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TV One to Rerun ABC Family’s ‘Lincoln Heights’

TV One has acquired the off-network syndication rights to the popular ABC Family’ series, "Lincoln Heights," reports Multichannel News.  Beginning Jan. 25,  TV One will telecast  the first four seasons of the program weeknights at 11 p.m. "Lincoln Heights" follows the…

Starz Officially Cancels ‘Head Case’

The Ali Wentworth comedy series "Head Case," which premiered in 2007 on Starz, has officially been canceled, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. There is still no word from Starz about the status of "Crash," which is reportedly on the brink of…

Summit Adapting ‘Push’ for Series Pilot

The feature film "Push," which starred Dakota Fanning and Chris Evans, is getting an adaptation for television, according to Digital Spy. Summit Entertainment is putting the project together, with "Watchmen" screenwriter David Hayter producing and writing the pilot. No word…

Showtime Finds a Writer for Spielberg Series

The playwright and TV writer Theresa Rebeck will write Showtime’s forthcoming Broadway series, which – if it gets picked up – will track the development of a musical and then actually mount the show, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The series…

What Joe Abruzzese, Ad Sales Executive Extraordinaire, Did That Changed the Ad Game

In 2002, Joe Abruzzese, then the top ad sales executive at the Tiffany Network, CBS, did a most extraordinary thing. He jumped to cable, taking the helm for ad sales at Discovery Communications. As one top media agency person told…

New Study Says Youth Viewing Dropping

A Kaiser Family Foundation study found that the amount of time that youths ages 8 to 18 spent watching regularly scheduled TV dropped by 25 minutes between 2004 and 2009, B&C reports. That’s the first time viewing has dropped. Nonetheless,…

Is This New Ad DVR-Proof?

The virtual phone system company Grasshopper says it has come up with a DVR-proof ad, reports Adgabber. Viewers can still fast-forward through it, of course, but the company’s grasshopper mascot named Gary stays visible and immobile in center screen throughout…

MGM Attracts More Than Half-Dozen Offers

More than a half-dozen offers have come in to buy all or part of MGM, reports The Hollywood Reporter. None of the bids reached $2 billion, but they were high enough that the process will continue to a second round….

FCC Extends Deadline for Comment on Kids TV Content-Control

The FCC has agreed to a request by advertisers to extend the deadline to comment on its inquiry into kids TV content-control strategies in a digital world, B&C reports. The American Association of Advertising Agencies, the American Advertising Federation, the…

Big Numbers for Nick’s ‘Big Time Rush’

Nickelodeon’s Jan. 18 debut of “Big Time Rush” was the network’s highest-rated and most-watched live-action Nick series premiere, Multichannel News reports. It benefited from a lead-in from a new episode of “iCarly,” which drew its best numbers ever. The “iCarly”…