Officials who worked with then-presidential candidate Al Gore dispute how an HBO film characterizes the 2000 election, the New York Times reports. Ex-Secretary of State Warren Christopher said “Recount,” which dramatizes the disputed Florida results, was “pure fiction” while Gore…
Donnie Wahlberg will star in and help produce a TNT drama about a Boston-based drug-enforcement officer who was a former war hero, the Hollywood Reporter says. Ex-“Law & Order” writer-producer Walon Green will write the show, tentatively titled “Morse Code,”…
ReelzChannel, which announces summer programming this week, will show specials on the new “Sex and the City” movie and “Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” among other films, this year, Daily Variety reports. The channel, started in 2006, is shown on…
John Malone’s Liberty Media dropped an appeal against a ruling allowing IAC/InterActiveCorp’s Barry Diller to break up that company into five parts, which cuts Malone’s IAC voting rights, Daily Variety reports. Liberty will have the right to have a representative…
Dish Network said yesterday it wants a partner for the mobile-video service it bought for $712 million earlier this year, Multichannel News reports. The company is also trying to find a profitable business model and wants to settle on technological…
EchoStar, spun off from Dish Network earlier this year, will introduce its first cable-television product at the Cable Show in New Orleans next week, Multichannel News reports. SlingModem will be have cable-modem and SlingBox functions, the newspaper says. –Danny King
Lifetime signed Mena Suvari and Matthew Modine to star in a movie based on the life of Las Vegas casino scion Ted Binion, the Hollywood Reporter says. The film, tentatively titled “Sex & Lies in Sin City,” will be produced…
Total revenue for the 10 largest stand-alone media, entertainment and communications companies rose to $59.9 billion during the first quarter of 2008, with profit before some costs at $16.7 billion, according to an analysis conducted by independent financial research provider…
Outdoor Channel clarified confusion over carriage of the channel on DirecTV, Multichannel News reports. Outdoor Channel Holdings said the satellite provider did not move the network and had always offered it on its sports tier, but the channel was mistakenly…
Dish Network plans to stop carrying the Rainbow Media Voom HD networks, having already cut 10 of the 15 networks, Multichannel News reports. The satellite provider claims Voom is in breach of its carriage deal, the newspaper says. The cutback…