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‘Dance Your Ass Off’ Coming Back to Oxygen

Weight loss dance competition "Dance Your Ass Off” is returning to Oxygen for a second season, Variety reports. The new season will be produced by Magical Elves, the company behind “Top Chef” and previously, “Project Runway.” The reality show was Oxygen’s…

Comcast Planning to Sell NBC Network and NBC’s TV Stations?

If, as expected, Comcast buys a majority stake of NBC Universal, will the cable giant sell the NBC network and the NBC TV stations? According to Claire Atkinson at B&C, that answer may be yes, and those discussions may have…

Gamble Named to VP Post at Disney TV Animation

Disney Television Animation has tapped Kevin Gamble as VP of development, reports The Wrap. His responsibilities will include the development and production of animation shorts and series for Disney Channel and Disney XD. He will also oversee the recruitment of artists, directors and writers. Disney’s…

Winfrey to Tell the Story of ‘Life’

Oprah Winfrey has agreed to narrate Discovery Channel’s upcoming 11-part series, "Life," reports Multichannel News. The series, which goes inside the world of some of the many fascinating living creatures and explores what they do to survive, will debut in HD on DIscovery in…

CNN.com Teams With Automaker for Weekly Quiz

CNN, In keeping with the increased interactive capability of its newly revamped Web site, CNN.com, has recruited a major automaker to sponsor the CNN Challenge, a weekly current events quiz, reports B&C. The sponsor is Ford’s Sync, an in-car communications and entertainment…

G.E., Comcast Deal for NBCU Could Come by Next Week

General Electric and Comcast reached a tentative agreement Friday on key points of a deal for Comcast to take control of NBC Universal, the New York Times reports. A formal announcement could come sometime next week, the paper said, citing…

Travel Channel Bidding Narrows; Deal May Be Structured as Joint Venture

Negotiations for the majority stake in Cox Enterprise’s Travel Channel are now centered on the winning party forming a joint venture with Cox, Reuters reports. News Corp. and Scripps Networks Interactive are leading the bidding, with the valuation of the…

Harvard Students Can Soon Take a Course About an HBO Series

HBO’s gritty series about the nexus of Baltimore drug dealers, local politics and the police force, the schools and the news media, "The Wire," is to become the subject of a course at Harvard, the New York Post reports, citing Harvard’s student…

TNT Debut for ‘Southland’ Expected to Be Announced Today

TNT will begin showing the canceled NBC series “Southland” in January, the New York Times reports. The official announcement of the cable network’s start date for the series is expected to come today. TNT will air the dark cop series…

Olympics Bidding Will Have to Wait at Least Until After Winter Games

Bidding for the U.S. TV rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics won’t take place until after the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver have ended and possibly not until the second half of the year, reports Multichannel News. International Olympic…