Last month, Maureen Ryan was the first to report that as many as three “Battlestar Galactica” TV films were under discussion at the Sci Fi network. She noted that “it would make sense to make more ‘Battlestar’ TV movies while the show’Â?Â?s creative team and actors are still all in one place.”
Well, too late for […]

Actor David Hasselhoff says the revamped version of his hit TV show Knight Rider won’t be a success without him.
Hasselhoff, 55, says he was disappointed with the pilot episode which aired in the USA in February and says the upcoming series this autumn is doomed to fail because he doesn’t have a star role in […]

FX’s Rescue Me, facing an extra-long break because of the writers’ strike, is turning to an unusual tactic to keep the fire burning for fans: a series of weekly five-minute segments, dubbed “minisodes,” that will air Tuesdays at 10 ET/PT starting next week.
The darkly comic series about NYC firefighters, starring Denis Leary, last aired in […]

Sharon Osbourne, who caused headlines after suddenly quitting The X Factor earlier this month, is to relate her experiences of working in reality TV at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival in August.
Osbourne, who has been replaced on the hit ITV1 talent show by Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole, will appear at the annual television […]

No Emmy for this deal: TV-miniseries kingpin RHI Entertainment Inc. priced its initial public stock offering late Tuesday at $14 a share, below the $16-to-$18 range the company had hoped to get.
RHI, based in New York, is the production house of the Halmi family — legendary producer Robert Halmi Sr. and son Robert Jr.
RHI was […]

Behind all the Canuck jokes lies a truth most Americans don’t want to acknowledge: Canada does everything we can do–better. Hockey. Health care. Urban planning. Even rodeo. (I’m talking about the Calgary Stampede here, buckaroo.)
Now we can add police procedurals to that list. Sure, it’s an all-American genre, rooted in Hollywood noir and refined down […]

In a very short time, Hulu has rocketed from nothing to being one of the top video destinations on the Internet. We’ve all heard the years of trade-show claptrap about television-Web “convergence,” but Hulu has come as close as possible to turning your computer into a TV without actually sending a tech to monkey around […]

Dr. Mehmet C. Oz, given the moniker Dr. Oz during appearances on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” is getting his own U.S. TV program, Sony Pictures Television says.
Oz will star in a new Harpo Productions and Sony Pictures Television production tentatively titled “DR. OZ,” Sony Pictures said in a news release Friday.
Winfrey said the series, which […]

Actor Charlie Sheen might have tied the knot for the third time recently, but his second ex-wife seems to be getting the last laugh with her successful E! reality series “Denise Richards: It’s Complicated.”
When the show made its debut over Memorial Day weekend, Richards’ divorcee tales attracted 1.5 million viewers, a nice coup for basic […]

It was a pretty typical two weeks for the television producer Thom Beers:
He spent several days in May on a crab boat in the bitterly cold Bering Sea, followed by a trip with big-rig trucks past the Arctic Circle all the way to Deadhorse, Alaska, where the snow was piled seven feet deep; and then, […]