Fox has given a pilot production commitment to "Fringe" creator J.J. Abrams and executive producer J.H. Wyman for a futuristic drama, reports Deadline.com. In what was called a competitive situation, Fox won the project, described as an action-filled police drama…
Christina Ricci has been cast in a series role that will mark her first TV job since the spectacular failure of ABC’s period piece “Pan Am” earlier this year. Ricci will guest-star on the fourth season of CBS’s "The Good…
ABC’s syndicated daytime program "Live with Kelly and Michael" got a boost from the debut of new co-host Michael Strahan, with its audience jumping 44% from a year earlier, reports Bloomberg. Tuesday’s program, the first installment that included former New…
An April 2013 premiere is expected for an action series bought by the Syfy cable channel, Deadline.com reports. The series is the British show “Sinbad.” “With its strong production values and rich story, ‘Sinbad’ will be a terrific addition to…
"Oscar-winning ‘Crash’ writer-director Paul Haggis has confirmed for me the story of Naz Boniadi, the beautiful Iranian-born actress whom Scientology tried to groom as Tom Cruise’s girlfriend in 2004-2005. Vanity Fair has just released a teaser of their extraordinary story…
Robert De Niro, who has won two Oscars for acting ("Raging Bull," "The Godfather, Part 2"), and who has directed two movies ("A Bronx Tale" in 1993 and "The Good Shepherd" in 2006), will direct his first TV project, our…
Behind-the-scenes TV icon Chuck Lorre, whose media empire already includes more hit TV comedies than he can easily keep track of, is mapping plans to expand into dramas and features. Deadline.com reports that the man behind “Two and a Half…
TBS is doing well with its return to half-hour sitcoms, packaging its originals with a strong off-network series, Deadline.com reports. The cable channel underscored that success by renewing the freshman comedy “Sullivan & Son,” exec produced by Vince Vaughn. The…
Fresh off the success of having the summer’s top-rated cable reality series in adults 18-49, VH1 has picked up a new reality competition series, Deadline.com reports. The new series, “Model Employee,” features eight models competing for the opportunity to become…
The iconic Dos Equis advertising spokesman dubbed “the most interesting man in the world” — played by American actor Jonathan Goldsmith — keeps busy doing a lot of things, but one of them isn’t tweeting. The reason? Essentially, he’s too…