The 15th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards will air live on VH1 Jan. 15. The awards are decided upon by the Broadcast Film Critics Association. Nominations will be announced on Dec. 14. This will be VH1’s third straight year broadcasting…
Patrick Younge will be leaving his post as president and general manager of the Travel Channel, effective January 2010. Mr. Younge said he’d been planning since 2007 to return to London when his youngest child entered high school there. His…
Reality powerhouse Granada America is getting a new name: ITV Studios, Inc. The company behind formats such as “Hell’s Kitchen” and “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here” will immediately be rebranded to reflect its British owners, ITV Studios PLC….
TLC’s series “Jon & Kate Plus 8” drew record ratings for its season premiere Monday amid publicity that the couple at the center of the reality show is breaking apart, the New York Times reports. With some saying the program’s…
Cable television has two approaches to creating advertising that is targeted to selected customers the way the Internet can, the Wall Street Journal says. Canoe Ventures aims to address ads to individual homes with certain demographic characteristics, while National Cable…
Bravo says it is working on “The Real Housewives of D.C.” as the latest installment in its popular “Housewives” franchise, the Washington Post reports. The paper quotes the network as saying producers were looking for “influential players, cultural connoisseurs, fashion…
FX has bought the basic cable rights to “Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian,” which was at the top of the box office over Memorial Day weekend, Daily Variety reports. The cable network has signed a four-year movie…
CNBC is airing a special called “The Oprah Effect” that looks at how companies get their products onto Ms. Winfrey’s show in order to boost sales, Entertainment Weekly says. —Jon Lafayette
The Court of Appeals in Washington backed a ruling by the Federal Communications Commission that banned cable operators from signing deals with apartment buildings that prevent other providers from serving the building’s residents, the Associated Press reports. The ruling also…
NBA scoring leader Dwayne Wade, UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen are Spike TV’s kind of guys. Those men will be among the winners and presenters at Spike’s third annual “Guys Choice” awards special. “‘Guys Choice’…