Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Ed Zuckerman is replacing Robert Nathan as one of the executive producers and showrunners of Dick Wolf’s “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Mr. Nathan’s depature comes less than a year after he was named head writer and showrunner for the Jeff Goldblum-focused episodes of “CI,” while Wa...

NBC Universal’s new Universal Cable Productions, which will develop programming for the company's cable channels and for sale to other networks, will be run by a five-person management team that reports to NBCU cable boss Bonnie Hammer. The team is made up of co-heads of original progra...

USA Network said it ordered an eighth season of “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Original episodes of the series moved to cable’s USA Network from corporate cousin NBC last season. NBC then re-aired episodes after they appeared on cable, reversing the more traditional way of doing bus...

“Friday Night Lights” will play on for a third season under a partnership with DirecTV, which will offer the small-town drama first to its 16.8 million satellite subscribers exclusively starting in October. The 13 new episodes that have been ordered will air at 9 o’clock on NBC’s Friday ni...

Fox Sticking to Fall During May Upfront (Daily Variety) News Corp.’s’ Fox Broadcasting, which has been carrying the 52-week programming banner for the past few seasons, said it won’t disclose its programming plans for next January and March at this May’s upfront presentation. It also bl...

When the Writers Guild of America strike ends, cable networks are poised to quickly get their original scripted programming back on the air. “We’re waiting with bated breath,” said Jeff Wachtel, executive VP for original programming at USA Network. “We are likely to have more original sc...