John Malone’s Liberty Media, which controls DirecTV, is in preliminary talks with debt-ridden Sirius XM Radio, which has already been approached by satellite TV rival EchoStar, the New York Times reports. Sirius XM has rebuffed EchoStar’s advances and Sirius CEO…
Michelle Jaconi will join CNN Worldwide as executive producer of “State of the Union With John King.” Ms. Jaconi served at NBC’s “Meet the Press” for 12 years, working her way up from intern to producer and political analyst. She…
Golf Channel and the LPGA Tour have signed a 10-year agreement, making the network the exclusive cable home of the tour beginning in 2010. The LPGA will get a rights fee agreement for domestic broadcast coverage. Nearly all LPGA Tour…
Former “That ’70s Show” star-turned-producer Wilmer Valderrama is developing a family-friendly comedy, “Earth to Pablo,” for Nickelodeon, the Hollywood Reporter says. “That ’70s Show” writer-producer Philip Stark has been tapped to pen “Pablo,” the trade paper says. In the show…
SoapNet will premiere the docudrama “Southern Belles: Louisville” on May 21. Ten episodes of the one-hour series, which follows five Southern women, will air Thursdays at 10 p.m. The series joins recent SoapNet additions “Greg Behrendt’s Wake-Up” and “Being Erica,”…
“Bridezillas” producer and September Films executive Jeff Collins is launching reality production company Collins Avenue, partnering with British-based studio ContentFilm. ContentFilm and its TV distribution arm, Fireworks International, will fund Collins Avenue in exchange for an equity stake and the…
The Federal Communications Commission today approved the plan to separate Time Warner Cable from Time Warner. The main item still standing in the way of the spinoff is a tax letter from the Internal Revenue Service, according to analyst Craig…
Comcast has asked the FBI to help it figure out how scenes from a porno movie showed up in its feed of the Super Bowl in Tucson, the KVOA-TV reports. Comcast has called the incident was the result of an…
FX picked up two drama pilots, “Lights Out” and a drama written by Graham Yost based on the Elmore Leonard short story “Fire in the Hole,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The pilots would be the first FX has ordered since…
Esquire looks at Fox News Channel anchor Shepard Smith. Smith tells the magazine his show isn’t right wing. “There’s no place for opinion on my show,” he says. “I don’t care what Sean Hannity thinks and I don’t care what…