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After a Year in Development, ABC’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’ Remake to Film Pilot

ABC’s remake of "Charlie’s Angels" is heading to pilot production after spending a year in development, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The project, from Sony TV, was put in redevelopment after the upfronts with new writers, Al Gough and Miles…

CBS Vows It Won’t Produce 3D Broadcasts–Even Sports–Without a Sponsor To Underwrite Costs

CBS is unwilling to produce 3D television programming–even sports– unless it scores a sponsor to underwrite the effort, reports our friend David Goetzl in MediaDailyNews. "As we go into 3D, there really is no way that my boss or our company…

Do Consumers Want ‘Green’ TVs? We’ll All Find Out Soon

When it comes to purchasing a TV set, are consumers more interested in the largest, brightest picture, or in a TV set that is more environmentally friendly? Well, we’ll all soon find out. Those yellow energy guide tags that are…

Fox Rejects Cablevision’s Offer to Match What Time Warner Cable is Paying for Some Stations; Fox Calls Offer ‘Yet another in a long line of publicity stunts’

Fox has rejected Cablevision’s latest offer to end the retranmission dispute between the two companies, meaning that Cablevision’s subscribers were unable to see game one of Major League Baseball’s World Series, which began tonight, Oct. 27, 2010. Cablevision did say…

Syfy Cancels ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Spinoff ‘Caprica’

In a statement, according to THR’s Live Feed blog, Syfy said, " “The remaining first run episodes of Caprica – airing Tuesdays at 10/9c – will be removed from the schedule as of next Tuesday, November 2. These final five…

Cablevision Extends 11th-Hour Offer to Fox as World Series Broadcast Hangs in Balance

In an apparent attempt to break the impasse between Cablevision and Fox over retransmission fees in time to bring the World Series to viewers in the New York area, Cablevision Systems Corp. made a new offer today to Fox parent…

Sheen Says He’s Fine, But He’s Keeping a Lid on Details of Hotel Incident; Meanwhile, He’s Expected Back Soon on the Set of ‘Two and a Half Men’

Charlie Sheen is downplaying the incident early Tuesday in New York’s Plaza Hotel that landed him in a hospital and got the gossip mill swirling, RadarOnline.com reports. The publication snagged an exclusive text message interview with the star, who told…

Special Episode of ‘Glee’ Helps Lift Fox to Ratings Win

A special episode of Fox’s "Glee" was the highest-rated program of Tuesday night, but CBS’s "NCIS" continued to hold its own against it, according to TVbytheNumbers.com. Fox wound up No. 1 overall for the night in the 18-49 demo while CBS…

Report: Martin Scorsese Interested in Doing a TV Prequel to One of His Best-Known, Best-Liked Films

Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, who has dipped his toe into the TV waters with HBO’s "Broadwalk Empire," has his sights set on another TV project. Nicholas Pileggi, the man who wrote the hit film "Goodfellas," revealed that filmmaker Martin…

Miss America Pageant Names Hosts for 2011 Event

The hosts have been named for the 90th edition of the Miss America Pageant, which will be broadcast on Jan. 15, 2011, by ABC, Las Vegas Weekly reports. "Dancing With the Stars" co-host Brooke Burke will anchor the show, the…