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NBC announced the premieres of new comedies “Bent,” “Best Friends Forever” and “Betty White’s Off Their Rockers” today as well as the return of “Community” on March 15th. NBC announced the premieres of the new comedies “Bent” (March 21) and “Best Friends Forever” (April 4), as well as the comedic hidden-camera series “Betty White’s Off [...]

Comcast has announced it has selected four new minority-owned independent networks to be broadly distributed on Comcast Cable systems between April 2012 and January 2014. After evaluating more than 100 proposals, Comcast selected four networks – two of which are majority African-American owned and two that are majority American Hispanic owned and operated and programmed [...]

Former “Smallville” star Kristin Kreuk is returning to The CW as the female lead in the channel’s drama pilot “Beauty and the Beast,” reports Deadline. The new version is loosely based on the 1980s CBS series starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman. Overview It centers on Catherine (Kreuk), a tough-minded NYPD Homicide Detective haunted by [...]

David Arquette will be joining the Mile High club later this year. The actor and his buddy Mike McGuiness, owner of PR firm McGuiness and Feinstein, will star in a weekly half-hour reality series for the Travel Channel that will follow them as they squeeze “spontaneous” adventures into their weekend travel. Each week the pair [...]

The BBC has committed to broadcasting some of the London 2012 Olympics Games in 3D. Events to be aired in 3D include the Olympic Opening Ceremony, the closing ceremony, the men’s 100m final, and the nightly highlights program, among others. The coverage is said to be a continuation of the company’s 3D trials, which included [...]

Bryan Fuller’s “Hannibal” project has received a direct-to-series order from NBC, which has picked up 13 episodes of the thriller TV series based on Thomas Harris’ character, reports Entertainment Weekly. Here’s the logline: One-hour contemporary thriller series featuring the classic characters from Thomas Harris’ novel Red Dragon – FBI agent Will Graham and his mentor [...]

HBO has now debuted the teaser poster for Game of Thrones which plays on the tagline of the first season – “Winter Is Coming”. Season 2 premieres on April 1st.

The Miami Marlins will be the stars of this season’s The Franchise reality TV show on Showtime. “Miami is not only one of the most sexy and cosmopolitan cities in the country, but has become one of the best sports towns as well,” said David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. “The Franchise has [...]

James Wolkm, former Lone Star, has joined USA Network’s six-hour political drama series Political Animals from Greg Berlanti and Laurence Mark, The Hollywood Reporter confirms. Slated to launch this summer, Animals revolves around Elaine Barrish, a divorced former First Lady and current Secretary of State, who is struggling to keep her family together while dealing [...]

Fox TV has announced the mid-season premiere dates for most of their current schedule, including the return of Bones and Breaking In, as well as the debut of a new reality series from Gordon Ramsay called Hotel Hell. Here is the spring 2012 line-up so far: MONDAY Monday, March 5: 8:00-10:00 PM Alcatraz (Special Two-Hour [...]