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James Mooney, Former Head of Cable Organization NCTA and a Pioneer in Cable Deregulation, Dead at 69

James Mooney, who served as president and chief executive of what is now the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, has died, reports Multichannel News. He was 69. Mooney served as president and CEO of NCTA, then called the National Cable…

Larry Hagman to Appear on Reality Show Posthumously

Actor Larry Hagman, who died in November, will appear on a CBS reality show posthumously, reports EW.com’s Inside TV. Hagman, known for playing J.R. Ewing on “Dallas” and for starring years earlier in “I Dream of Jeannie,” will appear on…

Former President George H.W. Bush in Intensive Care

Former President George H.W. Bush has been placed in a hospital intensive care unit and is in "guarded condition," reports NBCNews.com. The former president is battling an elevated fever, the story notes. He has been in the Houston hospital since…

‘Office’ Episode Planned to Introduce Spiked ‘Farm’ Spinoff Will Still Air

"The Office" will still air a planted pilot designed to introduce the spinoff called "The Farm," which was passed over by NBC, reports TVLine.com. The episode was meant to serve as the launch episode for “The Farm” — a spinoff…

Kate Winslet Secretly Gets Married

Actress Kate Winslet got married in a secret ceremony earlier in December, reports People.com. Winslet married her boyfriend Ned Rocknroll, the piece reports. The ceremony was so secret that even the bride and groom’s parents didn’t know about it, the…

ABC Spurns Canceled Series, Yanks Remaining Episodes Off the Air

ABC has decided to pull the remaining episodes of a canceled drama series off the air as part of a lineup shuffle, Deadline.com reports. "666 Park Avenue,” which was set to air Sunday nights at 10 p.m. ET, is being…

With Actor’s 11th-Hour Signing, ‘How I Met Your Mother’ Comes Back From the Dead

CBS has confirmed that the sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” will be back for a ninth season after the network got actor Jason Segel to agree to one more year on the series, Deadline.com reports. The fate of the…

A Second Piers Morgan Petition Surfaces, Countering the One Seeking to Have Him Deported — But Morgan Won’t Be Flattered by This One, Either

Suddenly CNN host Piers Morgan is the hottest thing in online petitions. After one petition surfaced that seeks to have him deported from the U.S. back to his native U.K., as previously reported, a second petition is now circulating that…

New Unscripted Show About Baby Mamas

Oxygen has given a green light for production of a new unscripted project about “baby mamas,” Deadline.com reports. The one-hour special comes from former MTV honchos Tony DiSanto and Liz Gateley. The project has the working title “All My Babies’…

Gerry Anderson, Whose Children’s Puppet Adventure TV Shows Dominated the Genre in the Late 1960s, Dead at 83

If you were into puppet-oriented children’s adventure television shows in the late 1960s, you were familiar with the work of Gerry Anderson. Anderson, who created the science-fiction puppet dramas "Thunderbirds" and “Supercar,” along with a number of other successful shows,…