Daphne Zuniga and Greg Evigan have joined the cast of the Hallmark Channel TV movie “Mail Order Bride,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Zuniga will play a woman who pretends to be a mail-order bride in order to escape from a…
VH1 has purchased reruns of ABC’s “The Bachelor” to repurpose on the cable channel, Daily Variety reports. More than 130 hours of the program will begin airing on VH1 the first week of June, the newspaper says. —Vlada Gelman
HBO signed Kelly Preston to star in the Barry Sonnenfeld-directed comedy pilot “Suburban Shootout,” the Hollywood Reporter says. Meanwhile, Adam Goldberg will be featured in the ABC drama/comedy “The Unusuals,” the newspaper says. Finally, USA Network brought on Danielle Nicolet…
Dish Network won a piracy lawsuit against DirecTV and NDS Group Plc, though the award was cut from the $1 billion sought by Dish to $1,500, the Wall Street Journal reports. The five-year-old suit was filed after NDS, majority owned…
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia sold three compilation specials to Fine Living, Daily Variety reports. The specials, to run each Saturday starting this month, feature subjects such as gardening and outdoor grilling, the newspaper says. –Danny King
Warner Home Video promoted Mike Saksa, Jeff Baker and Jeff Brown to help run its New Line unit, Daily Variety reports. Meanwhile, Cablevision’s Rainbow Media Holdings promoted Jeremy Elice to vice president of original programming at its AMC network while…
“Project Runway” is being courted for print partnerships by five magazines — Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar and In Style — Women’s Wear Daily reports, citing unnamed sources. Producers The Weinstein Co. are said be holding out for “the…
International Networks, a leading aggregator of multi-ethnic programming, will represent five of Star’s Indian channels to MSOs in the United States. The channels will be included on International Networks’ transponder and be available to cable operators immediately. “We look forward…
Music Choice’s on-demand network will join Cablevision Systems Corp.’s lineup of free-on-demand programming, Multichannel News reports. The channel will be available to iO TV digital-cable customers, the newspaper says. Music Choice will reach 35 million on-demand households with the addition…
Ohio cable operator Buckeye CableSystem has agreed to carry ION Media Network’s digital suite and renew ION Television Network, Multichannel News reports. ION also recently made carriage deals with SES Americom’s IP-Prime and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative. —Vlada Gelman