An actress who appeared on HBO’s "The Wire" has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin, reports the Associated Press. Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, 31, entered the plea in Baltimore a day before her trial was slated to begin. Judge Lawrence…
A cable channel that is a joint venture of Comcast, Lionsgate and Sony Pictures announced that it has greenlighted its first original scripted series, B&C reports. FEARnet gave the go-ahead to “Holliston,” a show about two friends who want to…
Carolyn Chambers, a pioneering cable executive and the founder and chairwoman of Chambers Communications, died Monday of cancer, Multichannel News reports. She was 79. The story reports: “Chambers, who among many accomplishments served on the boards of the National Cable…
CBS is in negotiations to buy a one-hour crime drama script from "True Blood" writer Chris Offutt, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is described as "House" meets "Walker, Texas Ranger.” The drama focuses on a Texas Ranger who…
After a series of delays marked by difficult contract talks, production finally got under way Monday on the fifth season of AMC’s “Mad Men,” reports the Los Angeles Times’ Show Tracker blog. Little is known about any possible directions the…
As News Corp. seeks to regain investor confidence amid a high-profile phone-hacking probe, the company is considering raising its quarterly dividend by 20% when it reports quarterly earnings, according to Bloomberg. The dividend may rise to 9 cents a share…
HBO’s "Game of Thrones" has added two more cast members to the show for its second season, reports TVGuide.com. They are Roy Dotrice, who will play Pyromancer Hallyne, and Hannah Murray, who will play Gilly, the story notes. Dotrice also…
Media stocks were not spared Monday as the stock market suffered a steep decline. U.S. stocks had their worst one-day drop since December 2008, Bloomberg reported, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average off 633 points on news of Standard &…
In the latest twist in the saga of Charlie Sheen and "Two and a Half Men," Sheen had a surprising reaction to word that his character, Charlie Harper, will be eulogized on the CBS show when the season premiere features…
ABC’s new drama “Pan Am” is making a point of re-creating the mood of the 1960s, much in the way that the show it’s often compared to — AMC’s “Mad Men” — has succeeded in capturing the feel of that…