The Golden Globe nominations announced Thursday left out many of TV’s most watched and most acclaimed shows, the Los Angeles Times says. On the snub list: “Lost,” “Desperate Housewives,” “Two and a Half Men,” “The Wire,” “The Shield,” “Boston Legal,”…
Cable film network ReelzChannel canceled its flagship show “Dailies” and fired more than 40 people, the Los Angeles Times reports. The channel decided to depend solely on advertising, a move that’s backfiring as the economy tanks, the paper says. —Jon…
The new premium cable channel being launched by Viacom, Lionsgate and MGM will be called Epix, Media Post says. Studio 3 Partners, the company that operates the network, filed multiple trademark applications for the name, the Web site says. Viacom…
Spike’s coverage fo the Video Games Awards on Sunday will feature 10 trailers offering sneak peaks at new games, the New York Times says. The network treats the trailers as editorial content and picks which ones will air during the…
Oxygen has ordered eight hour-long episodes of “Addicted to Beauty,” a drama set in an “medi-spa” where customers come for Botox and other cosmetic treatments, the Hollywood Reporter says. The network is also developing four other programs, from one that…
Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes was named chairman of the media company, effective Jan. 1, Dow Jones reports. Bewkes succeeds Richard Parsons, chairman since 2003. —Jon Lafayette
CMT has renewed “My Big Redneck Wedding” for a third season and doubled the number of episodes to 16, the Hollywood Reporter says. The show, hosted by Tom Arnold, will begin its new season on Jan. 9. —Aimee Picchi
If Oscar De La Hoya retires, the pay-per-view boxing business will lose its biggest attraction ever, the New York Times reports. De La Hoya’s PPV bouts totaled $696.4 million in gross revenues. “Even when dominant figures retire, the sports don’t…
Dish Network and Young Broadcasting failed to renew their retransmission agreement, meaning programming on Young’s TV stations in 11 markets is no longer available to Dish subscribers, the satellite company said. Young is “demanding unreasonable contract terms and an excessive…
CNN’s Michael Ware says he is “not the same f*cking person” after reporting from the frontlines in Iraq, TVNewser reports, citing Ware’s recent profile in Men’s Journal magazine by Greg Veis. Staff sergeant David Bellavia is quoted as saying, “I…