Bravo’s “Top Chef” reigned supreme among cable shows Wednesday night, taking the top spot and matching its previous season high. At 10 p.m., “Chef” scored a 1.8 rating/5 share among adults 18-49 and drew 3.3 million viewers, according to national…
FX has ordered a sixth season of series “Rescue Me” from Sony Pictures Television. “Rescue Me” is set to start its 22-episode fifth season on April 7. The sixth-season order is for 18 episodes. The network also said that “Rescue…
Producer-directors Rory Kennedy and Liz Garbus will deliver the closing keynote address at Mipdoc 2009. The address by Ms. Kennedy and Ms. Garbus on “Social Change Through Documentary” will be held March 29. Ms. Kennedy and Ms. Garbus will share…
USA has canceled series “The Starter Wife” due to the show’s low ratings, Entertainment Weekly reports. The series, starring Debra Messing, began as a six-hour miniseries last year and drew about 5 million viewers, but then averaged 2.4 million viewers…
CBS College Sports Network will celebrate Black History Month with the debut of the documentary “Stomping on the Yard” on Feb. 19. The 90-minute documentary follows eight teams competing at Super Stomp, the National Step Show Championship, in Philadelphia. Also…
Charter Communications, which had been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, said Thursday it had reached an agreement on a financial restructuring with a group of its debt holders, and will enter Chapter 11 on or before April 1. The…
Nadya Suleyman, the 33-year-old Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last month, is considering offers to star in her own reality series, appear in a documentary and write a book, according to one of her publicists, Entertainment Weekly…
A television remake of “The Day of the Triffids” has cast Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, Eddie Izzard and Jason Priestley in the two-part drama, the Hollywood Reporter says. In the show, which will air on BBC1…
Viacom said weakness in the ad market and a charge to cover layoffs in December contributed to a 69% plunge in fourth-quarter earnings. “Our fourth quarter results reflect the realities of a challenging economy, CEO Philippe Dauman said in a…
Viacom said weakness in the ad market and a charge to cover layoffs in December contributed to a 69% plunge in fourth-quarter earnings, TelevisionWeek reports. “Our fourth quarter results reflect the realities of a challenging economy, CEO Philippe Dauman said…