The Food Network is hedging its bets this summer, bringing new hosts into the fold while backing them up with a few MVPs. Bobby Flay, host of a panoply of Food Network shows from “Iron Chef” to “Throwdown,” will add…
Discovery Communications has made a deal with Blockbuster for the retailer to sell Discovery’s programming on DVD. More than 2,500 Blockbuster stores will carry more than three dozen nonfiction titles from Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, Discovery Kids and the…
Cablevision Systems has added Versus and Golf Channel to the on-demand options available to its digital cable customers. Versus on Demand will offer subscribers sports programming including National Hockey League, international cycling, hunting, boxing and mixed martial arts. Golf Channel…
Don Imus, who took his morning talk show to radio station including WABC-AM in New York and cable network RFD-TV after being fired last year for his infamous description of women basketball players as “nappy-headed hos,” has made another controversial…
A final report from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth finds the average 12 to 20 year old viewer saw 301 ads for alcoholic beverages in 2007, up from 216 the previous year, the New York Times reports. According…
Showtime is developing a new half-hour series, “The Fall of Bob,” from George Clooney’s Smoke House company, Daily Variety reports. “Just Shoot Me’s” Danny Zucker is writing the script, which follow Bob as he narrates his life in a series…
This year’s MTV Video Music Awards will be held in Los Angeles for the first time in a decade, the Associated Press reports. The show is scheduled to air Sept. 7 from the Paramount Pictures lot after appearances in Las…
Disney is already planning a sequel to its hit movie musical, “Camp Rock,” which debuted to stellar ratings this past weekend, the Hollywood Reporter says. A script is already in development and Disney hopes to begin shooting in next spring…
A new documentary playing on HBO takes a look at a high school in Baltimore that is not meeting the standards prescribed in President Bush’s No Child Left Behind education program, the New York Times says. In the film, “Hard…
Comedian George Carlin, who died Sunday will receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor as previously announced by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Hollywood Reporter says. This will mark the first time the award…