HBO next month will start its eighth year of Bob Costas’ “Costas Now” next month by airing the show live, Multichannel News reports. Meanwhile, NBC later this month will broadcast MSNBC’s “Countdown With Keith Olbermann” to mark that show’s fifth…
HBO comedy “Flight of the Conchords” won the international prize at the Royal Television Society’s program awards in London, Daily Variety reports. The show, which airs on BBC4 in the U.K., beat “Ugly Betty” and “Heroes,” the newspaper says.
“Mr. Show” creators Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are producing a new comedy pilot for HBO that will star Cross, the Hollywood Reporter says. The pilot of “David’s Situation” will be directed by Odenkirk and will start filming in May,…
Intelsat, the largest operator of television satellites, will launch its Galaxy-18 satellite in May, Multichannel News reports. The company will launch its Galaxy-19 in the third quarter and Intelsat 16, which will support high-definition television in Latin America, next year,…
Jane Root, formerly general manager of Discovery Channel, may be considered a replacement for Carolyn Strauss as president of HBO Entertainment, the Hollywood Reporter says. As former controller of BBC 2, Root worked with HBO to produce the series “Rome,”…
The Federal Communications Commission will extend by four years a deadline for U.S. satellite-television services DirecTV and Dish Networks to broadcast all local channels in high definition, Multichannel News reports. Dish and DirecTV will have until 2013, or four years…
FX said “30 Days,” featuring “Super Size Me” creator Morgan Spurlock, will return for a third season in June, Daily Variety reports. Episodes will have Spurlock working in a West Virginia coal mine and living on a Native American reservation,…
Lifetime executives declined to pick up “Men in Trees” and “October Road” after ABC considered sending the two series to its cable sibling, the Hollywood Reporter says. ABC may still pick up another season of “Men in Trees” but is…
The Disney Channel ordered a reality series chronicling the lives of pop-rock group the Jonas Brothers, the Hollywood Reporter says. “Jonas Brothers: Living the Dream” is scheduled to debut by June, the newspaper reports.
Clear Channel Communications’ stock fell almost 9% yesterday after questions arose on whether its buyout would be completed by a deadline at the end of next week, the Wall Street Journal says. Private-equity executives said banks may be delaying the…