The Southeastern Conference will be making a decision on what to do with its television and other media rights this fall as deal with CBS, ESPN, Raycom Sports and FSN South expire at the end of the year, the Associated…
Music star Chris Brown is teaming up with producers J.D. Roth and Mark Burnett for a new dance competition TV series that will be pitched to broadcast and cable networks, Daily Variety reports. The show, which is still untitled, will…
A group of protesters gathered outside the Fox News Channel’s offices in New York claiming that the network’s reporting about presumed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been racist, Reuters reports. The activists, led by MoveOn.org and ColorOfChange.org, had a…
SportsNet New York made a deal with the Big East conference that will allow it to cover more college football and basketball over the next five seasons, the New York Times says. SNY will become the exclusive home of Rutgers…
After five weeks of trying to get one customer’s TV, phone and Internet service working, Comcast found the solution to the problem: it hadn’t run cable lines to the customer’s house, according to the Washington Post. The tale is an…
Up-and-coming Disney Channel star Selena Gomez, of “Wizards of Waverly Place” fame, celebrated her 16th birthday with a new recording deal with Hollywood Records, E! reports. Gomez has been on the rise toward tween superstardom and is speculated to be…
AT&T said it had about 550,000 subscribers for its U-verse fiber-optic television service at the end of the second quarter and will have more than 1 million subscribers by the end of the year, the Hollywood Reporter says. Such growth…
Sarah Jessica Parker’s production company will produce an artist-competition reality show for Bravo, TV Guide reports. “American Artist” will feature 12 contestants competing in fields such as photography, sculpture and painting, TV Guide says. —Danny King
In Cartoon Network’s animated sequel “Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II,” Carrie Fisher and Billy Dee Williams will voice the characters they played in the “Star Wars” movies, E! Online reports. Seth Green will return to direct the sequel, with…
MTV will air a special episode of “The Hills” compiling the series’ best on-camera moments, E! Online reports. The show will air “just days” before the Aug. 18 premiere of the new season, the Web site says. —Danny King