AT&T, seeking permission to enter the cable TV business in Greenville, S.C., said it expects prices to drop was it competes with incumbent provider Charter, the Greenville News reports. “I don’t think competition alone can trigger a product value decrease,”…
Fox News Channel has been hyping the anti-tax tea parties being held around the country designed to protest President Obama’s economic policies, a column in the Los Angeles Times says. Meanwhile MSNBC is writing off the protests as the work…
Business is booming for Bravo even under the current economic climate, Forbes.com reports. The network wrapped up 2008 with 100 new advertisers and posted double-digit revenue growth for the year, the site says. First-quarter revenue was also up 21% over…
ReelzChannel will begin airing a new show this month called “Hollywood’s Best Film Directors,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The 52 half-hour episodes will focus on directors ranging from Chris Columbus to Oliver Stone, the trade paper says. —Aimee Picchi
HBO is working on a project called “Women’s Studies,” which may become a vehicle for Tony winner Julie White, the Hollywood Reporter says. The show focuses on a once-famous author who teaches at a small Northeastern college, the trade paper…
NASA said on Tuesday it’s naming a treadmill after “The Colbert Report” host Stephen Colbert, rather than a room in the International Space Station, the Associated Press reports. Colbert won an online contest to name the room after him, beating…
MTV has agreed to drop the episode “I’m a Nuyorican” from its “True Life” series after some viewers complained about its portrayal of Puerto Ricans, the New York Daily News reports. The episode featured three New York Puerto Ricans, one…
A&E’s unscripted series “Crime 360” will return for its second season on May 21. Production for season two returns to Cleveland, while also introducing new cities Rochester, N.Y.; Little Rock, Ark.; and Indianapolis. The one-hour series chronicles criminal investigations in…
Oxygen has announced a multiplatform programming deal with Tori Spelling and her husband, Dean McDermott. Under the deal, announced at Oxygen’s upfront presentation Wednesday in New York, the couple will produce a couples makeover show for the network and develop…