GSN will help produce updated versions of game shows “The Dating Game” and “The Newlywed Game,” the Hollywood Reporter says. The shows will include such touches as online dating sites and the pairing of current contestants verses contestants from the…
Ex-“Sopranos” writer Terence Winter will pen Martin Scorsese’s new HBO series, Daily Variety reports. “Boardwalk Empire,” about Atlantic City’s development into a gambling center during the early 20th century, will be produced by Mark Wahlberg and Stephen Levinson, the newspaper…
While HBO hasn’t officially ordered a second season of its critical darling “In Treatment,” it is making moves that indicate the series will be back, the Los Angeles Times says. HBO has added a new show runner for the show,…
Stephen Colbert was given an award at Princeton University that was mounted on a mirror, the Associated Press reports. “I have to say I’ve never seen anything more beautiful,” Mr. Colbert told students a day before their graduation.
Hulk Hogan’s son, Nick Bollea, ask a judge to consider alternatives to his current solitary confinement at Pinellas County Jail in Florida, the Associated Press says. Mr. Bollea pleased no contest to causing a crash that seriously injured a friend….
Showtime and CBS Sports are teaming up to bring the NFL studio show “Inside the NFL” to the cable network. “Inside,” produced by CBS Sports and NFL Films, is set for a Sept. 10 premiere on Showtime, where it will…
The second season DVD release of “The Boondocks” will include two unaired episodes that took aim at Black Entertainment Television and its executives, the Los Angeles Times reports. The episodes attack what the show views as the network’s harmful negative…
The season-two finale of Showtime’s “The Tudors” saw a massive ratings jump over the show’s final episode in 2007. The 9 p.m. telecast pulled in 852,000 viewers, marking an 83% increase from last season’s finale, which drew 465,000. The telecast…
The fifth-season premiere of WE tv’s “Bridezillas” on Sunday garnered 1 million total viewers, making it the highest-rated premiere episode of the series, according to Nielsen Media Research. The broadcast attracted a 0.8 household rating, up 21% by that measure…
Animal Planet will premiere “Extraordinary Animals,” narrated by William Shatner, on June 13, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The series chronicles animals with unusual abilities and talents, such as a piano-playing cat and an elephant that paints with her trunk, the…