Comedy Central won’t be renewing “The Jeff Dunham Show” for a second season.
Comedy Central spokesman Steve Albani says the network will continue “to be in business with Jeff in a big way,” including a live tour, standup special, DVDs and consumer-products partnership.
The show, featuring comedian Jeff Dunham and his repertoire of puppets, attracted plenty of attention, both positive and negative.
Peculiar things have been happening this season on “The Real Housewives of Orange County.”
This is a dramatic turn from season three when Barney’s husband gave her a diamond Rolex for her 40th birthday, Vicky Gunvalson debated over buying a yacht (she decided against it) and Rossi’s fiance gave her a Harley.
“The Lightkeepers” is a dark-horse candidate for awards season attention, offering up Richard Dreyfuss in his showiest lead performance since his Oscar-nominated turn in 1995s “Mr. Hollands Opus.”
It was shot in the spring on location in Massachusetts, where it benefited from tax incentives that offset the 3 million cost, all privately financed.
The fourth-season finale of Showtimes “Dexter” was seen by 2.6 million viewers on Sunday — blowing away all modern records for the cable network.
The season three finale of “Californication” was also a series high, 1.1 million viewers, though still dropping considerably from its “Dexter” lead in.
Quirky HBO comedy series” The Flight of the Conchords” will not return for third season.
“Weve noticed the less we say about the future of the show, the more people want to talk about it, so in an effort to reverse this trend we are today announcing that we wont be returning for a third season,” they wrote.
The biggest shows of 2009 couldn’t always be contained by the TV screen. There were breakout tabloid scandals with Jon and Kate Gosselin. A wannabe reality TV star crashed the White House. David Letterman’s hanky-panky seized headlines. Oprah Winfrey grabbed the nation’s attention as she began her long goodbye.
Daniel Barenboim conducts Bizet’s “Carmen” in La Scala’s highly anticipated season premiere.
“Carmen” was previewed Friday to an under-30 audience, which gave the production warm applause.
The gala season opener Monday evening stars German tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Don Jose and 25-year-old Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, just a year out of La Scala’s academy, in the title role as Carmen.
Production on Lost season six doesnt begin for another few weeks, but thanks to Comic-Con, were starting to get a sense of the new season, including which castmembers might be back to cavort in those alternate timelines the producers teased.
Sources tell us exclusively that, yes, Doms deal to reappear on Lost is done and that the original castmember is set to appear in three episodes in season six.
Network sources confirm to us exclusively that Franka Potente (Run, Lola, Run; The Bourne Identity) is set to guest star on House this season.
According to sources, the German-born actress appears in the two-hour season premiere, which is directed by executive producer Katie Jacobs.
But where does she fit into the story?
TruTV has announced a second-season pickup of its reality series “Black Gold,” which follows competing crews drilling on Texan oil rigs.
“Black Gold” has proved a success, with the highest ratings ever recorded on truTV (formerly Court TV) when it premiered with 1.7 million viewers. The second season will premiere on Wednesday, August 19 at 10 p.