The second-season premiere of “Army Wives” saw the series hit new records for Lifetime, becoming the most-watched and highest-rated original series in the network’s history. “Wives” returned for its second season June 8 in its 10 p.m. time slot, earning…
Discovery Communications has appointed two vice presidents in its licensing department. Julie Robertson and Jo Edwards have been named VP of domestic licensing and VP of international licensing, respectively. Ms. Robertson will manage Discovery’s domestic licensing enterprise and strategies, with…
Comedy Central has given Bobby Lee’s half-hour comedy a pilot order, the Hollywood Reporter says. Troy Miller, executive producer on HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords,” will direct and produce the program about Lee’s experiences living in a multicultural world, the…
Versus has locked up the Tour de France, one of the channel’s biggest events, with an extension of its deal to run through 2013, company executives said. “Signing a multiyear extension deal with the [Amaury Sport Organization, organizers of the…
Cable network Versus has reached a five-year, $27.5 million million deal to continue to televise the drug scandal scarred Tour de France bicycle race, the Wall Street Journal reports. The network plans to back the race, which drew high ratings…
More cable-television series are getting temporary moves to sister broadcast stations to either boost ratings and exposure or cheaply fill time slots, USA Today reports. This month, USA’s “Nashville Star,” TBS’s “The Bill Engvall Show” and Disney Channel’s ‘Camp Rock,”…
The quality of many cable-television shows trump that of broadcast-networking programming because cable networks get more time to develop series while networks rely more on reality shows because of the Writers Guild of America strike that ended earlier this year,…
GSN has not yet renewed two of its high rated power shows, leading to speculation the network’s new CEO may cancel them and return to programming more traditional game shows, the Hollywood Reporter says. “High Stakes Poker” and “World Poker…
CMT is launching a new reality shows featuring stars from its “Gone Country” series opening an inn, the Hollywood Reporter says. Maureen McCormick, Bobby Brown and Carnie Wilson will be the staff of “Outsider’s Inn,” which is currently shooting in…
The CNN Web site selling t-shirts with topical headlines received more than 1 million page views since it launched in April, though shirt sales are in the thousands, the New York Times reports. T-shirt headlines have ranged from “Obama Makes…