Former HBO chief Chris Albrecht is leaving IMG, less than a year after he joined the management and production company. In a statement, IMG said that Mr. Albrecht “acknowledges that IMG has world-class media production and distribution businesses in both…
“Larry King Live” will pay tribute to Bernie Mac on today’s show, Multichannel News reports. Ashton Kutcher, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, Camille Winbush and Dee Dee Davis will appear on the program, the newspaper says. Mac died…
Colin Hanks will guest star in three episodes of AMC’s “Mad Men,” the Chicago Tribune reports. Hanks will play a young priest beginning with the Aug. 17 episode, the newspaper notes. —Vlada Gelman
Ben Lyons will host Nickelodeon’s “My Family’s Got GUTS,” an update of the network’s ’90s extreme-sports competition show “GUTS,” the New York Daily News reports. Lyons, an E! Network film critic and entertainment correspondent, recently was named the new co-host…
IFC has acquired all three seasons of British comedy “The IT Crowd,” Daily Variety reports. The series will debut Sept. 29 on IFC, the newspaper says. Universal Media Studios and FremantleMedia North America produced a U.S. version that NBC passed…
Comcast and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Studios are teaming up for Impact, a video-on-demand channel devoted to action programming. Impact will air action films and television shows, with many to be available in high definition. The VOD channel’s programming will feature the…
HBO is releasing the first four seasons of its Emmy Award-winning series “Entourage” through Apple’s iTunes store over the next few weeks in anticipation of the show’s fifth-season premiere. Seasons one and two are available for download now for $1.99…
Sundance Channel will add the British comedy “Pulling” to its Sunday night comedy block beginning Sept. 7, the Hollywood Reporter says. The six-episode series revolves around a woman who decides during her bachelorette party not to get married and moves…
Fox Reality Channel’s “Gimme My Reality Show” has tapped Daily Variety TV editor Michael Schneider, producer Scott Sternberg and “America’s Next Top Model” winner Adrianne Curry as its judges, Daily Variety reports. The winner of the series, which features small-time…
A telephone poll conducted by Beta Research Corp. found that Fox Movie Channel and Crime & Investigation Network are the top-ranked emerging networks among viewers, Multichannel News reports. Sixty-five percent of those polled were interested in seeing Fox Movie Channel,…