Entertainment Industry News

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - This is ... a rich new deal for "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest.

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Netflix on Thursday unveiled a partnership with Sony Corp.'s Sony Electronics that will allow certain Netflix subscribers to watch movies streamed from Netflix on certain of Sony's Bravia TV sets.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Lifetime has scooped up the rerun rights to the CBS comedy "The New Adventures of Old Christine," with an eye toward adding the show to its lineup in the fourth quarter of 2010.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - TiVo Inc announced on Thursday a marketing alliance with retailer Best Buy and will consider putting its television recording technology into Best Buy's own brand of TVs and electronics.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Results of a key independent audit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are due next week and sources expect it to show that the troubled studio is financially sound enough to continue operating.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Lions Gate Entertainment Corp said on Thursday it would name Mark Rachesky, its largest shareholder and a supporter of management, to its slate of board nominees as it faces continued pressure from billionaire investor Carl Icahn.

-Yesterday's Winners: (Expectations are, of course, lower in the summer months) America's Got Talent (NBC)

According to Nielsen Media Research, the memorial service for Michael Jackson on Tuesday, July 7 totaled a combined 20.5 household rating with 30.92 million viewers on the 19 networks carrying it from approximately 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The participating networks were ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Telefutura, Telemundo, Univision, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Headline News, BET, E!, MTV, VH1, VH1 Classic, TV Guide Network, TV ONE, and MUN2.

NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution has sold Emmy winning sitcom 30 Rock to Tribune Broadcasting and the Fox Television Stations, including WNYW-New York (Fox), KTTV-Los Angeles (Fox), WGN-Chicago (Tribune) and WPHL-Philadelphia (Tribune). Additional stations cleared include Fox stations KDFW/KDFI (Dallas), KRIV-KTXH (Houston), KSAZ/KUTP (Phoenix) and WOFL/WRBW (Orlando); and Tribune stations WDCW (Washington, D.C.), KCPQ/KMYQ (Seattle), KRCW (Portland), WSFL (Miami) and KTXL (Sacramento). ...

LONDON (Reuters) - British police said on Thursday they would not reopen investigations into the interception of celebrities' mobile phone voicemails by journalists, despite new allegations against a Rupert Murdoch newspaper.

LOS ANGELES - Universal Music Group's distribution arm is teaming up with digital track distributor TuneCore, a move it says will give it a leg up in signing up-and-coming artists without a recording deal yet.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - When he hired Itzhak Perlman as artistic director of the Westchester Philharmonic in 2007, Joshua Worby thought he'd hit a grand slam.

-Ratings Breakdown: CBS continued its Monday overnight winning streak, with a noticeable 27 percent advantage over second-place ABC. Third in the metered markets was NBC, followed by Fox and almost invisible The CW.

GENEVA - Television host Jay Leno has won control of a Web address using the name of his new show.

-Friday's Losers (excluding repeats): The Chopping Block (NBC), The Goode Family (ABC), Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (Fox), Mental (Fox)

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Coming to a living room near you -- 3D videogames.

-Yesterday's Winners: NCIS R (CBS), America's Got Talent (NBC), The Mentalist R (CBS)