Snoop Dogg will host his own variety talk show, “Dogg After Dark,” for MTV beginning Feb. 17 at 9 p.m. The show will feature celebrity interviews, sketch-comedy segments and musical performances from its set at Hollywood Boulevard hot spot The…
Oxygen will launch “Pretty Wicked,” a competition reality series about inner beauty, on March 31. The eight-episode series will challenge girls to “beautify” their insides for a grand prize of $50,000. “America’s Next Top Model” winner CariDee English will host…
Lionsgate has gotten the green light to produce a pilot for the first original show commissioned for Epix, the new cable service being launched by Viacom, Lionsgate and two other studios. The new show, “Tough Trade,” is about a Nashville…
Lionsgate lost $93.4 million in the fiscal third quarter compared with a profit of $7.3 million in the year-earlier period, after a double-digit decline in home video sales and three weak movie releases for the quarter ended Dec. 31, Daily…
Anne Heche has been hired to co-star on the HBO series “Hung,” a comedy about a well-endowed high school basketball coach that’s expected to debut in June, the Hollywood Reporter says. Heche replaces Kristin Bauer, who played the coach’s remarried…
Kelsey Grammer will direct Lifetime’s pilot of “Alligator Point,” a comedy which will star Cybill Shepherd as the owner of an oyster bar in Florida, the Hollywood Reporter says. Other actors cast for the pilot, a project from Steve Stark…
ABC Family has renewed the drama “The Secret Life of the American Teenager” for a second season, while the first season is slated to wrap up on March 23. It is the highest-rated original series on the network, the Hollywood…
Spike TV has greenlighted the half-hour comedy “Players” from former “Upright Citizens Brigade” regular Matt Walsh, Daily Variety reports. Spike TV has ordered 10 episodes from executive producer and creator Walsh, who will play the fun-loving owner of a sports…
Cartoon Network has renewed the animated series “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” for a second season, with a planned debut next fall, Daily Variety reports. The half-hour series, produced by George Lucas and Lucasfilm Animation, helped boost the network to…
Edie Falco, who played Carmela Soprano on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” said she kept getting offers to play Italian wives after the show ended two years ago, the New York Post reports. “People tend not to be particularly creative when it…