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HBO Partners with Australian Broadcasting Corp. for Chris Lilley Series

HBO is partnering with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. to produce a 12-episode series from Australian comedian Chris Lilley, called "Angry Boys," reports The Hollywood Reporter. The network previously acquired his mockumentary series "Summer Heights High." It’s HBO’s first Australian co-production….

Two Comedy Pilot Greenlights for ABC Family

ABC Family greenlit a comedy pilot starring "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" star Melissa Joan Hart and Joey Lawrence, and another from Michael Jacobs, creator of "Boy Meets World," reports The Hollywood Reporter. In the Hart-Lawrence project, Lawrence will play a…

Comedy Central Orders Pilot Based on Paul Sapiano’s Indie Film ‘Getting Down’

Comedy Central ordered a pilot for a series based on Paul Sapiano’s 2006 indie film “Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down," reports The Hollywood Reporter. The half-hour will follow several twentysomething characters with a narrator giving tips about how…

Flavor Flav Shopping a New Reality Series About His Return to High School

Ladies man Flavor Flav, having settled down and fathered a daughter, wants to return to reality TV, but this time in a show that chronicles his attempts to get his high school diploma, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The star of…

TLC Stops Filming ‘Kate Plus 8’: Guess Who Ordered it Stopped?

TLC has stopped filming "Kate Plus Eight," its newly retitled reality show that had been called "Jon & Kate Plus 8," the Associated Press reports. And the person who ordered the show shut down was none other than … Jon…

FX Orders New Drama Series ‘Terriers’ and ‘Lights Out’

Two new drama series for FX, "Terriers" and "Lights Out," have been given 13-episode pickups, reports Variety. Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James star in "Terriers," the story of two guys starting a private detective agency, while "Lights Out" stars Holt McCallany as…

Bravo Prepares Reality TV Spinoffs

Bravo has picked out three stars from hit reality shows to spinoff into new series, one for each, reports Variety. Bethenny Frankel from "The Real Housewives of New York City" will be featured in a show about her social life…

Wow: It Sure Looks Like the Ownership of All or Part of NBCU Will Soon Change

By Chuck Ross The latest reports began yesterday, Wednesday, Sept. 30th, with Sharon Waxman’s online article at The Wrap that Comcast was in talks to acquire NBC Universal from General Electric. Waxman then wrote, “Deal points were hammered out at a meeting…

Truly Remarkable History Channel Scoop: Presents Scientific Evidence That Hitler Did Not Shoot Himself in His Bunker

The story of the end of Adolf Hitler’s life has been told countless times: WIth the Russians fast approaching Hitler, 56, took a cyanide pill and shot himself. Those who doubted that it happened this way had their suspicions put…

Bombshell in Polanski Case: Former Prosecutor Says He Lied in HBO Documentary About Advising Judge on Sending Polanski to Prison

Marcia Clark, who famously prosecuted the O.J. Simpson case, writes in a blog on The Daily Beast that David Wells, who said in an HBO documentary about the Roman Polanski rape case the he told the judge how to get…