The Style Network has acquired MTV’s “My Super Sweet 16.” The deal gives Style Network access to select episodes from all seasons of the series to date. The network will air an eight-episode marathon of the series on July 3…
VH1 is teaming up with two familiar hip-hop artists for its latest celebrity-oriented reality shows. Sandra “Pepa” Denton of Salt n Pepa and Chilli from TLC will each get their own series, premiering in 2010. The untitled projects will follow…
Starz will give San Diego Comic-Con International attendees a first look at its new series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” on July 24. The network will present a panel with stars Lucy Lawless, Peter Mensah, Andy Whitfield and executive producers Rob…
Bravo is bringing back “Real Housewives of New Jersey” for a second season, the New York Daily News says, citing a report from Life & Style. The hold-up in the renewal was money, but with compensation worked out, shooting on…
TV pitchman Billy Mays apparently died of a heart attack, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. Preliminary autopsy results show that Mays suffered from hypertensive heart disease, Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Vernard Adams said during a televised news conference this…
ABC News’ Martin Bashir was all over rival MSNBC’s telecasts over the weekend weekend, after NBC News bought the rights to “Living with Michael Jackson,” a 2003 ITV1 documentary that Bashir conducted, Variety says. NBC will also air the one-hour version…
Publisher Zondervan looks like it’s going to push back the publication date of Kate Gosselin’s new book in the wake of her divorce from Jon, says the New York Post. Her cookbook, “Love Is in the Mix: Making Meals Into…
Craig Piligian, the executive producer of “Dirty Jobs,” is looking to the busy and profitable world of airplane repossession work for his next series, Variety says. The producer secured rights to repo man Nick Popovich — whose Sage-Popovich specializes in…
Los Angeles police are searching for Michael Jackson’s personal physician to question him after allegations that the singer received a potentially fatal dose of the painkiller Demerol before his death, London’s Times Online is reporting. People is reporting that Jackson’s family…