The Golf Channel sprang into action when Tiger Woods announced on Thursday he would return to competitive play next week in a tournament that the network will carry live in early rounds. Golf Channel broke away from its live coverage…
Comcast and Time Warner Cable are talking to major programmers about offering a service that would makes television shows available online to cable subscribers, the Wall Street Journal reports. The operators are talking with Viacom, Time Warner and NBC Universal,…
FremantleMedia has bought a 75% stake in Thom Beers’ Original Prods., the creator of “Deadliest Catch” and “Ice Road Truckers,” after months of discussions, the Hollywood Reporter says. Original CEO Beers and president Philip Segal will continue in their roles,…
Time Warner will separate itself from its cable division through a spinoff, Bloomberg reports. The separation is expected to be completed this quarter, Time Warner and Time Warner Cable say, according to the news service. —Jon Lafayette
ESPN will deploy 26 cameras as its covers the Bassmaster Classic fishing tournament, an event owned by the giant sports network, USA Today says. Coverage will appear on ESPN2 for 13 hours, plus additional footage on ESPN360.com, the paper says,…
TLC isn’t interested in a reality show with “Octomom” Nadya Suleman, the single mother who recently gave birth to octuplets, the New York Post reports. Eileen O’Neill, the president of the family-friendly network, said, “TLC is not pursuing any program…
Bridget Marquart, formerly one of E!’s “Girls Next Door” has been accumulating aches as pains while shooting Travel Channel’s “Bridget’s Sexiest Beaches,” USA Today says. She’s stepped on a sea urchin, nearly crashed while parasailing, and been mobbed by paparazzi,…
Peter Chernin, president of Fox parent News Corp., would be owed about $40 million in deferred pay and pension funds as well as other perks if he were to leave the company after his contract runs out in June, Business…
After three days of talks with the Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood’s producers have issued a “last, best and final offer” to actors that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers says contains significant concessions. “The AMPTP made these enhancements…
Sunday’s NBA All-Star Game broadcast on TNT attracted a 20% larger television audience than last year’s game, Daily Variety reports. For the weekend’s All-Star events from Phoenix, overall ratings rose 26% from a year earlier, the newspaper says. —Danny King