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‘Shark Week’ Starts Sunday: One Critic Calls it Bloody but Good

Discovery Channel’s 22nd Annual Shark Week begins this Sunday, August 2. As a zap2it critic says, "[T]his year’s films are especially bloody. Yet for those who can’t get enough of sharks, it’s the place to be." —Chuck Ross

Finally, a ‘Seinfeld’ Reunion. The Only Catch: You’ll Have to Subscribe to HBO to See It

A "Seinfeld" reunion is in the works, but not not for NBC, which carried the original series. Instead, the reunion will appear on HBO’s "Curb Your Enthusiasm." [Note: not, of course, what we called it when we first posted this item, the "Larry…

HBO Says It’s Not Feeling the Effects of the Lousy Economy; Renews ‘Hung,’ Entourage,’ ‘Blood’

Top executives at Time Warner’s pay cable channel HBO told TV critics gathered in Pasadena, Calif., this week that the network so far has been immune to the economic turmoil currently plaguing entertainment companies, the Los Angeles Times reports. HBO…

Lamas Family to Confront Issues of Rivalry on New E! Reality Series

Veteran actor Lorenzo Lamas and his 25-year-old soap-star son A.J., who haven’t spoken since 2003, will reconcile on the E! Network’s new reality series “The Lamas Life,” the New York Post reports. Father and son have been estranged, according to…

Consumers Substituting Online TV for Cable, According to Pew Research

Almost one-fifth of Internet users watch video online almost every day, women are catching up to men in terms of online video usage and more and more recession-conscious Americans are using the Web as a cable TV substitute, Mediaweek reports. Citing a report issued Wednesday…

Judge Denies Request for Federal Reserve Records by Fox Business Net

A U.S. judge on Thursday denied a bid by Fox News Network seeking details from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve about the central bank’s loans to companies affected by the financial crisis, Reuters reports. Reuters said that…

TLC Officially on ‘Jon & Kate’: No More Joint Couch and More

Here’s what TLC President Eileen O’Neill told the press at the TV Critics Press Tour today about "Jon & Kate Plus 8", according to The Live Feed and a number of other blogs as well as Discovery press relations personnel:…

B&C, Multichannel News Back on the Sales Block

Reed Business Information has put a number of magazines, including B&C and Multichannel News, back on the sales block, Folio reports. Reed also announced that REI U.S. CEO Tad Smith has resigned, Folio said. The acting CEO will be John…

ESPN’s Erin Andrews Continues to Be Stalked, Calls 911 on Paparazzi

ESPN’s Erin Andrews called 911 to complain about paprazzi who had found her while she was staying in a home in a gated community, ABC News reports. Furthermore, an investigaion by TMZ said the nude video of Andrews that has…

Major Cable Operators Have More Than Doubled the Number of Subscribers Who Take Their Triple Play of Video, Internet and Phone

The nation’s three biggest cable operators, Comcast, Time Warner and Cox, more than doubled the number of subscribers who take what is commonly known as the Triple Play: Video, Phone and Internet services from 2007 to 2008, B&C reports. In…