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New Jersey ‘Real’ Housewife Teresa Only Losing One of Her Homes

 "Real Housewives of New Jersey" wife Teresa Giudice isn’t losing her grand mansion to foreclosure, as E! Online and others reported over the weekend. The Star-Ledger clarified today that the home in foreclosure is not the primary residence of the Bravo star but another property she…

TNT Deal for ‘Southland’ Inches Closer

TNT’s deal to pick up “Southland,” which NBC abruptly canceled weeks before it was to have its second season premiere, looks increasingly likely, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Six episodes of the dark L.A. cop series have already been shot. –Elizabeth…

HBO Picks Up Third Round of ‘In Treatment’

HBO’s “In Treatment” is coming back for a third season in 2010 but not without some changes, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Exec producer/showrunner Warren Leight left in July; he’s been replaced by Anya Epstein (“Tell Me You Love Me”) and…

Jeff Dunham Sets Comedy Central Record

Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham set a Comedy Central record last week, his second, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Some 5.3 million viewers tuned in to the Thursday debut of his show, making it the network’s most-watched series premiere, despite some negative reviews….

Comcast COO Steve Burke Would Have No Problem Disabling Fast Forward So Ads Could be Watched

Steve Burke, Comcast’s chief operating officer, says he’d have no problem disabling his customers’ ability to fast forward through shows to make them watch commercials. However, he said he’d only be willing to do that on very high-rated programming. Burke…

Good News for Hollywood: Cable Channel Not in Scripted Game Orders up Two Sitcom Pilots

Between NBC’s Jay Leno move and the popularity of reality shows, Hollywood scribes have complained about the dearth of scripted programming. Now, from an unlikely source–basic cabler TV Land–home of many vintage sitcoms over the years–comes a pilot order for two…

How the Fort Collins Sheriff Knew the Balloon Boy Story Was a Hoax: the Mother of the Boy Told Him

The reason the sheriff who serves the Fort Collins area of Colorado knew the Balloon Boy story was a hoax was because the mother of the boy told him so, the Fort Collins Coloradoan, reported on Saturday,Oct. 24th. The Coloradoan…

ESPN Fires Baseball Analyst Steve Phillips After it was Revealed He Had An Affair With A 22-Year-Old ESPN Production Assistant

The New York Times is reporting that former Mets general manager and ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips has been fired from the network. Recently the New York Post had published that Phillips had had an affair with a 22-year-old production…

VIDEO: Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes on Why the Company Should Have Never Merged with AOL; and the Lessons That Has For Comcast-NBCU Talks

TIme Warner Chairman and CEO surprised attendees at TVWeek’s recent Innovation360 Conference by saying that even at the time it happened the merger of AOL and Time Warner was a a bad idea. In this video clip from the conference…

From Time Warner’s TV Everywhere to Disney’s Keychest, with DVD Sales Falling, Studios Are Desperate to Figure Out New Video Strategy

This piece in the New York Times talks about the various video strategies the studios are playing with as they find their current methods coming up short. Says the article, "[B]usiness currents have shifted. While DVD and Blu-ray will remain…