Michael Douglas to Receive Eugene O'Neill's Monte Cristo Award

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Anastasia Griffith To Co-Star In BBC Americas Drama Series Copper

EXCLUSIVE: Anastasia Griffith, who recurs on ABC’s Not Such A Long Time Ago, has showed up the feminine lead in BBC America’s first scripted series, drama Copper. The Ten-episode series, from Tom Fontana and Craig Levinson, is produced by Canadian-based Cineflix Art galleries. Co-created by Tom Fontana and Will Rokos, Copper concentrates on an Irish cop operating inside the immigrant cities of 1800s NY, employment that's not cast yet. British actress Griffith, repped by Paradigm, Untitled and Uk’s Ken McReddie Assoc., may have his wife. Fontana, Rokos, Craig Levinson and Cineflix’s Christina Wayne are executive creating the series, that's slated to begin production within the finish from the month of the month of january. Griffith, who plays a girl locked in to a love triangular with Snow White-colored and Prince Charming on Not Such A Long Time Ago, continues to be recurring on USA’s Royal Pains. She formerly co-starred on NBC’s Trauma and Foreign exchange’s Damages.

Scripps Networks Sees Business Stabilizing As Economy Improves: UBS Confab

It’s not a leading economic indicator. But Scripps Networks CEO Kenneth Lowe says that programming on his cable channel HGTV “had to be turned on its head” when the housing bubble burst a few years ago. Viewers suddenly wanted to know how to flip their house, not just how to make it beautiful. But things are changing, he hopes: “As we slowly build the housing market back, it will have a positive effect on HGTV.” So will improvements at the network’s popular show House Hunters, where ratings have softened. “Stabilization is the key word” for that show, Lowe says. That concept is important for all of Scripps’ lifestyle-focused services.When it comes to advertising, “we’re not seeing a lot of things to be concerned about, but we’re watching along with the rest of the industry,” says Lori Hickok, EVP Finance. Lowe’s upbeat, though, because he says Scripps’ channels are “the female equivalent of ESPN.They’re must-have. … The passion and connection that female viewers have for these networks is second to none.” Even among those viewers,Scripps saw a shift last year to sports programming, which Lowe says “was a little unusual.” He attributes that to the growing appeal of live shows. “The good news for us is we’re not seeing any (more) loss to sports programming. It is what it is.” Meanwhile, the company says ithopes to buy Tribune’s 31% stake in Food Network once the media company is no longer under bankruptcy protection. Lowe also plans to build the Travel Channel. “I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited about a new channel in quite a while,” he says adding that it “could be up with Food and HGTV in a few years.” But he has a lot of work to do at Great American Country as he moves it away from country music videos and toward programs that feature NASCAR and rodeos. “The network is relevant,” he says. “We’re going to research the living country brand, but it has its limitations.” The channel is distributed to 62.8M pay TV homes, and operators only pay about 3 cents a month for each home it reaches, SNL Kagan estimates.