Just days after NBC canceled the show, Warners Bros. TV is in talks with a cable network about airing the remaining six filmed episodes of the cop drama, "Southland," according to The Hollywood Reporter. TNT is interested not only because the programming…
Sundance Channel’s "Spectacle: Elvis Costello With … ," which commences its new season Dec. 9, has lined up some big-name guests, according to Multichannel News. The Elton John-produced talk show with music has set U2’s Bono, Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow and Lyle…
A third member of the “Friends” ensemble comedy is making a return to series television, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Matthew Perry will star in, co-write and executive produce an untitled single-camera comedy for Sony Pictures TV, which is being pitched…
The supermarket tabloid Weekly World News, home of fictional figures such as the half-bat, half-human Bat Boy and regular Bigfoot and Elvis sightings, is looking for TV spinoff projects, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The 30-year-old tabloid signed with CAA, and…
A&E gave a pilot order to a drama about an LAPD detective who has bipolar disorder, reports Variety. “The Quickening” would star Radha Mitchell (“Surrogates”) as a detective who can only do her job well if she doesn’t take her…
New pay channel Epix set a launch date, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The channel will go live on Oct. 30 with a lineup that includes the television and online premieres of Madonna’s two-hour concert "Sticky & Sweet: Live From Buenos…
Discovery Communications and AOL/Time Warner veteran Kathleen Kayse is joining OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, as executive VP of ad sales, where she’ll oversee ad sales strategy for both the channel and Oprah.com, reports Variety. Her resume includes time as…
Comedy Central’s president of original programming and development is stepping down to return to producing, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Lauren Corrao had been at the network seven years and oversaw development of such shows as "Chappelle’s Show" and "RENO 911!"…