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Showtime Launches ‘Tara’ Premiere on 100 Platforms

Showtime Networks has made the premiere of its new original series “United States of Tara” available on more than 100 platforms. The season premieres of “The L Word” and “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” also will be made available…

NHL Network Comes to AT&T U-verse

AT&T U-verse has added NHL Network and NHL Network HD to its lineup. NHL Network is available to U-verse customers who subscribe to the U400 programming package or the Sports Package. The network’s HD channel is available to customers with…

FamilyNet Nabs ‘Happy Days,’ ‘Family Ties,’ ‘My 3 Sons’

FamilyNet Television, available to 15.7 million households, has acquired the rights to the comedies “Happy Days,” “Family Ties” and “My Three Sons” from CBS Television Distribution Group, Multichannel News reports. The programs will anchor the network’s weeknight lineup starting Jan….

HBO Packages ‘Treatment’

HBO will cluster episodes of “In Treatment” when it returns in April, the Hollywood Reporter said. The network air two episodes on Sundays and three on Mondays, because HBO entertainment president Sue Naegle said viewers like to watch more than…

‘Conchords’ Songs to Be Sold Online

Songs from HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords” will be available for sale the day after an episode airs in the show’s second season, which begins Jan. 18, the Hollywood Reporter says. Viewers can pre-order the show’s unnamed album, which will…

BET’s ‘Harlem Heights’ Follows Kanye West’s Ex-Fiancee

BET’s reality program “Harlem Heights,” which debuts March 2, follows Brooke Crittendon, the former fiancee of rapper Kanye West, and who said her reason for doing the show was feeling misunderstood as the significant other of a celebrity, the New…

HBO Wins Big at Golden Globes

HBO came out as the big winner among television networks at Sunday night’s presentation of the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards, taking home seven out of the 11 prizes in the TV categories, TelevisionWeek reports. Hollywood was eager to shrug…

U.S. Missing Al Jazeera Take on Gaza War

Al Jazeera’s English-language network has six reporters covering the fighting in Gaza, but the Arab channel is available to very few U.S. viewers, the New York Times says. With little success with securing traditional television distribution, Al Jazeera is putting…

Sci Fi Renews ‘Destination Truth’

Sci Fi Channel has renewed the reality program “Destination Truth” for a third season, which will begin in the fall, the Hollywood Reporter says. The network ordered nine new episodes of the show, which stars Josh Gates as he travels…

No More ‘Monk’-eying Around

Seven years of playing obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk is enough for Tony Shalhoub, the Associated Press says. “I think we’ve kind of explored all the avenues we could possibly cover, and as much as I like the show and working…