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Oprah Winfrey Network Announces New Series Dealing With Eating Disorders

On Oprah Winfrey’s new network, OWN, one of the new series will deal with people suffering from eating disorders, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The name of the show is "Inside Rehab," and it will accompany a group of patients when they…

NBC Pushing ‘Late Night’ Host for Emmy Gig

NBC is broadcasting this year’s Emmy Awards presentation and has been promoting "Late Night" star Jimmy Fallon to the TV Academy board members as the right choice to host, reports Variety. The announcement is expected to be made next week….

Time Warner Cable Boasts Strong Increase in Revenue

Exceeding industry expectations, Time Warner Cable’s first-quarter revenue was up 5.4 percent from this time last year and its cash flow increased by 10.9 percent, reports Multichannel News. It was the first time in two years that the company posted…

Who’s Responsible for the ‘American Idol’ Overruns That Are Causing DVRs to Miss the Ending of ‘Glee’?

For the second consecutive week, Tuesday’s broadast of "American Idol" ran longer than an hour, creating DVR havoc among fans of "Glee," which followed "Idol," reports TV critic Alan Sepinwall. Fox has no control over the "Idol" broadcast, short of…

Four ‘NCIS’ Stars Could Walk At End of This Season

CBS’ "NCIS" could lose four integral members of the cast — Michael Weatherly, Pauley Perrette, David McCallum and Sean Murray — over a contract dispute, reports Deadline.com. Each of the stars’ contracts with the show end with this season. Negotiations…

E! Orders Eating Disorder Series Called ‘What’s Eating You?’

E! Entertainment Television has ordered six episodes of a program focusing on compulsive eating disorders titled "What’s Eating You?," TheWrap.com reports. The series, which will debut in October, will focus on people suffering from life-threatening eating disorders as they work…

Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Tom Wilkinson in Major Cable TV Project From Co-Creator of ’24’

Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear and Emmy-winner Tom Wilkinson are all signed for a major cable TV project. Kinnear has been cast to play John F. Kennedy in the History Channel’s miniseries "The Kennedys," the New York Times’ ArtsBeat reports. He’ll be joined…

Think Before You Tweet: ABC Sends Out Twitter Message In Error About Potential Supreme Court Nominee

ABC News sent out an erroneous tweet on Wednesday morning, alerting followers that Jake Tapper was reporting President Barack Obama planned to name Elena Kagan as his Supreme Court nominee,Mediate reports. The tweet from @ABCWorldNews was soon followed by a…

ABC News Cuts 22, Fewer Than Projected; 300 Others Take Buyout

ABC News finished its staff cuts this week by laying off 22 employees, fewer than executives had projected, Matea Gold reports in the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town blog. That was because the news division had a larger-than-expected response to…

Wow: Apple Planning to Ask $1 Million for Mobile-Device Ads

Apple is planning to ask companies to pony up close to $1 million for advertisements on its mobile devices and possibly even more for those marketers who want to be among the first customers, the Wall Street Journal reports. Marketers…