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SAG Names Award Presenters

The Screen Actors Guild has tapped actors ranging from Christina Applegate to Jon Hamm as presenters for he 15th Screen Actor Guild Awards, Daily Variety reports. The award program will be simulcast on TNT and TBS on Sunday, the trade…

‘Monkey City’ Home to Comic Book Action

Picture the movie “300,” except the Spartans are monkeys. And so are the Trojans. Animal Planet is using graphic novel-style animation production elements in new series “Dark Days in Monkey City,” which debuts next month. The network said the visual…

‘Battlestar’ Builds on Fan Base as End Nears

Sci Fi Channel’s final episodes of “Battlestar Galactica” kicked off Friday night, Jan. 16, with a strong performance among several key demographics for the show and the basic-cable network. Friday night’s episode, “Sometimes a Great Nation,” scored a 1.6 rating…

Lifetime’s ‘Color’ Scores With Women

Lifetime Movie Network’s original film “What Color Is Love?” averaged 1.6 million total viewers for its debut on Sunday, Jan. 18. That makes it the network’s third highest-rated original film ever among women 18-49 and 25-54. Sunday night’s telecast of…

Lingerie Bowl Players Object to Nudist Venue

Some participants in the upcoming pay-per-view Lingerie Bowl event say they will not play in the game because of pay disputes and the decision to hold the matchup at a nudist resort, the St. Petersburg Times reports. Quarterback Reby Sky,…

Back to Work for AMC’s ‘Mad Men’ Writers

AMC President Charlie Collier says Matthew Weiner and his writing team for “Mad Men” will be getting back to work this week, Multichannel News reports. Work on the series, which recently won the Golden Globe for TV drama series, had…

Pollack, Lowery Join Generate Management Team

Independent production studio and management company Generate has added Chris Pollack and Will Lowery to its management division. Mr. Pollack comes to Generate from his own independent management firm, where he worked with television writers, reality producers and feature directors…

Lagasse to Judge ‘Top Chef’

Emeril Lagasse will serve as a guest judge on Bravo’s “Top Chef” on Feb. 18. The challenge, which will take place in New Orleans, will narrow the field from four contestants to three. The winner of “Top Chef: New York”…

Inauguration Notebook: CNN’s Bird’s-Eye View

Obama Team Takes Over White House Web Site It didn’t take long for the White House Web page to switch from one president to the next. By 12:10 p.m., minutes after Barack Obama took office as president, the Bush administration…

Olbermann Shares His Obama-Era Approach

For years Keith Olbermann has ended his “Countdown” show on MSNBC with a reference to the Iraq War—the number of days since George W. Bush appeared in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner on a Navy aircraft carrier. President-elect Barack…