‘Ax Men’ Star Cited by Police
The History Channel’s “Ax Men” star Levi Brown has been cited by police in North Plains, Or. after getting into a fistfight with another man on Saturday, the New York Post reports. Brown said he “only hit the guy a…
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Cartoon Network Adds Live-Action, Reality Shows
Cartoon Network announced it’s making a move into live-action programming, with six reality projects and two scripted shows in development. At its presentation to advertisers and media buyers Wednesday morning in New York, the Turner-owned kids channel also said it…
Verizon Plans Local News Channel
Verizon Communications plans to launch FiOS1, a local news channel for its video service, the Wall Street Journal reports. Local news is seen as a way to get and keep subscribers as cable operators compete with phone companies, the paper…
HBO Eyeing Clinton-Blair Movie
HBO is working on a movie written by “Frost/Nixon” writer Peter Morgan, with Dennis Quaid tapped to play President Clinton and Julianne Moore to play Hillary Clinton, the Hollywood Reporter says. Michael Sheen is slated to play British Prime Minister…
Who Is Ed Shultz?
The New York Observer provides more details about Ed Shultz, the liberal radio host with whom MSNBC is negotiations. “He’s a guy who listens to his gut, and his gut tells him many things of political significance, often having to…
Hallmark Has Boomer Message
Hallmark Channel says its viewers may be oldies, but they’re goodies if you’re looking for households that buy consumer packaged goods. Hallmark, which aims at a baby-boomer audience, is swimming upstream with marketers and media buyers who are fixated on…
Discovery Is ‘Doing da Vinci’
Leonardo da Vinci was one of mankind’s great inventors, dreaming up devices that were years ahead of their time. A new series on Discovery Channel will take some of Mr. da Vinci’s drawings of military weapons and breathe life into…
USA Nears ‘White Collar’ Order
USA is nearing a series order for “White Collar,” a Fox TV Studios project about a talented con artist paired with the head of the FBI’s white-collar crime unit, the Hollywood Reporter says. Matthew Bomer is set to star as…
Kudlow Won’t Run for Senate
CNBC commentator Larry Kudlow told his television audience he won’t run for the U.S. Senate seat from Connecticut now held by Christopher Dodd, the New York Times reports. The network had been receiving questions from reporters about reports Kudlow might…
Hallmark Slates More Original Movies
Hallmark Channel says it plans to produce 35 original movies during the 2009-10 television year, up from 30, TelevisionWeek reports. Hallmark Movie Channel announced a plan to work with the NYU’s School of the Arts to air student films, TVWeek…