Recent “Celebrity Apprentice” winner Joan Rivers is launching a new TV Land program “How’d You Get so Rich?” Newsday.com reports. The show, scheduled to debut Aug. 12, will follow Rivers as she speaks with millionaires and asks them about how…
Tom Cruise, Judd Apatow, Cameron Diaz and Nick Cassavetes will participate on “AMC Storymakers.” The special, which airs May 15, will be hosted by Peter Bart and Peter Guber. Mr. Bart and Mr. Guber will discuss changes in the entertainment…
Dish Network and CMT have agreed to partner on exclusive programs, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The satellite television operator will debut new “Invitation Only” installments, with the concert series later airing on CMT, the trade paper says. Dish also is…
HBO has cast Eddie Kaye Thomas as a regular in its series “How to Make It in America,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Thomas will play a wealthy hedge fund manager who’s friends with the show’s main characters, the publication says….
Bob Einstein, who plays the hapless stuntman Super Dave Osborne, tells the New York Post his new show based on the character likely will air on Spike in November. Einstein also will appear on HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” in which…
“The Cougar,” TVLand’s ballyhooed show in which a 40-year-old woman throws herself at a group of younger men, is drawing lower ratings than the cable channel would have liked, the New York Times reports. The channel’s most popular show remains…
Jon Stewart is creating a two-hour special about the U.S. naturalization process for History Channel, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The program is one of 13 new specials and 16 new series for next season, and which represent one of the…
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who discussed being surgeon general with the Obama administration, is on the front line of the swine flu epidemic in Mexico for CNN, the Associated Press reports. “As a medical reporter, in some ways these are the…
Comcast told the City of Lodi, Calif., that it will no long staff city council meetings, which means they will no longer be available on cable TV or online unless the city finds an alternative, the
The sports cable network Versus is creating a weekly program debuting June 7 called “Fanarchy,” which will give seven sports fans the chance to appear via Webcam and opine, Daily Variety reports. The two fans will be eliminated each week,…