HBO last night debuted its weekly documentary series with a feature on controversial director Roman Polanski, the Los Angeles Times reports. Other subjects of the series, which concludes Aug. 25, include Heidi Fleiss and a military recruiter at Louisiana high…
HBO ordered a half-hour comedy pilot about a Brooklyn writer who tries to recover from a breakup by becoming a private eye and living as a character from a Raymond Chandler novel, Daily Variety reports. “Bored to Death” is created…
CNN’s ratings jumped 50% from a year earlier to a prime-time average of 1.11 million viewers during the Democratic primary as its audience growth outstripped that of Fox News and MSNBC, the Los Angeles Times reports. CNN, shooting for the…
Time Warner Cable plans to almost double its New York-area high-definition channels to 100 by the end of the year in an attempt to stave off competition from Verizon’s FiOS fiber-optic service, Multichannel News reports, citing TWC Chief Operating Officer…
HBO will rebroadcast the 2003 documentary “Jim McKay: My World in My Words” three times between June 12 and June 16 in tribute to the award-winning sportscaster who died June 7, Broadcasting & Cable reports. On the other end of…
Discovery Communications’ new Planet Green network this weekend will begin airing a documentary featuring a Kansas town destroyed by a 2007 tornado that’s being rebuilt in an energy-efficient manner, the New York Times reports. Greensburg, Kansas, where 11 people were…
The new season of “The Shield” will premiere Sept. 2, according to the FX Web site, the Chicago Tribune reports. The upcoming season will be the show’s last, the newspaper notes. —Vlada Gelman
BBC America plans a summer airing for a documentary about Alain Robert, who free-climbed the New York Times building in Times Square last week, the New York Post reports. “The Human Spider,” which premiered in April in Britain, will air…
FX has canceled “Dirt,” according to its star-producer Courteney Cox Arquette, TV Guide reports. Cox said she and husband David Arquette are developing other projects through their production company Coquette, the magazine notes. —Vlada Gelman
The city of Costa Mesa, Calif., may follow in the footsteps of Los Angeles and sue Time Warner Cable, Multichannel News reports. City attorney Kimberly Hall Barlow has requested a copy of the L.A. lawsuit to assess if suing would…