Actor Dennis Hopper has joined the cast of Starz Entertainment’s first original drama series, “Crash,” premiering in October. Based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name, the series will explore social tolerance in America through an ensemble of characters…
Verizon Communications will add more than 60 channels to its FiOS lineup this summer, including at least 25 high-definition channels, Multichannel News reports. Among the channels to be offered in HD are Lifetime, Animal Planet, TLC, Science Channel, Smithsonian Channel…
Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group and publisher Glu Mobile have launched a mobile phone game for the Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The downloadable game is available for purchase at around $3 to play for a…
DirecTV is opposing a proposed regulation by the Federal Communications Commission that would require the company to provide duplicative carriage of digital TV stations signals in high-definition and standard-definition formats, Multichannel News reports. The satellite provider argued that the rule…
HBO executives Maud Nadler and Julie Goldstein are in discussions to decide whether they will leave the company or move to other roles within the pay cable network, Daily Variety reports. Nadler and Goldstein worked on theatrical projects at HBO…
CNN Tuesday night had higher ratings for Barack Obama’s victory speech than ABC, marking just the second time a cable channel trumped a broadcast network, the New York Times reports. ABC, the only broadcast network to cut into regular programming…
A lawsuit filed against Fox News by a Maine school official was thrown out, saying airing 2007 parody story fake-quoting the official as fact was done without malice, the Associated Press reports. Fox ran a retraction after the official, Lewiston,…
Joe Scarborough’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC is generating ratings similar to what “Imus in the Morning” was getting when radio host Don Imus was fired after some racially offensive comments last year, the New York Times reports. The host, a…
Kyra Sedgwick of “The Closer” leads a group of actresses portraying female detectives who regularly appear on Emmy-nomination lists, the Los Angeles Times reports. All of the broadcast networks and each version of “Law & Order” feature female detectives either…
Hugh Rowland, featured in the History show “Ice Road Truckers,” said on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien” that the producers of the show promised him a lease on a new rig, the New York Post reports. Rowland said he agreed…