MTV is launching a new series based on the Web site CollegeHumor.com, USA Today reports. “It’s not a sketch show. It’s not purely scripted comedy. It’s a scripted, long-form comedy starring real-life people playing fictionalized versions of themselves,” Tony DiSanto,…
A&E’s new reality show features a family that runs a pest-control business led by Billy Breatherton, an exterminator who seems to love animals, a review in the New York Times says. “Watching Mr. Bretherton get rid of snakes, bats, raccoons…
Time Warner Cable said it will be laying off 1,250 employees because the weak economy is slowing growth, the Associated Press says. The cable company said it expects to save $90 million a year following the layoffs. —Jon Lafayette
Kate Vernon, the actress who plays the fifth Cylon on “Battlestar Galactica,” which winds up on March 20, said to watch the show’s ending with an “open mind,” the New York Daily News reports. “None of us saw the ending…
The E.W. Scripps Co. has tapped Michael C. O’Brien to serve as vice president of sales for the company’s TV division, TVNewsday reports. In his new role he will oversee the sales strategy for the TV division, working closely with…
USA Network and Bayer Aspirin have teamed up to honor “Monk” actor Stanley Kamel, who died of heart disease last spring. “Monk” cast members Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine and Jason Gray-Stanford will appear in a public service announcement…
Former Wilson Phillips singer and reality TV star Carnie Wilson will serve as host for GSN’s upcoming edition of “The Newlywed Game,” the Associated Press reports. Wilson will host 40 episodes of the show, which originally debuted in 1966 and…
Vivica A. Fox will host TV Land Prime’s upcoming series “The Cougar.” The eight-episode elimination dating show, in which a woman looks for love among a group of younger men, will premiere in April. “The Cougar” is executive produced by…
It’s tough times for much of the television business, but Time Warner Chairman-CEO Jeff Bewkes likes the TV production business. “We feel very good about the TV production business,” Mr. Bewkes said on the company’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call with…