In gearing up for Conan O’Brien’s debut on TBS, the network has scheduled a one-hour special with the tentative title "Team Coco Presents Conan’s Writers Live," reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. The show will also feature Orien’s…
USA Network may be jumping back into half-hour comedies after signing a script deal to develop "Driven," a single-camera comedy produced by a major sitcom veteran, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. The deal is with "Designing Women" creator Linda Bloodworth, and would represent the network’s first…
Powerful Senator Herb Kohl (D.-Wis.), who serves as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee, wants NBC Universal to divest its stake in online video site Hulu as part of conditions to approve its merger with Comcast,B&C reports. The…
Fox Sports has tapped, a DirecTV executive as its president, reports Multichannel News. He’s Eric Shanks, DirecTV executive vice president of entertainment, and he’ll succeed Ed Goren. Goren, in turn, will fill the newly created roll of vice chairman of Fox Sports Media Group beginning…
Employees at Disney were stunned today, Wednesday, May 26th, when a secretary of a top PR executive was arrested by the FBI on charges of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, reports the Los Angeles Times. Arrested were Bonnie Jean Hoxie,…
HBO has hired two high-power actresses to star in the pilot for "Tilda," a series about a Hollywood blogger/gossip, reports Entertainment Weekly. The two actresses are Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton and Oscar-nominated actress Ellen Page ("Juno.") The 30-minute pilot cast Keaton as Tilda,…
Art Linkletter, host of "House Party" and "People Are Funny" throughout the 1950s and 1960s, died today in Los Angeles at the age of 97, the AP reports. Linkletter was known for interviewing ordinary people with the ability to draw…
Refuting Wall Street insiders who have suggested a sale, CBS Corporation and Viacom chairman and controlling shareholder Sumner Redstone stated he will never sell Viacom or CBS, the Hollywood Reporter said. "I will never, never sell Viacom or CBS," Redstone…
Reality has been a big hit at VH1, so much so that today the network renewed three series — "Brandy & Ray J: A Family Business," "Basketball Wives" and "What Chilli Wants," the Futon Critic reports. The finale of "Basketball…
Reality fans are getting excited for the summer as CBS is bringing back one of its summer reality staples for a 12th iteration. CBS’s summer reality hit, "Big Brother," returns with a new edition on July 8 at 8:00 p.m….