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‘Doctor Who’ TV Movie Casts ‘Harry Potter’ Actor

The "Doctor Who" television movie "An Adventure in Space and Time" has cast the "Harry Potter" film actor David Bradley, who played Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 90-minute TV movie will begin filming next month…

What Will the Other Networks Air During the Super Bowl?

When the Super Bowl airs Sunday on CBS, the other television networks will deploy a "run for the hills" strategy, reports the New York Post. The night’s most popular shows will almost all disappear from TV, although some programs will…

ABC Moves Forward With Show Based on Disneyland Ride

ABC is moving ahead with a project based on a Disneyland theme park ride, EW.com’s Inside TV reports. The network gave a pilot order to "Big Thunder," based on Disneyland’s Big Thunder Mountain, the story reports. The logline says, "When…

Starz Developing What It Calls a ‘Gritty,’ ‘Unflinching’ Ballet Drama — and They Mean It; Show Has ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Reservoir Dogs’ in Its Bloodlines

Starz is developing what it calls a "gritty" and "unflinching" ballet drama, reports New York Magazine’s Vulture blog. The untitled show tracks a ballerina with a dark past who joins a New York dance company. "Breaking Bad" co-executive producer Moira…

YouTube to Introduce Paid Subscriptions

YouTube is getting ready to debut paid subscriptions for individual channels this spring, reports Advertising Age. The goal is to lure content producers, advertising money and viewers from traditional television, the story notes. "As of now it appears that the…

Showtime — on a Ratings Roll — Renews Sunday Comedy Block

Showtime, which has seen a number of key shows post ratings gains, has renewed its entire Sunday comedy block, giving renewals to "Californication," "House of Lies" and "Shameless," reports EW.com’s Inside TV. All three shows are performing better than last…

Barbara Walters Released From Hospital

Barbara Walters has returned home after being hospitalized for more than a week and after a variety of reports — not all of them accurate — about her health. TVNewser.com reports that the ABC News fixture, 83, had traveled to…

Season-Two Premiere of ‘Dallas’ Plays to a Smaller Audience

TNT’s two-hour premiere of the second season of "Dallas" saw its viewer numbers drop significantly from where the show left off last summer, B&C reports. The drama drew 2.98 million viewers to its second-season return, down 31% from where it…

Shazam! A Marriage and a Divorce. Huge Sitcom Star of Days Gone By, Now 82, Has Married His Gay Partner in Seattle. Separately, Ashley Judd and Her Race Driver Husband Decide to End 11-Year Marriage

"The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years," reports the Associated Press, adding that the "Hawaii News Now reported that Jim Nabors [who played Gomer Pyle…

Future Oscar Gold for Ari Gold? Long-Running Former HBO Series Gets Green Light to Be Made Into Feature Film

" ‘Aquaman’ star Vinnie Chase is back, baby," reports Mike Fleming Jr. at Deadline.com, continuing, "Warner Bros. has tonight [Jan. 29, 2013] given the green light on a movie version of ‘Entourage,’ the HBO series that ran from 2004-2011. Writes…