Reuters - NBC and the NFL will stream
online the complete "Sunday Night Football" season, the first
time a complete NFL game has ever been available on the Web in
the United States. -- read full article
Reuters - Steve Keller and Mike
Stone are back on "The Streets of San Francisco." CBS is
developing an update of the classic 1970s cop series starring
Michael Douglas and Karl Malden. -- read full article
Reuters - ABC has teamed with Canadian
Broadcasting Corp. on the new sitcom "18 to Life," the first
time that a U.S. and Canadian network have collaborated on a
comedy in the pilot stage. -- read full article
Reuters - On the heels of its 16
Emmy nominations, including best drama series, AMC's "Mad Men"
opened its second season with 2 million viewers Sunday.
Reuters - The paradox of Starz's
"In the Gutter," a semi-academic look at gross-out humor in the
movies from its slapstick origins to the likes of "Borat" and
"Knocked Up," is that many of those most enamored with the
genre are probably least likely to be attracted to a lesson in
its history.
AP - A former dormitory matron is going on trial Tuesday accused of abusing pupils at a school Oprah Winfrey established for disadvantaged girls in South Africa. -- read full article
Reuters - When it debuted as AMC's
first original weekly drama series July 19, 2007, "Mad Men"
could not have started out further from the TV industry's
consciousness. Its premiere was pretty much a spectacular
non-event.
