Sundance Channel has picked up Peacock Productions’ “Eco-Trip: The Real Cost of Living,” Daily Variety reports. The series, from NBC’s nonfiction division, will follow everyday objects from creation to disposal and their impact on the planet and environment, the trade…
Valerie Bertinelli, who shot to fame as a teen on the sitcom “One Day at a Time,” plays the down-to-earth Midwestern woman who looks after a post-rehab Lindsay Lohan-type starlet in the Lifetime movie “True Confessions of a Hollywood Starlet,”…
BBC America is launching another series dealing with issues involving time travel, the New York Times says. In “Primeval,” England is threatened by prehistoric creatures that escaped the past. “It definitely won’t make you forget about “Lost,” the paper says.
NBC Universal, Dish Network and interactive TV company Ensequence have teamed to offer interactive Olympics coverage to Dish subscribers, the Hollywood Reporter says. Viewers of Dish’s “iTV mosaic” will be able to watch a multiple-screen showcase of coverage from CNBC,…
MSNBC will air a two-hour post-Olympics show weekdays at 5 p.m. starting Monday, TVNewser reports. Tamron Hall will anchor from New York, while Tiki Barber and Jenna Wolfe will anchor from Beijing, the Web site says.
HBO will make the season premiere of “Hard Knocks: Training Camp With the Dallas Cowboys” available for free on HBO.com, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The episode, which premiered Wednesday, will be up for one week starting Friday, the newspaper says….
AMC will air “Cinemania” during commercial breaks every Thursday evening beginning tonight, Multichannel News reports. The game show, hosted by Regan Burns, will feature two movie fans competing for prizes by answering trivia questions about that night’s film, the newspaper…
Music network Fuse and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 have teamed to bring the network’s “Summer of Music” series to Xbox Live Marketplace users, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The free service, featuring artist interviews and festival coverage, will be available through late…
Neighbors of “The Hills’” Lauren Conrad are upset over the commotion and disruption caused by the MTV production, the Los Angeles Daily News reports. The neighborhood has been swamped with paparazzi, and residents claim the production has welcomed them with…