If the NFL Network’s distribution deal with Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator expires May 1 with a new agreement, the channel will go from being trapped on a sports tier to being off Comcast altogether, the Wall Street Journal…
TBS has ordered 10 episodes of the animated, half-hour series “Neighbors From Hell,” which is produced by 20th Century Fox TV and Dreamworks Animation, Daily Variety reports. Former “South Park” writer Pam Brady wrote the pilot, which follows a family…
The Sci Fi’s “SGU: Stargate Universe” has nabbed four stars of the original “Stargate” franchise to appear in guest roles, the Hollywood Reporter says. Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Gary Jones will appear in the new series…
The latest series to move from the Web to cable TV is “MoCap, LLC,” which is coming to Spike TV with six original episodes starting April 24. “MoCap, LLC” looks at the people who work at a low-rent motion-capture studio…
Former Discovery Communications President Judith McHale was nominated by President Barack Obama to become the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs in the State Department, Broadcasting & Cable reports. McHale left Discovery in Dec. 2006 and next worked…
Michael Vick has been talking with producers about creating a reality show that would follow him beginning with his July 20 prison release, the Hollywood Reporter says. His attorneys, who didn’t return a call for comment, said at a bankruptcy…
Looking for new ways to market themselves, job seekers in New England are pitching themselves on TV, New England Cable News reports. The most popular feature of “The New England Job Show,” which airs on public access channels in Massachusetts…
With A&E”s series “The Beast” nearing its season finale, questions loom about the future of the show and its star, Patrick Swayze, who is fighting cancer, the Associated Press reports. A decision about season two is not entirely in the…
Stephen Colbert is taking his show “The Colbert Report” to Iraq, the New York Post reports. An unnamed source tells the paper that the show will head to the Middle East sometime in late spring, when Colbert will entertain the…
Reality producer Thom Beers bought the pitch for the new series “Pitchmen” at a retreat in the California mountains, USA Today reports. The show features infomercial barkers and the people who invent the products they hawk on late-night TV, the…