An untitled comedy pilot originally called "Chicks and Dicks" has been picked up by Fox, marking the latest in the network’s pilot pickups, reports Deadline.com. The project is from writer-producer Liz Meriwether, 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment,…
Advertisers are deserting MTV’s controversial teen-centric series “Skins,” with Taco Bell, Subway and others fleeing the edgy program. So who does that leave still running commercials in the show? Direct-response ads for a stretch mark creme, movie commercials and promotions…
NBC chief legal analyst Dan Abrams plans to jump to a rival network, reports the New York Post. The story says that ABC is offering Abrams a job as a legal analyst on "Good Morning America" and the chance to…
AT&T, positioning itself against rental competitors Netflix and Redbox, is rebranding its video-on-demand service as "U-verse Movies" to stress the availability of new releases, reports Multichannel News. The service previously had been branded U-verse On Demand, the article notes. The…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is saying not to worry about what its lawyers told a judge last week in the United States District Court for the Central District of California about next year’s Golden Globes being in jeopardy, reports…
"Spartacus: Gods of the Arena" premiered to almost 1.1 million viewers on Starz, marking a 66% jump from the debut for the network’s bloody gladiator drama "Spartacus: Blood and Sand," reports TVbytheNumbers.com. "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" drew 659,000 viewers when…
Entertainment Studios, a producer of syndicated programming for television stations, said it’s working with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred on a TV program called "We the People With Gloria Allred." Allred said in a statement issued by Entertainment Studios that she…
Microsoft has filed a U.S. trade complaint seeking to keep TiVo from importing television set-top boxes from Mexico, reports Bloomberg News. The claim is based on patent infringement. The four patents in the case involve program schedules and selection, a…
The Discovery Channel is shooting a show that will follow the girlfriends and wives of several well-known Palm Beach polo players, reports the New York Post’s Page Six. Called "Palm Beach Polo Girls," the show tracks Brandon Phillips’ wife, Erica,…
Jeff Zucker, the outgoing CEO of NBC Universal who leaves the company this Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, had an exit interview today in Miami at the annunal NATPE connvention, reports Alex Ben Block in The Hollywood Reporter. According to the…