Award-winning CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour is getting her own talk-show on the all-news outlet, Variety reports. "Amanpour" debuts on Sept. 27th on CNN. –Chuck Ross
TV Guide Network bought exclusive cable rights for one year to Ashton Kutcher’s “Punk’d,” says Variety. The deal is for 100 half-hour episodes, which the network will air back-to-back as an hourlong strip. –Elizabeth Jensen
ESPN wants to end NBC’s longtime Olympics franchise by grabbing the U.S. TV rights to the 2014 and 2016 Games, John Skipper, the network’s executive vice president of content, told USA Today. "We’ll be there. We’re having discussions with them,"…
Fox released a statement announcing that it will not air President Barack Obama’s primetime speech Wednesday before a joint session of Congress, reports Newsday. Fox will broadcast the season premiere episodes of “Glee” and “So You Think You Can Dance”…
Lifetime has picked up made-for-TV movie “Pregnancy Pact,” inspired by the story of 17 girls from a Massachusetts high school who agreed to get pregnant at the same time, reports Variety Frank Von Zerneck and Robert Sertner of Von Zerneck-Sertner…
HBO has engaged a Pulitzer Prize winner to write his first original TV script, an untitled drama about the Catskills Gas Rush, The Hollywood Reporter says. The writer is RIchard Russo, who will write the script based on a 2008 New…
Versus, which is in the middle of a carriage fight with DirecTV, has picked up 10 episodes of “Sports Jobs With Junior Seau,” Variety reports. The half-hour series will feature the former San Diego Chargers linebacker taking on some of…