Starz Entertainment has acquired first-run rights to four titles from Summit Entertainment: “Penelope,” “Sex Drive,” “Never Back Down” and “Fly Me to the Moon.” The 3-D animated children’s film “Moon” will be shown on Starz channels and on-demand in 3-D….
Charter Communications Chairman Paul Allen will lose controlling voting interest of the cable company once it declares bankruptcy, Multichannel News reports, citing Securities and Exchange Commission documents. Mr. Allen, who has invested more than $7 billion in the company and…
Fox Sports Net ordered another 26 one-hour episodes of “World Poker Tour,” Daily Variety reports. The show aired on Travel Channel for five seasons and on GSN for one before Fox Sports started showing the series last year, the newspaper…
Liberty Media Corp. blocked a bid by Dish Network to take control of Sirius/XM Radio by agreeing to invest $530 million in the ailing satellite radio company, the Associated Press reports. About half the funding for Sirius, which said it…
Comcast investors are pushing for more returns from the company, even after winning stock buybacks and their first dividend in almost a decade, Bloomberg News reports. Yet shareholders may have a hard time persuading Comcast CEO Brian Roberts to return…
The Minority Media & Telecommunications Council has asked the FCC to extend the advertising nondiscrimination rule, which requires broadcasters to certify that their ad contracts don’t discriminate by race or gender, to cable, satellite and telecommunications companies, Multichannel News reports….
AMC’s “Mad Men” won at the Art Directors Guild Award on Saturday for a single-camera television show, Daily Variety reports. Other television winners included “Little Britain USA” for a multicamera series, “Weeds” for a half-hour single-camera series and “John Adams”…
AMC and Sony are debuting online Webisodes for the series “Breaking Bad,” part of a plan to promote the start of the show’s second season, the Hollywood Reporter says. The companies will premiere five stand-alone shorts, between three to five…
Michael Vartan has been hired to co-star with Jada Pinkett Smith in TNT’s new series “Time Heals,” which is set to debut later this year, the Hollywood Reporter says. In the the show, produced by Sony TV, Vartan will play…
The Hallmark Channel has signed an agreement with Sony Pictures TV to buy the miniseries “Comanche Moon,” two “Stone Cold” telefilms and 18 classic musicals, the Hollywood Reporter says. The musicals, which include “Bye Bye Birdie” (1963) and “Funny Lady”…