An Oscar-nominated director will adapt the classic Jacqueline Susann novel “Valley of the Dolls” as a series for NBC, Deadline.com reports. Lee Daniels, an Oscar-nominated director for the 2009 movie “Precious,” will write and direct the project, and will executive…
Fox has a lot riding on the Sept. 26, 2011 rollout of a show with what appears to be a can’t-miss formula: the combination of Steven Spielberg and dinosaurs, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show is the pricey, high-concept…
A funk pioneer who was one of the most high-profile figures in the music scene of the late 1960s has fallen on hard times and is living out of a van, the New York Post reports. Sly Stone, known as…
In a first for a live Fox reality show, the network is making “The X Factor” available on VOD through major cable operators Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox Communications, Multichannel News reports. The VOD launch started Sept. 22, after…
Simon Cowell has his sights set on branching out into a new TV genre after one of his shows got beat by another show in Australia, The Sun reports. The talent competition guru plans to move into cooking shows, after…
Even though the new fall television season has just started, it’s possible to get a sense of which shows are on the cancellation track and which ones will survive, writes Joe Adalian in New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. On the…
Andrea Wong, the former CEO of Lifetime and before that a top executive at ABC, has gotten a major job at Sony. Or, more accurately, two jobs, reports our friend Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. One of the jobs is President…
An Alabama man who became an “accidental” Internet sensation last year has been arrested, TMZ.com reports. Antoine Dodson was reportedly stopped by police Sunday in his home town of Huntsville, Ala., for violating a local noise ordinance by playing his…
CBS’s "Two and a Half Men" is looking for ways to keep the momentum going after its high-rated season premiere, and an upcoming guest appearance could help, reports EW.com’s Inside TV blog. Joe Manganiello, who plays the werewolf Alcide on…
As "Dancing with the Stars" has matured, ABC’s six-year-old dancing competition has evolved to the point where it’s sometimes not so easy to tell who the show’s stars are: the "stars" or their dancing professional partners, writes Brooks Barnes in…