Alicia Witt, who has a recurring role on the fourth season of the DirecTV/NBC drama "Friday Night Lights," has been signed to star in a Hallmark Channel movie with the tentative titled "Backyard Wedding," The Hollywood Reporter reports. The film centers on…
Epix, a joint venture of Viacom, Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate that launched Oct. 30 with concert and comedy specials, has tapped Sam Shepard to star in its inaugural pilot, "Tough Trade," reports The Hollywood Reporter. Shepard will play the patriarch in"Tough Trade,"…
VH1 has ordered a second season of Lionsgate reality competition series "Scream Queens," in which contestants are put through horror film boot camp to work with creatures and gore, according to Variety. Jamie King hosts the series, the new season…
Garth Ancier is stepping down as the president of BBC America. UPDATE: This news was first reported this morning by Bill Carter of the New York Times on its Media Decoder blog. According to Nikki Finke at Deadline Hollywood, here’s the…
Cablevision subscribers in the New York metropolitan market are soon going to be seeing the Fox Business Network on their system, reports B&C. Commencing November 19, Cablevision’s 3 million households in New Jersey, Connecticut and parts of New York will…
Five-time Emmy-winner Aaron Sorkin, who created "West Wing," ‘Sports Night’ and "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," is planning another TV series, according to TVGuideMagazine.com. According to the report, Sorkin said, "It’s going to be what turns out to be…
A new series is coming to cable TV that could be described as "Cops" meets "Animal House." The series is "Cops PD" and it debuts Dec. 9 at 11PM ET/PT on the G4 cable network. The series is filmed in five…