Sketch comedy fans can prepare to sing praises for HBO’s “Little Britain USA,” premiering on the premium cable channel Sunday night, USA Today says. The newspaper describes the show, inspired by the British series, as “‘Monty Python’ with fewer people,…
After years of hotel hijinks on “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody,” twin actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse are set to take their adventures out to sea in Disney Channel’s new series “The Suite Life on Deck,” the New…
Michael C. Hall, star of Showtime’s “Dexter,” says the series will enter “unchartered territory” when it returns for its third season this Sunday, USA Today reports. Hall says his title character will delve deeper into his emotional background after developing…
HBO has its eye on a series based on Tom Wolfe’s novel “I Am Charlotte Simmons,” Daily Variety reports. The network has optioned the 2004 best-seller and is in the early stages of developing the project. Producers Tina Brown, former…
Celluloid and space aren’t the only places Stephen Colbert will be immortalized, says PublisherWeekly.com’s The Beat. Soon the host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” will be found on the pages of a Marvel Amazing Spider-Man comic book—issue #573, to…
Jeff Wachtel, executive VP of original programming at USA Network and co-head of content at Universal Cable Productions, will be honored by Los Angeles’ Zimmer Children’s Museum, says the Hollywood Reporter. The museum’s Discovery Awards honor “individuals who are builders,…
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert talk politics, Palin and presidents in the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. The comedic news anchors also took the time to re-create the controversial New Yorker magazine cover from earlier this year featuring…
Oxygen has acquired the off-network rights to reruns of The CW’s “America’s Next Top Model.” The NBC-owned cable network bought the rights to the full library of “Model,” including its current and future cycles, from CBS Television Distribution. Oxygen will…
Crown Media Holdings has renewed its distribution agreement with Charter Communications for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel. Hallmark Channel, which is expected to show substantial increases in its subscription revenues, renewed nearly all of its other distribution agreements earlier…
Rachel Maddow is a welcome change of pace to the cable news networks’ roster of “white male divas,” the New York Times says. MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” provides viewers with similar news and commentary about politics, but her “calming”…