Silver Spring iscovery Communications has announced that Discovery Channel’s next landmark natural history series, LIFE, from the makers of PLANET EARTH, will have its two-hour premiere across seven Discovery U.S. networks. In addition to Discovery Channel, LIFE will debut simultaneously on TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Investigation Discovery, Planet Green and Discovery Health Channel [...]

Silver Spring : Discovery Communications has announced the global launch of TLC, one of the fastest-growing female lifestyle channels in the United States and home to top-rated shows including LA Ink, Cake Boss, and Say Yes to the Dress. The international version of TLC will have its global launch on March 4 in Norway and [...]

New York :Spike TV has picked up a second season of 13 episodes of its first original scripted comedy series, “Blue Mountain State,” it was announced today by Kevin Kay, Spike TV president. Produced by Varsity Pictures’ Brian Robbins and Sharla Sumpter-Bridgett and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), “Blue Mountain State” launched in January and has averaged [...]

Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) has renewed Telepictures Productions’ Emmy Award–winning talk program “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” for three additional seasons on the owned-and-operated television stations of the NBC Local Media Division. The joint announcement was made today by Ken Werner, President, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, and John Wallace, President, NBC Local Media [...]

New York: Comedy Central Records’ release of Stephen Colbert’s “A Colbert Christmas – The Greatest Gift of All!” was honored with the Grammy Award last night as Comedy Album of the Year. The awards are given by The Recording Academy, established in 1957 to honor excellence in music and recordings.
Comedy Central Records released songs from [...]

Los Angeles: The Oprah Winfrey Network has acquired the rights to Family Affair, an independent feature length documentary film written and produced by Chico David Colvard. Family Affair, an intensely personal documentary that examines Mr. Colvard’s compelling family history, garnered great attention at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival where it had its world premiere.
Family Affair [...]

New York:With the late-night wars in full swing, it only makes sense that Spike TV, a network for guys, would jump into the ring. Spike TV is partnering with Thom Beers, Philip Segal and Original Productions, a FremantleMedia Company (“1000 Ways to Die,” “Deadliest Catch,” “Ice Road Truckers), to develop a weekly half-hour series that [...]

Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO), the U.S.-based premium cable television programming subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., announced today it that it has acquired 100% ownership in its Central European joint-venture company, HBO Central Europe, LLC (“HBO Central Europe”). Previously, HBO Central Europe was jointly held under an equity structure by subsidiaries of HBO, Sony Pictures [...]

London: Bad news for the fans of the popular US TV show “Ugly Betty” as the producers have decided to wrap it up after its ongoing fourth season comes to an end.
 
The cult comedy, which started in 2006, will wrap up in April 2010, reports imdb.com.
“We’ve mutually come to the difficult decision to make this [...]

As part of a continuing strategy to expand its slate of original programming, TNT has given the greenlight to three new original series: a bold alien-invasion series from DreamWorks Television and Steven Spielberg that stars Noah Wyle (ER, TNT’s The Librarian movies); DELTA BLUES (working title), an offbeat series starring Jason Lee (My Name Is [...]