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Rosario T. Calabria on November 16, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Chief executive of MGM, Harry Sloan talked briefly at the European Media Leaders Summit in London about the planned “Hobbit” movie.
Sloan said that there will be two films, with the first being a direct adaption of The Hobbit and the second a new film which would draw from “footnotes and source material connecting The Hobbit [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 16, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Comcast-owned Versus, the former OLN network, will launch a high definition channel in January of next year that will offer regular Versus programming for half of the day and golf programming for the other.
From noon to 7:00 PM it will program golf programming from Comcast’s Golf Channel while normal OLN programming will air on the [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 16, 2006 at 9:40 pm
AOL is partnering with HBO to rebrand its current “AOL Comedy” broadband channel into “This Just In”, a humor site based around current events. It will re-launch sometime during the first quarter of 2007.
The site will also carry HBO branded original content.
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 16, 2006 at 9:36 pm
Food Network has announced a new series entitled “Dinner: Impossible” for a debut of January 24th.
The program features Robert Irvine (a chef to princes and presidents) and a team of sous chefs making meals in impossible situations, such as rushing to finish a dinner before being left at a train station.
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 16, 2006 at 9:33 pm
“Heroes” will air straight through in original programming, with no repeats, according to NBC. Eight episodes have aired so far with three more episodes scheduled for the fourth quarter. The series will then come back in January and run through the remaining original episodes.
Fox is considering doing the same thing with “Prison Break”. [...]
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 16, 2006 at 9:16 pm
Showtime has renewed “Weeds” for a third season, ordering 15 episodes for the critically acclaimed series.
The shows third season resumes production in the spring of next year in readiness for a summer premiere.
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Rosario T. Calabria on November 16, 2006 at 12:22 am
ESPN was again the top rated basic cable network in prime time, averaging a 2.9 household rating (2.65 million total households) and 3.49 million total viewers due to the strength of its still dominant football lineup.