AMC has lined up an Oscar nominee for a new series. Writer-director Frank Darabont, who was nominated for Academy Awards for his screenplays "The Green Mile," and "The Shawshank Redemption," will write, direct and serve as exec producer on a…
High-rated cable networks USA, TNT and TBS have emerged as the standouts in this year’s upfront market, even compared with some of their broadcast competitors, Advertising Age reports. The three basic cable networks are said by multiple executives to be leading…
Dane Cook, censored. It happened at the Teen Choice Awards, according to AOL’s Hot Searches blog. According to the blog, "Cook zeroed in on Vanessa Hudgens when he took the stage to present an award. ‘Girl, you gots to keep…
Next month’s star studded tribute to Michael Jackson in Vienna will be televised, live, to an audience of one billion people across the globe, the Associated Press reports. The three-hour event will be broadcast from a 17th century palace in Vienna,…
MTV has given the go-ahead to a new reality series from Ashton Kutcher’s Katalyst Films called "American Idiots," though the name of the show might change. In the show contestants are asked to reenact stunts from popular viral videos that…
EA Sports is teaming up with ESPN and its “Monday Night Football” franchise for a Madden NFL game promotion, the Associated Press reports. Players from last season’s Super Bowl teams, The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals, are featured on the video…
Jon Gosselin changed his mind and cancelled his planned interview with “E! News” on Monday night, an interview that was set to rebut his estranged wife’s own Monday interview with NBC’s “Today” show, Zap2it.com reports. Kate Gosselin said on “Today”…
MTV didn’t renew the lease on its glass-fronted studio overlooking New York’s Times Square and the space will revert to the landlord at the end of the year, the New York Post reports. The network opened the space 12 years…
Lisa Wu-Hartwell, one of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” lost her multimillion dollar mansion last week, after the bank foreclosed, TMZ.com reports. She and her husband, former Oakland Raiders linebacker Edgerton Hartwell, failed in talks to restructure their loan on…