HBO is set to air the latest version of “Grey Gardens,” originally a 1975 documentary about the two Edith Beales, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who lived in a complicated relationship in a crumbling, animal-infested house, the…
Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck will perform six live comedy shows in June in cities including Phoenix and San Diego, the Associated Press reports. He’ll mix humor with his reimagination of Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense,” and calls his…
Chris Wallace, the host of “Fox News Sunday” and director of political coverage for Fox News, prepared for his television career from childhood, when he would pretend to be a newsman with stepfather Bill Leonard, the former CBS News president,…
Whitney Port of “The City” was passed over for a promotion at Diane von Furstenberg, the New York Post reports, citing a source. A co-worker instead was picked for the job as a publicist for the company in London, the…
Original content featuring outdoor sports is thriving, with offerings ranging from ESPN2’s ESPN Outdoors and Versus’ Versus Country to the World Fishing Network and Outdoor Channel, Multichannel News reports. The Sportsman Channel is making a big push to become a…
Lake Bell has been cast in a lead role on the HBO series “How to Make It in America,” the Hollywood Reporter says. She was a guest star on the show’s pilot, which is about two young men trying to…
The HBO comedy pilot “The Wonderful Maladys” has tapped Adam Scott and Zak Orth, the Hollywood Reporter says. Orth will play the playwright husband of Molly Parker’s character, while Scott will play the ex-husband of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character, the…
Spike TV has greenlighted a pilot for “Pirate Hunters: USN,” a documentary series that will look at the U.S. Navy’s antipiracy efforts in the Gulf of Aden, Daily Variety reports. The show has a deal with the Navy to allow…
With ratings sinking at broadcast properties, the cable networks are poised to perform well at this year’s upfront television-ad market, Advertising Age reports. “What I’m hearing is cable is definitely going to be better than broadcast. They’ve been stronger throughout…
FX may have been one of the first cable channels to air award-winning original scripted drama, but its president, John Landgraf, thinks other networks are tempting fate by trying to cultivate too many original shows, TelevisionWeek says. The differing economics…