MTV FLIPS THE ‘SCRIPT’ WITH A MIX OF NEW PROGRAMMING INCLUDING SCRIPTED, REALITY AND COMEDY SERIES WHICH TAP INTO INTERESTS OF TODAY’S MTV GENERATION [This is a Press Announcement From MTV About its New Shows and Renewals] New York, NY…
Open Mike blogger Hillary Atkin gives us a front-row seat at Comedy Central’s roast of Joan Rivers, hosted by Kathy Griffin. With an all-star line-up of comics who think PC is a type of computer, the roast isn’t for the faint-of-heart,…
Dish Network gained a net of just 26,000 subs in the second quarter, yet its stock gained 6% ($1.19) Monday. The reason: Analysts were actually expecting Dish to lose a net of more than 100,000 subs. According to Dish EVP Tim…
The four-year-old Documentary Channel, which started life as a public-interest network supported with underwriting, has relaunched as a commercial service, reports Multichannel News. The Nashville-based network, which has about 21 million subscribers, signed a multiyear carriage deal with Dish Network…
It seems as if a weekly basis some celebrity is fighting the public release of nude pictures or a sex tape that they had, at one point, consented to make. Wallet Pop blogger Jason Cochran recounts the ultimate such case, a seemingly neverending battle being…
TNT has ordered an additional 10 episodes of "Hawthorne," starring Jada Pinkett Smith, to be seen in 2010, Multichannel News reports. In its time slot, the series is up 90% in adults 25-54. The show also does well in DVR…
WIth the broadcast upfront marketplace practically done, cable is rolling along and should be finished sometime around the end of the month or the first week in September. Claire Atkinson over at B&C usually has excellent sources on Madison Ave.,…
Jon Gosselin, whose estranged wife Kate appeared on NBC’s "Today" show this morning in her first interview since the reality-TV couple announced they were parting ways last month, is scheduled tape a reply for E! that will air tonight, the New York Post reports….
A man who was shown on TV bragging about his sex life violated media policy and thus the station that showed the footage was taken off the air. Furthermore, the man has been arrested and some are calling for the…