of “America’s Got Talent” for season six and a second season of Jerry Seinfeld’s “The Marriage Ref,” Deadline.com reported. The new reality…
Evan Rachel Wood admitted in a recent interview with xfinityTV.com that she was nervous about doing a full-frontal nude scene for the HBO miniseries “Mildred Pierce,” saying it almost caused her to back out of the project. “I was a…