Fox has picked up four pilots for next season, The Hollywood Reporter’sLive Feed Blog reports. Also, the network has renewed "Lie to Me," even thought showrunner Shaw Ryan is leaving the show. One of the pilot pickups is Ryan’s "RideAlong,"…
One of John Grisham’s most successful legal novels, "The Firm," may soon become a TV series, reports Deadline.com. The book, which was a box office hit in 1993 directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Tom Cruise, has become a viable project…
Emmy winners Alan Ball ("True Blood") and Oprah Winfrey will co-produce an HBO film adaptation of the novel, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," reports the AP. Ball also won an Emmy for writing HBO’s "Six Feet Under" and an Academy Award…
Bart Feder, SVP of programming for CNN/U.S., announced today that Max Kellerman, well-known HBO boxing analyst and former ESPN personality, will be joining CNN’s roster of contributors. Kellerman is going to be offering his views on sports and pop cultural…
NBC will very likely cancel "Heroes," reports former TVWeek TV Editor Joe Adalian at New York Magazine’s Vulture website. There had been reports that NBC was contemplating one last go-round for the series — a fifth season of 13 episodes to close…
The latest Will Ferrell production, "Big Lake," has been picked up by Comedy Central, reports B&C. The sitcom will appear in Fall 2010, starring Chris Gethard, Chris Parnell and Horatio Sanz. Jon Heder had originally been in Gethard’s role but he…
Ken Burns popular PBS documentary, the nine part epic "Baseball," is getting an addition four hours of material, USA Today reports. Titled "The Tenth Inning," the new material will cover 1994 to the present, tackling a strike, a steroids scandal…
Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" Islamic correspondent Aasif Mandvi has been told to keep quiet on Muslim extremist threats following the bombing attempt in New York’s Times Square, Fox411.com reports. Mandvi was asked not to comment further on Muslim extremists…
‘Glee" co-creator Ryan Murphy is calling for a boycott of Newsweek after a column in the magazine questioned the believability of gay actors playing straight parts, the New York Times’ ArtsBeat blog reports. The Newsweek column specifically singled out "Glee"…
A TV communications satellite that’s been knocked out of its orbit by a solar storm is threatening to fall into the orbit of a working TV communications satellite and interrupt some cable programming next week, theAssociated Press reports. According to…