Brittany Murphy and Jason Lewis will star in Lifetime’s Nora Roberts’ Tribute, the network’s fourth original movie based on the best-selling author’s popular novels, network officials said.

Viacom, the battered parent of MTV Networks, was the first cable programmer to announce big layoffs resulting from the economic downturn, shedding 850 employees across all of its divisions, or about 7% of its total workforce.

ABC Family’s "25 Days of Christmas" programming event is the off the second best start in its 11-year history.

Hallmark Channel has signed on for an additional three years as a participating sponsor of the annual "Radio City Christmas Spectacular."

Like Vic Mackey’s prospective future, the finale of The Shield ended more with a whimper than a bang from a Nielsen perspective.

AT&T announced Thursday plans to lay off about 12,000 workers, or 4% of its total workforce, resulting in a $600 million charge in the fourth quarter.

Washington—The Walt Disney Co. went on the offensive Wednesday to halt Cablevision System Corp.'s effort to push the Federal Communications Commission into restricting Disney's ESPN from demanding access to the vast majority of cable subscribers.

Cable stocks managed to squeeze out decent gains Wednesday in yet another day of erratic trading as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 172.60 points, or 2%, to close at 8,951.69.

Oxygen’s Bad Girls Club got off to a good start Tuesday night when its season three debut attracted 807,000 total viewers, a 116% improvement from last season’s premiere.