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It’s Always Fair Weather…on The Weather Channel

For the first time in its 27 year history The Weather Channel is going to show movies. First up is “The Perfect Storm,” the network announced, to be shown on Friday, Oct. 30, to coincide with the 18th anniversary of…

Carnie Wilson Gets Her Own Reality Series

We’ve seen her 1999 obesity surgery online and now Carnie Wilson will star in a reality series, the Associated Press reports. "Carnie Wilson: Unstapled,” about her life as a working mom, will begin airing in January on GSN, where Wilson…

FX’s ‘Sunny’ Headed to Comedy Central

Comedy Central acquired basic cable off-net rights to FX’s "It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia," marking the first time a cable network has picked up comedy reruns from another basic cable network, Variety reports. The comedy will join the network’s lineup…

Kate Gosselin to Answer Viewer Questions in New TV Special

Beseiged and beleagured reality TV star Kate Gosselin will answer questions submitted by viewers in a new TV special. The show will air this coming Monday, Oct. 26, on TLC in place of the Gosselin’s regularly scheduled show, “Jon & Kate…

Paula Zahn Delivers for Investigation Discovery

The numbers are small compared to other major cable networks but “On the Case with Paula Zahn” gave Investigation Discovery its best series debut ever on Oct. 18, B&C reports. Some 465,000 total viewers tuned in to the newsmagazine in…

Redstone’s Stock Sales Send Viacom, CBS Shares Up

Sumner Redstone’s sale of nearly $1 billion in shares of Viacom and CBS stock sent share prices in both companies up, the Los Angeles Times reports. Usually when the chairman of a company sells his own shares, the opposite happens….

‘Real Housewives’ Star Who’s Not Really a Wife Pregnant Anyway

"Real Housewives of New York City" star Bethenny Frankel recently announced that she was engaged to Jason Hoppy, and today comes the news that she is two months pregnant, reports People. This is Frankel’s first child. the Bravo star told People she had hoped to…

John Miller Named Senior VP at WE tv

WE tv and Wedding Central named John Miller, formerly executive VP at The Weinstein Company, to the post of senior VP of original productions and development, according to Multichannel News. Miller’s new duties will include developing original programming and overseeing production on WE…

Sportsman Channel Expands Into More Comcast Territory

The all-hunting, -shooting and -fishing network, Sportsman Channel, has inked a deal with Comcast to carry its programming on Comcast’s Digital Preferred service in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.; Savannah, Ga.; Tucson, Ariz.; and Albuquerque, Las Cruces,and Santa Fe, N.M. With the help…

‘Knocked Up’ Scores Big on E!

For the week of Oct. 12, the premiere broadcast of the Seth Rogen/Katherine Heigl film "Knocked Out" led to E! achieving the most-watched week in the network’s history, averaging 467,000 total viewers, up 34% over the benchmark of a year ago….