Mary Louise Parker is mulling leaving “Weeds” after her contract commitment is fulfilled following the show’s next season, the New York Post reports. If she leaves after the sixth season, the show would likely be canceled, the paper reports. One…
MTV has tapped DJ AM for a reality show that will feature the celebrity DJ overseeing interventions for young people dealing with addictions, the Hollywood Reporter says. DJ AM last year said he had been abused by his father, was…
ESPN is creating ESPNDB.com, a database site filled with sports statistics and facts, MediaPost reports. The site, which will be fact-checked, will debut in the next few days and will be free and ad-supported, MediaPost says. —Aimee Picchi
Rapper M.C. Hammer is joining the reality show ranks with an 11-episode series called “Hammertime” on A&E, USA Today reports. Hammer, real name Stanley Burrell, tells the paper he’s had many offers to do a show. “But in the last…
Michael Vick’s agent is denying a story that the imprisoned former NFL quarterback is shopping a reality show concept, according to NFL.com. “Any speculation of Mike doing a reality show is false,” Joel Segal told NFL.com on Thursday. “He has…
CNN anchor Erica Hill asked viewers to begin following @CNNbrk, its Twitter account for breaking news, so that the TV network wouldn’t be lose out to actor Ashton Kutcher in a race to 1 million followers, TVNewser reports. Kutcher actually…
Ryan Conklin, one of the stars of the recent “Real World: Brooklyn” on MTV, is going back to serve in the army in Iraq on Sunday, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Conklin, who received word of his deployment notice while the…
Wednesday’s tax protests held as part of Tax Day was heavy on the innuendo on cable networks, FoxNews.com reports. Some anchors, the site reports, made reference to “teabagging,” slang for a sexual act, for various tea parties around the country….
DirecTV and Comcast Corp. will pay a total of $3.21 million for violating Do Not Call provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule. DirecTV and Comcast will pay $2.31 million and $900,000, respectively, to settle separate Federal Trade Commission charges claiming…
MTV will premiere “The Phone” on April 21. The new competition reality series comes from FremantleMedia North America and executive producer Justin Timberlake. In the six-episode series, contestants are thrust into a dangerous adventure after accepting a mysterious phone call….