A&E’s Tuesday night special on the arrest and possible extradition of Duane “Dog” Chapman broke ratings records for the channel. The special, “Dog: The Family Speaks,” was seen by 4.5 million viewers. That ties the network’s previously most-seen program, a…
G4 is teaming with Mel Brooks for an animated series based on the 1987 movie “Spaceballs.” The network has ordered 13 episodes of “Spaceballs: The Animated Series,” which will be produced by Brooksfilms Limited and Berliner Film Company, and will…
As expected, HBO has renewed its hit series “Entourage” for a fourth season, the network announced Wednesday. The network has ordered 12 new episodes to run in 2007. In addition, seven holdover episodes from the third season will be televised…
YouTube on Wednesday launched a contest, The YouTube Underground, which aims to offer exposure to unsigned bands hoping to get discovered. The contest, sponsored by Cingular, is a user-generated content promotion and the site’s first major music campaign and is…
ABC won Tuesday night in adults 18 to 49 with a special two-hour edition of reality series “Dancing With the Stars,” but Fox’s medical drama “House” walked away as the most-watched program for the night in the demographic.At 8 p.m….
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” starts its 32nd season Sept. 30 with a cast that will look familiar but smaller. Comedian Dane Cook will host the season opener, which will feature The Killers as the musical act.Chris Parnell, Horatio Sanz, Finesse…
In its second day in syndication, King World’s daytime talk show “Rachael Ray” attracted a bigger audience while viewers defected from NBC Universal’s “The Megan Mullally Show.”“Rachael” scored a weighted metered-market average 2.9 household rating and 10 share in 55…
King World’s off-network debut of the weekend hour “CSI: Miami” was the top-rated drama in syndication for the week ended Sept. 17. For its syndie debut, “CSI: Miami” garnered a 4.6 household rating and 5 share combined weighted average in…
Fox Television Stations plans to make dating a multiplatform business that will attract viewers to a program titled “My Dating Place” and drive traffic to stations’ Web sites by bringing together people in their hometowns. The show, which will air…
Cellular provider Cingular Wireless said Tuesday its early work with video-on-demand advertising has outperformed its expectations by more than a third. The advertiser began a major campaign at the start of the year across VOD networks including RipeTV, Havoc, Music…