HBO ordered pilot episodes of “Suburban Shootout,” directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and Darren Star’s “Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl,” the Hollywood Reporter says. “Shootout,” written by Michelle Ashford, is based on a U.K. series that ran for two seasons…
Great American Country next month will start airing “Drafting Partners,” in which a NASCAR driver and a country-music artist talk about their respective professions, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Music videos will be introduced as an artist and driver meet at…
The number of visitors to Comcast’s Fancast Web portal doubled the company’s February expectations while page views were five times more than the company forecasted, Multichannel News reports. Comcast declined to provide specific numbers, Multichannel News says.
NBC’s “Today” will help promote the “Desperate Landscape” series from Scripps Network’s DIY by having its host Jason Cameron find and make over so-called winners of an ugly-yard search, Broadcasting & Cable reports. Cameron will appear on “Today” show segments…
Nets Try to Break Boom-Bust Cycle
Data from Nielsen Co. for 2008 shows that Fox has maintained its first-place position among cable news networks with an average of 1.83 million total viewers in prime time, a 14% increase from the comparable period in 2007. An average…
Segment Helps Families Reunite With Institutionalized Loved Ones
Series Aim to Ease Fears by Showing What Happens in O.R.
EchoStar and Cox Communications were among winning bidders in a Federal Communications Commission auction of governmental airwaves that raised $19.6 billion, Multichannel News reports. EchoStar and Cox, which will pay a combined $1 billion, helped the FCC raise almost double…
Cablevision Systems is considering a bid on Long Island newspaper Newsday, which may be put up for sale by Tribune Co., the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people it didn’t identify. Sam Zell, who took Tribune private three months ago,…