The Weinstein Co. and Lifetime will not be able to promote, market or exhibit “Project Runaway” until further notice after a judge granted NBC Universal’s request for an injunction against the studio. NBC Universal sued the Weinstein Co. after it…
Thursday night’s presidential address on the current economic crisis and rescue plan was watched by 52.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media numbers. President George W. Bush’s speech aired from about 9 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. EST on broadcast networks…
MobiTV will broadcast tonight’s presidential debate live without commercials beginning at 9 p.m. EDT right to your cell phone. Tonight’s debate and the other two scheduled for this campaign will be available to MobiTV subscribers on AT&T, Sprint, Alltel and…
Sci Fi Channel has tapped actor Steve Valentine to host its new reality competition series “Estate of Panic.” Mr. Valentine played Dr. Nigel Townsend for six years on NBC’s “Crossing Jordan” and has had guest roles on shows like “Chuck”…
Fox on Friday confirmed, with no reservations, that it has canceled “Do Not Disturb,” making the show the first casualty of the 5-day-old season. The network on Thursday had pulled the first-year comedy from its lineup but said it hadn’t…
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has decided to attend the first of three nationally televised presidential debates with Democratic candidate Barack Obama after earlier saying he wanted to delay the event to deal with the financial crisis facing the U.S. The…
Fox’s “Do Not Disturb” is checking out—for at least a week, and possibly for good. The network has decided to preempt next week’s installment of the 3-week-old comedy, replacing it with a repeat of the nearly-as-low-rated “’Til Death.” Preempting a…
Oxygen has acquired the off-network rights to reruns of The CW’s “America’s Next Top Model.” The NBC-owned cable network bought the rights to the full library of “Model,” including its current and future cycles, from CBS Television Distribution. Oxygen will…
Crown Media Holdings has renewed its distribution agreement with Charter Communications for Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movie Channel. Hallmark Channel, which is expected to show substantial increases in its subscription revenues, renewed nearly all of its other distribution agreements earlier…
Bloomberg Television has agreed to let Google sell some of its commercials through Google’s TV Ads platform, the companies said Thursday. Google, which dominates Internet search advertising and has been looking to crack the TV advertising market, last month made…