A spinoff to Cartoon Network’s “Total Drama Island” has been acquired by the cable network, Daily Variety reports. Like “Island,” “Total Drama Action” will take aim at the reality TV genre but, instead of an island, “Action” will have contestants…
MSNBC and anchor Keith Olbermann were slammed during a media event titled “Hollywood, America and Election ’08,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The news network and the newsman were taken to task because of their left-leaning election coverage and personal attacks…
Maria Grasso has officially joined OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, as was expected when it was reported last month that she was leaving Lifetime. Ms. Grasso was named senior VP for programming. She will work with Nina Wass, senior VP, creative…
E! Entertainment Television will premiere the reality competition series “Party Monsters: Cabo” on Dec. 2. The series takes nine party planners to the LG Villa in Cabo in a competition to see who can throw the best party for Hollywood…
Disney-ABC Television Group has made a deal with Verizon to make ABC shows available on video-on-demand to FiOS TV subscribers. Terms of the deal call for Verizon to disable the fast-forward button so that viewers cannot skip through the commercials…
Less than a week before Election Day, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama plans to appear on Comedy Central’s fake newscast “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” Wednesday, the network said today. Mr. Obama will appear via satellite from Florida,…
The NFL is starting to feel the effects of the economic downturn, with fourth-quarter television advertising sales down about 10%, according to ad buyers and network ad executives cited by Sports Business Journal. Buyers and sellers told the journal they’ve…
MSNBC beat CNN in the cable news prime-time rankings for the month of October, The Hollywood Reporter says. Although Fox News continues to lead the cable news channels, MSNBC edged out CNN for second place for the month during the…
CBS has pulled its freshman series “The Ex List” from this Friday’s schedule after the show ran its first episodes to lackluster ratings, TelevisionWeek reports. A&E has ordered a second season of “The Cleaner,” the network’s first original scripted series…
HBO Sports is in advanced talks to broadcast an early March tennis special at Madison Square Garden featuring what the channel hopes will be the previous four female Grand Slam winners, tennis and media sources told Sports Business Journal. HBO,…