The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards and 2009 Creative Arts Emmy Awards Nominees (Alphabetical, by category) Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) American Dad • Sixteen-Hundred Candles • FOX • 20th Century Fox / Underdog / Fuzzy Door…
Chris Albrecht, the former chairman and CEO of HBO, has teamed up with another premium cable service, Starz, to develop a one-hour drama, Variety says. The show revolves around a young female photographer trying to make her way in the tough…
In an odd–but modern–way to promote a personal appearance, thousands of people in Portland, Ore., learned through text messages and Twitter that comedian Dave Chapelle was going to perform a free show in a downtown Portland square at 1 am…
Cox Communications has received unsolicited inquiries regarding its Travel Channel, and has hired Goldman Sachs to sort out the options, The Hollywood Reporter says. Cox, which has owned the channel for two years, didn’t mention a sale in what the…
Two weeks after infomercial host Billy Mays died of a possible heart attack, the Discovery Channel has decided to renew the show he starred in, “Pitchmen,” the New York Times says. For its second season, the cable channel said it…
A new reality show is coming to cable TV in which the winner will get $1 million. It’s from ITV Studios (“Hell’s Kitchen,” “Nanny 911”) and the publishers of Parade magazine and Parade.com., the companies announced. It’s a 10-part series…
Veteran television executive Don Ohlmeyer was named ESPN’s ombudsman, and will write a monthly column critiquing its content and journalism for ESPN.com, starting next month, says the Los Angeles Times. Ohmeyer, who retired in 1999 as president, NBC West Coast,…